-||Truth Behind the Mask||-

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He looked at her when she had stopped playing and smiled. He felt he could repay her for what she'd done for him. There was a scar where she'd healed him but it was very faint against his skin, the clothing ripped slightly where it had happened. He was studying her face at the moment, wondering why he suddenly felt sick, something his mother used to cal 'having butterflies in the stomach.'

"You're very talented at the piano," he said calmly, the first time he'd truly been calm in a long time. "How long have you been playing?"  

[Rosalind Bloom]

Haven smiled at him more as he smiled at her. "Since I was six years old." She said happily. She cracked her fingers now, in hopes to make the cramping stop. It was getting better though. "Oh and thank you." She said, almost forgetting that he had complimented her.

She noted the calmness in his voice and that just kept her smiling. She loved that she had helped someone become calm, though, she was happier because it was him. Looking at him made her stomach do somersaults and it made her bit her lip nervously.  

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He stood up, not sure what he was going to do at the moment, and walked over to the piano. When he got there he sat down next to her and stared at the keys. Briefly he turned to her and kissed her gently on the cheek.

A strange sensation made him want to kiss her again but he resisted the urge. He'd learned resistance over the years from being a wolf and it was beginning to pay off now. "Thank you for healing my wound," he said with a small smile. There was a blood stain around where the wound had been but it looked like it was healing well.  

[Rosalind Bloom]

Haven looked at him as he walked over and felt her face become stained with a rosy color as he kissed her cheek. She smiled widely and bit her lip nervously now. "N-No problem." She said smiling still. She turned to look at him now and felt the need to kiss him too. Their closeness only added to her feeling.

She let out a small and silent sigh as she kept looking at him. Her eyes then met his and she couldn't help it anymore. She hesitated a moment before she kissed him lightly on the lips but pulled away quickly. "S-Sorry..." She said quickly, her face the same rosy color again.  

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Alex blushed and had a warm feeling come over him. He was staring at her now without realizing it, studying the way she bit her lip. When she kissed him though he was too shocked to respond. She'd reacted before it and the warm feeling only heightened.

"It's..." he started to. "Fine." He wasn't sure if that was the right thing to say and he turned his head down to stare at the piano keys. He was embarrassed for the most part but completely consumed in what was going on here. He was also trying to figure out how to break the curse he was under at the same but it almost seemed as though it wasn't as important anymore.  

[Rosalind Bloom]

Haven bit her lip more and stared down at the ground. Her cheeks still showed the rosy color as she sat there quietly. She was extremely embarrassed and didn't dare to look over at him. She didn't know what she'd do if she did that. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath to try and calm herself.

She started to fidget with her hands nervously, the silence beginning to eat at her. She didn't know what she could say at the moment though.  

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"Are you hungry?" he asked suddenly as he took her hand in his own because he felt it was right. "I can make you something." It was getting late but he didn't notice it at all. The fiasco had may the day go by faster than he realized it would and with his recent healing he felt like he had more energy and then when she'd kissed him, even if it was brief, he felt more energized and as if he needed to help her somehow.  

[Rosalind Bloom]

Haven blushed as he took her hand but didn't object. She knew how late it was now but she was actually hungry. She hadn't finished eating anyways. "Sure." She said smiling more now. She was happy that he seemed happier now too. She took it that her kissing him didn't make him upset in the slightest bit. She'd have to keep that in mind.  

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That tingling sensation he had seemed to die down as he stood up to walk her down to the kitchen. He'd let go of her hand to do so and watched her. There some strange happening to him at that moment. He felt a jolt go through him as he looked at her but he couldn't tell what he was feeling. He knew the curse wasn't broken because it would have been more obvious.  

[Rosalind Bloom]

Haven was slightly upset that he let go of her hand but she stayed quiet and stood up, smiling still. She was feeling a really interesting senastion inside her. It was a feeling that she didn't understand and she only seemed to feel it around him. She then realized she was staring at him so she looked away and started for the door slowly.  

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He started to descend the stairs slowly so that she would keep up. It was almost as if he was looking around corners to be sure it was safe. A protective instinct and overcome him and the need to protect him was almost overwhelming. "What would you like to eat?" he asked, recalling the cooking lessons he got before he had been cursed.  

[Rosalind Bloom]

Haven made sure to walk directly next to him as they head downstairs. She turned to look at him as she spoke then smiled again. "Anything is fine." She said then looked back down at the ground as she continued to walk.  

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Alex grinned in a sheepish manner as he watched her for a while. She had a gentleness about her that he admired a lot. He took her hand again as they walked down the stairs. The warmth of her hand was comforting and this time he didn't want to let go. "Thank you," he said with a smile, not really knowing what he was thanking her for at the moment.  

[Rosalind Bloom]

Haven felt him looking at her so she turned to face him again. She smiled as he did and when he took her hand, she closed hers around his. Their hands together felt right to her, as if it was suppose to be like that. She didn't want to let go.

She raised an eyebrow as he thanked her then said, "You don't need to say thank you for anything..." She didn't know why he had said it but she meant it. His happiness meant more to her then anything else.  

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There was something changing that Alex didn't know. As they were descending the stairs something was changing within him and one of the keys to breaking the curse had been found. He was to trust someone and to love them genuinely. There were other things he had to do but this was the first step to it. The thank you had come from somewhere deep inside of him that he had not acknowledged in a long time.

"Well," he said as the reached the kitchen. "Are you sure you don't what you want? I can try to make anything you ask for." He was modest when he spoke now, but in a strange way that prepared him to brag about any skill that he had in the kitchen.