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“Yeah, it is.”
Lucifer reached out his hand grabbing a small curl framing my face and slowly twisted it through his fingers.
“It’s beautiful.”
Truth be told, I hated my curly hair. I never learned how to properly style it so it was always frizzy. My mother used to say it looked like a rat’s nest and that my hair looked prettier and more acceptable when it was straight. She would spend hours flat ironing my hair to make it pin straight. As I grew up I just accepted it as part of my routine. The fact that Lucifer thought my curls were beautiful was..surprising.
“You should wear it like this more often.”
“Maybe I will.”
We were silent for a brief moment as we piled food onto our plates,
“So about training tomorrow I was thinking-”
“There’s no training tomorrow.” I cut him off and he looked at me with a look between puzzled and concerned.
“I have plans tomorrow at noon. There’s someone I have to visit.”
“Would you like me to come with you?”
I shook my head at him as I leaned over and opened the container of steamed dumplings.
“No, it’s fine Gabriel is going with me.”
“Does Gabriel know this person?”
“Knew. We knew this person.”
I could see the instant regret in his eyes,
“Catalina I’m sorry I didn’t-”
I reached down and grabbed his hand,
“It’s alright.”
Lucifer laced our fingers together,
“Who was this person?”
“A friend. He died a few years ago and I’ve made sure to visit him every year on his birthday.”
He was more than just a friend. TJ had been my safe haven. My person. And at one point he was my entire world.
“How did he-”
“He was murdered by his father.”
TJ and his dad always had fights and arguments. Sometimes he would come to school with bruises all over him. He never talked about it though. He always kept stuff like that to himself. He wanted to leave. To be able to find a new place and start over. He worked so hard to save up money for his own place but his dad always found it and would spend it. TJ had enough one day and had his father arrested for theft. No one knew how he got out exactly but he did and he decided to visit TJ. He fought. He fought hard but it wasn’t enough and at 5:45 AM TJ was dead. My best friend. The first man I had ever loved. Gone.
“He meant a lot to you didn’t he?”
“Yes, he did.”
For a good part of my life, he was. Everything.
“And Gabriel goes with you to visit him?”
