Visit Fourteen

The next few days went by pretty normally and the day of my first skate session arrived. I was very excited as I brought En his breakfast. He greeted me with a kiss and we sat at the table and chatted as he ate.

“I’m so excited to skate again,” I smiled and swung my feet in anticipation.

“Can you not skate here at the castle,” Ensharra questioned, taking a sip of his coffee.

“Oh, I do. Sometimes I’ll skate on the lake, especially at night when feeling restless.”

“That sounds beautiful to watch.”

“You don’t even know what I look like when skating.”

“Will you show me?”

“One day. Look forward to it.”

He scowled.

“Aw, don’t look like that En. I really mean one day I’ll show you. I just want to have some real practice first.”

“Are you wanting to impress me,” his scowl turned to a playful smirk.

“Well, you’re the Demon King Ensharra,” I leaned towards him, “Of course I’d want to impress someone of such high caliber.”

He pushed his tray of empty dishes to the side and grabbed me, setting me on the table in front of him instead of his lap. His hand ran up my body and cupped my cheek. Though because of our size difference it covered basically the whole half of my face. I put my hand on his and my other hand on his arm and leaned into his hand, sighing happily.

“I love you,” I smiled.

“What,” he was surprised.

“What?”

“What did you say?”

“I love you?”

“Why did you say that?”

Now I was confused, “What do you mean? I love you. So I said it.”

“You love me?”

I swung my head in confusion, “Yes??? Why are you so surprised?”

“You haven’t said that before. I thought you were just infatuated with me.”

“I wouldn’t have disrupted my stable polycule for simple infatuation,” I got nervous, scratching at his scales with my index finger and looking away, “Do you not love me? Are you just infatuated with me?”

“Snowflake,” he straightened my head, signaling to look at him, which I did, “I know I have spoken very negatively about humans, and I still think very negatively about them as a whole. But, you have shown me exceptional kindness and perseverance through all of that. You are special to me and I have never felt this with someone before. I love you, Drizzm.”

“You said my name,” was apparently what I took from all of that.

“Don’t expect it often. That was odd to say.”

“It still makes me happy,” I wrapped my arms around his neck and he pulled me into his lap, “I’m so happy to hear you say you love me too.”

I kissed him and we chatted until it was after lunch time. Then I took his lunch dishes and left to go to practice. En didn’t really want to let me go but I wasn’t gonna let him stop me. I excitedly made my way to the rink.

Thankfully, since demons live for so long, my coach was still active. They were so excited to see that I was coming back to the rink and we worked on refreshing my basics. It’s not the most fun but it’s important to make sure I’m doing things correctly so I don’t fall and injure myself too bad. Diavolo and Lucifer picked me up after practice because their last meeting got canceled. We walked arm-in-arm, with me in the center like usual, to Ristorante Six for dinner. The staff know about my no eating or drinking thing so they know I won’t be ordering.

“How was practice? Are you as rusty as you thought,” Diavolo asked.

“I felt pretty rusty,” I told him, “but I should be able to bounce back fairly quickly. I wish I could skate with you again Sunshine, but you’re even more busy now.”

“I’m sorry Starshine. I wish I wasn’t so busy either.”

“It’s not your fault. It’s a lot of work being king. If I wasn’t busy rehabilitating your dad’s behavior I’d help.”

“It’s alright. I’m happy that you’ve been able to change Father so much in less than a year.”

“Speaking of, he used my name earlier.”

Diavolo paused mid-bite, “Really?”

“Yeah. I guess I’d never said ‘I love you’ to him before today.”

“That’s surprising,” Lucifer interrupted.

I nodded, “He apparently thought I was just infatuated with him.”

They both gave me a confused look and I shrugged before continuing.

“I reassured him that it was definitely not infatuation. Then asked if he was just infatuated with me and he said ‘I love you, Drizzm’.”

“It is still weird to hear you and Father be so affectionate,” Diavolo sighed.

“I’m sorry.”

“I’ll be fine Starshine. Don’t worry your cute little head about it.”

I smiled at him and we continued chatting as they finished dinner.