(( he he! Are you going trick-or-treating this year? Or are you 'too old'? ;3 ))
Eve stared at her hands. They had been 'perfect' before she had to run away. Her nails had always been perfectly trimmed and her fingers almost never were marred by a paper cut. But now she had scrapes and scratches and when Eve held her hand into a first, she found that one of her fingers was stiff. Sprained maybe. She let her hand fall flat on the bed, thinking things over. Was that a bad thing that she had changed so much? Or maybe a good thing?
Xavier watched Aubrey grin and blush from his kiss. It made him feel all proud all over again. Only he could make her smile like that, her heart to skip a beat like that. It was a very happy day for him. Then again, when was a day with Aubrey unhappy? He was smiling from the time he woke up to the time he fell asleep. So far, Xavier's life was as wonderful as maybe it ever had.
Wolfgang picked up her gaze and stared intensely at Nikolaus. He was right. So painfully right. She held everything in, not letting a single thing show besides indifference, and tried to remember how to breathe.
"I may be so far gone, Nikolaus. I may be arrogant and self-centered. I may have lost every single person that I loved, that I cared for, because I was too afraid to love." She said softly, her eyes narrowing. "But of all those things and all that pain I had to do something. I couldn't let myself down. So yes, I built up walls. I set limits. I did everything to keep something like this from happening! And where does it get me? Nowhere. Absolutely nowhere. I'm a loser, a brat, I'm anything you want to call me. I've been called a lot of things, mostly from myself, and when you're so far gone they are only minor specks. But I could only do that for so long." She rubbed her forehead, trying to find her anger and fury. But now she was only... broken. "And yes Nikolaus, I can turn you away just because I'm so afraid of letting myself love again. I know that if I accepted you I would only break it somehow. I don't want to go through that. I can't put you through that." She blinked. And when she did a small tear left the corner of her eye and slid down her pale cheek. "I can tell myself 'I'll be ok on my own' but we both know that won't work. But I... I just can't Nikolaus. I know I'm breaking all the rules of friendship and whatever but I just can't deal with that anymore." There was a pause as Wolf pulled herself together as best as she could. "I can't fix myself, something so messed up and broken, to do that." So with a heavy heart, Wolfgang turned and walked away before something else she would regret happened.

