SoulxKid: Light My Heart: Chapter 7

Blurry. Everything was blurry as Kid slowly opened his eyes, awaking from some of the best sleep he had had in a long time. Although as his eyelids still felt heavy with sleep he let the close again not wanting to move from his comfortable position. He snuggled closer the warm bed he slept upon. He buried his face back deep into the mattress as he took in a long deep breath, inhaling the relaxing scent of his bed. It was so warm and comfy, the way it shallowly moved up and down; the dull thump of a heartbeat ringing in his ears in a soothing rhythm. Wait…a heart beat? Last time Kid checked his bed didn't have a heartbeat let alone wasn't alive!

Frantically Kid pushed himself up with his good arm into a sitting position hands planted firmly on his so called mattress. Since Kid had been lying on his stomach he was now straddling the mystery item beneath him. Looking down Kid's eyes widened in shock at the sight of that familiar messy white hair and half lidded crimson eyes staring up at him with an amused glint. Kid's tense body relaxed at the soft smile and chuckle that came from the albino beneath him.

"What happened?" Kid asked warily as he hesitantly leaned down into Soul's open arms and now spread legs where the albino had made room for him as he sat up; resting his back against the arm of the couch they were on top of. Soul wrapped his arms around the other's torso. He let out a sigh of content as he buried his nose in the ravens ruffled hair.

"We fell asleep while watching a film." Soul sighed into the others hair not fully awake yet as he inhaled deeply.

"Oh." Was the only response Kid could muster as he tilted his head to the side a little so that he could see a large portion of the sitting room they were in. I looked as though the TV had been turned off somehow in the middle of the night. Bright red flashing numbers on the cable box that sat on one of the lower shelve of the emoire caught his attention. Kid started to move, squirm in Soul's embrace trying to break free. In response Soul only tightened his grip he had around the other.

"Just a little longer." Soul mumbled though Kid's movements didn't stop. "Can you please stop moving around like that or we are going to have a not so little problem." Soul chuckled as Kid instantly stopped moving and his cheeks flushed a deep scarlet at the implications of Soul's sentence. Kid tried to bury his face deeper into Soul's chest in an attempt to hide his embarrassment but as he heard the amused chuckle from Soul he knew he had failed.

"Sorry." Kid whispered in embarrassment. "But it's three and I should be getting home." Kid continued as he looked up from the others chest and into Soul's eyes. "Besides, I have to get ready for our…date." Kid's blush came back full force at the mention of the word date. A giant shit eating grin took over Soul's face.

"Oh yeah!" Soul said happily before cupping Kid's cheeks in his hands. Leaning his head forwards slightly he captured Kid's lips into a loving kiss. Kid smiled into the kiss and applied more pressure against his lips getting a groan from the albino. Soul moved his hands from Kid's cheeks to tangle his fingers in Kid's hair as he licked the others lips asking for entrance. Parting he lips slightly Kid let out a small moan as he felt Soul's tongue invade his mouth, caressing every crevice of his warm cavern. After a few seconds Soul moved his tongue over to stroke Kid's lightly beckoning in out to play. Hesitantly at first Kid shyly pushed his tongue forwards to intertwine with Soul's mixing their saliva together in a heated dance. Feeling more courageous Kid pushed Soul's tongue out of his mouth and back into the Albino's own Kid's following right after. Soul let out a low groan from the back of his throat as Kid started to dominate the kiss.

"Ah young love, driven by raw emotions and raging hormones." They heard from the doorway leading to the stair case. Pulling back from each other both whipped their heads around to see who had disrupted the o so wonderful kiss they had been sharing, although Soul had a pretty good idea of who it was.

"Mum!" Soul yelled at the woman in embarrassment as she waggled her eyes brows suggestively at the two.

"M-Ms. Evans." Kid nodded politely to her, his cheeks aflame from mortification.

"Well good afternoon to you too sleepy heads and I told you! Call me Samantha!" She smiled giggling at the embarrassed teens.

"Can you please leave your embarrassing the both of us!" Soul asked his mother pleadingly.

"Dear, I'm your mum. It's my job to embarrass you~!" She laughed getting a glare from the red eyes teen. "Alright, alright! I'll leave! Sheesh I just came to check up on you guys! Geez if this is the sort of treatment I get for caring then I think I'll just have to burn all of his stuff, wait! PHOTO ALBUM!" She laughed running out of the doorway a pillow thrown after her with another shriek of mum from Soul.

"C'mon then. Let's get you home." Soul said scratching the back of his neck sheepishly. Nodding Kid got up off of Soul and walked towards the staircase Soul following right behind him. Kid put his shoes on and was about to open the front door when he heard.

"Where are you off two?" Samantha inquired poking her head out from behind the corner to look at the two.

"Well I was about to walk Kiddo here home." Soul dismissed only glancing back to look at his mum.

"No Soul, it's fine I can walk myself home."

"But-"

"No! It's fine! I'll see you later tonight." Kid said as he fully opened the door and waved goodbye to Samantha.

"Is five okay with you?" Soul asked grabbing Kid's hand and spinning him around to face him as Kid tried to leave.

"Yeah." Kid blushed as he felt Soul's hand gripping his tightly.

"Great." Soul smirked before swooping down to steal a quick kiss from the raven. Letting go of Kid's hand after giving him one last smile Soul watched as Kid made his way down the street to his own home.

An hour later Kid found himself standing outside his home. He had taken a little detour on his way home so he could have some time to think about all of the wonderful things that had happened for him in the past weeks. After spending some time at the park he decided that he really needed to get home and get ready for his date with Soul later.

Opening his front door Kid quietly entered and removed his shoes, slowly turning around and closing the door as quietly as possible not wanting to alert his father that he was home if he was home.

"Where have you been?" The rumbling of his father's angry tone invaded his hearing sending a shock of fear down his spine.

"J-just at the library, I had to r-return some books." He responded turning to face his father not getting to shut the door properly; he winced at the older man's furious expression that seemed to dominate his whole figure.

"Don't lie to me boy!" His father yelled taking a step closer to Kid and grabbing him by the collar of his shirt and hoisting him up above the ground then shoving him into the wall roughly. "I said; where have you been?"

"I-I wasn't l-lying I was at the li-" Kid was cut off by his father's palm connecting with his left cheek.

"I said don't lie to me! I know you were with someone! So who was it?" His father spat in his face, raising his hand getting ready to hit poor Kid again.

"I was with Soul!" Kid sobbed out. The stinging of just the one hit was already getting to him. The force used behind every hit his father ever made was enormous. He was a very strong man.

"That white haired boy huh?" His father chuckled darkly. "Why would he want to hang around you? You're just a little piece of shit, scum bag, faggot of a person?" He yelled hysterically. Tears welled in Kid's eyes as he listened to his father call him such hurtful words. "Say it!"

"I-I-" Kid tried to protest but his father was overpowering, so overwhelming.

"I said say it." Smack. Kid's already reddened cheek endured another harsh hit as well as another to the stomach as he refused to speak again. "Say it!"

"I-I'm just a little piece o-of s-shit, s-scumbag, f-faggot of a person!" Kid sobbed the tears in his eyes overflowing, streaming down his puffy cheeks.

"Damn right you are! He just hasn't seen it has he? You're just lying and lying and lying about everything. He never really liked you; he doesn't really care about you." His father chuckled his face only two inches away from Kid's. He watched as Kid's expression was so drastically affected by his words about the other boy. A shit eating grin laced with vicious malice spread across the elder's face as he readied his next words. "He never loved you." His whisper was soft yet piercing. Shattering Kid's tattered heart into a thousand pieces. "But shhhhh, don't worry. I'll let him see the truth. I'll show him what a disgusting sad excuse for a human being you really are. I'll show him how degraded and pathetic you really are. He'll never want to come near you ever again." Kid's father dragged Kid by his collar across the room ad towards his room after delivering a few more blows to the other's body.

Entering the room he flung Kid down onto the bed face first so Kid was just a sprawled out mess of limbs on top of the covers. Kid felt the weight of another press onto the mattress. Squeezing his eyes shut he buried his face into the mattress, letting his sobs become muffled and his tears be absorbed by the fabric. He couldn't move. No matter how hard he tried he couldn't. His body was paralyzed in pain and pure fear. Kid suddenly felt very bare before a blinding pain came from behind, shooting through him his veins making him scream out. The pain only continued to get worse and he could hear the faint pants coming from behind him. Endless screams ripped from his throat as he not only felt the pain from behind but new pain across his back thighs and torso and a hard object rammed into his limbs, blow upon blow delivered to his quaking body. The white hot pain was so intense, searing through his veins with such agony that Kid's consciousness couldn't keep up. The pain kept building and building until it began to slowly fade, along with Kid himself.

Soul smiled to himself as he stood outside of Kid's house, straightening up his clothes. Lifting his hand he went to knock on the door only for it to open a little with a creak at the added pressure. Opening the door further Soul poked his head into the overbearingly silent house. Something felt off to Soul as he pushed the door fully open and stepped inside.

Glancing around he immediately stood frozen at what he found. On the wall were trails of dried crimson blood, leading down to the floor and leading across the room. An instant feeling of panic and dread flooded Soul's mind as he looked down at the scene. He followed the trail of blood that lead to the closed door at one side of the large room. Reaching his hand out, Soul hesitantly placed it on the door knob. He inhaled deeply before he started to push the door open, scared of what he might find inside.

Looking at the scene in front of him tore him apart, shredded his heart into a million pieces. There in the center of the room on top of the bed lay a still and deathly pale Kid face down in a pool of his own blood; his body completely bare and the wounds all over his body still bleeding profusely only adding to the pool of blood surrounding Kid. Running over to the other's side Soul felt tear after tear stream his cheeks as a sob wracked his throat. Quickly he climbed on top of the bed right beside Kid. Soul shot his hands out to grab the smaller boy flipping him over and gently pulling him into his lap. Kid's deadly porcelain skin was splashed in blood, red smeared across his face. The boy looked as if he could shatter, break apart at any minute.

Soul stared down at Kid through his blurred vision. He brought one of his hands to cup Kid's cheek before trailing it up to push Kid's hair out of his face. More tears welled in his eyes as he looked at the at Kid's battered and broken body, the calm and peaceful expression on the younger's face only worsened the sick feeling in Soul's stomach. Leaning forward Soul placed his forehead against the other bare chest. Soul sobbed into the other's flesh, feeling the slow and shallow rise of the others chest and dull beating of a heart. Soul quickly shot up with widened eyes. Quickly he dug his hands into his pockets and retrieved his mobile pressing the emergency contact numbers with a breath taking speed.

"Hello emergency services how may we be of assistance." A woman's voice bore into Soul's ear.

"H-help. Please h-help. He's bleeding-he's lost so much blood. He's barley breathing and he's- he's- help please, help me!" Soul sobbed into the phone his tone pleading and alarming the woman on the other end.

"Okay sir, I need you to calm down and tell me where you are!"

"Gallows Manor, please h-hurry! Please!"

"Okay sir an ambulance is on its way-" But that was all she got to say before Soul dropped the phone onto bed, it bouncing off and landing on the floor with a crack. Staring down at Kid Soul felt a flicker of hope within his heart. Leaning down Soul pressed his forehead against Kid's o so cold one, too cold. The tears continued to fall as he closed his eyes and ran his hand through Kid's hair yet again.

"Hold on Kid, you need to hold on. You can't leave me like this, y-you can't leave me. Two years, i-it took me two years to finally get the courage to talk to you. I always saw you around school, I don't know if you remember but we were partnered up on the first day of gym class. From the first time we talked- I knew. Two years ago I fell in love with that adorably quirky kid I met in gym class in freshman year. A-and when I found you in the bathroom that day a couple months back, you had slit your wrists. My heart broke when I found you like that. I had to help you, I couldn't lose you. I didn't know how alone you felt or how bad everything really was! I brought you to the hospital and they promised me you would be okay! I wouldn't leave for a week after I had brought you in. They promised you would live and I trusted them. You didn't die on me then, so please, please don't die on me now. I've loved you for two years and I still love you so much! Now that I finally have you I-I can't lose you! I just can't!" Soul sobbed brushing his lips against Kid's cold ones. He could feel the shallow breaths Kid took against his cheeks. "I love you Kid." He whispered before gently placing his lips on Kid's.

Soul was broken out of his trance like state when he heard the loud sounds of sirens and the flashing colours of light filled the house. Voices could be heard as they ran into the house in search for the two.

"Here they are!" A voice yelled followed by the bustling of the people as they entered the room. Soul watched as everything seemed to happen in slow motion. The paramedics took Kid from Soul's lap and placed him on a gurney. As two men hurriedly wheeled Kid out of the room a woman came and helped Soul up and walked him out of the house and towards the ambulance.

"Are you okay? Are you hurt?" She asked looking at Soul with a worried look. Soul looked down and noticed that his clothes were drenched in his beloved's blood.

"I'm fine." He whispered yanking his arm from the woman before he ran towards the ambulance that Kid was being moved into. "Kid!" He yelled trying to get into the ambulance. The paramedics had to hold him back as he tried to climb into the truck and get to Kid.

Soul never knew that three little words could have such an effect on him. Make his heart stop, his breath hitch, body tremble and bring his whole world tumbling down on top of him all in a mere second.

"He stopped breathing."