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You woke up early in the morning, It was a lovely Monday morning, but you know that it would soon turn bad. You laid in bed for a few more moments, staring at your ceiling thinking about the day ahead. Your family were control freaks who were dead set on you doing your absolute best in order to get into the emperors coven. The thing was you didn’t want to get into the emperors coven, and the fact that they were pushing you so hard also emphasized that. You sighed. You were exhausted. The past few days had been filled with constant training. Both your parents were apart of the emperors coven, so it only made sense that you had to be too. They wanted it to be a family tradition for whatever reason. You were just tired.
After those few moments were up you sadly parted from your bed, leaving behind the warmth you had. You stretched your back and limbs, they were all sore from the training. Your life is as follows: on the weekdays you go to school, once you get home you have to do your homework, and then you do your chores. On the weekends you will spend anywhere from 8-12 hours working on your magic with you parents. When you trained your parents would bring you to the castle training facility and often times you’d train with the scouts. There was no doubt that you weren’t strong, definitely strong enough to join the emperors coven, but you were just burnt out.
While you were training, often times you’d bump into the Golden Guard, or as he has admitted Hunter. Overtime you two grew close, it was hard as he was always focused on missions and rarely stuck around long enough for small talk, but he eventually grew a soft spot for you. Now, you can happily call him your boyfriend. Of course, your relationship was a secret and your parents were over the moon when he offered to train with you. It was almost perfect.
Anywho, you began getting dressed for the day, putting on your uniform, brushing your hair and teeth, putting on deodorant, your other morning routines. You went down stairs, heavy bags under your eyes from the over exhaustion and lack of sleep. You mother greeted you happily “Good morning hun! You did so well yesterday according to the Golden Guards reports! He says you’re improving at an exponential rate!” She chirped happily, earning an approval nod from your father. “I couldn’t be prouder of you! But remember, you can always be better!” she gave a small glare. You were already trying your best, why does she keep asking for more! Yet, you want to keep doing better to receive that parental praise. Despite always gaining these ‘compliments’ from your parents, they never did anything besides that. Sometimes you’d like to just, spend some time with them. They didn’t care about that though. All they wanted was a precious child genius to show off to the coven.
You gave a weak smile and yawned. Your mom didn’t bother to ask what the matter was. Your dad didnmt even bother saying a word to you. You walked over to the fridge, grabbing your boxed lunch, it was better than the school food, and stuffed it into your bag. You also grabbed a can of energy drinks you keep in your fridge for when you need it- which was rather often. You started heading to the door, but your mom caught up with you. “Remember darling, always perform your best, we can’t have anything less if you want to join the emperors coven” she pushed a tuff of hair behind your ear “Of course, mother” you backed away and turned around, grabbing your palisman quickly and exiting the house, closing the door behind you.
Once you were sure your mom wasn’t looking you mounted your staff and pulled out a scroll that Hunter generously gave you. Your parents wouldn’t let you have your very own scroll, so you’d got one on your own terms. Mainly so you could contact Hunter outside of training. You opened penstagram eagerly, sending Hunter a goodmorning message, to which he reaponded quickly. ‘You ready? :)’ You sent back. Today you and Hunter planned for you to skip school and hang out in the woods, beats being at school- even if there was a high risk of getting caught.
He sent back a quick yes, and you headed off to your guys’ spot. You two had a spot that you’d go to quite often, well as often as you could. On training days that your parents weren’t there due to their duties you two would sneak off to this spot.
While flying through the air you listened to the birds chirping, and admired the view of the boiling isles in the morning light. While you definitely preferred the night, morning was always really nice, usually the temperature was warm but not blistering hot, neither cold. It was a perfect temperature. Feeling the rising sun on your cheeks was a nice refresher from the pressures of your home.
Soon you had arrived at the spot, Hunter had yet to arrive, which was perfect. The night before you prepared for this by putting a blanket in your bag so you could use it as a picnic blanket. You spread it out on the ground, and set your bag down, leaving the food in the bag for now. This spot already had a few chairs and pillows that you guys would use when you’d come here. You lied down on the blanket, releasing your palisman. You loved the little guy dearly. He wad your only friend besides Hunter.
After a good 10 minutes Hunter arrived. Your eyes were closed as you gently pet your palisman. This moment was perfect. He took a quick picture forgetting his sound was on so his scroll made a small “chik” sound, he panicked and quickly closed his scroll. You were looking at him by now with a small smile, he just laughed awkwardly as he crawled onto the blanket next to you.
You sighed in content when he crawled up. It was always nice when he was around. He was so understanding and treated you like a witch with flaws. You leaned your head against him and moved your hand to grab his. “Hi love” you mumbled out. He hummed in response. You wanted nothing more than to stay like this forever.
After a moment, and after feeling like you were about to pass out he sat up and sloppily grabbed one of the few beanbags that laid under the tree, sitting down on it and pulling you up after him. The beanbag was small so you two were even closer together, it brought both of you a lot of comfort. Something both of you two needed. He gently ran his fingers through your hair, making you lean further into him. You wrapped your arms around him, stuffing your face into his neck. He was so comfortable. He moved his arms and wrapped them around your body.
“How has everything been?” he asked in a soft voice. You didn’t particularly want to talk about it but doing so would help you a lot. You removed your face from your neck and began talking “It’s just been the same really, my mom forcing me to be the best, she told me that I could always be better this morning before I left the house” You sigh, looking down, you could feel Hunters arms wrap around you tighter. He wanted to protect you from that vile women “Dad didn’t even acknowledge me” you paused “again” He gave you a few kisses on the top of your head. It was always nice to have him this close. “I swear all they ever want is more more more and for me to be perfect even though i’m not perfect! And they refuse to even acknowledge that! No matter how hard i try” You felt a few tears begin to form, but you quickly wiped them away. “They don’t even pay attention to me unless it involves ‘being better’ and it hurts so much” a few tears fell down your cheeks but Hunter wiped them away and made you look up at him.
“Honey, I promise you don’t have to be perfect. For nobody, especially not me.” He reassured “You’ll always be amazing too me, no matter how many flaws you have” He gave you a fee forehead kisses, some cheek kisses, a kiss on the nose and a tiny little peck on the lips. It was nice. You felt very happy to be in his arms in the moment. You looked up at him “what about you? how has everything been for you?” you asked, wanting to help him too if he needed it.
He looked off into the distance “Uncle hurt me again, but don’t worry!! I got it healed right after!” He reassured giving you a small smile, an angry face tugged at your brows and lips. You were tired of that horrible man hurting your Hunter. He continued “He’s been sending me on more missions lately, today I was supposed to be patrolling the castle but steve said he’d cover for me. He’s the only person that knows about us” you internally thanked steve, he was pretty cool. Go steve! “But yeah, Uncle hasn’t really changed much. But he says the titan has big plans for me so I have to stay” he mumbles, looking at the ground. That part is fishy, always has been. You don’t trust Belos. He’s always hurt Hunter and that made you not want to join the Coven. But you knew you had to be there for Hunter “Belos is a rotten man” you started, he just looked away a bit. He knew, sure but he was his only family. “Belos is my only family” He sighed “I don’t want to abandon him” You sat up a bit “I’m your family now.” You huffed, he blushed a bit. “We’re family whether you like it or not. We both have shitty families, but we found each other. I’ll support you know matter what decision you make, just know you can always come to and rely on me” You smiled, cupping his cheek and kissing him.
It was a sweet moment. You two were both content like this. Wanting to stay like this, forever and ever.
Throughout the day, you two talked about random things, ranging from school to the night market for some reason. At one point you two even got up and practiced some magic together. Specifically you were helping him learn how to use his organic staff. He had just received it, and due to never really learning how to use an organic one, and being unable to use magic on his own he didn’t know how to use staffs. You two laughed as he messed up under the comforting sunlight, making the leaves bright and day animals wander.
Inevitably you ended up back on the beanbag cuddling. The conversation from early popped into your head again. You started getting comfortable, and hugging him while cuddling. “I love you so much. I can’t wait for us to be able to leave our homes and live together” He stayed quiet for a moment, before nodding his head in agreement “I love you so much too” his voice rang in your ears, it always made you feel safe. Even if the majority of people hated it, you loved it. It was unique, beautiful and all around comforting. You couldn’t help but smile when you heard it.
“I’ll always be here for you” you said, closing your eyes as the sunlight complimented you. He admired how you looked, all curled up next to you, so adorable. He wanted to protect you. He gave you a few kisses on your head “I’ll always be here for you too” you took a nap, cuddles up next to him.
Your scroll unfortunately had other plans. An hour or so later it rang, letting you know school had just let out and that your parents would expect you home soon. You sighed, a frown painting your face but Hunter just gave you a smile. That made you feel a bit better. “I’m meeting up with Edric and Emira for homework that we got today, so It doesn’t seem suspicious when I get home.” He nodded, and picked up your staff for you, you called your palisman on it. As it began to float you mounted it, Hunter coming up next to you and kissed you once again, giving you a hug. He should return to his duties, so this is where you two will be parting. “I love you soooo soooo much! Message me when you get home tonight, k?” you spoke. “I love you sooo sooo much too!” he repeated back with a small laugh “I promise i’ll message you when I get home” He kissed you once more, mounted his staff and waved you a goodbye and flew off. You followed suit.
After retrieving your homework you went home. Home, you hated it. But you were content with the day because you got to spend it with the love of your life.