The Broken Prince - Chapter 124

“You know sometimes, you confuse me.” Lucifer spoke as he and Zeus sat on the bench as they watched the sun retreat below the ocean as the moon rose above and be in unity with the dazzling and millions stars that have seemed to found joy watching over two friends in their own little world.

Zeus looked at his friend with a smile and almost crossing brows. He did not got as to what Lucifer meant. Till to this day, he still is confused as to how and what goes on inside Lucifer. Maybe that was why he found himself being drawn in so much on the other. All his life, he read everyone like an open book but when he met Lucifer Morningstar, it was like he was given this huge and complex puzzle that he couldn’t seem to solve and just when he thought he had all the right pieces together in the right place, a single spot reveals itself to be a flaw and he would again start from the top.

“What I meant was, up until now, I do not know what you saw in me that kept you pressing in on me until we became what we are now.” Lucifer asked. Truth be told, the same question has been bugging him for quite some time now and he wanted to know not because he was suspicious but because he might have something in him that only Zeus saw. And he wanted to know that and asks everyone else as to why couldn’t have seen that. Especially his parents who looked at him as if he was a person that was create solely to be perfect and absolute..

Zeus smiled warmly at Lucifer which made the other smile as well. There was just something about his friend that made him want to live a good life, away from everything and just a simple but a life that was true to him. Zeus faced Lucifer and held his shoulder.

“I do not want or wish to offend you in anyway with my answer but since you asked, I shall give you nothing but the truth.” Zeus started but his smile did not waver and that reassured young Morningstar. What it may have been, he would gladly accept it.

“When I first saw you, I knew that you were not how you portrayed yourself to be. Instead, despite your thick facade, I somehow saw a person that walked a long pathway separated from the others, alone. At first, I did approach you because of pity and because I just don’t want to see someone like me who already has a huge responsibility to fulfill, be more dragged down.” Zeus spoke. The answer caught Lucifer off guard and he should be mad because he did not want anyone to take pity on him. Strangely, his heart accepted Zeus’s reason. Maybe because the sincerity and honesty was laced with his words.

“I was honestly so thankful that you left the door to your world partly open for me to enter and even if that was the case, I still found it so hard to come in. You were something else to me. My life may be full of colors but sometimes, a person too yearns to see the grays and whites. And to me, you were the gray that I was waiting for. I got drawn to you and it was just until we became friends that I realized that it was not because I pity you, but because you have been someone I was yearning for to see. My life is filled with colors and nice people and yours may be the opposite, I thought.”

“I knew you did not let people in but I tried still because I wanted to be, despite being the only one, be the one to paint your world so you won’t be that alone anymore. And our ancestors know how happy I am whenever we get to hang out and bond together. Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to put a smile on everyone’s faces and I have accomplished that a lot. But yours was the one I’d consider to be as an achievement.” Zeus spoke with his head hung low and his vision only staring at his hands on top of his friend who he knows that he does not see as one. He had many friends but he just knew that Lucifer was not one of those people. He was more than that and that made young Archemidius scared. Not because of everyone else but because of how Lucifer may react.

He did not receive any response from the other which made him thought that his friend was angry but then he was wrong. His eyes swelled up as young Morningstar was sobbing silently as tears fell down from his dark eyes. Zeus’s heart started to beat faster out from fear and disappointment because he made Lucifer cry.

“I- I did not intend to offend you Luci. That was not my intention so please believe me-” He got cut off mid sentence as his friend rushed to wrap his arms around the other. The sun disappeared and the moon rose high. The stars dazzled and flickered even more as the winds hummed a tune. Both heart started to beat the same symphony as the other hugged the crying one back.

“T-Thank you. Zeus.” Zeus was caught off guard by the response but he just hugged his friend and continued to caress his back with his hand gently stroking it to calm the other.

“Everyone around me was just a blur. They were all irrelevant and did not matter to me. I just knew even in my early age that I was set for one thing alone and that is to be the perfect king I will be once I rise and take the throne. Life for me was indeed the exact opposite from you. I did not have the chance to play with kids my age. Did not get the chance to enjoy the sun and sweat like a kid. That was when my life became gray and devoid of colors. I started to wake up and do the same thing over and over again. I got so caught up in the image set before me that I thought that it was fine and that I was going to be okay but I figured that it was not and I won’t be fine.”

“Things stared to get into me and I did my best but it wasn’t much. What was sufficient before became so insufficient now. The only witness to my tears were my pillow case. The only witness to my cries were the single lit lampshade on the bedside. Everyday, the chains on my arms and feet started to get heavier and I felt so alone. My mother, I expected her to be the warm figure and to be the person that I can cry to but my expectation were not reality. She is a nice person but did she became my mother? I doubt.”

“Father was the one I yearned to be. I wanted to make him proud and get the acknowledgement I wanted to hear ever since. I excelled at everything, I was good at everything and I did everything but no matter how great I did, in his eyes, I only did good. He still found some errors and miscalculations in me. He did not give me congratulating words but critiquing words. I was so lost and was drifting from my family, further and further.”

“I thought that no one would see me the way I really am and how a boy and not a prince, suffer from too much dominion over me. And I never expected that you would be the one that would see that. True to your words that I am not that welcoming to everyone as my space has been etched with thorns that even if I do not want to push everyone away, the false image that has been set before me is doing its job. That’s why I wondered so much as to why you stayed and why you tried so much. Your answer was all I wanted. I might have forgotten that I was hoping that one person would see me and understand me but I never loosed hope that one would. And that person is you.”

Lucifer broke the hug between them and looked at Zeus whose eyes were intently gazing before him. Zeus did not know what so say. He felt somehow horrible that this person got too unfortunate to experience that. He just wanted to stay with him forever and just give him all the protection and care that he absolutely deserves.

“You do not have to worry any more Luci. I won’t go anywhere far from you. I’ll be always here starting from now on.” Archemidius spoke. His eyes gazed so gently at the other who did the same.

“Can I kiss you?”