Innocence
Chapter 10 (Epilogue)
Title: Innocence
Author: Kalika
Summary: Zadei, a high school drop out, meets a young man named Tetius one night on his way home from work.
Warning Codes: Yaoi, AU, H/C, Language
Pairings: Zadei/Tetius
Authors Note: And here’s the obligatory happy ending. Warning: short.
Disclaimer: Characters owned by You Higuri. I wrote this simply for my own entertainment.
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Chapter 10 - Epilogue
It has been almost a year since we first met, Zadei thought to himself as he looked around their new apartment. It was a lovely place, just off the university campus. Maybe it was a bit big for the two of them, but Zadei liked having all of the space. There were three bedrooms (only one actually had a bed in it), two baths, a spacious kitchen, and an enormous living area.
Tetius had tried to hold onto his grandmother’s house, but in he end it had been to painful. The house had been sold (as well as all of the possessions in it), and part of the money had been used to buy them this new apartment. The only things that Tetius had kept were the pictures of his parents and his grandmother, which he kept on the mantle.
Tetius had already finished his first year of university, but that didn’t stop him from advancing his studies on his own. While Zadei, at Tetius’ insistence, was studying to take the entrance exams for his first year.
He had been a bit uncertain, considering his lack of a high school education, but Tetius had just kept encouraging him. He was using all of Tetius’ old notes, and was doing much better than he had originally thought that he would. He didn’t really know what he was going to take as his major, but he figured he didn’t need to worry about that until he actually got in.
Tetius had decided to major in Sociology. Zadei thought that it was fitting for someone who had had so little experience with people and society as a whole. Though Tetius was doing amazingly well with people now, Zadei was glad that he still preferred to spend his time in their apartment rather than out at social gatherings.
Of course, things could always change in the future, but for now everything was perfect. And Zadei was going to hang onto it for as long as he could.
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The End
I apologize for such a long wait for such a short chapter. I actually had this written the day after I posted chapter nine, but I got sidetracked by a pile of new novels.