Healing and Mending

“Ace…” I murmured his name before I found out that I didn’t quite know what to say to him.

“Stop frowning, Rina. You’ll get lines all over your beautiful face…” Ace reprimanded me half-jokingly.

I felt the warmth of his hand against the side of my face before his fingertips slid down to cup my chin and tip my head up slightly. His other hand approached my face and then I felt his fingers trying to stop the skin in between my brows from creasing. I didn’t know how to react to how seriously he seemed to be taking this.

“You know, if you seriously don’t want me to frown like this, then you should stop making me worry about you…” I muttered darkly.

“Well, since there’s not much that I can do about that, I’ll just help keep your brows away from each other…” Ace replied with a chuckle.

I didn’t quite think that it was funny but the atmosphere around us seemed to have lightened somewhat. Things were a far cry from being normal between us but it seemed like things may just work out in the