I Fell in Love with Hope - Lancali

C sighs, his worry audible.
“Neo,” he whispers, caressing the purpling blotch of skin just beside
his collar.
“Don’t say anything,” Neo says, hissing at the pain.
“I know it’s not from the surgery.”
“It sounds like you’re saying something.”
C doesn’t have the chance to retaliate. A loud pair of tip-toeing
shoes trail past the scenery and kick the door open—dirty white
sneakers.
“Hello, heathens!” Sony spreads her arms wide open, a full tote bag
on her arm that seems to have something inside jostling around.
“Eric! I didn’t see you there.”
“Why is your bag moving?” Eric asks, narrowing his eyes at her.
Sony grasps the bag closer to her body. “I have no idea what you’re
talking about.”
“Did you steal a baby or something?” C asks.
“Steal? C, how dare you accuse me of such fiendish activities?
Hikari, come defend my honor.”
Walking in behind the devil, my sun from last night emerges. Easy
and warm with the morning. She and Sony seem to have gotten
close in all of a day.
I guess flames tend to take to each other no matter where their light
is from.
Hikari laughs at Sony. She says hello to Neo in that soft voice,
touching his brace, saying more, asking things. Neo doesn’t seem to
mind. He’s there with her, despite the drugs, listening, responding,