Lili's voice brought him to reality for once. But when he processed Lili's words, he was caught in a daze once again.
She feels these names to be.. kingly?
That means she somehow knows that these names were that of kings.
That means..she might still have remnants of my name in her memory too?
For once, he lost all his rationality and felt a dire need to hear his own name in her voice, to know what she felt about his name, the name which had once been juxtaposed with hers a thousand years ago and was uttered together with hers every time people had to refer to the royal couple.
If I say that name just for once, it won't cause any harm... would it?
It won't be like a thread to her past memory..or perhaps it would.
But even if it is, she possibly won't remember them when she couldn't remember them till date.
He got back his memory when he was just five years old.
Earlier he had tried to convince his parents about him being a reincarnation.
But later when his repeated tries failed and nobody believed him, he gradually stopped telling them the stories.
The only person who believed in him was his grandmother, who believed in rebirths.
But after her death, he really had to keep his tales limited to himself.
So he naturally felt that when she couldn't get back her memories to this date, she probably wouldn't get them back ever.
But the most overpowering reason was, he wanted her to utter his name.
"Zeus?", Aaron's whisper could be barely heard as he asked her with great anticipation in his eyes.
Lili probably was too engrossed to notice that someone else was helping her to search for the probable names as she just furrowed her eyebrows in response and judged the name.
"Zeus..
Ze..us..
This name sounds just like him.
So princely, so charming, so manly, so .. lovely"
Lili's eyes shone brightly as she said the last sentence.
She said the name .. twice.
Aaron's heart was fluttering in joy as he felt his wish come true.
"But the name is quite backdated. I mean, parents generally don't keep such names these days.
What do yo..u s..a..y?"
She suddenly turned to her back and sat rooted to her spot, like she was stricken by some lighting as her eyes widened in shock.
Though Aaron was startled by her facing him suddenly, he succeeded in concealing his blush and resumed his nonchalance.
"I think his name is Aaron Jenson", said Aaron as he casually turned around to leave.
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Aaron Jenson..
He had been standing here for..how long?
And why did he come up with such a prehistoric name to suggest?
Lili was snapped back to reality as she saw him turning to leave.
She instinctively jumped to stand up and caught hold of his wrist.
"Lili..Lili Ray."
Aaron's palms got moist as he reddened at her touch.
He slowly turned and looked at his wrist which was still held by her.
When Lili noticed his direction of sight, she hastily pulled back her arm and lowered her head.
"En..I..
I thought..
Ummm..I mean to.. "
Breath Lili, breathe.
"I thought we could be weird..
En..I mean we could be friends as we both are..en..weird
No I don't think you are weird but my friend does and so we make a good pair. I mean not 'that' kind of a pair but a friendly pair.. I mean you seem alone and lonely.. I mean they mean the same.. and you are like m.."
What?!
She felt she crashed onto something hard.
She then felt strong firm arms draping around her as she was pressed to a firm torso, her head cupped in his palm and pressed on his heart, hiding her face in his cleavage, his firm chest muscles blocking her lips.