31- Letter Box

"Red, please... You are my friend, can't you do this little thing for me?" Lucifer pleaded to Red while coming after her as she was pacing around the house, not listening to him. "I am not doing it, no matter what! And now you are considering me your friend over a dress?!" Red spat, pointing at the white, adorned with a sequined princess gown in front of her. "You know how much I hate gowns like this." "Come on, Red. Can't you do this for me? Look, I have taken you to every fashion show in London possible! And you can't even dress up like a queen at my business party?" Lucifer asked, faking sadness. Red mouth gaped as she punched his shoulder, "You are such a bad actor! It seems like you are mocking me." "Red, wear it. I want you to look like a queen." Lucifer said, grabbing her wrist. "Please. For me." "You are already pretty and it will enhance your beauty more. Red, do it... for me. Please." Lucifer said softly, turning her to him and holding her shoulders. "I did everything you asked me, can't you do this for me?" "Stop blackmailing me emotionally, bastard." Red brows furrowed as she looked at the dress. "Damn, I have to wear this hell now." She sighed, making Lucifer grin and hug her from behind. "You are the best." Red couldn't help but to chuckle as she put her hand over his while looking at him from the corner of her eyes with a smile. 'Anything for you.' "Okay. okay, I will get ready," Red got ready, looking at her form which seemed as if an angel had descended from heaven, the beauty so delicate even a flower can't touch. The enchanting form to glimmer ever darkness by her presence alone. Red knows she was looking explicitly alluring but to her dissatisfaction, she does like the princess gown. Reaching the floor with straps going on and the glitter on the dress. Lucifer entered after knocking, taken aback to see the charm emitting from her, her arresting look, thralled him in her grace, leaving with no words to speak for her beauty. "God... She is so pretty." He whispered to himself and walked closer watching Red looking in the mirror while tilting to the left a little, resting her hand on her waist. "Red." Lucifer called her, standing too close to her. Red smiled and turned to him. "Oh, Lucifer." Lucifer's heart began to thump against his chest rapidly when he observed her flawless form. "Uh.. I think you.. Should change the dress.." He trailed off nervously, barely controlling his desires. "See. I told you. Gosh, this is so heavy and I already told you, I am not a disney princess that I will wear-" "You are looking like a doll." He said, cutting her off, holding her hands. "What?" Red asked, blushing at his simple but holding in-depth meaning words. "I know I am manipulative at comments but Red right now..." He swallowed hard, holding her hands tightly. "I can only say this compliment." He moved a little closer making Red shy and flushed. "You are a doll." Moving close to her face. "So exquisite..." To her neck in a whisper. "So delicate..." Red laughed a little and set his tie, smiling radiantly. "What can I say to you, Dear husband? You are sexy as always." Lucifer chuckled and moved back. "Shall we leave?" Red asked, He grinned and went with her. "Sure." ~~•~~• "How can I be so stupid? No matter what, in the end. Red is Red." Lucifer sighed, pressing his fingers on his forehead while looking at the drunk woman sitting beside him. Laughing without any reason while clinging on his arms with barely opened eyes. Lucifer was looking at his wife with a frown, remembering how everything was going decently and now somehow, she is drunk. "Stop drinking Red." Lucifer said, taking the glass of her whiskey from her. "No! My martini." "It's whiskey, Red." Red poked his chest and looked at him, "Lucifer you won't believe, before coming here, Your sister was dreaming of becoming a famous fashion-" "You are my wife." "Huh? You Are talking about your wife, I am talking about myself." Red made a dazed face. "You are my wife." "That's what I am saying, your wife." "You are my wife." "Then what are you? Lucifer, You or wife?" Lucifer pointed at her with a sigh. "You." "Me?" Then at himself. "My wife." "Your wife?" And he nodded, Red laughed and hugged him. "Oh, you should have said something like this... By the way, I was telling you, "Your Sister will become a famous fashion designer." Lucifer shook his head in disappointment because she is back again to point one. "Oh now I remember how I came here." Red smiled. "How?" Lucifer asked, intrigued to know just how in the hell she ended up getting caught in a smuggling case. "I went to my graduation party with Parker and Peter, my friends. We got wasted, Parker told me an amazing scheme for our future." "What scheme?" He asked seriously. Red grinned and Held Lucifer's hands. "We should beg." Lucifer's eyes widened in stagger, irked by her. How pretty she was looking and ended up being her usual self. "We were planning how we should beg. And thought about selling potatoes and I was coming back.. AND THEN!" Red took a pause in a dramatic style. "Someone kidnapped me while I was going to meet my friend May- May? Not May, June, Nah. July, Whatever month and ended up in a truck's trailer with nearly twenty women and passed out." She paused. "Only to wake in a hospital and be greeted by Mr Grave the officer who instead was a shipment company CEO and we got married and lived happily ever after." Red said, letting out a few hiccups while speaking nonchalantly after taking a dramatic pause before. "You are unbelievable." Lucifer sighed, gaining irrelevant information which helped him to do nothing and he took her back home. ~~•~~• A month after it, Red's birthday was getting nearer and she was looking for Lucifer to tell him about it but couldn't find him. "Lucifer! There you are." Red called him, scrutinizing Lucifer stargazing. "Oh, you are stargazing?" She asked, coming closer. "Yeah..." "Are you alright, Lucifer? You seemed a bit off today." Lucifer turned to look at Red who was standing beside him with her usual sweet smile. Lucifer stared at it for a few seconds and said, "I am fine... just wanted to be alone for a while." Lucifer smiled, lowering his head. "Oh okay," Red was about to leave but stopped in her tracks and turned to him last time. "Lucifer. I want to tell you, I am here for you." She smiled and was about to leave but Lucifer held her hand, not raising his face, making an almost crying face wallowed in sorrow, "Red... you once told me that ... you'll be my letter box." He hesitantly said, biting his lower lips. "Yeah." "I.. I want to send a letter." He whispered, turning to her, looking at her sadly. "What is it?" Red asked with a soft smile, while giving his hand an assuring squeeze. "Red, I never had a friend, someone with whom I can open up but when you told me about yourself so easily then I realized I should do it as well." "Just say it," Red whispered. "I had my only friend... My elder sister Fiona. She was eights years older than me and I loved her dearly, she was my everything, friend, teacher. I couldn't even imagine living without her..." "Today is her death anniversary." He said in a feeble voice, gulping down his pain. Red narrowed her eyes in compassion, not wanting to see Lucifer in a state of chaos, "What happened to her?" Lucifer let out a hollow smile, "She left me behind. For someone who doesn't even love her she neglects the fact she has a younger brother who loves her. She killed herself because her lover cheated on her." Lucifer's tone broke, "Red... I watched it myself. Her lifeless body was in front of me. I was... I was fifteen, she killed herself all because some asshole cheated, what about the ones around her? Me, Mom, Dad?" Lucifer began to cry a little as a few tears rolled down his cheeks. "She left me behind. I waited for her just like you waited for your father but she never came back." He sniffed, wiping his tears, trying to compose himself, "After it, I don't want to love anyone. That's why I avoided relationships and love, I lost my wills. She was my inspiration when she killed herself, I lost my path." Red rubbed his back, trying to provide him solace, She opened her mouth to say something but Lucifer's grip tightened on her and he told her what's going in his heart, "Her last glance... I can never forget it... I am scared, Red." Lucifer whispered desperately. "Of what?" "I am terrified to lose you like I have lost Fiona..." Red cupped his cheeks, wiping his tears and passing him a smile. "Lucifer, now that I have come into your life, I will never leave you." Lucifer wiped his tears and pulled away, curving his lips upward. Red looked at him mesmerizingly, staring deep into his silver orbs as Lucifer could feel a wave of tranquility rushing in his vein just by her present. Like someone who made his life; an actual life came, a lovely benediction for him.