Chapter 32: The battle for love!

                                    

                                          


                          


                          
Through the front door of her home, Isabelle saw Vei walk up to her in a limping manner. She spotted the trickling blood that went down her leg and the wound it came out of, then rushed her way over. Her parents came running over, devastated to see such a wound on their daughter's leg. "Sweetie, are you alright?!" Gaia exclaimed in shock and concern, before assisting Vei over to the couch. Isabelle was already trying to heal it as they made their way over and when Vei sat down, her master was able to focus more on the wound since they're not moving anymore.
                          


                          
"Yeah, Sonic the hedgehog just got my leg with a kunai... I need to catch up to Genos, there was a monster nearby but I got hurt, and this damn leg is gonna slow me down," she explained with annoyance and grumbled beneath her breath. 
                          


                          
"Ah, your boyfriend huh?" Lumeri teased with a straight, serious face and stared at her wound. He had half the mind to smirk to show he was playing and deep down he knew she liked the cyborg. It was just an instinct all parents had, even Gaia could tell. Despite hearing the beaten around the bush confession she made when her red face was pointed out that one day. 
                          


                          
Vei's face got real red at his words and her eyes widened behind her mask. Soon she angrily glared at her father, only to see him give a faint smirk her way. "You're lucky I'm hurt right now..." With an irk mark throbbing, he laughed to himself and walked closer, pulling her head into a soft hug. 
                          


                          
"I know, that's why I was picking on you. You know I love you, right?" His words made her grumble and one of her eyes twitch. Love? That was something a little foreign to her, but it coming from her parents was somehow relieving. She loved her mom and dad too, yetLOVE in itself was confusing. She didn't really understand the whole concept of it, just a gist. She knew about parental love a little and the fact that she loved her parents and Isabelle, but loving another rather intimately was hard to understand. She knew she liked Genos a lot but she didn't know if she loved him. While Isabelle was healing her leg, she figured asking her parents about love, would be better than asking someone else.
                          


                          
So with hesitance and still in her father's hold, she barely managed the question. "Mom...d-dad...?" Hearing that both of her parents perked up and stared at her curiously. "What's....love, really...?" Now that caught them by surprise. Their eyes widened in shock and even her master glanced up at her in astonishment. 
                          


                          
"There are many forms of it. Like...parental love, love in friendship, pet love, and, intimate love," Gaia began, then saw her husband grin and blush faintly at the latter. She smiled too, albeit shy and her hand got placed on her cheek. "Parental love is when you care deeply for your child/children and want to protect them, be there for them, raise them, help them, and more. Love in friendship is simply caring for your friends and being with them as a sibling almost, understanding each other's pains as well and wanting to help them out of their dilemmas, even enjoying their company each time they're around; sometimes you even grow to know them so well, to the point of understanding their behaviors and everything else about them. Pet love is when you have your own pet, you want to love them, care for them, feed them, hug them, and more. Intimate love..." she halted then shyly looked away, hid her face, and formed a cute smile on her lips.
                          


                          
"Is when you love, care about, always want to be there for your partner; you know everything about them, spend a lot of your time with them, hug, kiss, snuggle, be huge goofballs, be all flirty, both of your faces will flush red a lot and so much more to list off..." she finished, faced Vei again, and gave a motherly, gleeful look. Her green eyes filled with love and other emotions that was a little hard to distinguish.