Hugging myself to protect myself from the biting air I had not realized that Steel had taken off the hoodie that he wore until he had put it over my head and made me wear it. I tried my hardest to protect against it, but he refused and did not listen to me as I ended up actually wearing his hoodie while we're walking back to my apartment. His hoodie is warm, like him and it does smell like him too. The scent of his cologne fills me up and makes me feel happy and like the rest of the world doesn't matter.

Steel has his arms around me and has me tight against his side but I find that I don't care about it because I actually enjoy it and having his strong arm around me is something that I find myself liking and wanting. "Why did you take me out to dinner?" I ask him. He had paid for the food, I would've done it but I did not even take my wallet because I did not plan to be going out for dinner but I think he planned it. So when we get to my apartment I'm paying him back, and he will not refuse it.

"You were hungry" He says and I look up at him as he looks up at me. I raise an eyebrow at him as I know there has to be more to it than that. Steel lets out a sigh. "I wanted to cheer you up. I saw that you were happy but behind it was sadness" He tells me. I'm not sure if I was sad but I have been stressed over the last couple of weeks and perhaps he read it wrong, but he saw that? He knew that there was something wrong?

Not even Mark, my very own best friend notices how I had sometimes been down, then again we barely see each other. We often speak on the phone though. "Did it also cheer you up?" I ask him. Steel still has those bruises on his face and I find that they don't make him more scary, but they make him human because if he did not have them then I would've thought that he was superhuman, a man that has been sculpted by God himself with no weaknesses, just strength and immortality but now he is human, the same as I am.

"Yes, it did. I can see the curiosity in your eyes. You want to know how I got hurt but you're afraid of asking. Lila, your eyes reveal a lot to me, even when you try to hide it. Though I will answer every questions that comes from your lips. Even those that will scar me for life, I would not care as I would proudly carry that scar with me" He speaks. The world is just in the background as his words are swirling around me as if it were dancing in my mind.

I have a feeling that his words meant also something else. This makes my cold cheeks brighten with blood as they heat up and the flutter inside my heart is growing in the best way possible. "What happened?" I ask him. He was right about it, I was afraid but somehow he doesn't make me afraid anymore, he makes me brave and fearless. "I got into a fight. Not at the boxing ring. I was defending a woman from being assaulted last night. I'm not the one that would stand by and allow such cruelty to take place, so I fought back for that woman" He tells me.

"Three men came at me and I fought them all, but they did land a few punches on me but nothing that I can't handle. I chased them off and made sure they would never hurt another woman again, I took them to the police and dropped them off where they will be charged with attempted assault on that woman which she will testify to if it comes to that. I came back for her and helped her find her way back to her house" He speaks. I gasp at him and I can't help but feel myself hug him.

He did something that not many would've done and I feel proud that he did that. There are tears in my eyes but happy ones. "You're so kind" I say, it is the truth and I'm sure that woman will agree with me on that. I was right. Steel may look large and a scary person, but he's not, he truly is the best in the humankind to give us faith. "For you, I will be the kindest one you have ever met" He tells me. His voice is so comforting to hear and I think I never want to stop hearing it.

"Why?" I ask him. We stop in front of my apartment building, and he turns to face me. "Because you deserve it but also because kindness deserves to be treated back with kindness. It is as the saying goes 'treat others like the way you want to be treated'" Steel says. I smile at him and hug him once again. "You have a way with words that I love" I speak into his chest. His hard chest that is still the softest thing that I have ever felt.

His beating heart reminds me that he's alive and that it beats and for a moment we stay like that. Hugging one another like never before and it may seem strange to others but I feel like Steel is someone that was put in my path, and he is here to stay and I will gladly allow him to. He's my friend and perhaps one day he will become something more than a friend to me and I do hope that day will come because I'm starting to get feelings that I can't explain in words but everyone knows what I mean. I'm falling in love.