Kronii was grumpy
Was it something you did? Something out of your control? Maybe stream related?
All questions posed to her were met with a curt response or an dejected expression
It was evident she was down in the dumps, one of her depressive phases. She tried hiding it in a variety of ways; seemingly uncaring and cold, being overly sadistic or cruel, rampant self-deprication and jokes to her own expense out of nowhere.
This time was a mix of all of them but with a heavy splash of additional sadness bubbling under the surface
You had to find out, a burden shared is a burden halved after all
Kronii was her streaming room, reading some webtoon on her computer
You open the door with her favourite tea and set it down next to her, she doesn't acknowledge your presence
"It's time to do something drastic" you think to yourself
Nervously, you gently poke her cheek
Her eyes briefly look at your hand then back at the screen, a failed attempt to ignore you
You poke her cheek a second time. Her cheek is soft and supple, delicate and elegant
She pushes your hand down from her face slowly
"Third time's a charm" you think, this time pressing a little firmer, you can feel her high, shapely cheekbone underneath
"Do you want to die?" Kronii swivels round facing you, smacking your hand off in the process. She is scowling in anger and disgust but you know her defense mechanisms all too well by now
"I'll take my chances" you reply, this time you stoke her cheek with your hand. You had embraced the high likelihood of getting smacked at best, painfully tortured later at worse
But to your surpise she does nothing of the sort, she was glaring at you with a laser-focused intensity but her lips began quivering, her cheeks turning a light pink and her eyes began to water
Suddenly she jumped onto you; sobbing intensely into your chest, wrapping her arms around you, her cries were incoherent babbling and sniffing muffled by your shirt
"...I don't deserve you... I'm a terrible person to you... I'm not what any man would want... I'm worthless, why do you stay with me... I would be terrible wife material..." you could make out all these things between the cries of anguish and relentless sniffling and sobbing
Her cold, uncaring façade crumbled so quickly when she was with you, the cool, calm and collected demeanour vanished whenever you treated her with care and love
"Shhhhhh, let it all out" is all you can say, you want her to vent everything to you
Five minutes or so pass and Kronii has stopped sobbing so intensely. She is still sniffing, eyes bloodshot, tears streaking down her face, but she is more collected now in your embrace
You whisper how much she means to you, how you are the luckiest man in history to be with her, how you would never abandon her and ultimately, how much you love her
Kronii just listens to you with her slender arms around your torso, head to your chest, letting you stroke her hair as you shower her with the love she has always wanted
You were the only man who could see though her cold outer shell to the warm yet tortured heart underneath. You were the man for her. She smiled at your affection, she didn't want to let you go