"A bath?" In response to Lila's question, Kyle muttered to himself in contemplation.
'Taking a bath with someone who I don't know? Seems risky.' Kyle thought, Kyle had never met Lila before. And was still wary of her even though Lila proclaimed herself as Kyle's mother, he also never had a bath before and only had heard it from one of the children in the foster home. It was apparently amazing and relaxing.
'I do want to find out how it feels though.' Kyle was ruling out the good and the bad of the situation at hand, he finally came to a conclusion after a bit more of contemplation on the matter and decided to try it out.
"Okay." He turned and replied to Lila, her eyes instantly exploded into excitement and was about to start stripping away, but then thought it was a bit weird for her to do that in-front of her own child. Not taking in to account that he doesn't even know her anyway, only that she said stated she was his mother.
'I wonder does he even accept me as his mother?' Lila began to think as Kyle walked out of the bathing area to find a towel to cover himself in, he didn't want to let some stranger see him bareback.
'What am I thinking, haaah-- It's too early for that, I only just met him.' Lila immediately began to erase that thought from her head, she only just met the child after all. She doesn't even know his name yet, even though she was supposed to be the one to name him.
'Oh.' She turned around and wanted to ask him what was his name, but found that he disappeared.
'Huh?' Lila was about to begin to look for him but Kyle arrived around the corner just in time, he had a towel around his lower body and had none on his torso.
"Here." Kyle said to Lila as he walked towards her to hand Lila the towel he found that she was frozen in place and her eyes had locked onto his upper body, his scars to be exact.
"H-h-how did you g-get th-those?" She said as horror started to appear on her face, she stuttered on her words since she was shocked. 'He's only ten, how did he such terrifiying scars!?' She screamed in her head, she was terrified and wanted an answer to how he got those.
"They hit me, in that foster home. That you sent me to." He replied to her, when he was getting to the end of the reply his tone of voice suddenly changed, into a deeper tone. A sort of resentment.
'Why is she surprised, she's the cause of this afterall.' Kyle didn't really have a feeling of hatred towards Lila for his scars, but did want to emphasize that she was the cause and that was the effect of her decision.
"W-why, s-so cruel!" Lila held her face in her hands as she began to cry once again, she had just stopped a while ago but now had started again.
Kyle didn't want to stand there and watch Lila cry once again, so he just walked into the bathing area once he handed her a towel.
Lila watched the scar ridden Kyle walked right past her into the bathing area in shock, still. 'Why is he so, emotionless?' She thought while tears were still running down her face as her heart was slowly cracking.
'What happened back in that foster home?' She was still standing there in shock watching Kyle lowering himself into the giant bath, while she was eyeing Kyle up she came to find the scars were even more gruesome than she originally thought.
Some were very deep and quite long and some were not so deep and short, each scar had a certain feeling to it as well. It's like you can picture the scene of Kyle being beaten with a stick or him being sliced around with a knife.
Quite a terrifying scene but you would be thankful you didn't witness it first hand, or was the victim.
Lila was having many thoughts on what had happened in that foster home, and was incredibly regretful that she was not able to do something about it. But after some more thought on the matter, her emotions started to fluctuate once more. Guilt had risen up from inside her after coming to the conclusion that she was the cause, and that was the effect.
"Are you going to just stand there?" Kyle's voice woke her up from her daydream and she immediately wiped off the sorrowful expression and replaced it with a cheerful one, 'I can't let him see that side of me.' She thought to herself.
Kyle just sat in the above average size bathtub and relaxed, he never felt this relaxed before. Even though his face didn't show it, inside he felt good. He never really experienced hot water, unless it was him being forced to shove his hands into boiling water for punishment. But this time he didn't feel pain and only warmth, the water was just the right temperature.
But as he was relaxing he suddenly felt the water fluctuating around him and spotted that Lila was behind him, she had a smile on her face as she said.
"Want me to wash your back?" She said to him as she already started to scrub Kyle's back without his consent.
"O-okay." Kyle found it a bit weird for her to do this, but agreed in the end of it all.
Lila had a bright expression on her face as she cheerfully washed Kyle's back, it was her son after all.
She carefully caressed the scars on his back as she looked at them, her eyes full with motherly love.
Lila scrubbed and scrubbed, even if there was nothing left to clean she would still scrub. She was really enjoying this moment, it was as if she was having one of the happiest times in her life.
"It's okay now." After a while Kyle noticed that she wasn't stopping and had to tell her, even if it felt nice having the soft sponge rubbing against his back. He wasn't that comfortable having her scrub it while he's just sitting there. Even if he's okay bathing with her.
But he didn't find that weird since they're both wearing towels over themselves, also she was his so proclaimed mother.
"I'm getting out." Kyle said as he stood up, his towel was soaked from being in the water. To which he thought why did he even get into the bath with a towel on if it is just going to get wet, but walked on out anyway.
But as he was about to walk out and leave Lila behind, he turned to her and asked.
"Where can I change?" He asked.
'Oh, I didn't assign him a room yet.' She still hadn't give Kyle a room yet and didn't know where to locate him, she wanted to choose wisely to best suit him. But in the end she just blurted out.
"My room." She suddenly said.