[march 02] [original] punches and friendship
Title: Punches and Friendship
Day/Theme: March 2/Running up the tracks for a head on collision.
Series: Original
Character/Pairing: Tera, Kouta (Pace)
Rating: G
Words: 372
Tera had never meant to punch Pace in the face when the two were 7 years old.
She had been fed up with Isaac and Ryan's constant chants of 'fattie fat fat' and the stream of tears that always accompanied their insults. She remembered pulling back her fist to plant a punch in Isaac's direction while he was too busy laughing at her. Silently, the young girl closed her eyes and pushed her fist forward as quickly as she could. Her heart leapt in joy as she felt it connect with something and heard a painful groan echo around her.
Tera opened her eyes and gasped in terror when she saw that her fist wasn't connected to Isaac's face but to a boy's she didn't recognize; her arm practically snapped back to her side when she felt something trickle down her arm. Her eyes shifted from the boy squeezing his own eyes shut while holding his bleeding nose in his hand, to Isaac, to Ryan and back to the boy again. She whimpered when Isaac and Ryan ran away laughing about how 'weird squinty Pace' was.
She remembered how he didn't cry even though she had broken his nose and it seemed like the blood would never stop flowing. He opened his eyes and gave her a soft but pained smile.
"Don't fight," Pace had told her, his voice muffled because of the broken nose she had given him. "There's better ways to get back at people."
A tooth fell out of his mouth while he was talking. She later let out a sigh of relief when he told her that is was going to come out sooner or later; Pace was still pretty steamed that he was going to get less money from the Tooth Fairy though.
His words did not register with her brain at the time because of her never-ending screams of 'I'm sorry' and Mrs. Meyers frantic shouts concerning Pace.
Two days later he sat down with her during recess and told her that his broken nose made him feel cool even though he wasn't allowed to pick it.
Tera was glad she had punched him in the face. If she hadn't, they might not have become friends.
Day/Theme: March 2/Running up the tracks for a head on collision.
Series: Original
Character/Pairing: Tera, Kouta (Pace)
Rating: G
Words: 372
Tera had never meant to punch Pace in the face when the two were 7 years old.
She had been fed up with Isaac and Ryan's constant chants of 'fattie fat fat' and the stream of tears that always accompanied their insults. She remembered pulling back her fist to plant a punch in Isaac's direction while he was too busy laughing at her. Silently, the young girl closed her eyes and pushed her fist forward as quickly as she could. Her heart leapt in joy as she felt it connect with something and heard a painful groan echo around her.
Tera opened her eyes and gasped in terror when she saw that her fist wasn't connected to Isaac's face but to a boy's she didn't recognize; her arm practically snapped back to her side when she felt something trickle down her arm. Her eyes shifted from the boy squeezing his own eyes shut while holding his bleeding nose in his hand, to Isaac, to Ryan and back to the boy again. She whimpered when Isaac and Ryan ran away laughing about how 'weird squinty Pace' was.
She remembered how he didn't cry even though she had broken his nose and it seemed like the blood would never stop flowing. He opened his eyes and gave her a soft but pained smile.
"Don't fight," Pace had told her, his voice muffled because of the broken nose she had given him. "There's better ways to get back at people."
A tooth fell out of his mouth while he was talking. She later let out a sigh of relief when he told her that is was going to come out sooner or later; Pace was still pretty steamed that he was going to get less money from the Tooth Fairy though.
His words did not register with her brain at the time because of her never-ending screams of 'I'm sorry' and Mrs. Meyers frantic shouts concerning Pace.
Two days later he sat down with her during recess and told her that his broken nose made him feel cool even though he wasn't allowed to pick it.
Tera was glad she had punched him in the face. If she hadn't, they might not have become friends.