one sentence prompts

Feb 24, 2010 18:59

Hello again :)

I've been obsessed with 1sentence lately, so I've started working on this prompt set. I'm thinking splitting it into 4 parts or so, like little connected mini-stories made of run-on sentences. Here's one of them.

Feedback is appreciated, as always. Sorry for the abuse of grammar. XD



Progression of Chords

41 - stable
It begins when Shin Makoku stabilizes to the point where Yuuri is able to regularly steal away some of his companions (which turns out to always include Conrad) when he comes back to Earth.

27 - metal
Sometimes Conrad just hangs out with him in his room, chatting about baseball and movies, and other times they play Guitar Hero in the living room where Conrad develops insane riffing skills and a love of classic metal.

42 - strange
He thinks Conrad should try that on a real guitar because it looks seriously dorky to have Mr. Perfect jamming away on a colorful piece of plastic (though Conrad says he's FRETful about trying a real instrument), and it's even worse when he's simultaneously making bad puns (Conrad, you don't have to worry about being a bully for PICKING on the guitar...), to the point where Yuuri can't help but wonder if Conrad is purposely trying to ruin his knight-in-shining-armor image.

39 - solid
It's ironic that it takes Guitar Hero for Yuuri to finally, once and for all, stop seeing Conrad as his hero; in place of that phantom ideal is his puntastically annoying friend who is much better than perfection... and who just so happens to save his sorry ass quite often.

05 - coffee
Yuuri grimaces when he discovers that Conrad likes the disgusting sludge known as black coffee, though somehow this makes him seem much more mysteriously adult.

47 - water
Conrad likes to borrow Yuuri's rubber duck when he's taking a bath, which makes him lose all his slowly accumulated "mysterious adult points" in one go.

28 - new
After the baseball game, while they're still grinning excitedly over the victory, Yuuri drags Conrad along to you'll-see-when-we-get-there, which turns out to be a music store where he insists on getting Conrad one of the shining instruments in the display case with the money he's saved up from his summer job (but Conrad objects, but Yuuri insists, but Conrad objects, but Yuuri ignores him and runs to get the sales clerk).

18 - foot
There is something sensual about this scene that has Yuuri unable to look away: Conrad, cast in muted sunshine, barefoot, ratty jeans, white t-shirt, and his half-lidded eyes that speak of lazy Sunday morning comfort while his hands deftly strum a progression of chords.

21 - head
The last thing Yuuri remembers is tentatively sneaking over, shyly sitting down next to Conrad to listen to him play, and then he's waking up to find his head in a warm lap, with Conrad's fingers softly carding through his hair and no recollection of how he got there.

34 - regret
He regrets that it has come to these inappropriate stirrings in his body whenever he sees Conrad in this soft light; he regrets that there will be no more of these seductive casual mornings when they return to Shin Makoku; he is torn between conflicting desires (to keep this friendship or pursue love?) and greedily wonders if he can have both.

12 - end
The trip comes to an end, but what he had seen during their blissful time together marks the start of some very uncomfortable introspection, of which Yuuri is sure will further complicate his life (but maybe it'll be worth it if he can feel that fluttery sensation again).

36 - secret
It will be his one secret from Conrad that his heart beats an aching tempo of remembrance during the quiet moments before they jog around the castle.

fic, author: pyrrhic_victoly

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