beta this, you bastard. :V
Yeah, ficcy_irl I stole this gif from your post.
Anyone want to beta and tell me how amazing I am to boost my confidence?
assignment: show, don't tell. write in first person.
A hotel is a magical place at two in the morning. Walking barefoot through the empty and silent halls can give one a sense of being a ghost. Chills run through my body and the hair on the back of my neck stands up from sheer excitement. For those few minutes, I rule this hotel and all of its inhabitants. Being on the ground floor gives me some sense of power. I could pirouette from door to door and no one would know. I could play leap frog with myself and not one person would complain.
At least, that is what I would usually do when surrounded by sleeping forms in a hotel such as this, but this morning is different. There is something else I want to do. Hands shaking, I rush to turn off my alarm. It is time.
I bite my lip as I attempt to silently rise out of bed. The cheap comforter slips to the floor with a a noise that is only deafening to my ears. I cringe. Uprighting myself, I turn to check on my mother. She is still fast asleep. A grin takes over my face as I slip past her queen size bed to the wardrobe. A bubble gum pink laptop rests in front of the television. My eyes twinkle as I grab it and a room key. I tip toe out of the hotel room entirely. I’m free.
Out in the hall, I wave to my subjects. They deserve as much, as they are sleeping on hard mattresses and attempting to get comfortable under thin blankets just as I was. Storing my mother’s laptop between my legs and putting my hair into a simple bun was never so hard. My knees are shaking uncontrollably and my fingers just won’t listen to me. Re-wrapping my arms around the cold surface of the laptop, I sprint around the corner to hide myself under the stairs.
I throw myself to the floor, cross my legs and flip the laptop open in front of me. As it boots up, my nails become my new focus. Starting with my pinky, I bite each one down to almost nothing as the screen slowly loads. My left hand’s nails are completely trimmed by the time the log in screen shows itself. I sigh, relieved. With lightning fast reflexes, I pound the password into the computer, start the browser, and type in my destination. There it is.
The video is sitting there as if it knew I would come, as if it knew I couldn’t resist its charms. There is no fanfare, no pictures or exclamation points to draw attention to itself. It is just waiting. I straighten out my hunched back. I tuck my stray hair behind my ears. I’m finally ready to see my angels again.
I press play and it begins. The picture gets etched out from the center of the screen. All five of them are there, dressed in black on a rooftop. It’s a full moon. A beautiful voice spills from the laptop’s cheap speakers. I grimace at the horrible sound quality. “Baby / I've been charmed by you, my lady.” A close up of the singer assaults my eyes suddenly. White feathers are everywhere. He’s cut his hair. The video cuts back to all five. They dance, holding their hearts.
Scenes of each boy dressed in white with black wings flash past. One walks away from a mirror as his reflection smirks at me. Another slowly raises a glass of milk from a pile of black butterflies to his lips. A third boy touches a candle in the front of the line and they all light up in a flash. Another rewinds time as the last boy plays with a butterfly in a corner. “I call you butterfly, / as the days go by.”
I stare, mesmerized, at my computer screen. They dance in time to the beat. Complicated jerks of their knees and the swaying of their arms is like a magic spell. They pull me in further and further until I can’t escape this world they’ve created in these four minutes. They smirk at me. “I’m not a cool guy, / I’m not nice, / But I’m a pretty decent bad boy. / Come to me, butterfly.” They know what they’ve done.
I'm so screwed. I have so much homework to do since I've been sick for so long. /sigh
So if any one wants to comment on that nasty monster up there, feel free.
I'd love you forever.