Me being ever so slightly neurotic (aka Drabbles are 100 words)
I wrote things for seven different people for the lyrics meme thing that's been making the rounds. Four of them I called drabbles, but when I wrote the first two I didn't know that a "drabble" was supposed to be exactly 100 words; I thought it was just a very short ficlet. So the first two "drabbles" I wrote weren't actually drabbles. Since I can sometimes be a little neurotic about stuff like this, I needed to go back and "fix" them so that they are, in fact, drabbles. Here are the revised versions:
304 Drabble
lyric: Hands touch, eyes meet, sudden silence, sudden heat.
His hands are on my wrist, and I never want him to stop touching me.
I look into his eyes, and I want to freeze this moment. I want to stay like this forever.
It's been so long since we've been together like this. I've missed this so much. I've missed him so much.
But I know this isn't real. Not anymore. And I know that I need to end this now. If I don't, I'll never be able to let him go.
So I take a deep breath and ask him, "Shouldn't you be getting back to your boyfriend?"
Early Season 1 Drabble
lyric: I reject you, but I can't follow through / I'd forget you, but you'd end up tapping on my back door.
After Brian woke up next to Justin for the ninth or tenth time, he wondered what it would take to convince this kid that he was a bad bet. To convince him that he didn't do boyfriends, he didn't believe in love, and they weren't a couple. It never occurred to Brian that if he meant any of those things, saying them wasn't enough. That he might have to stop bringing Justin home with him. He wouldn't admit, even to himself, that the real reason he kept bringing Justin home was that he didn't actually want him to stay away.
ETA: The original version of this one was 185 words, so I decided to play with it a little and turn it into a double-drabble (200 words):
Pre-series Brian Double-Drabble
Lyrics: He decided he'd be better off alone (Josh Rouse -- James)
There was nothing special about that night. It was exactly like so many nights before. The only real difference was the reason. Other times it had been because he’d left his bicycle in the driveway, because he’d forgotten to hand in one of his assignments at school, and once because Father Flanagan had said he was a bad influence on the other altar boys. This time it was because he had taken the milk out at breakfast and had forgotten to put it away before leaving for school. By the time his father got home from work, the milk was spoiled.
He was sitting in his bedroom all alone, holding a bag of ice over his soon-to-be black eye and trying not to cry. Just like always, his mother came in and told him, "You know your father loves you. He wouldn't get so angry if he didn't love you so much. You just have to try harder not to get him started."
It was exactly the same as so many nights before. Only this time something was different. This time Brian decided that he didn't believe in love. If that was what love was, he’d be better off alone.
304 Drabble
lyric: Hands touch, eyes meet, sudden silence, sudden heat.
His hands are on my wrist, and I never want him to stop touching me.
I look into his eyes, and I want to freeze this moment. I want to stay like this forever.
It's been so long since we've been together like this. I've missed this so much. I've missed him so much.
But I know this isn't real. Not anymore. And I know that I need to end this now. If I don't, I'll never be able to let him go.
So I take a deep breath and ask him, "Shouldn't you be getting back to your boyfriend?"
Early Season 1 Drabble
lyric: I reject you, but I can't follow through / I'd forget you, but you'd end up tapping on my back door.
After Brian woke up next to Justin for the ninth or tenth time, he wondered what it would take to convince this kid that he was a bad bet. To convince him that he didn't do boyfriends, he didn't believe in love, and they weren't a couple. It never occurred to Brian that if he meant any of those things, saying them wasn't enough. That he might have to stop bringing Justin home with him. He wouldn't admit, even to himself, that the real reason he kept bringing Justin home was that he didn't actually want him to stay away.
ETA: The original version of this one was 185 words, so I decided to play with it a little and turn it into a double-drabble (200 words):
Pre-series Brian Double-Drabble
Lyrics: He decided he'd be better off alone (Josh Rouse -- James)
There was nothing special about that night. It was exactly like so many nights before. The only real difference was the reason. Other times it had been because he’d left his bicycle in the driveway, because he’d forgotten to hand in one of his assignments at school, and once because Father Flanagan had said he was a bad influence on the other altar boys. This time it was because he had taken the milk out at breakfast and had forgotten to put it away before leaving for school. By the time his father got home from work, the milk was spoiled.
He was sitting in his bedroom all alone, holding a bag of ice over his soon-to-be black eye and trying not to cry. Just like always, his mother came in and told him, "You know your father loves you. He wouldn't get so angry if he didn't love you so much. You just have to try harder not to get him started."
It was exactly the same as so many nights before. Only this time something was different. This time Brian decided that he didn't believe in love. If that was what love was, he’d be better off alone.