Threadbare
Title: Threadbare
Author: Aznmen
Rating: G
Genre: General
Pairing: Jaejoong - centric
Summary: He looks around himself, a stomach growling with hunger, and wide, desperate eyes.
He stands to about the average man’s waist, skinny to the point of seeing bones through the skin. His clothes used to be a fat man’s, hanging loosely, giving some sort of warmth, but his shoes pinch his feet until he almost doesn’t want to wear them anymore. His hair is matted and clumped, needing a brushing and a washing, hanging in long black strands that caress his shoulders. His teeth are white, something unusual for children in this area; he has a dirty face, stained with a small meal he must’ve had earlier in the day, and brown patches on what seems to be white skin from the dust kicked up by horses carrying carriages, and the men and women that walked around. Despite all this, anyone can look at him and tell he would be a beauty, disguised amongst the muck. He sits on the walkway, huddled in a close position to stay warm, and keeps his hands out, his arms resting on his knees to keep them locked. He looks around himself, a stomach growling with hunger, and wide, desperate eyes.
A girl in a white weeping willow like dress hands him a few copper coins and he smiles, thanks her with wide eyes, and she’s pleased when she walks past him. Another man, pompous in his outfit, doesn’t even give the boy a second look as he prances past him. Several parents with children pass, ignoring their cries of “mommy, can’t we give him a copper? He looks so sad.”
The wind blows angrily, the fall turning to winter quickly, and he shivers in the thin clothing. Still, he remains there, waiting for some more money, money to buy food and let him live another day. And he thinks about his mother, this mother who gave him up, gave him to people who didn’t want him either, and he thinks, someday, sooner or later, he’ll be someone. He’ll be someone big, someone so that she’ll know that it was him… and she’ll be sorry.
100 Theme Pic Challenge - Abandoned
16/100
Written during school, edited/finished at 4.27 8-21
I keep writing these XD I have two other ones I just need to type up, and a third one that is typed up, but needs to be edited (I just typed it straight from the notebook I wrote it on).