round 05, challenge three: entry #12
Title: we're just misguided
Fandom and Pairing: SHINee ; Onew + Taemin
Rating: G
Word Count: 200
Summary: Riding around in a sheet is really just a metaphor.
Warnings: none.
A ghost rides by on a bike, and Jinki can't really help it when he slips off the low wall he had been walking and into a ditch. He's sprawled on the grass, staring up in a daze, until a sheet-covered head slides into his line of view. A hand pulls the fabric away, revealing long eyelashes and a worried mouth.
"Are you okay?"
Jinki pushes himself up and nods, but he realizes there are more important questions at hand.
"What are you dressed up for?"
"It's a metaphor," the ghost says simply, and Jinki has to wonder if it's a complex concept because he doesn't quite understand it himself. Then the boy looks down, twists up his mouth a little. "But mostly, no one pays attention to me otherwise."
He doesn't know what it's like walking around in a sheet to be noticed, but Jinki can sympathize. However, before he can say anything, the other is already picking up his bicycle.
"Sorry for scaring you!" he calls out.
Later that night when the silence presses heavy against his ears and he's trying to rub the exhaustion from his eyes, he wonders if every ghost just wants to be noticed.
Fandom and Pairing: SHINee ; Onew + Taemin
Rating: G
Word Count: 200
Summary: Riding around in a sheet is really just a metaphor.
Warnings: none.
A ghost rides by on a bike, and Jinki can't really help it when he slips off the low wall he had been walking and into a ditch. He's sprawled on the grass, staring up in a daze, until a sheet-covered head slides into his line of view. A hand pulls the fabric away, revealing long eyelashes and a worried mouth.
"Are you okay?"
Jinki pushes himself up and nods, but he realizes there are more important questions at hand.
"What are you dressed up for?"
"It's a metaphor," the ghost says simply, and Jinki has to wonder if it's a complex concept because he doesn't quite understand it himself. Then the boy looks down, twists up his mouth a little. "But mostly, no one pays attention to me otherwise."
He doesn't know what it's like walking around in a sheet to be noticed, but Jinki can sympathize. However, before he can say anything, the other is already picking up his bicycle.
"Sorry for scaring you!" he calls out.
Later that night when the silence presses heavy against his ears and he's trying to rub the exhaustion from his eyes, he wonders if every ghost just wants to be noticed.