Empty Holiday (10_orders - Prompt #2: don't cry)
Title: Empty Holiday
Fandom: Lux-Pain
Characters: Akira Mido x Atsuki Saijo, mentions of Kenichi Mido, Aoi Matsumura, and Akira's mother
Word Count: 337
Rating: PG
Warning(s): Yaoi, character spoilers, mentions of death.
Summary: Mother's Day is nothing but an empty holiday for Akira.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters.
Empty Holiday
Mother's Day is nothing but an empty holiday for Akira.
So, when he's given an assignment in class to write about it, he doesn't know what to do. He could put that he gets angry and shuts himself off from the world on that day, or pretend that he buys a gift and a card and then gives it to his mother while looking forward to her smile at the end of it all. He could be honest and admit that he doesn't have a mother, and write about past memories.
But none of that sounds right to him. Aoi would worry about him and bother him constantly if he wrote how he stayed aloof, and he wouldn't be able to forgive himself or ever face his mother if he became a fake. He wouldn't be able to write about past memories without the urge to break anything, without the urge to cry--and he can't do either without being punished in some way.
Akira decides to simply sit there. He finds himself clenching his fist in agony, staring at nothing but the pencil in front of him, because he doesn't want to look in the eyes of anyone else, because they can't understand at all. When the time is finally up, he turns in his paper with nothing written on it, and he immediately storms out of the room, out of the school. He walks around town, avoids his own home, his mother's grave and his father's shop, because they're all nothing but bitter reminders-- and in the end, he finds himself at the arcade.
Akira knows that, in the arcade, he can get lost in a world that he can believe is real, if only for a few minutes, because in reality, no one understands.
What Akira doesn't know is that Atsuki follows all the way to the arcade and erases the angry and sad Shinen surrounding him with hopes of him feeling better, if only for a few minutes, because in reality, he understands.
Fandom: Lux-Pain
Characters: Akira Mido x Atsuki Saijo, mentions of Kenichi Mido, Aoi Matsumura, and Akira's mother
Word Count: 337
Rating: PG
Warning(s): Yaoi, character spoilers, mentions of death.
Summary: Mother's Day is nothing but an empty holiday for Akira.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters.
Empty Holiday
Mother's Day is nothing but an empty holiday for Akira.
So, when he's given an assignment in class to write about it, he doesn't know what to do. He could put that he gets angry and shuts himself off from the world on that day, or pretend that he buys a gift and a card and then gives it to his mother while looking forward to her smile at the end of it all. He could be honest and admit that he doesn't have a mother, and write about past memories.
But none of that sounds right to him. Aoi would worry about him and bother him constantly if he wrote how he stayed aloof, and he wouldn't be able to forgive himself or ever face his mother if he became a fake. He wouldn't be able to write about past memories without the urge to break anything, without the urge to cry--and he can't do either without being punished in some way.
Akira decides to simply sit there. He finds himself clenching his fist in agony, staring at nothing but the pencil in front of him, because he doesn't want to look in the eyes of anyone else, because they can't understand at all. When the time is finally up, he turns in his paper with nothing written on it, and he immediately storms out of the room, out of the school. He walks around town, avoids his own home, his mother's grave and his father's shop, because they're all nothing but bitter reminders-- and in the end, he finds himself at the arcade.
Akira knows that, in the arcade, he can get lost in a world that he can believe is real, if only for a few minutes, because in reality, no one understands.
What Akira doesn't know is that Atsuki follows all the way to the arcade and erases the angry and sad Shinen surrounding him with hopes of him feeling better, if only for a few minutes, because in reality, he understands.