Drabble: Round b3 - Prompt: Sweet
Title: Like Sharpened Feathers, It Falls
Rating: G
Genre: Het/Gen?
Characters: Akari, Hikaru
Summary: Sweet, he’d said.
WordCount: 168
Sweet, he’d said.
When they were young and he had yet to be consumed with interests she couldn’t fully share and with a fire so bright that she could finally understand how light could burn, before he entered a world she could not, passed doors barred her-before he’d tumbled from her grasp like a slick bar of soap clutched too tightly in too eager hands-they would attend lazy summer festivals and buy clouds of spun sugar. They’d share it, passing clumps back and forth, hands and mouths sticky and lips stretched wide. It had melted on her tongue and made her feel light and free. It had tasted like how she imagined flight would feel.
It felt nothing like how he shaped the word, apologies hiding in his eyes and tone. He looked at her with the ill ease he’d always had in such situations and a patience he had never shown in middle school.
“You’re sweet,” he said.
Sweet.
Like tea with too much sugar.
Rating: G
Genre: Het/Gen?
Characters: Akari, Hikaru
Summary: Sweet, he’d said.
WordCount: 168
Sweet, he’d said.
When they were young and he had yet to be consumed with interests she couldn’t fully share and with a fire so bright that she could finally understand how light could burn, before he entered a world she could not, passed doors barred her-before he’d tumbled from her grasp like a slick bar of soap clutched too tightly in too eager hands-they would attend lazy summer festivals and buy clouds of spun sugar. They’d share it, passing clumps back and forth, hands and mouths sticky and lips stretched wide. It had melted on her tongue and made her feel light and free. It had tasted like how she imagined flight would feel.
It felt nothing like how he shaped the word, apologies hiding in his eyes and tone. He looked at her with the ill ease he’d always had in such situations and a patience he had never shown in middle school.
“You’re sweet,” he said.
Sweet.
Like tea with too much sugar.