I like these short, bittersweet Chase/Akari oneshots. I've written about a million, and have truckloads of ideas to write more. I wrote this one, like the previous, just a few hours ago.
Anyways, YVE is on its way c: Sorry again for the wait. And sorry again to have been working on this instead of it!
xx, Night Lifex
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He was a goner from the start. All it took was one glace, a smile and a simple hello, and that's what made up the introduction of the story that was them.
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He is quiet, and has trouble trusting others. Everyone has turned their backs on him, so he turns his back on the world. But she gives him hope, and he only unlocks the gate to his heart for her. He likes the way she makes him feel like the only person in the world when they speak – all her attention on him. He likes the way her hazel eyes, full of warmth, bright up even more than he thought was possible when she sees him. He can always find her in a crowd, precious brown curls bouncing as she walks, and she walks and walks straight into his heart. He finds it aching when he's without her, but can't seem to figure out why.
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The pages turn and somewhere along the way they become a couple, that peachy-haired cook and the bright-eyed farm girl. He wants to keep her sunshine to himself, so she can't make any other man feel as special as she makes him feel when they are together. He is paranoid about losing her, because he knows that she is far too good for him, way out of his league. Someone else could easily make her happier than he ever could. She stays with him, that girls does. But she hurts him. Little by little, his glass heart begins to crack. The lines keep going on the paper and he sees she's doing exactly what he didn't want to happen. Her warmth is spreading to other men, men with bandanas and cowboy hats, with muscles and lab coats. They try to pry her from his grasp. But he is the author of this story, so he opens up to her, and she dims her rays of light just the slightest.
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And as the tale progresses he knows. He knows and falls. He falls and falls and falls, deeper and deeper into the abyss that is love. He likes the feeling in his stomach as he plummets. He likes the faint fluttering of butterfly winds that inhabit his insides.
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Her sunlight is brightening again, he realizes. Brightening and spreading and causing his fears to come true. The twists and turns in their story bring happiness, but also are tinged with pain. He finds he can't take it any longer; he can't have her brightening everyone else's world.
He finds that their bittersweet story is coming to an end.