Title: Take a Stab

Author: Rokutagrl

Prompt: Smile

Pairings: HamaIzu, ?Izu

A/N: Bored. Bad day. Wanted to write. My HamaIzu Desktop told me to smile. You can pick your own narrator. ::hearts::

XD

I gave you that knife for your birthday.

You're using it to tear me apart.

Yet you smile all the while as you stab ever deeper still.

I want to scream.

I want to cry.

But my body has gone numb.

You ask how I like it.

I say, "Just fine."

I lied. I hate it.

It hurts more than the time I got burned with my mother's cigarette bud.

Or the time I caught you under the bleachers.

The Cheer Captain had your tongue, and he's had your heart for far longer.

I realize now, you've never looked at me.

You are now, confused, but it's not the same.

"I'm glad."

You smile. It's rare, and real. More real than anything else I know of.

More real than my broken heart—I can't hold it, but I feel it.

Though I can't hold you, either.

Because he does, when I'm not around.

And sometimes, just to be cruel I think, he holds you tighter when I am.

He's probably gloating.

You're his. He's yours.

Where do I belong in there?

"I almost forgot!"

You take another stab.

I take it back.

You're killing me.

Izumi

Loves

Hamada

Forever!