The Promise We Never Made Aloud

by Aiko Isari

They never promised to protect each other. They never promised to wish for only good things. In a world where everything might just come to an end tomorrow, it's surely okay to be a little bit selfish, isn't it? Sonoko/Sumi. AU.

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The aptitude test is complete. Soon her life will be placed in a color box, and her training will begin anew. Joy.

Sumi puts down her pencil, hands shaking. She should not be afraid. She has done well. She is of the best. She is a Washio. They called her forth from her old family to take on a new one. It had to be worth it.

Beside her, children sing their delight and murmur with relief. They pack their pencils away and she hurries to mimic them, to not stand out. She is not ready to be special, not yet.

Taisha-sama chimes for them. The class stands and they bow. Sumi stands too and she shudders in front of her chair. The wish flutters like a butterfly.

She watches the nearly perfect sky shudder and shuts her eyes. It's gone too fast and the bell chimes.

Without hesitation, she escapes from one watchful pair of eyes to another.

And another. And another. She hurries home before they can call her name.

They watch her.

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A/N: These fandoms need loveeeee. 32 drabbles of it to be specific.

Challenges: WIXOSS Non-Flash prompt - 069 - prompt: trance, Yuki Yuna Non Flash prompt - 037 - character: Sonoko, Diversity WRiting (AMF) H50,