25 Ways to Say I Love You
Sariah Loire
1. Blood
I'm taking up a 25-part challenge, featuring short drabbles focused on Ren and Kyoko. There will be fluff, angst, and much more, but I'll do my best to keep it all in-character!
Skip Beat! and its characters, locations, terms, etc, do not belong to me.
Blood was covering my sight, I couldn't see, couldn't hear, couldn't think. Every breath I took was full of the smell, the warmth was spreading across my hands.
What had I done? What was I doing? I had hurt someone again, like I did often when I lost control of myself.
But this time it wasn't me, I look like a stranger in the mirror in front of me. Who does that dark hair belong to? Ren Tsuruga? Who is that? Who am I right now?
Why do I keep doing this, pretending to be someone I'm not? Why don't I tell everyone who I am? Why don't I scream it from the rooftops, and let the pieces of my fragile new life shatter?
"Kuon?" A small voice came from the darkness, jerking me out of the nightmare. A small, thin arm laid across my chest, the hand resting on my rapidly beating heart. "Did you have a bad dream?" She murmured into my arm, not completely awake.
I turned on my side, running a hand through her dark, black hair. Her eyes were closed, but I knew how bright they could shine. "Remembering, Kyoko." She opened her eyes at that. Neither of us liked to think of the past too often. "Just remembering."