he came again today
"Good morning, Sho-chan! How are you today?"
He doesn't say anything, preferring to stare at the colorless floor. His hair (red red too red just like how he looked when) covered his face, covered the eyes that didn't want to see.
"I'm so sad~ Sho-chan still won't speak to me."
Pouts, whines, more pretending. He wonders how this man can live with himself after what he has done.
(better yet, how could he have lived with himself if he hadn't done it)
Maybe that's why he pretends. That's how he tricks himself.
(or he's just a monster)
"Are you still mad? Don't worry, it's fine. The world's perfect now, see? Nothing should upset you anymore, alright?"
Except for him.
"Sho-chan! Are you listening? Do you want some marshmallows? They're special, just for you."
Shoichi wishes he were half as good an actor.
he came again today
"Sho-chan, do you want to leave this room? I want you to. It's so lonely here without you with me all the time!"
He sits still, like a doll, like a little porcelain doll
(just like she used to be like)
that's only there to look pretty, not move. His eyes unfocus while he pretends he's somewhere else, somewhere without this man and the colorless room and the silence and
(where the world didn't seem to mourn and he was gone and where)
he could finally hate something other than himself and the color white.
"Oh, what's this? Sho-chan, I'm so disappointed. You know you aren't supposed to have anything that could be hurt with. What if you had an accident again?"
Maybe somewhere there is a place like the one he imagines. Maybe it's the near future.
(accidents happen happen every day, after all)
he came again today
"I hate you."
It's the first time in over a year he has spoken. He sounds like a robot, if anything.
(sometimes he wishes he was so he wouldn't have to feel)
"Is that so?"
The Cheshire smile grows and grows and he wishes it would just cover that man's entire face so he wouldn't have to see.
"More than anything else in this world."
Which is a lie.
(the only thing Shoichi Ire hates more than Byakuran is himself)
He doesn't speak again.
he didn't come today
He sat, waiting and waiting like he always did for the monster
(but aren't you a monster as well)
to appear.
He waited and waited and waited
(the silence was better than anything he could've hoped for)
and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and-
The monster did not come for the witch that day.
The monster did not come for a long while.
he came again today
"I'm back~ Did you miss me, Sho-chan, did you? I bet you did!"
He doesn't move, doesn't think, doesn't breath.
(doesn't live)
"Sho-chan, you won't ever leave me, will you?"
He doesn't expect that one, but he doesn't show it.
"I don't want Sho-chan to leave me. Promise me you won't, okay?"
(cross my heart and hope to die)
"Sho-chan…Why won't you answer?"
he came again today
"Oh, Sho-chan…I thought you weren't allowed any dangerous things anymore."
Like always, there's no answer.
Byakuran orders the body to be cleaned up and put in a special place.
he came again today