Cotton Candy
Prompt: Your character sees/interacts with something from their childhood and it stirs up old feelings. (300 words)
He stopped in place. Lapis noticed right away. The whole amusement park fell quiet as a cemetary once he stopped talking.
"Is everything alright?" She asked with concern.
Vesper didn't hear her. He walked towards a vendor, his head brimming with memories of sticky fingers and his brother Chris laughing at him.
Memories of bright lights, of Merry-Go-Rounds, of laughter. Of fun and family and home, which made his stomach twist.
He never told Lapis about his past. Of where he came from and what he'd lost, which made these moments that much stranger for her to witness.
He bought himself a stick of pink, puffed up sugar, and sat down on a bench. Lapis joined him, and he shook the cotton candy her way.
"Want some?" He offered.
She gave an uhmm and ripped a handful of it, careful not to get it all over her fingers.
"You know," he spoke after a while, "I used to eat cotton candy with my brother whenever we visited the carnival back home..."
Lapis listened with curiosity. He rarely opened up about his past, and kept it vague on the rare times he did. But that cotton candy did the trick, and made him talk as tears escaped his eyes.
He told her of his brothers. All of them, but in particular about Chris. The good times they had together, their many misadventures, and how much he regretted losing all of that.
She never expected something as simple as sugar filaments strung on a stick to unravel the mystery that was Vesper to her, but life worked strangely like that.
A/N: I haven't gotten around to writing for the main fic because I'm still struggling with my schedule. But I get snippets of time here and there, so I'm at least trying my hand at prompts over on Reddit. It's good practice :)
I'll try to keep these short and sweet, and just post them whenever I write them. I'll also try to keep them spoiler friendly, but in case I won't manage that I'll be sure to give you guys a heads up.