Title: Symmetry
Drabble: #48
Rave's prompt: Sailboat
Randomly selected pairing: Miyori
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.
Notes: Such miserable weather. I want to audition for X Factor, just so that legend of a man (Simon Cowell) can tell me how crap I am at singing. I'd have that man's babies if I could.
When they were young, Miyako and Iori were certain that they would last. At the ages of seven and four when the world was still untainted and their thoughts were still pure, they used simple ways to show their innocent affection. Miyako held Iori's hand whenever they walked anywhere together and sometimes, if he was feeling brave, Iori would stand on his tiptoes to give Miyako a quick kiss on the cheek. Adults would coo over the displays when they were around to see them and it made the two children blush madly, but they didn't really mind as long as they had each other.
One day, they had made a toy sailboat together. The design was crude and Miyako's parents had had to help, but after a while they managed to make it float in the bath. Iori was staring in awe of their creation, and Miyako had an idea. She wrote her name of a piece of paper, and told Iori to write his beneath it; when he had, she outlined the big and messy handwriting with a wonky heart. She took Iori, along with the piece of paper and the sailboat, to a river near her apartment.
The paper was folded and placed on the boat, which in turn was placed on the river. They let go of the boat together and watched it sail away. Miyako said that it would make them stay together forever.
Now the years have ebbed away and both have accepted that eternity doesn't always mean eternity, however much they wish it did. They don't see each other much any more; work, among other things, keeps them too busy. But every year both will write the other's name on a piece of paper and outline it with a heart. The paper will be secured to a much less rickety sailboat than before, and carried away down a river. They'll each watch and remember the old days, and hope that maybe one day they'll be able to relive them.