A/N: Many thanks to Urter for telling me about this challenge! It was really fun to do (even if 3 minutes isn't enough time for me, and a few of the songs I got were kinda weird for this fandom...). I've actually done something like this before, but I never did anything with it. I decided to upload each drabble one at a time to make things neater.
Rules in case anyone's interested:
1. Pick a pairing/fandom
2. Put your music on shuffle
3. Ten dabbles based on the first ten songs
4. You only have the length of the song to write it
"Wonderwall" by Oasis
Backbeat the word was on the street
That the fire in your heart is out
I'm sure you've heard it all before
But you never really had a doubt
I don't believe that anybody feels
The way I do about you now
He doesn't tell anyone at first, but it's pretty easy to see he's breaking. It's in his eyes, the way he leans against the rooftop railing, brown eyes looking to the sky. Always looking to the sky, and nowhere else, looking for some sort of escape in those ink blot clouds. Sometimes he wishes there was something he could do—they were supposed to be best friends; he tells himself that's all they are—but he can't imagine how it must feel to lose someone, so he keeps it to himself.
And settles with watching from afar.
The grass is wet underneath them, and he's sure he's broken a few bones—his chest collapses in itself each time he takes in a sharp breath—but beside him, Yosuke's smiling brightly, despite the purple that's blossoming on his cheek, the red that's pooling on his once white shirt.
And he finds himself smiling too.
Because he was able to do something, after all.
