for sky (ifandonlyif), for the back-to-school fic exchange. enjoy? :)
there's a party on the rooftop top of the world
[we're going at it tonight, tonight,
there's a party on the rooftop top of the world.
tonight, tonight, and we're dancing on the edge of the hollywood sign.
i don't know if i'll make it, but watch how good i'll fake it,
it's alright, alright, tonight, tonight.]
secret smiles
stolen kisses
discreet note passing.
they were never really together,
yet never really apart.
they were falling together,
faster and faster,
in a whirlwind of unrequited love.
[]
perfection was not so easily attained.
(unless you were skye hamilton)
[head cheerleader,
community service,
yearbook committee]
- you name it, she's a part of it.
her schedule was busy busy busy but she still had time for him.
[]
he was an artist of sorts,
the mysterious type who said nothing to anyone.
sparkling emerald eyes
tousled red hair,
but no one saw the attractiveness except for her.
[]
age was but a number.
backstabbing was but a casualty.
secrecy was but an expectation.
insanity was i n e v i t a b l e.
[]
stolen moments behind closed doors sealed their fate,
(once it started, it never ends.)
[]
it's not like they didn't try to stop,
they really did.
but they were each other's drug,
and the addiction was only getting
stronger
stronger
stronger.
[]
(this isn't right.)
(it doesn't matter.)
clothes were being ripped off at lightning speed,
lips connected as if the world was ending tonight.
leaning against todd's baby boy blue walls,
it seemed like they were the only people in the world.
(what about your douchebag boyfriend?)
(fuck him.)
[]
it was like they had never experienced love that was
so pure,
so innocent,
but it was tainted by their mistakes.
nothing could break them apart,
yet nothing could keep them together.
(sometimes being a living contradiction isn't good, honey.)
[]
falling.
falling.
f a l l i n g.
(with nothing there to catch them.)
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she started missing club meetings and failing classes,
he stopped making art and spent less and less time at school.
something was wrong, very wrong.
worried parents were sent away,
confused friends were flipped off.
(now they truly had no one but each other.)
[]
they were in their own little bubble of ignorance,
away from reality and in denial of the truth.
(be careful, your bubble might just pop.)
[]
(hey, do you remember todd lyons and skye hamilton?)
(yeah, didn't they drop out of high school their senior year to get drunk and party?)
lies.
but barely.
no one remembered them and their legacy,
they had left nothing of importance.
the memories floated further away from everyone's minds,
they were forgotten.
[]
their best friends brought them up occasionally.
they remembered how the two used to be so full of life,
so optimistic and happy and alive.
(those people were gone;
their souls blown away by the wind like dandelions in spring air.)
- if only their were so innocent and beautiful still.
(did you know skye's life motto had been that 'laughing makes you live longer'?
there wasn't much for her to laugh about now.)
[]
they had hit rock bottom,
but hey, at least they were together, right?
(wrong.)
[]
their fates were intertwined,
their love was eminent,
but maybe they would've been better off without each other.
('cause their sins were also intertwined,
and their ends were also eminent.)
[]
nothing so wrong had ever felt so right.
(maybe because it was meant to be.)
not.
they were perfect but incomplete without each other,
but destructive and hopeless with each other.
[]
it was one of their more sober days.
(or nights.)
they lay there in her backyard, her head on his chest and his arms engulfing her petite body.
(what is reality, todd?)
(i'm not sure, babe. this is reality, isn't it? us together, forever.)
(of course it is, but what if this was all just a dream? what if we're not really together and we're not really alive and we're just not real?)
(don't think so much, skye. just live in the moment. it'll all be okay.)
or so he thought.
but boy, was he wrong.
(they had decided that they had used their brains enough that night,
resorting to more budweiser and watching old 'friends' reruns.)
[]
they both needed saving,
it was close to impossible for them to gain redemption now,
but no one fucking tried.
they would've been there to save each other,
but they were in so d e e p they were both helpless.
[]
you need the will to survive,
todd, skye.
believe in yourself.
why don't you?
you will get better.
(lies, lies, lies.)
[]
stumbling out of a crowded bar,
arms slung awkwardly around each other.
(they had been kicked out by the owner,
some blonde dude with an oddly black goatee.)
- that's all skye had noticed in her blurry vision.
(are you drunk, dear?)
(no, i'm fine.)
bullshit.
headlights flash, a horn sounds out through the calm night.
brakes squeal, but
not fast enough.
[]
sirens wail, police set up roadblocks, and paramedics scramble
to save the two stupid teenagers.
(running out of time)
each breath is painful,
each movement is excruciating,
it's almost over.
fractured bones, internal bleeding, a concussion,
there was no way to fix it all.
they were like cracked windows,
millions of pieces nowhere to be found.
(especially in their hearts)
[]
the funerals were short and private,
not many people cared enough to come.
(they deserved what had happened, it was a long time coming) people were saying.
black and white coffins,
opposites of each other right until the end.
they looked their best in months,
pretty lace dress and impeccable suit.
- and it was just like them to die looking perfect.
a/n: ew. this is pathetic. my writing is disgusting and horrible and i'm so so sorry skye, for having such a crappy story as your gift. :( please forgive me?
prompts: a wall painted the color baby boy blue, old friends reruns, an adult-like figure with a goatee, and "laughter[/ing] makes you live longer".
i think i used them all, albeit very awkwardly. xD gah i completely forgot about this exchange until livvy sent out the PM a couple hours ago and i speed wrote this. this is my first drabble in a long long while and i really hope it isn't as bad as i think it is. i hope you like it though, skye. :)