HI ALL! I've been wanting to do a little multi-chap of a series of unrelated stories about the next generation characters so here it is! Fanfiction and my iPad is being a little buggy lately so I'm sorry if there's some weird, out of place, random error.
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters
Bittersweet Tragedy
"Old gum is all you'll ever be to me, I spit you out and brush my teeth"
It was painful at first. The dawn of realization, the sudden dose of reality just hit like an avalanche.
The goodbye was short and quick, there wasn't much to say really; everyone on the outside sees a mature breakup, a few polite smiles exchanged here and there, nods of respect, but they don't see the truth, all the midnight pumpkin pasties, the sappy Muggle rom-coms on replay, the crying. They see only the outcome, never the hardships, like seeing a sculpture. Their façade was believable, their alibis cleared, they were just once lovers, who reverted back to fighters that built walls up that are hard to tear down.
They were both lost. No sense of direction, blindly following the wind. The loss of familiarity, the filled space emptied again.
But the beauty of heartache and of loss, is that it wipes away the bubblegum version of realism. However much you chew on the strawberry gum, however sweet it may be, it will lose its flavor, and you have to spit it out sooner or later. But you continue to chew, to try to drain out more of that sweetness, holding on to something you know is gone, leeching out all the juice like your life depended on it. Then you realize you're just chewing on tasteless, rubbery substance. It doesn't excite and entice you anymore. So you spit it out and you brush your teeth. And that's what they did.
They moved on. They kept the gum, to save it for later, because what's the fun in chewing them all at once? Too much of sweetness turns bitter.
It was as if that three years never happened. That three years of pure bliss, of sugar-laced judgement. Slowly, they took a step backwards, because forward was too far, and forward had too many obstacles. But they know, when they take a step backwards, they have more space to jump forward. So they move on and forgive and forget.
They try to get over the aching loss, even though it was tormenting for them, like the stinging sensation a scorpion possess, like the prickly shock a rose can have. A bittersweet tragedy.
Yer I am done, sorry the linebreaks don't work and yeah my iPad has some problems. I know this isn't the best or anything but I'd appreciate it if you, dear reader, would comment, follow and favourite! Cause then you'd be the . YE.
P.S The titles are all songs and the sentence below it is the sentence which inspired the short. This one is by Melanie Martinez (Have you heard the new AHS trailer song? Yea, it's by her. Check it out it's pretty cool)
~Wintaa