My second shot at a SongFic. I find these easier to do because they require no commitment and when you decide to start over you don't have twenty wasted chapters.
The song is 'Move Along' by All-American Rejects
The characters are from Yuyu Hakusho and they too do not belong to me.
Their Anniversary
Her hand hovered over the keyboard, fingers shaking just inches above the black and white keys. Her eyes were glazed with tears, and the white screen of the computer reflected in the hazel of her quivering pupils. In the lower right hand corner of the computer screen flashed a date, white to blue to white to blue.
In one fluid motion one of her hands flew forward, flicking off the screen as she spun around in her chair, opting to face the back wall of her bedroom rather than out the window, which would have delved too deep into memory.
Go ahead as you waste your days with thinking
When you fall everyone sins
Another day and you've had your fill of sinking
With the life held in your
Hands are shaking cold
These hands are meant to hold
So the three year anniversary had come. Finally. No matter how times she had pushed it to the back of her mind, it was here and she was completely unprepared, emotionally stripped. He had lied. Everything he had ever told her was a lie. She refused to cry.
Speak to me when all you got to keep is strong
Move along move along like I know you do
And even when your hope is gone
Move along move along just to make it through
The eighteen year old brunette, face washed and devoid of sorrow, walked down to the main floor of the store her parents owned. She mechanically pulled the worn apron over her head, contorting her now-long hair into a low bun as she greeted the first person at the counter.
Move along
Move along
The redhead smiled sadly up at her. The rest of the shop was empty. She wasn't sure how it happened, but moments later she and the demon fox were in a tight embrace and she was sobbing into his shoulder. He was comforting, a familiar face that she could turn to when the one that she had loved most had betrayed her.
It was nightfall. The apron was in a heap on the floor of the empty store, and she had returned to her room. She still hadn't turned the monitor back on of her computer. And the curtains were closed over her window. She didn't want to see the silhouettes of anyone passing before her bedroom window. She cried herself to sleep.
So a day when you've lost yourself completely
Could be a night when your life ends
Such a heart that will lead you to deceiving
All the pain held in your
Hands are shaking cold
Your hands are mine to hold
Her pillow was still wet when she awoke. Sitting up, she didn't move much more. Eyes half closed, she pulled her knees up to her chin and wrapped her arms around her shins. He had broken the most important promise had ever made to her.
His profile appeared in the haziness before her eyes. He had come after her after she had run away.. He had told her she was leaving, and she didn't believe he was coming back. Turns out she was right.
In the mail there was one card, a messily scrawled "Happy Birthday!" from a family friend. The blue-clad fighter and his older sister waved at her from across the street before she turned to go back inside. She was eighteen. Yesterday. And he wasn't back.
Speak to me when all you got to keep is strong
Move along move along like I know you do
And even when all hope is gone
Move along move along just to make it through
There was a cake on the table. Her parents had gotten it out for her, not so much a statement but a question. Silently, she returned the baked good to the cupboard where it would hopefully dust, decay, and she'd never have to look at it again. Her parents would understand.
Move along
Go on go on go on go on
When everything is wrong we move along
Go on go on go on go on
When everything is wrong we move along
Go on go on go on go on
Even the koorime had made his presence known. It was nothing more than a glance from the doorway, and it was meant as an extended apology, but it only caused her heart to break into more pieces that she'd never be able to fix. It just made her miss him even him.
When all you got to keep is strong
Move along move along like I know you do
And even when all hope is gone
Move along move along just to make it through
Well that was it. She didn't think she could cry anymore, and she didn't want to. She had waited three years for him to keep his word, and he had obviously failed. She just had to .. move on.
When all you got to keep is strong
Move along move along like I know you do
And even when all hope is gone
Move along move along just to make it through
She closed and locked the shop, and locked herself in her bedroom, one of the secluded places where she could be alone. She just needed some time before she let go of him, and of hope, for good. She collapsed on her bed, the house entirely silent. Except for the bell ringing, signaling someone having entered the shop. She sat up suddenly, staring at her closed door.
When all you got to keep is strong
Move along move along like I know you do
And even when all hope is gone
Move along move along just to make it through
Her doorknob turned, and clicked. It was if she had locked neither the shop nor her room. Had her parents gotten home? Her mind tried to reason out what was happening.. It couldn't be. Her eyes watered once more as her door opened. She stood up to greet whoever would be waiting.
Move along
Go on go on go on go on
Right back what is wrong
We move along
Fin
Yes... It's supposed to be really vague ;
But is it good that way or bad?
Critique is wanted!
R&R