Title: Calm of the Storm
Author: Fenikkusu Ai
Claim: Ryo Marufuji/Edo Phoenix
Table: General #2
Prompt: #2 Rejected
Rating: T
Summary: Ryo tries to end something that cannot be ended by normal means. Word Count: 381
"I hate you," Edo growls ruthlessly.
"I know." Ryo bows his slightly mussed gelled hair. It smells so good, and Edo hates Ryo for that. Exotic and heady. His head falls just right to reveal the red mark on his cheek.
"After…that. After six or seven months, you just up and reject me?" Edo hated to hear the unrestrained pain in his voice.
The timing was wrong. All wrong. Especially when they had just woken up together in Ryo's apartment—in Ryo's bed. The idyllic summer breeze blew through the open window and a wind chime was jingling somewhere.
Edo was used to bad things happening, but nothing like this. You don't reject someone like this. So directly. So out of the blue.
You don't reject a Pro League star.
But, then Ryo was a star too—a black fading and dying star in contrast to Edo's tentatively flickering white. Manjoume Jun was seeing to that.
"What? Did you expect this to last forever, Phoenix?"
"Not forever. Just longer."
Ryou snorted. "You act as if you love me."
"I don't."
"So, why do you care?"
Edo rammed his hand into the mattress. "Because you're the only person who gets me."
"Edo, in all that time we've been together; I've never gotten you. This relationship is distracting us, that's all. From the world. From ourselves. No different from any other addiction."
"You act like I'm heroin."
Ryo suddenly pulled him closer. "The most dangerous drug."
It strikes Edo to hit him again for daring to lay a hand on him. "I thought we were broken up."
"We are…but I'm torn up the middle right now."
Edo didn't know what to think. The hurricane of Ryo's words had nearly blown away everything both man had ever held dear. Now as Ryo's lips landed on Edo's for safe haven; it seemed as though they were breathing in the misty calm of the storm. A major tragedy had been averted.
Most people would have shoved Ryo off of their person for pulling that stunt, but Edo wasn't most people he mused as they wrapped themselves up together again under the thin bed sheet. He knew that Destiny had other plans for them.
Like that metaphorical hurricane, their relationship was over when the storm was over.
