002 – Pennies
By: Kelly
Find a penny, pick it up.
Then all day long, you'll have good luck.
'Quite the contrary,' the man with long blonde hair thought as he spotted a penny sitting on the ground outside his three-story apartment building, 'Real life is often extremely different from everyday fairy tales and simple rhymes that children are told.'
"Lies," the man scoffed as he kicked the penny from the sidewalk into the busy street with his black suede shoe which he wore to match his suit. The man smirked as the penny was run over multiple times by cars that passed by on the busy street.
"Is something wrong Doctor Vexen, sir?" Vexen turned around to see a male nurse that worked at the same hospital that he did, Oblivion General Hospital. The man gave Vexen a strange look. Seconds later, Vexen had realized that he had been staring at the man's wavy, rose colored locks and how feminine they made the man look. How… handsome… they made him look. Vexen mentally shook himself to stop himself from thinking such things about his co-worker.
"Nothing is the matter, Marluxia," Vexen spoke in a closed-off professional tone, "I thought you drove to work. I haven't seen you walk to the hospital before."
Marluxia nodded, "I have been, but my car is in the shop. Plus, it's such a nice day out today." He smiled and Vexen looked up. Marluxia had called it nice, but it was barely six in the morning and the sun was just rising into the sky. Vexen thought it was a rather miserable morning, indeed.
Marluxia broke the silence Vexen's thoughts had created, "Do you mind if I walk with you?" He took a step closer to the other and Vexen took in the fact that Marluxia wore perfume. Vexen blushed.
"Sure, I don't see why not," Vexen said, relaxing the tone. He looked over to the east to see that the sun was more visible now.
'Perhaps,' he thought as he walked to work with Marluxia, 'the fairytales are true…perhaps pennies are good luck.'
As Vexen thought this, Marluxia bent down and picked up a penny off the sidewalk. He then handed it to Vexen with a smile.
