Ficlet #14
Word count: 285
裏切り – Betray
"You lied."
His voice was thick with emotion, gruff with latent anger.
Roxas watched impassively, his true self hidden behind a mask of aloofness. Before him, Sora glared at him with accusing eyes, eyes that shone with water and the bitterness of being betrayed.
"Yes," the blond-haired teen said at long last.
The tears that Sora had sought to hold back fell from his eyes. The voice that had answered him was so casual, so simple, that he wondered if the man in front of him was an inherently lying bastard.
"Why?"
"Because I felt like it."
A scowl appeared on Sora's usually smiling face.
"You're a bastard, you know that?" he seethed.
"Not the first time I've heard that," Roxas replied simply.
Yet, underneath all the bravado that he tried to assert, a tremble of emotion seeped out. A drowning sensation filled the core of his being as he showed the façade of a despicable man to Sora. Within, his heart was shattered into millions of pieces as he hoped to distance himself from Sora, all the better to protect the brown-haired teen who he loved dearly.
"Don't you ever show your face in front of me, ever again," spat Sora as he pointed a finger threateningly at the blonde. Roxas's poker face never faltered.
Sora stormed past the blonde with tears falling down his cheeks.
A slam of door soon followed.
It was only after then that Roxas allowed his body to succumb the torrent of emotions that he had kept bottled up. His body trembled with unshed tears and he fell to the ground in a heap of sobs.
Sora would never know the actual reason why Roxas had betrayed his love.
Disclaimer: Standard disclaimer applies. QQ.
A/N: Ahhh, I had meant to post another drabble three days ago but never got around doing it before I went on my 2 day trip. So, to make up for lost time, I've also posted another story after this. These two ficlets could be linked as a before and after, but they don't have to be either. XP I guess the story could've been more of a drabble if I had only shown Sora's side of the "story", but I felt the need to show Roxas's side of the story too, haha. Hope you enjoy this one and the next.