Title: Saved
Theme: Childhood
Word Count: 300
Date: April 8, 2005
Contest: This is drabble of week #11 at the LiveJournal community Iyfic(underscore)Challenge. My username there is Nozomi429.
He had always been there for her. Even though they had never been friends, he had always been there. And now she was no longer the child she longed to be. He had saved her so many times.
When she was 7, she would fall, and he'd pull her up again. He'd say in his tough-like voice, "Watch out dummy! I won't be here for you again!"
When she was 9, boys would bully her for living at the shrine and for being a girl, and he would tell them off. "Get away from her!" After they had scampered off, he turned to her and said, "They're pansies. But I won't save you again, you sissy." She wiped her tears and watched him as he ran off. He entranced her, and even years after she fell in love with him.
After a while, in middle school, he had stopped saving her. He had changed. He joined a gang, stopped coming to school, and started cussing. She hardly ever saw him anymore. After a few years, she soon forgot about him, heartbroken.
She returned home late, and took a shortcut. If only she'd known not to walk around at night. She was just 13, and yet drunks flashed her looks and followed her. She found herself against a wall, men surrounding her. She screamed, but no one heard, and people who did didn't care. When she had given up hope, she slid down the wall, afraid of what these men would do to her.
And then he was there. She watched as he beat up two men. Two others scampered off.
"Don't come back again, fuckers!" He shouted. She saw just a glimpse of his scared face before he jumped over a fence and leapt away.
She never saw him again.
Notes: My concept is that he's around, watching out for her, like a stalker, who only helps her when she's in trouble. But since that incident, she's learned to fend for herself and he didn't need to help her anymore. Its kind of sad, really.