Title: Rose
Petals and Forever
Author: Shiakuu Hitome
Rating: G
Author's Notes: Written for my dear friend Rei's birthday. (Rei-Kuhori,
here, for anyone who's wondering. Go read her fics. They're excellent.)
I know it's short, too, but it's an emotional piece. Who knew confining
yourself to exactly 100 words could be so difficult?
Rose petals fall, one after another, and it is all he can do not to cry, for crying would leave tangible evidence. His tears would remain, solid and black, forever. Rose petals will be gone, but his misery will remain forever. As long as his tears do not form, do not leave proof of his weakness, he can continue existing, surviving, being, forever. Even without the source of the petals. The blood red petals will disappear into his memory, along with the river of hair, just as red, and the eyes as green as the stem the petals fall from.
