Lightning-Dono: Thanks for all of the kind reviews, everyone! And since blue-eyed-cutie has been mentioning his in her reviews, I would like to reiterate that this ENTIRE fanfic is in drabble format. The chapters will be 500 words or less, which the recommended length is for drabbles. Got it, everyone? All right, moving on.

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Theme: #6 "Fireworks"
Word Count: 430

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Kai stood on the pier overlooking the water, waiting for the fireworks display as he usually did every summer. It was no surprise for him to find the beach empty, save for the few parasols erected out of the ground and blankets layered beneath it that shielded Karen from the sun.

He couldn't help but wish that Jill would do the same so that he could cuddle up beside her on the smooth sheets of blanket and watch the day go by with her by his side.

Considering this, he decided that he might actually propose this idea to her when she arrived. Comforted by his sudden self-assurance, he stood there until sunset arrived, the time where Jill would normally come and stand silently next to him, gazing with her gorgeous sapphire eyes into the sunset.

Strangely enough, Jill never came, even when the fireworks display started with a flourish of bright, colorful sparklers rising from the horizon.

Worried by her absence, Kai rushed vigorously to her house and slammed his fist, rather rudely, upon the door. Instead of someone answering it, a small voice croaked forth, "Come in."

The man slowly let himself in, bracing himself for what he would find…which was Jill wrapped in a comforter by the window, clutching a cup of hot chocolate between shaking hands and watching the same fireworks he had been witnessing just some moments before.

"Are you okay?" He asked, concerned, moving towards her as quickly as he could.

"I'm fine," she replied quietly without her usual energy. "I just got sick…" She sighed, her blonde head sagging. "I'm really sorry I kept you waiting, though."

Kai dragged a chair across the room and sat beside her, extending his arms around her figure, which was curled into a sort of fetal position on the chair.

"It's okay, it isn't your fault."

She suddenly pulled away from him. "Don't touch me, you might get sick!" She spoke of this as though Kai had never been plagued by disease before.

The man laughed, keeping his arm around her. "It's like watching fireworks, Jill," he told her calmly. "I mean we're watching them together right now."

Jill didn't quite understand what he was getting at, but she nodded, urging him to continue.

"At least if I get sick, we'll be sick together."

And together they watched the fantastic display of fireworks in the sky, and at the end, Kai could've sworn he saw a firework in the shape of a full heart, ignited into the sky and dissipating quickly into plumes of soft, red smoke.