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More drabbles! Yay for us! So here is the fourth one. Reminder to people, drabbles are around 100 words (although for us they seem to be more around 150 words) based off of a prompt, and posted on our Yahoo Group.

Dragon Pants

Prompt: "He felt nothing"

By: mordechaimalachai

Pen name: Dark Angel Kira

He felt nothing. He hadn't in years; so why when Troy
would hug him at school he'd feel a surge of energy?

"Ry?"

"Hmm? What do you want Tr--" Pressing his lips to
Ryan's, Troy felt his whole life piece together.Holding Ryan closer to him, he smiled down at him.
"I love you, Ry."

Looking at Troy for a moment, Ryan decided that being
numb and lonely wasn't his life style. Leaning up to
kiss Troy, Ryan rasped out an "I Love you" under his
breath.

Pen name: mordechaimalachai

He felt nothing. At least, that's what he told himself. Whenever he
saw those eyes, or that smile. Whenever he heard that beautiful voice,
raised in song for the world to hear, or low with laughter at a private
joke. Feelings were dangerous then, so he wouldn't allow himself to
feel.

But alone, he could admit, at least to himself, that he was different.
When he would bring himself off and Troy's name would slip unbidden
from his lips at night, he could not hide from the truth. But then day
would come, and he would shove that truth to the back of his mind,
unfeeling once more.

Pen name: Dragon Pants

Nothing... He felt nothing, it was crazy, insane, after all this
time he felt nothing. What was wrong? He was the basketball star, he
was supposed to be the best, and now that he'd blown what was quite
possibly the biggest game of his life, he didn't care. Troy walked in
the locker room head hung with the rest of his team, but it wasn't in
shame, he was thinking, hard. He was startled out of his thoughts when
Chad flipped over the bench, "DAMNIT!"

Troy patted him on the shoulder, "It was just a game."

"Just a game? A GAME! That was the biggest game of our lives Troy.
Then again, it's all just a game to you isn't it?"

Winner

Pen name: TillThatTime

He held his hand as he struggled for each breath. He kissed his
tears when the pain killers would start to wear off. He handed him
water when his throat began to dry. He did everything there was just
to make him better, just to bring him one more sunrise and one more
sunset. He had to fix this, he had to or his love wouldn't be the
only one to die. He needed to save him. So he worked at it, he cried
over it, he missed eating and sleeping because of it, and by the
end, he felt nothing but anger.

He watched as Troy lay in the hospital bed as the AIDS began to eat
away what was left of his whole world. He slammed his fist against
the wall, startling Troy in the process.

"You're not doing this. You're not fucking dying on me. I wont let
you!" His voice was coming out in gasps as he tried to keep the hot
tears down. Troy looked at him for a long time before he spoke, and
then he began to say those words that Ryan had heard so many times
before. Just a mindless poem. Just a damned prayer.

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change."
Troy's voice was strained and Ryan felt his already shattered heart
began to break, but he tried keep his voice strong.

"Troy, don't give me that garbage right now." despite his attempts
his voice still shook. Troy proceeded as if he didn't hear.

"Courage to change the things I can." The tears now flowed freely
down Ryan's cheeks.

"Please Troy, stop. I can't handle this right now." Troy just smiled
as he continued on with the last words.

"And the wisdom to know the difference………Ryan, you can't fix this.
I'm dying and there is nothing you can do. You have to understand
that." Ryan didn't understand how someone could be so at ease.

"I can't lose you." Ryan said in a voice barely above a whisper.

Troy cocked his head to the side as if he was confused then a small
smile tugged at the corner of his lips.

"In death, not everything will die." He said in resolution before
grabbing Ryan's trembling hand and bringing it to his cracked
lips. "Love, does not die."

Pen name: FallingWithGrace

He felt nothing until the only person who truly cared about him turned
against him. "How can you be in love with Troy? He's mine and he's
not gay Ryan. He's not a fag like you." Sharpay stared at him in
disbelief, her fingers pressed rigidly against the door. She
approached him and slapped him hard across the face and that was when
Ryan started to feel as his twin left the room, a flip of her blonde
hair behind her. He'd ignored all the pain in the past, the hateful
words, the people who tried to destroy him, kill his dignity and break
his soul. But now, facing the one person who had always been there,
the one who had always supported him, that was when he started to feel
something that he should have felt all along.

Pen name: CSIslave

Ryan could take the beatings from his classmates; he could take the endless verbal abuse from his parents. There was one thing he couldn't take; Troy's blissful ignorance to his feelings. Finally, one day, it became too much for Ryan. He pulled Troy aside in the hallway, nervously ringing his hands.

"What do you want, Evans?"

"Troy... I think I love you." Troy's expression was shocked. He backed away slowly, returning to his circle of friends, joining back into the conversation like nothing had happened. Ryan followed him, on the verge of tears. "Troy, please..." Troy whirled around, his eyes burning.

"I hate you, you stupid faggot! Get out of here!" Ryan obeyed, tripping over his own feet, his vision blurred by tears. As he fell through his front door, rushing to his bathroom, Ryan continued to sob as he swallowed as many pills as he could fit into his mouth. As he lay down on his bed and waited for everything to end, Ryan realized that he hadn't been alive for a long time. For so long, he felt nothing but love for Troy... and now that that was over...

it was all over.

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