A Cold Snap

by reminiscent-afterthought

[AU] Tomoki doesn't speak anymore. His tears are silent, his bullying unnoticed. But silence can't last forever. Resentment might try. (Summary from Aiko)

11. 11

A Cold Snap
11.

Someone gets sick of this stalemate, eventually.

Surprisingly, it's not my family. It's another boy instead, older than me and younger than my brother and with the same hair and skin and eye colour as Kanbara Shinya.

Brother, then. Or cousin or some sort of family relation.

I'm surprised the first thing he does is sock me in the jaw.

Actually, I'm not surprised. Blood begets blood in the ideal world, the dream world, and this guy's living it out.

I wonder what would have happened if Yutaka had been my knight in shining armour like he'd been meant to be.

But now I have the mark on my face I've always wanted.

And I crack again.

How lovely.