JKA: And here's drabble #6, as promised. :D This one was a bit difficult, I will admit, especially because this song is the shortest out of the ten and therefore provides less thinking time. r_r But I'm relatively happy with how it turned out, so hopefully that counts for something. ^^; Usual disclaimers apply. Read, review, you know the drill~
Boats & Birds - Gregory & the Hawk
Fingers curled around the edges of a crinkled picture, the parchment having been folded and unfolded so many times that it was amazing the image was still discernible. A young boy of fifteen grinned up at the photo's holder, green-tinted hair defying gravity as it had always done, cerulean gaze sparkling. Beside him stood a slightly shorter, sapphire-haired girl, her face frozen in laughter as the boy dragged her into the view of the camera.
A solitary tear escaped from the corner of Keira's eye as she examined the picture, a hollow ache in her chest. She wiped the moisture away with the back of her hand, reminiscing of the day the snapshot had been taken — mere hours before she'd been separated from Jak.
It seemed a lifetime ago now. Those stolen minutes between constructing the Rift Rider and exploring the beach. The hidden, awkward flirting whenever they had a rare moment to themselves. He'd been the light in her life, the person she could go to whenever she just needed someone to be there for her; a shoulder to cry on; a best friend.
All of that was gone, the pair of them torn apart by a stroke of fate. And there was nothing left of him for Keira to hold onto.
Nothing, apart from the photo in her hands, her memories that seemed to grow fainter with each passing day, and the empty space in her heart where Jak had once been.