It was a warm summer evening. The sky was a glorious gold, and she grinned up at it. Perhaps it was some nameless god, setting the stage. Dimming the lights. Yelling a delightful, "Action!". Rin breathed in the air, milky and warm like bathwater. Yes, tonight was the night. Tonight...

She would make that girl hers.

Each stride made her feel like some movie star, each blink of her blue eyes was the snap of a powerful camera, as each colorful photograph filled her mind with blinding color and rich scenery. Her scarlet dress flowed like water about her knees. Like blood, hah. Like the sweetest, purest red.

And there, there she was. Innocently searching, chocolate eyes darting about. Her knees, knobby and childish, poked out from beneath her adorable little dress. Her cheeks were pink and lightly freckled, her mouth rounded into an "o", surrounded by rosebud lips. This girl was so perfect, so delightfully perfect in every way.

Rin silently crept closer.

They would always tell her to be a normal girl. To giggle over boys and go on those typical, trendy websites. She would nod along, not really listening. Because she giggled over the girls in those cutesy meant-for-men shows and the adorable underclassmen. Because the only websites she visited were the shops that sold merchandise like body pillows, and the art sites. She would always go straight for the loli content.

"H-huhn?"

Fuck them and their stupid standards. Their sense of "normalcy" and what a girl "should be". Why should they care? It wasn't their life, was it? Who was "them", anyway? Her parents? Her peers? Society?

"Umm, hello. I-it's nice to meet you..."

Yuki was different. She thought the girls she saw on those shows, on those websites were cute, but Yuki was just different. She had this whole atmosphere to her that Rin loved, that Rin just drank up like it was wine. She knew she shouldn't enjoy it so much, but it was just so delicious. The girl's creamy brown eyes and her steady, mature gaze. She seemed so much older than nine.

"Ah-! Wh-wh-what are you doing?"

She held the girl, smiling down at her. Such a lovely person. Rin wondered if Yuki was normal, if she had no problem conforming to the standards of everyday life. She lay so delicate in her arms, squirming and fighting. Gorgeous eyes clouded with tears. They slopped down her reddened cheeks and she reached to smear them. Rin grabbed her hand. "Quiet, now."

"Wh-wh-wh..."

She hushed the girl once more, gently wiping her tears away with her free hand. Maybe they could be together. Maybe...

she would just have to kill her love to do it.

~The petals that bloomed in days past are valiant, as if being scattered into the darkness. The girl's voice whispers, "Let's return to Elysion..."