Note from the Author: It's been a while since I wrote a SasuNaruSasu anything.
Endings
A lot of stories don't have happy endings.
Most people are mostly aware of that. Most people understand that this is only one person who will not live happily ever after. That's how stories work. Most get all – one gets nothing.
That is how life has been for me. I am no Prince Charming and certainly no damsel-in-distress. I have been hiding inside obnoxious overcompensation for years.
They tell me to stop – these people who get happy endings. They tell me not to act this way, but not because they care. No, not because they even realize that I am the witch or the wicked stepmother or the big bad wolf, the one that dies in the end, alone.
They tell me to stop because I ruin their happy endings. They don't want my presence to be the stain on their bleached world.
This corner is my own. There is always the part of a room that falls in shadow, and that is where I dwell. I am not some strange person with twisted thoughts and dark jokes. I have a heart swelling with love I am not allowed to express. I have a bright smile whose light refuses to pierce the blackness – or maybe it simply can't do it.
I cling to a kind word, a "How are you?" I latch onto any acknowledgment of my presence. They don't come often. And what percentage of that small percentage is sincere?
You are supposed to have a happy ending. I know that, watching you. How I envy you. How I have always envied you. But my pride puffs so that you will never know that. My mind curtains itself with a scoff, and I mock you as everyone mocks me.
Because I want to be like you. You're Prince Charming. You're the knight on a fiery steed. I sound like a girl in my head when I think of you, but like a mouse trying to be a lion when I speak of you.
Your frown is imprinted in my mind. You joined my corner. You didn't tell me to die, to seize, to end. You told me to stop pretending. I wasn't fooling anyone.
And I press my face against your shirt, shaking with my sobs, because I had foold everyone but you.