A/N: I wrote this ages ago. I don't know why it took me so long to post it. Free-verse, story-verse. I really like this one. So, since I didn't warn you guys on Paper Flowers, I guess I should now. This is another one of those vauge death-fics that I seem to like.
Nine: Urban Ledgends
Have you heard that urban myth?
The one about the boys
Whose family was so angry at the world
That they took it out on their children,
And blamed it all on them?
Yeah, I've heard it.
That one's true.
Have you heard the tale, about that same family?
Where the children came to school, acting
Like nothing had ever happened?
The one day… Bam! the younger brother
Was dead.
Pushed from his window at night
And was left to
Suffocate and suffer in
His own blood?
That's no ledgend, it happened.
Have you heard that one rumor?
That the family now lives in our town?
Oh, no. That's not a rumor.
They live in the apartment next to mine.
The surviving brother still carries on
With an idiotic smile on his face,
Like he doesn't know what sorrow is;
Like he doesn't understand that he's got it bad.
But he knows.
He understands it better than we could ever tell
From that stupid smile on his face.
Have you heard that lie?
You know, that--
Oh, the one that the boy fell in love.
No, that's no lie.
He really did love the boy he walked to school with.
He smiled for him, too, and
When he did,
It was obvious that he loved,
But he hurt.
Have you heard that story?
That the boy went home one day
Happy as can be…
Don't call it a story, it really happened.
Happy as can be,
He was
Talking about a new anime that was coming out…
I parted ways with him at my door.
And he went in his.
Later,
I hear screaming.
Then silence.
I hear a click next to my wall…
Then my name…
Have you heard the tale…?
That I heard the gunshot…
And his blood came raining into my room…
That I was admitted for
A month
Because even though my hands were clean
I couldn't get the blood off of them.
Did you hear that urban myth…?
Where the father kills his son, then turns the
Gun onto himself…
Asking why no one understood…
Then left them both to die?
It's no urban myth. It happened six weeks ago.
Yeah… it's just…
I can't believe…
That something like that would ever happen.
Not here in this little town;
It's always so quiet and peaceful here...
So, how—?
No, I'm quite aware that you're asking
Why an athletic, crude guy like me
Is buying some shoujo crap of an anime…
Well…
It's because it's the last thing he said he wanted.
And that
Is no lie.