By the bumper cars
In the pretty twining light
I may have gone too far
I may have gone too much, too long
I'm a dull and witless boy
At the after bars
Think I was sullied by a dream
In the killing jar
You and me at war, at arms
All falling in embrace
Tell me why you lied
And what it is you do to keep your eyes all shiny
A tawny gypsy girl
Sleeping blanketed by stars
Beneath the tilt-a-whirl
Where we were coyly caught alone
All fumbling with your blouse
Tell me why you lied
And what it is you do to keep your eyes all shiny
And in the rollercoaster din
By the parachutes in saddle shoes
You break your shins
But I have never seen two eyes so shiny
And the sullen beery swine
Who try to tangle you
In sullen beery balls of twine
Have they ever seen two eyes so shiny?
Boys in denim vests
Smoking cigarettes between
The bootblack fingertips
Sweetly tipsy by the half light
The light and the half light
Tell me why you lied
And what it is you do to keep your eyes all shiny
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When their eyes would meet, he would merely frown and resume whatever he was doing.
It wasn't like they would see each other for the rest of year.
The raven haired boy always came once a year with the circus run by queer looking people dressed head-to-toe in blinding sequins. He looked like a frog amongst royalty, but he was the only one who really captured Light's attention.
The Yagami boy had gone every year to the circus with his family, and when he was twelve, he had first met the raven haired boy.
"What are you doing?" He remembered asking the crouching child of eleven who was eating more than the normal amount of cotton candy one should consume. Large black rimmed, onyx-grey eyes blinked up at the prim and proper looking boy; a thin thumb was shoved partway between the strange boy's mouth, and Light remembered grimacing.
"I'm eating." Light left in a huff of frustration when he couldn't get anymore information out of the raven haired nuisance.
Their exchanges had gone on for five more years; they always met in the same spot Light had found him that summer: eating cotton candy like it was going out of style.
They had their petty rows, and sometimes good laughs, but Light knew that it would only last for however long the boy was in town. Once, when he was fifteen and the boy fourteen, he had asked what his name was. The boy didn't reply, but merely shoveled more of the spun sugar into his mouth. "Ryuuzaki." He muttered from behind the sweet.
The nights that they were together were always filled with jabbing remarks and witty banter. Light found that he craved this 'Ryuuzaki's' presence more often, and sometimes he dreaded when the boy had to leave.
Light clenched his hands around the grey steering wheel of the family car, trying to block out Sayu and her friends' loud giggles. They would meet, like always, and Light would think nothing of his friend's leaving.
The sometimes eerie lights of the not-so-safe circus rides winked at the seventeen year-old as he pulled the black car onto a make-shift gravel parking lot. The teenaged girls in the back babbled even more, and jumped in excitement. Light told them to leave their cell phones on, and he would call Sayu when they needed to leave. He flashed his sister's friends a charming smile, which made them blush and nod dreamily.
They piled out of the car, running to the glinting circus. Light sighed and leaned against the car, running a hand through his auburn colored hair. His hand returned to his side, and he eyed the park grounds. The question of Would he be here? rang in Light's head like a gong; the seven teen year old kicked off from the car and began walking toward the circus gates.
He shoved past people who were chasing their children; people bumped him and apologized in a breathless hurried way, but he didn't pay them any mind.
Light's feet seemed to know the way toward the cotton candy booth; his eyes scanned the picnic tables for the familiar hunched back of his friend. The young man's gaze was caught by a group of seemingly drunken men; Light' eyes widened and he felt his heart begin to thud in his chest.
"C'mon, it'll just be for one night." The boy heard one of the drunken men slur. The others around chuckled and seemed to make the grouping tighter by moving inward.
"Leave me be, Aaron; I have told you countless times that you disgust me." A seemingly calm voice floated from the center of the crowd, and Light felt his breathing catch in his throat.
One man laughed throatily and slapped another man (one who Light could only assume was 'Aaron') on the back. "Ooh, told you di'n't 'e?" Light's feet were rooted to the ground; he watched as Aaron cocked back a fist and punched the man.
The man turned back to the person in the middle of the circle. "You tease; I've seen the way you look at me, and I know you want it." The group erupted in a loud fit of laughter; Light watched as Aaron reached for the person in the middle, but fell backward clutching his private regions.
The other's fell over, clutching their heads or groins, groaning in pain. Light lifted his eyes from the fallen men to the person they had been harassing.
"Ryuuzaki?" Light asked, walking closer, ignoring the groaning men at his feet. Wide, onyx-grey eyes never left his.
"…Light?" They had truly grown up; Light into a handsome young man and Ryuuzaki into a somewhat effeminate looking male. Light stopped in front of his friend and looked down at the hunched over raven haired sixteen year old.
The emotions that had been building in Light for the past five years seemed to collect heavily in his heart; the confusion, frustration, attraction, embarrassment, they all seemed to swirl in his head. "Are you alright?" Light asked, fingers twitching because he wanted to touch the skinny male.
Ryuuzaki lowered his wide eyes to the men on the ground, and a small devious smile quirked the edges of his lips. "Never better."
He looked back up at the seventeen year old, shifting his slight weight from one foot to the other, and fiddled with the edge of his white shirt. "Light I-I don't know how to say this…"
Light sucked in a small amount of air, and lifted his hands to cup the boy's narrow face. Ryuuzaki blinked up at him, and a small gasp left his mouth when Light kissed him.
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Ner, a completely random drabble. I was bored and listening to the Decemberists. Aww, L's a 'tawny gypsy girl' and Light's a 'dull and witless boy'. ^^ Please review.
