Challenge [51] Envy - Playing in the Sand
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kh_drabbleTitle: Playing in the Sand
Challenge: [51] Envy
Words: 358
Notes: Pre-Kingdom Hearts, takes place some time after Kairi first comes to Destiny Islands.
Summary: A quick insight into Kairi's thoughts on Riku and Sora and their relationship together.
She doesn’t really know why it bothers her so much.
Maybe because she knows that she can’t join in, even though that’s probably not the case. A frown creases her pretty little features, and she folds her arms behind her back as she leans against the palm tree, it’s skin rough and comforting against her exposed spine.
Riku and Sora are always together. It’s a known fact on the islands. Nothing’s ever changed that since she’s been here, and she knows that nothing probably ever will change that. They fight together perfectly, they play together perfectly, and they even talk together perfectly, almost like they read each other’s minds (she’s always wanted to know how one of them could start a sentence and the other could answer it even before he could ask it).
Her nose wrinkles up when she watches them tackle each other to the ground.
She’s envious, she’s decided. It’s taken her all day, sittin’ here, starin’ at the two of them playing ‘knights and dragons’ in the sand, to come up with that word, but she’s proud of herself for doing so.
Envious.
She chants it to herself, just ‘cause she likes the sound of it coming from her mouth and the bitter taste of it on her tongue.
She wants to go splash in the blue water, too, but she knows that there’s no room for her there, so she stays where she’s at, sitting back and watchin’ the boys roll across the wet beach and splash into the salty ocean tides. They resurface a moment later, sparkling sand clinging to their bare knees and their palms and elbows, and smiles bright on their sunburnt faces.
Her frown deepens.
All she wants to do is play ‘knights,’ too, but she knows that that’s not gonna happen.
So she sits back, hands folded on her dirtied pink skirt, eyes dark with envy – she says it aloud again, just ‘cause she can – and wishes that she could go down and play, too, but knowing that she can’t, ‘cause they’re just too perfect for each other, and there’s no room for her in all that perfection.
Challenge: [51] Envy
Words: 358
Notes: Pre-Kingdom Hearts, takes place some time after Kairi first comes to Destiny Islands.
Summary: A quick insight into Kairi's thoughts on Riku and Sora and their relationship together.
She doesn’t really know why it bothers her so much.
Maybe because she knows that she can’t join in, even though that’s probably not the case. A frown creases her pretty little features, and she folds her arms behind her back as she leans against the palm tree, it’s skin rough and comforting against her exposed spine.
Riku and Sora are always together. It’s a known fact on the islands. Nothing’s ever changed that since she’s been here, and she knows that nothing probably ever will change that. They fight together perfectly, they play together perfectly, and they even talk together perfectly, almost like they read each other’s minds (she’s always wanted to know how one of them could start a sentence and the other could answer it even before he could ask it).
Her nose wrinkles up when she watches them tackle each other to the ground.
She’s envious, she’s decided. It’s taken her all day, sittin’ here, starin’ at the two of them playing ‘knights and dragons’ in the sand, to come up with that word, but she’s proud of herself for doing so.
Envious.
She chants it to herself, just ‘cause she likes the sound of it coming from her mouth and the bitter taste of it on her tongue.
She wants to go splash in the blue water, too, but she knows that there’s no room for her there, so she stays where she’s at, sitting back and watchin’ the boys roll across the wet beach and splash into the salty ocean tides. They resurface a moment later, sparkling sand clinging to their bare knees and their palms and elbows, and smiles bright on their sunburnt faces.
Her frown deepens.
All she wants to do is play ‘knights,’ too, but she knows that that’s not gonna happen.
So she sits back, hands folded on her dirtied pink skirt, eyes dark with envy – she says it aloud again, just ‘cause she can – and wishes that she could go down and play, too, but knowing that she can’t, ‘cause they’re just too perfect for each other, and there’s no room for her in all that perfection.
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Date: 2006-01-31 12:15 am (UTC)I absolutely love how you manage to play Riku and Sora's relationship together without going into obvious yaoi undertones, they're just two really good friends who have been with each other for far longer than either have been with Kairi, and I like how you play on Kairi's insecurities over being the one outside looking in, and it's just all rather sweet and bitter at the same time.
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