Friends

Friends. What friends? Such hypocrisy. Can this really be the person I have known for twenty years? Is this the reason I lay here, with my body all but severed? Since when… When did it all start to go wrong…? Crunch. The noise sounded to my left. Wearily, I rolled my eyes in that direction. This action alone had required all the strength in my tattered body to achieve. Her boots...

Tea beneath the Sakura Blossom

Darkness. Endless darkness. The girl walked quickly, quietly. Her heart beat hard against her chest, so hard she thought she could hear it. She could see nothing, yet she could see her own hands, and when she looked down, she could see her two bare feet showing underneath her kimono. Beneath her feet, however, was darkness. She felt nothing against her soles. There was no way to tell what she...

Koi Fish

The koi fish swam gracefully in the pond, and I watched them detachedly, my mind drifting back to the events of the most disgraceful night of my life. I had led fifty of my father’s men to their deaths, all in the name of my stupid ego, and the thirst to prove that Cesare had no need for a son. How very, very wrong I was. I sighed inwardly. Ever since Gianni brought me home I had distanced...

Defeat

“Bring it!” I had screamed at them, and bring it, they did. I laid on the cold floor of the basketball court, beaten to a pulp. There might be a broken bone somewhere, it was hurting that much. But all that beating didn’t do much to numb the real pain. I didn’t know why I never realized her true identity. Obviously a common young girl would not be able to roam the manor as freely as she did. If...

Mad Love

I stared blankly at the screen in front of me. It was bright, far brighter than it should be, with no other source of light in this tiny windowless box. I should be blinded by now, but for some reason unknown to myself, I kept staring, and it stared back at me. Neither of us made a sound. Neither of us moved. But of course, the screen cannot move to begin with. What time is it? I could’ve...