metamorphosis

Title: little cracks, spiderwebbing across the ice
Characters: Ryoji Mochizuki
Rating: G

Every time he looks at her, he feels as if his heart will break.

They haven't known each other but a few days, and every time he sees her smile he feels his heart squeeze. Every time he sees her with another guy, something grips at his heart and tries to pull it out of his chest.

(Sometimes, he wants to do it to them, too. He isn't a violent person, but he'll be violent for her.

Is that the kind of guy she likes?)

So he asks her out at every available chance he gets. He turns down other girls and makes time for her, frees up his schedule and apologizes to the soft faces he sees in the hall. He takes her hand and feels as if he's on the top of the world – on the edge, as if one moment –

one thing –

will just –

break –

everything.

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