Jul 28, 2009 21:08
Title: ganbarinasai (keep holding on)
Unit: A.B.C.-Z
Word Count: 100
Characters: Hashimoto
Notes: Six years' history is a lot to catch up with when you're barely fifteen.
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Forbidden from watching him practice at home 'ever, ever, okay?' Hashimoto-san intrudes only when a loud crash cuts her son's music out. She finds him gripping his head in a sweat-damp crouch, hair messed up and spirits down. "Ryosuke?"
"I can't do it, Mom," he whines into the floor. "It's too hard. And there's a new one tomorrow, I think, a new dance, I can't remember…" His breath hitches. "I'll never catch up and be good and Fumi hates me and, and-"
"Oh, Ryosuke," she sighs, holding her big baby boy as he cries out all his frustrations. "You'll see."
challenge: home,
unit: a.b.c.-z