round 03, challenge one: drabble eleven
Title: Gravitation
Fandom and Pairing: Big Bang, Jiyong/Youngbae
Rating: PG
Word Count: 200
Summary: Youngbae feels like a top spinning out of balance, with Jiyong determined to fly a direction he's never wanted to explore.
Warnings: None.
Change.
It's the Hermes replacing the Hanes; department-store makeup like a mask when he used to protest at powder; the sneer that seeps into his eyes one morning and then never really leaves.
Youngbae can convince himself he’s reading too much into things, but denial only works for so long. It disappears altogether with the gaunt bags under Jiyong’s eyes over another lyric that pounds like everything else on the radio. With Jiyong shaving lines into his skull in an attempt to start another Trend, with commonalities and staying in on weekends becoming a foreign concept-with the counting of socialites instead of sheep.
Youngbae feels like he’s a top spinning out of balance, with Jiyong determined to fly a direction he’s never wanted to explore.
“Don’t be ridiculous,” Jiyong will say when Youngbae tries to tell him (but doesn’t exactly know how, apart from I wish I could say you still influenced me, I wish you still needed me like I need you). Jiyong laughs and calls him crazy.
But Youngbae’s not crazy; he’s just the same. And apparently that stopped being good enough for Jiyong somewhere around the time when the lines between fame and success started to bleed.
Fandom and Pairing: Big Bang, Jiyong/Youngbae
Rating: PG
Word Count: 200
Summary: Youngbae feels like a top spinning out of balance, with Jiyong determined to fly a direction he's never wanted to explore.
Warnings: None.
Change.
It's the Hermes replacing the Hanes; department-store makeup like a mask when he used to protest at powder; the sneer that seeps into his eyes one morning and then never really leaves.
Youngbae can convince himself he’s reading too much into things, but denial only works for so long. It disappears altogether with the gaunt bags under Jiyong’s eyes over another lyric that pounds like everything else on the radio. With Jiyong shaving lines into his skull in an attempt to start another Trend, with commonalities and staying in on weekends becoming a foreign concept-with the counting of socialites instead of sheep.
Youngbae feels like he’s a top spinning out of balance, with Jiyong determined to fly a direction he’s never wanted to explore.
“Don’t be ridiculous,” Jiyong will say when Youngbae tries to tell him (but doesn’t exactly know how, apart from I wish I could say you still influenced me, I wish you still needed me like I need you). Jiyong laughs and calls him crazy.
But Youngbae’s not crazy; he’s just the same. And apparently that stopped being good enough for Jiyong somewhere around the time when the lines between fame and success started to bleed.