Post by Rin Matsuoka on Apr 6, 2016 22:10:04 GMT
Love, if your wings are broken borrow mine
'til yours can open
Homesickness was a feeling he'd become familiar with. One he'd all but grown numb to. However, for a long time it has not been the longing for a place, but for people that had plagued him. Home had never been his childhood house, not since he went to Australia. Home wasn't the four walls in the home of his host parent's home. Though he did find himself missing them, and that place from time to time. The closest thing to home in a long time had been the walls of Samezuka Academy, but even that had fallen short.
The closest thing he felt to home in a long time wasn't a place it was people. His childhood friends, but it had expanded too. The Mikoshibas, Rei, and Nitori. All of them wormed their special places into his heart and left holes when they were away. He couldn't blame them, not at all, but it didn't mean it didn't hurt from time to time. Still he found himself missing his old school. When the walls of the university seemed to large he made his way back here again. With an excuse that he wanted to see how Nitori was doing with his former swim team but it was more than that. He was homesick in a way he didn't know how to heal.
It was hours of wandering through campus, really. After he did meet with his friends. He found himself back at the old pool. The familiar scent of chlorine taking over his senses. Most people would say all pools smelled the same, and maybe they did, but for him that was the furthest thing from true. This pool in particular invoked comfort but also turmoil. He spent so much time being angry in it that it couldn't exactly be all sunny memories. There were times he'd felt hopeless here, but overall it was still the pleasant memories that overtook the bad ones. The University pool smelled like loneliness, if he could pin an emotion to a smell. Sure, he had Haru right beside him quite often, but that didn't stop him from missing all the others.
The closest thing he felt to home in a long time wasn't a place it was people. His childhood friends, but it had expanded too. The Mikoshibas, Rei, and Nitori. All of them wormed their special places into his heart and left holes when they were away. He couldn't blame them, not at all, but it didn't mean it didn't hurt from time to time. Still he found himself missing his old school. When the walls of the university seemed to large he made his way back here again. With an excuse that he wanted to see how Nitori was doing with his former swim team but it was more than that. He was homesick in a way he didn't know how to heal.
It was hours of wandering through campus, really. After he did meet with his friends. He found himself back at the old pool. The familiar scent of chlorine taking over his senses. Most people would say all pools smelled the same, and maybe they did, but for him that was the furthest thing from true. This pool in particular invoked comfort but also turmoil. He spent so much time being angry in it that it couldn't exactly be all sunny memories. There were times he'd felt hopeless here, but overall it was still the pleasant memories that overtook the bad ones. The University pool smelled like loneliness, if he could pin an emotion to a smell. Sure, he had Haru right beside him quite often, but that didn't stop him from missing all the others.
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