sunday snippets!!
thank you @stormyrainyday for the tag i love snooping on other people's writing so this is open!! if you see it feel free to post!!
more u21 because it's all i've been working on recently since posting cliffhanger and while this wasn't written particularly recently (maybe last month?) i'm especially proud of it. normally i'm a bit iffy on dialogue but i like the flow of this section so! enjoy
The gasp Ness lets escape punctures through the phone like a gunshot wound. Rin spends the ensuing pause toying with the idea of what if — what if he’d been good enough? What if he’d taken better care of his instrument? What if he’d fought back, grabbed Sae’s wrist as he left and made him stay? What if he’d just done it right? “I don’t think he slept here last night,” he mumbles instead, laughing humourlessly. “I wonder where he went.” “How did you get home?” asks Ness, pointlessly. “Since Sae clearly didn’t walk you.” The way he says it is bitter, upset, and for a single, spiteful moment, Rin lets vindication wash over him and cool his frustrated skin. “Is it important?” he replies finally, digging a canine into his bottom lip. For some reason, he wants to keep Isagi to himself, tucked away like a dirty secret, hidden like those fleeting moments of peace found in the air as they walked were stolen instead of found. “It’s important to me,” Ness rephrases, uncharacteristically gentle all of a sudden, and Rin folds like his ribcage is made of paper. “Someone from the auditorium walked me back. A practice room neighbour. He overheard Sae and I talking and got worried.” “Got worried? Over just a discussion? Are you sure?” Ness hums, and Rin knows him well enough to tell when he’s trying to manipulate a situation. “Just a discussion,” he bites out, and Ness doesn’t audibly press the matter, but he can practically sense the sceptical expression on his face through the phone screen, complete with raised eyebrows and a half-curled top lip. “And you were safe? Was he trustworthy? Did he introduce himself? Do you know him?” Ness quizzes all at once, bombarding Rin with mouthfuls of questions that come from a place of concern so thick that it threatens to drown him in it. “I think if he wasn’t safe to go home with, I wouldn’t be phoning you right now,” replies Rin with as much derisive dryness as he can muster. “He gave me his name and his school and helped me tidy the room, given I was out of sorts.” Ness pauses for a moment, humming a small tune to himself in a way that suggests he’s contemplating something. “And those are? For no reason at all, of course.”
rin ness friendship is lowkey everything to me. their situations are almost offensively similar and it fucks with me so much UGH i love this duo so much (have never interacted in canon)
if you see this do it and give me a tag! i wanna see what everyones working on im so nosy
