touya todoroki

The Blue hues of the chlorine laced water reflected against his scarred face, the turquoise of his eyes shining through the sheet of color over his features.

You've known him for so long, yet every attempt to study further reveals only a stranger. You don't know this man. You never did, because who’s a person without fears to gauge? Just that…a stranger.

He never revealed any of his past to you– leaving only the surface for you to discover, which got you pretty far. I mean shit…you're living the american dream: big white fenced house in the suburbs, swimming pool, a persian cat running freely in the spacious backyard. What more could you possibly ask for?

Your present was a mere dream just a few years ago as you didn't have much growing up. Not until you met him. In a sketchy bar down the dark, murky alley that you always passed by but never bothered to check out. You never believed in fate, but something told you to enter that exact bar that night, and there he was. Sat at the bar, his untamed white locks framing his oddly alluring scarred face perfectly as he sipped on liquor. You thought he was just that, a pretty face. Although, when his eye met yours as you leaned against the bar to order a drink, you quickly realized how fucking wrong you were.

The water caressing your bare skin pulled you back to the present. The same blue irises that conquered your daydream were now studying you back. Studying you as if he didn't recognize you either…wait…

he didn't.

You didn't.

A spirit. That's all you were. Watching yourself get lost in this picture perfect fantasy as you slowly fell apart internally.

This is not my life.

“This is a mistake,” you watched from above as he spoke. His raspy ,honeyed voice reminding you exactly why you stayed. “We’re not good together”

He can't say that. Not when you built a ‘perfect’ life that people would kill for. Not when he ruined your life.

“Why do you say that?” you watched yourself reply back. your body becoming more weightless, as if the chlorine level increased tremendously.

“Look at us.”...Look at us?

Was the perfect dream you both lived not enough for him? It was clear to you that he was a stranger by now, but almost everyone would enjoy being in your place right?

Both of you. Alone. In a pool of needles and heroin. The chlorine being your high, making you feel unburdened. The abandoned white fenced house falling apart around you as the birds fed on the feline in the dead backyard. Look at us huh?

This is your life.