storypaint | Growing Up (Watanuki gen)

Title: Growing Up
Day/Theme: Sept 20 // your heart is an empty room
Series: xxxHOLiC
Character/Pairing: Watanuki Kimihiro & Ichihara Yuuko gen; Clow Reed/Yuuko Ichihara implied
Rating: G
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Excerpt: Your heart is an empty room and you've filled it with all of these things.

Your heart is an empty room and you've filled it with all of these things-- the detritus of your clientele, their precious junk and trashy treasures. You fill your shop and your heart with plastic wands and stories about that "stupid magician" and it doesn't fool me for a minute. I know how you are.

"Watanuki," you say, "the sake bottle is getting light..." Your eyes are bright with liquor and I want to yell at you that problems don't go away when plied with drink, but the argument is useless and I fetch another bottle. Hey, it's a living. For now, anyway, but someday I am going to go away and you'll be alone with your little twins and yourself, and it's the latter that scares you most. I know, because I had that problem once, before I learned to live among other people. Yes, even Doumeki.

If he wasn't dead, I'd call your stupid magician, but all I can do is water down your sake and hope you'll grow into your wisdom one of these days.