Title: withered flowers
Rating: G
Fandom: everlasting flowers
Relationship: none
Wordcount: 300
Short summary: Mina’s gaze finally catches upon the withered flowers at the side of the road and it makes her think.
It’s been a while since Mina has had such a quiet walk home from school, so when a bee buzzes by and Mina’s attention is drawn away from the path in front of her to the side of the road, she finally notices…
Withered flowers. White ones, yellow ones, pink ones, purple ones… Nothing looks healthy. Nothing looks salvageable, not even to be preserved in a jar like…
Mina sighs. To be honest, Mina had been spending more time looking forward, in order to greet the people she passed by properly, instead of down at the ground. So perhaps these flowers had been withering for days or weeks and she just hadn’t noticed.
And now it’s too late.
You can’t have everything. You always have to choose.
Mina shakes her head. It’s funny, even after a few months apart, how Mina still hears Ran’s voice when she thinks like this, with a clear and strict tone from someone whose voice is otherwise warm and friendly. She knows well enough that it isn’t scorn or disappointment in the imaginary Ran voice but rather honesty. And Mina wants to be honest with herself.
Yes, it really is unfortunate to see all these withered flowers. But they were beautiful when they were blooming, and while they are gone now… They will come back. They will be beautiful again. They will bring people joy upon seeing them again. And maybe someone will be able to preserve one then as an everlasting flower...
Just like the one she has in her room, a memento of that one month that changed her life for the better. It’s alright she thinks to herself, even if she misses that long blonde, that short pink, that silver grey… They’ll meet up once more when those flowers are in bloom.