Hey, guys! I know I haven't updated Everything Burns in a while, but this plot bunny just would not leave me alone! I give you...Rise...

"You rise with the moon, I rise with the sun."

They meet on a dark night in the rain. Both running away from something. From some responsibility, some guilt. Some deep-seeted resolution made a long time ago that can never, ever be changed. They meet by chance under the bright stars. She walks up to him, bolder under the cover of the night. Ther lips meet, and all things were forgotten for that moment.

"You rise with the moon."

He was gone in the morning, a hastly scribbled note and a few strands of ebony hair were the only remains of his existence. She's not sure what they did that night, her mind clouded by the cheap beer that somehow made it into her bag, even though her "perfect"avatar boyfriend dosen't drink. She wouldn't want to trouble him, now would she? Nevertheless, a slight emptiness fills the room. She feels te need to fix herself, and leave. Fast.

"I rise with the sun."

Their next meeting was hast, and quick. A short exchange of words, and a breif peck on the cheek. No chance to be enraptured in the moment, no romantic sweet nothings of romance novels. The rising sun signaled to them that it was time to leave, to go back to their old lives, to go back to reality. Because, really, all of it was a crazy, beautiful, dream. A fantasy. But this was not a fairy tale. This was not a play. And all the fantasy vanished with the rising of the sun. She always loved the moon more.

"You rise with the moon."