Barriers

There was always something stopping him. The same thing that has always been stopping him every time he feels that strange, warm sensation in his chest, every time he sees Kuroo’s smile and every time he feels like closing the short distances he always seems to notice between them now.

It was like a transparent barrier between them. Sometimes, you couldn’t really see it and all you saw was whatever was on the other side – that one thing that you wanted to reach no matter what. But the moment your hand was outstretched and ready to grab it, your fingertips brush only the barrier’s see-through but solid walls and that’s when you realize just how close you are, yet just how far away as well. And unless you tear it down somehow, you are never going to get to whatever’s on the other side.