NON TITLE [Weekly Short Short Note: Theme 'Heart-throbbing Pointe Shoes']

Tahara-san, thank you for the prompt. Following the linked article, here I go.

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I loved it. I yearned for it.
The thing that should have been closest to me.

There was a visible bond. We were truly connected.
She would stand tall and beautiful on the ground. I would be right there with her. We were a pair, the splendor of a pas de deux.

One day, that world was abruptly taken away.

"Now that it has come to this, there is nothing more to be done. I suppose I have no choice but to give up."

Stop it!
What are you telling me to give up on?

I cannot scream. Surpassing my voiceless thoughts, her presence fades away. If it must be this way, do not leave me behind here. Take me with you, I beg of you.

"I am having you retire from the stage. But since you are soaked in precious memories, I intend to clean you up and keep you in my private room."

A soft voice rains down upon me. She and I are carried by the owner of that voice, leaving the barre practice area. Her silk texture, which whispered to me not to worry, shone as it caught the light.

A fairy tale or a dream story. It is said that the narrator's name is pointe shoes, or 'toe shoes' in Japanese.

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