This is the first in a bunch of stories of moments that have happened in my life. I couldn't write them like a normal non-fiction, because it didn't feel like me so this is how the first came out and the rest followed. If you wish, you can tear it apart. It'll help me in the end.
---
She stepped, then she fell.
The Jell-O like legs, she was used to. The sense that she’d been on the merry-go-round far too many times to count didn’t bother her.
Her arms no longer supporting her scared her to death. The fact that her sight didn’t turn into a dark tunnel cued her that something was different this time.
When she hit the ground, she felt nothing.
It was as if she were watching the world through someone else’s eyes. She didn’t mind that at all.
Until she started shaking.
And that shaking turned to violent convulsions.
Her head hit the vacuum. There was only a vague tingling sensation where she hit the hard plastic. It was perfect, not feeling the pain. It was absolutely wonderful, if you forgot about the spasm.
Then it stopped.
No slowing calmly.
It just stopped.
It took a moment for the feeling to come back to her. Her mother asked if she was okay.
She lied.
She hid in that place she’d found.
Watching life through another’s eyes.
She wasn’t allowed to not be okay. Too many people counted on her.
So she’d hide.
It was easier to hide from it.
The trance seemed to work, as she went throughout the day in an almost suffocating routine.
No one knew.
Except her.
But that didn’t matter.
The morning stayed in her head. She couldn’t hide. It was there. Always there.
The numbness wasn’t enough to convince her body that the convulsions were nothing.
It didn’t work.
No matter how many times she repeated to herself.
It couldn’t be okay.
The bed that was her refuge welcomed her and she delved into worlds not
her own.
Wrote things she wished were true.
Until the dark came and swallowed her senses.
It was okay now.
It would be until the alarm woke her and told her otherwise.
Eventually, the hiding would work.
It had to.
It just had to.
Gender:
Points: 1571
Reviews: 6