Strangely enough, this time around it's shorter. I'm still debating whether to add more, so I just fixed what I had and left it open still. I love the open ending, but I do see the point in that I should write more. I just not sure what more to write yet.
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Open Up
"Sade, tell me, why blood for pleasure?" - Enigma
The cold was the first thing Camille noticed. Not the kind of icy chill that creeps along skin as it is snowing, but an artificial cold from spending too long in a meat freezer. The chill nibbled at her skin and left it feeling raw.
The second was that she was lying on a metal table. Her blue and white polka-dot dress from last night’s party was bundled at her feet. Her thoughts were running through mud, and she wasn’t sure it mattered that she was naked.
Her eyes rolled open lazily only to be blinded by light. She blinked away the searing ache. The ceiling was white in a way that spoke of sanitation; hospitals and laboratories.
Camille had the urge to pull her arms to her body and fight off the cold. She hadn’t been awake long enough to truly consider her situation. “Where…where am…” She felt tired. Maybe she had been drugged and kidnapped. As she pulled her arms towards her body, she felt them resisting, and she realized she was chained to the table. She scraped her fingers against the smooth, chilling surface, searching for a crack, a dip; anything that would suggest it was less than perfect. Anything that would suggest it was real.
Her teeth rattled in time with the shudders of her body, drumming out a morbid melody. Occasionally Camille would whisper, “Wake up.” She was falling back and forth from white lights to spinning darkness.
Footsteps. A shadow to the left. Camille turned herself and saw a man. “What the hell is…” she tried to ask. He put a finger over her lips and shushed her.
“Don’t speak. You’re too tired to speak.”
She couldn’t get a good look at him. “Who…”
“You can call me Sade.” He ran his fingers through her hair and kissed her forehead. Camille welcomed the warmth, the touch, the slight comfort.
He whispered into her ear, “Please keep still.”
Light glimmered on a scalpel. It swooped towards her chest, and placed itself between her breasts.
“I have no reason to lie. This will hurt.” The scalpel pushed into her skin and dove between the layers. The blade sliced deeply and ran its way further in. Camille couldn’t feel the cold anymore. She could only hear herself screaming.
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