I'm not asleep…
…Not completely asleep anyway.
For the
past half an hour I've been bargaining with myself just to open my eyes
and once again see the world of cats and dogs, occasionally being
electrocuted by thousands volts of lightning. If it weren't for the
thunder I'd probably still be happily sedated in my pre-hangover coma.
Thunder again.
I continue my bargain – part of me curious to find where my body had dragged me to before collapsing.
I
open one eye. The world is still there. The storm doesn't seem to be
considering giving me a break. The VCR is blinking 8:00 AM over and over
again. The zeroes are watching me like two little sarcastic eyes. The
clock on the wall has his own theory – giving me an 11:14, as the big
arrow speeds towards the 15t h. Something catches my attention.
Those are not the only two eyes watching me.
She's
sitting on the window pane, smoking a cigar. There's no sarcasm in
those eyes… perhaps only a well deserved pinch of amusement over my
ritual of returning from the dead.
For a moment I decide to rise from
the bed but the sealing has caught up with my scheme and flips along
with me. Lying down seems ok as well.
Having in mind that I've been
among the living for only so long I've already figured out that I
haven't been blessed with the gift of speech just yet. And so I lay and
look at her looking through the window. The raindrops are looking back
at her.
She turns her eyes towards me as she sucks the life out of
the cigar. 'It doesn't really matter, you know' she says as the smoke is
unwillingly cast out of her lungs. She turns her attention back to the
storm.
She's different.
I close my eyes again. Maybe it's
the sudden lack of clothes that makes all the difference but there's
still something else. Going back to my pre-reincarnated self, the night
before is still blurry. I suppose the party was good – like all the ones
you don't remember afterwards.
I blink a few times in my mind
and don't actually bother to engage my body in the physical effort of
doing so. The imagined movement seems to be slowly making its way
through the fog of whiskey…There was a lot of whiskey…and a lot of
people. Come to think of it, my girl was there too.
But then She
came – floating past me like a VMW past a rusty road sign, leaving me
sipping some O2 from the glass I hadn't even filled yet. Irritating. I
had lost sight of her in the crowd so I decided I might as well go and
find where my liquid gold was hiding. The whiskey flowed.
Later on I
found myself sitting on the back porch of the house, sipping my drink
and catching a note or two from the song which the guitar dude was
playing somewhere in the other part of the house. The summer breeze was
stably losing its innocence, whispering a subtle warning of the upcoming
storm. I sat in the dark listening to the voices of the night. At that
point some noise from the window behind me caught my attention. Door
handle. Fabric rubbing against fabric. The guitar letting out an
unamused moan for being so carelessly dropped on the floor. A sigh. And
then another. Good for the guitar dude…
The downpour is just
picking up speed. The screams of those who got the cold shower in the
front yard have settled down and given way to giggles of amusement
inside the house.
I stand up and start walking around. The door
opens and She comes out. She walks towards the railing and lights a
cigar, looking at the rain – not even a glance at me. 'Do you ever think
about how much of this is even real?' she asks with her back towards
me.
I lean against the wall, trying to help the question sail through the whiskey river to the isle of "Brain."
A cloud of smoke exits stage right and gets lost in the darkness.
With
a single move she turns around and comes closer – her eyes looking into
mine. Another step and our lips meet. I hold on to my glass as if, and
probably because, it's the only thing keeping me from tumbling down
right now. Her lips are cold. The static charge of the storm seems to
pulse through them. Her eyes sink inside mine. I feel the whiskey in my
vains burst aflame. I see her go down as if in slow motion. I'm a pile
of ashes and the wind scatters me around. She Is the storm...
Later
on…the entrance to my apartment. Complete darkness, only brief screams
of static light piercing the sky, crashing down to become one with the
dark ground. I struggle between the ecstasy of the darkness and the hope
for just another brief second of light to chase the lines of her skin
once more… I can't quite remember who I am…Who cares…
I open my
eyes once again. For real this time. Still raining. The eyes are on me
again, with a little sparkle of laughter hidden behind the dark lashes.
The voice machine on my night table awakens with a squeakish sound,
still too unbearable for my consciousness. I close my eyes in agony. My
torturer assumes the voice of my girl and sings out: 'Hey
there…everything okey? They told me you walked off in the downpour last
night. Call me.'
'With her, not in her…' I think to myself and I open
my eyes again. The windowpane is empty. I make the sacrifice of really
blinking this time, several times. Dull expression on my face. I'm too
tired to think whether I prefer her to be suicidal or me to be
hallucinating. I just lay back down and look at the sky.
Still raining.
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(This story is my creation, please do not use it without my permission ^_^)
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