maximumrach
dark heavy world screams NO and she runs down the alley so afraid heart thumping brain sweating trying to grasp all she can in the moment, and then she falls down in a sheer instant of panic and they're approaching her so fast so fast but she gets back up and keeps running even though her knee is fucking killing her [no no can't stop now darling] and she rounds the corner and they're catching her but look look look no more dead ends the world is opening up for her right before her eyes; she leaps and somehow finds herself laying on her mattress sweating but wait where did they go were they ever there?
small, frail, young, pale freckled. she sat curbside crying her ocean eyes and I didn't know what to do. I saw her from my window so I rushed outside like a cool breeze puffing around her tangled hair and she told me everything I ever wanted to know in her red-rimmed gaze.