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She should have stabbed deeper. That's all she could think. She should have stabbed deeper and harder and truer to form but she'd managed to fuck it up. And she was sitting there, still staring at her own reflection, the complete opposite of her mirror.
Bette slept soundly, like she always did. She twitched regularly in her sleep, small smiles and full blown grins coming to her in dreams as easily as they did in waking life. Her eyes jumped to and fro beneath her eyelids and Dot couldn't help but feel a pang in her heart, jealousy at how easily, how quickly, her twin could fall asleep. She never could.
Everything woke her, every noise, every breath taken in wrong. It was like Bette became deaf, and she took in the extra hearing. A curse. A goddamned life curse. Just staring at her twin made her want to gag, and she whipped her gaze away, black eyes fixed on the cold hospital walls surrounding them. Anywhere but on Bette.
Her fingers twitched as the other girl's did, and she could almost hear, almost see the dreams. She fought the urge to reach over and pinch her twin awake, but the last time she had, Bette hadn't taken it well. A sleeping head was better than one roused and annoyed. Especially one that went through threats in such a way as her twin did.
Sometimes, Dot wondered who was older, who'd taken her first breath first. She secretly hoped it was her but as if they both knew it, as if they'd been there at their own birth, she wasn't. She glanced back at Bette momentarily, bile rising in the back of her throat.
She shifted slightly, doing her best to drop her shoulder behind their pillow, trying to angle herself down, just so she could get some respite from the extra weight Bette provided, the suffocating pressure of it. Maybe she'd even nap. She had to try. She'd dabbled with insomnia before, and it had ended on the opposite spectrum of well. She needed some semblance of sleep.
As the clock ticked on in an endless hum, she finally closed her eyes and let her twin's dreams spill into hers.