She was slipping. She was sliding into the never-ending dark abyss. Nothing to hold on to, to help pull her out. Nothing. Blank, dark, empty. Alone. It was sucking her in, a black hole, as she struggled to hold on for dear life. Hands outreached, grasping, searching for anything or anyone to hold her back, to stay for a little while. Hands searching, searching, for anything.
Suddenly she found something. Her fingers wrapped around the bottle, she felt the familiar cool, hard glass. In an instant she was faced with the decision. Again. It was comfort, like an old friend you went to on a lonely, rainy night. So sweet, so fulfilling, the dependency was growing each time. As she fought herself she began to slip again.
She was going downhill. She was going to die. Falling, falling, falling ever so slowly. She was suffocating to death. Suffocated by herself, her choices, the life that she had built up for herself. So as she fell she reached out and grabbed it. And held on like it was the last thing she would ever touch. To that bottle. That cold, yet inviting bottle. And as she took the first sip, she felt a little of her soul slip away. With each burning swallow she lost a bit of herself. And she thought she was no longer slipping.
Yet she couldn't see that each sip sent her farther and farther. Down that black hole with an accelerating speed, as each second passed she fell farther. Farther from the person she wanted to be, farther from the life she knew she needed to live. Farther from a cure.
This is how Abby Lockhart became an alcoholic.
Hope you guys like it. This piece is very different from anything I have ever written (more dark and angsty), but the idea just came to me as I was studying for my English exam and I had to run to the computer and write it before I lost it from my memory. I've never written anything so fast in my life, it just kept flowing from my fingers, if that makes sense. I think I might continue it in some form, but I'm not exactly sure how. I must have deleted and re-written the last line about 20 times, and I'm still not happy with it. If someone has a better idea, tell me how I should end it. Anyway, thanks for reading and please review!