The Candy Kingdom was quiet and still. The sweet and enticing smell of a bakery lingered in the air with hints of peppermint. The moon was a crescent moon, the lovely white striking against a rich navy-blue. Everything was peaceful in the Candy Kingdom… except for the room of the Princess.
The memories are too much. Each night, the nightmares come back, more vivid and darker than the last.
I feel my flesh melting off of my body. I see the pink drip stickily off my bones. The Lich is standing menacingly above me, am I dead? No, not yet. But the dream shifts and I am fighting Ricardio, he's made a body sort of thing and is attacking me. My heart is beating so fast it could explode. I can't take it any longer… Once again, my nightmare evolves. I'm flying through the air, in Ice King's grasp, I can't wiggle free. His cold, bony hands hold into my soft pink flesh. He can't take me again, not again in that cold dark palace of his. It's another dream, and I'm in my laboratory, making Goliad. I won't be here forever. I could die any day. She lunges on me, rips me to shreds and I scream, louder, and louder, and louder.
I wake up, my throat feels like its tingling. Probably from the screams. Then it feels black, dark, and empty. I feel alone.
The warmth I once had is missing.
The pink aura that once surrounded me has become dull and gray.
I need to find the warmth.
But sometimes, I can't get past everything I've been through.
Sometimes, not even friends, or lovers are enough.
But I'll still put on a smile, I'll still be your charming PB. I'll work in my lab, I'll be ruler to the Candy People. I'll smile until my cheeks ache.
But inside, inside is cold and empty.
You can only go through so much in a lifetime.