A drabble for the Insert this Sentence challenge on xoxLewrahxox's forum, exactly 300 words.
Insert this Sentence
This one is a little different, inspired by those magnet poetry things you put on fridges and the like. Someone put one on our fridge that read "Your comfort could keep me almost delirious." I loved the phrase so much, and that's the challenge! Use that line in a piece of work.
Didn't use the 2nd person. Sorry =X
It's okay.
She lies on the bed, silent, nearly unmoving. Her mouth sealed, legs curled together, arms hugging herself protectively – she presents to the world a stubbornly anxious frown, plump little girl lips twisted into a pout, delicate freckles scattered upon too-pale cheeks, under too-circled brown eyes, making an adorable doll of the tormented child. What could be possibly be wrong with the eleven-year-old, really – so she shakes the concerns away, and seizes her pen firmly, determination kicking in.
You're a strong little girl.
She glides through the day like a shadow of a girl, and lives, more and more, for the evenings spent curled up on her bed, writing her soul away in a black little book, as inconspicuous and plain as she is – or so she believes. And day by day the book becomes a treasure, no more surrogate to fill the aching emptiness, but the only thing really worth it, the only constant, the only support in her life, a blessing – until it all becomes bigger than her life itself.
We belong together, little Ginny.
His comfort could keep her almost delirious – she would be off on her little cloud, a friend in her pocket quickening her heartbeat nearly more than Harry himself, thrilling her, caring for her, shielding her, fulfilling her – really, if it wasn't for those attacks. There's a monster out there, she knows, but thank God Tom is there when she wakes up screaming at night.
We will be okay, Ginny. You don't risk anything. The culprit will get caught, in the end. Trust me – you will see.
Tom sounds soothing and right and like he knows, so of course she believes him. Give her a reason not to – he's her only friend, after all.
He is everything she has.
(he tears everything apart)