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nepenthe–noun
1. a drug or drink, or the plant yielding it, mentioned by ancient writers as having the power to bring forgetfulness of sorrow or trouble.
2. anything inducing a pleasurable sensation of forgetfulness, especially of sorrow or trouble.
It's a month after That Day, (the one when everything changes and after years of wishing your complicated ... relationship... for lack of a better word, to be over, you're all too suddenly wanting it back) and you wake to dark hair strewn over your pillow. You think you're dreaming, and start to shake and your heart seems intent on freedom from your ribcage and the dark hair stains your pillow with loss. And then the boy opens green eyes and cracks a lazy grin.
Now you come to look at him properly, the hair is entirely the wrong shade of dark; dark like leather and flight and completeness, not dark like endings and desire and two hearts beating together in one ribcage.
Once he's gone, your sheets smell faintly of pine needles. You never thought you'd miss stale cigarette smoke quite so much.