Four Phases

Chapter 2: Summer

Disclaimer: Yea right.

Labrynth (my only reviewer) T_T: I didn't exactly research the scents. My friend has given me a whiff of jasmine and I read about the willowbark somewhere. The apple one is . . . questionable.

The theme and POV should be pretty clear in this one. Plot twist coming straight ahead!

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White.

What is the colour of the moment? Is it this white dress that blinds me with its simplicity?

Black. Or the strangling darkness that grips this accursed place?

Door. I don't remember coming in through that door. Was there always a door?

Panic. Where? Why? White?

The bed is soft-inviting. Inviting uninvited caresses. Too soft for rest but soft enough . . . for other pleasures. The kind that light shuts its eyes to because only the wounded are worth watching.

"You are--very beautiful."

A hand cups my shoulder. Smooth fingertips brushing my skin: carelessly. The owner knows it can linger in luxurious want. But the touch is unlicensed, unbrokered--because it gives me pleasure.

Weight--warmth--the bed yields to a stranger's form beside me. Breath on my neck. Slow; even deliberate: signalling patience . . . or restrained instinct. Evaporating, leaving raw whisperings in its wake.

"But you're not a virgin."

The hand ceaselessly runs up and down my spine. Slightly callused at the tips (from a life of decadence) but sensitive to peculiarities and nuances. Chilled from holding a wineglass.

"Hmm, but I think I like that."

A bruising motion. Just over the cut on my shoulder.

White. Crumples down and dissolves into the sheets. Discarded. I refuse to look.

"Summer is better than a untested spring. It's warmer."

A nose buried in my hair. Smelling, scenting out with angry passion. A mouth: possessed by streamlined craving. Risking a lick.

Lightning leads to rain. Rain--tears--they are the same.

And I look, and wish that I had not.

Whiteblackwhitewhiteblackwhite--

"G-Gonou?"

White.