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| the girl curls up in the corner of the room, away from the crowd of fellow patients and out of the vision of her nurses. she coils her small, lithe body into a ball, hugging her knees up to her bosom, her arms wrapped around her legs. she rests her forehead on her knees, a tangle of dark curls falling forwards to cascade down her legs. she traces her fingers down her calf to take hold of the tattered hem of her hospital gown. she hums softly as she rocks herself, calming her nerves as the excitement threatens to over take her. her fingers making quick nervous movements, extracting the tiny sliver of glass she secreted in the hem of her gown earlier. she has been longing for this moment forever. she tastes the sweet salty sweat of her salvation as she licks her plump pink lips, dark eyes glancing around her quickly before pulling the tiny glass sliver from its hiding place. she lowers the tiny shard to the floor and scrapes it against the tiles there. watching as her treasure leaves a trail of white glass dust behind it. she runs the glass back and forwards over the tile in time with her rocking as she sharpens the edge. her eyes not moving from the tiny sliver as she whispers to herself, planning the salvation she�s longed for. lifting the tiny glass piece back to the light, she turns it slowly and smiles to herself as she marvels the way the light dances along the edge. she bites gently at her bottom lip as her eyes darken, misting with unshed tears as she realises the moment she�s longed for is approaching. she closes her dark eyes and brings that precious glass shard to her full pink lips, kissing it softly, almost reverently and then holding it back to the light. |
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| laying her arm over the top of her knees, she turns her wrist upwards and opens her eyes. her lips curl into a soft loving smile as her dark eyes trace the path of feint blue veins under palest skin. she tilts her head slightly as though hearing a voice in the distance and she pauses, becoming still. her eyes loose focus, drifting slightly as she gets caught up in a memory. she starts to rock slowly again, humming to herself as her fingers bring he glass sliver closer to milky skin. she presses the glass lightly against her wrist, dragging it just hard enough to feel the burning slice as it cuts through layers of skin. her eyes refocus and lock onto the thin trail of blood pooling in the scratch. the corner of her mouth lifts in a smirk at the sight of her own blood. she gasps softly at the burning sting as she runs the glass shard back over her cuts, deepening them, smiling to herself at the way her ruby blood trickles from the cut. her rocking slowing as her mind drifts off, loosing herself in the feel of the warmth tracing down to her elbow and the sight of that dark red against palest skin. she tilts her head down, her soft pink tongue tracing quickly over her lips as she presses them to her wrist. her eyes closing as the warm salty taste traces over her tongue, filling her mouth with its bitter metallic tang, she moans softly as she suckles at her wrist, tasting herself. she gasps softly her breath catching in her throat as she flicks her tongue over the shallow cut, feeling the nerve endings fire with the burning sting. she brings her lips, now stained like dark rubies from her wrist and slips her arms around her knees again, drawing her legs closer to her chest as she begins to rock slowly. her fingers slipping down to trace along the bottom of her gown, slipping her precious treasure into the hem again. |
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