26. Day 66 – Caterina

My heart flutters in my chest like a hummingbird.

I stare up at the black canopy above my head, trying to pick through the cotton wool clouding my mind. Everything… everything is hazy. Wrong. And it hurts, my body aching as I blink.

I was… where was I?

Even blinking exhausts me. I let my eyes close, sinking back into that cloud of nothing.

My waist feels tight, heavy, when I open them again. Something is pressing down on me, pinning me.

I turn my head with effort.

The man sleeping next to me feels familiar, but my head is…slow, to catch up. Heavy, like the rest of my body. Dulled.

My eyes close again.

Fingers in my hair. Lips on my skin, hands on my body.

A brief, flashing pain in my arm.

And I sink down again. Loose, and tingling, as if I am here but also not here.

Perhaps I don’t exist at all.

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