Crave: Part One
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In a complete haze, I try to take in the unfamiliar room. It’s nothing like the one I just moved into. When I shift my head to the other side, my heart stops. Like a jackknife, I sit up and look at a guy who’s naked and lying face down next to me.
For what feels like a solid minute, I have no heartbeat as my body breaks out in a prickling cold sweat. Paralyzed where I sit, my stomach buckles in a knot of nausea as my mind swims in utter blank space. Frozen still, I can’t for the life of me figure out where I am or how I got here or what the hell happened.
The moment I’m able to move, I look to find that I’m naked from the waist down.
I suck in a painful breath when my heart slams into my ribs. A bullet shoots straight through my chest, collapsing my lungs, and I can’t breathe. Everything goes blurry as my eyes fill with scalding hot tears that splash like acid as they rip down my face. The pieces of the puzzle are beginning to fit together.
The ax of terror dangles above me, threatening to break me in two as my eyes dart around frantically.
The used condom lying on the floor.
My underwear and shorts tossed across the room.
The phantom intrusion I feel inside my soul.
And then the guillotine drops.
No.
No, no, no!
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