reach for me ✓

unfortunately

but fortunately

i was still here, but he was gone.

i quickly got up as i felt my head spin once again, wiping the blood off my cheeks like it were sweat. there he was, the demon, wasted on the couch as his fingers never let go of the neck of his love. his chest almost replicated mine, it seemed like he was struggling, struggling to simply breathe.

honestly, i was too. i wanted to walk towards him and help him, take him to the hospital but i knew he'd interpret it with thorns in his brain and scratch my skin with them again. it was so deadly that it felt like red stripes on a white wall.

and so, i figured, maybe another day. let's let it all pass.

i went to the bathroom, letting the crystal clear water wash away the red wine flowing from my head.