Sleepless Nights ✓

🌑 Chapter II 🌑

SLEEPLESS NIGHTS

CHAPTER TWO

Her lifeless eyes stare ahead at nothing yet at everything at the same time. The darkness in the room limits her vision and she is left all alone with only her empty thoughts and blank mind. All thoughts seem to disappear. Replaced by the pain and agony inside her mind, body and soul. Her body lies on the side on the hard stone cold ground and there she has stayed for more days than she can count. Her stomach paining her in ways that none should feel from the lack of eating and at times she wonders why she has not died from starvation.

Her body already skinnier than a skeleton and bones sticking out everywhere on her body where there is only small and thin layer of skin that stands between her being able to touch her bones. Her body trembling from the cold air that cools down the room to a temperature that should be impossible for her to survive in. Breathing in softly through her nose she continues to stare ahead in the darkness but a noise breaks the silence and it brings her back into reality to the point that she shakes in pure fear. The door of the room opens...

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Karina wakes up with a start as she falls down to the floor and she goes under the bed and allows the tears to fall down her face and land on the wooden floor beneath her. Her eyes scan the floor in search for any danger as she holds herself under the bed. Holding one of her hands over her mouth to silence all the sobs that threaten to come from her which she refuses as she can't allow herself to make noises. Minutes pass before she comes under from the bed when she has seen that there is no danger.

Crying she turns on the lights and instantly she feels much better than she did before now that she is in the light and she walks out of the room. Without even thinking about it she takes her keys, goes into her shoes. The shoe that had went into the lake was still damp even when she had been wearing them all day as she only has one pairs of shoes to wear yet not once does that bother her as she walks onto the streets. Not caring what the time is nor does it bother her.

The exhaustion is clear on her and inside her. Her eyes are wanting to close themselves and make her fall into deep slumber but she does not allow them to close not even rest. The streets are the same that they were the night before, silent and dark yet through the dark she finds comfort. The darkness is comforting to her yet there come times that she can't handle the dark and she needs the light to feel better and make sure that there is nothing around her to harm or hurt her.

Unlike the night before a small breeze is blowing through her auburn hair and moving it over her face but it does not seem to bother her at all. This night is much colder than the night before and she hugs her body both from the cold and the fear that has dug itself into her bone marrow and intends to stay there for a long time and she does not mind it. The fear keeps her alert and on guard at all times to make sure that she is safe and that there is nothing and no one going to hurt her.

The lake is moving much more now than it was before but she still sees how it is the same and how the darkness makes it look scary and creepy as it creates the illusion that there is no bottom when in reality the bottom is not that deep down. Karina walks over to the bench and sits down, feel safer now that she is in the light and while she might be alone there she finds herself safer when she alone rather than with someone else that might or might not hurt her though she can't take that chance.

Minutes pass and not long she starts to see him walking and somehow her heart begins to speed up when she sees him walk towards her and he takes his seat on the bench where he had been the night before. "I was getting worried that you would not show" He says but she could tell that he was nervous about something. What? She did not know but somehow she would like to find out. Another thing that Lucien has done to her in less than a day, makes her wonder about him and his life.