Love Me, Hate Me

Music has always been my escape.

The beats, the rhythm, the words-
I've never known how not to feel them,
not when they seep into every inch of me,
not when they take hold so completely.

It was a possession I never wanted to break free from.
My soul-nothing more than a puppet on strings,
and the song... its master.

In that world, everything else ceased to exist.
No past. No future. No pain.

Just me-
and the symphony of something that wasn't mine,
but felt like it understood me better than I ever could.

⸻

But I'm not so sure it can keep saving me.

Because when fate decides to catch up-

It becomes fragile.
Like glass in my hands,
cutting deeper the tighter I hold onto it.

A cage.

Built to keep the monsters out.

But somewhere along the way,
it trapped the worst one inside instead.

A trade for a trade.

And in the end-

I was the one left locked in.
Fuck.

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A dark ABO story following a group of omegas and the devil they thought they'd escaped-

"We were prisoners of the inevitable, bound to the devil we once called ours long before we ever learned how to run."