All she feels is her heartbeat.
And not in the fucked up way that has her usually gasping, bloody, for air as her heart thuds and thuds until she’s suddenly staring at yet another ceiling, eyes rolled back as the world gets all touch and go... no, there’s no panic attacks packaged neatly throughout her day. Body floating, fingers that splay over the faded corduroy pattern of the yellow couch, rubber duck brilliant and smudged, begins to imprint against one brown cheek. How each breath RATTLES at her lungs, demanding exit, eyes attempting to open past the blissful haze that envelops her, lithe fingers hook, catch, sinker against someone else’s, and, she just kind of prays that it’s not Mouse, with her limbs feeling like iron, lead, and just as worthless.
Maybe she’s thinking about Jules, Sailor Moon, cheeks perking with the kind of doped up grin that could signal love, but no, no, no.... squirm free and alive, fingernails dig as she hears the distant warmth of someone placing a blanket on her, lips parting with the words that her throat CHOKES ON, all of it dissolving fizzy within her mouth, champagne laughter bubbling upwards, outwards, making out within her fielded vision the familiar folds on blue jeans, hardly cut with the luxury you’d expect of a man making the kind of moves he did.
“I’m so happy...” dreamy words feeling, tasting like, velvet within her mouth, moving about the outline of them, spilling outwards too quickly for the rest of Rue to catch up. That’s always been her though, for THE GOOD AND THE BAD, both. “Every time I’ve popped those pills, snorted those lines, I feel... this the kind of high I’ve been searching for...” no wonder, people, chase after this despite the kind of fears that come in the form of PBS ads and warning posters left on bathroom walls. Don’t become a statistic, well, Rue wonders when sadness because the kind of endemic that it did. “Do you ever feel like this? Is this why you do it?”
a starter for @dimebcg // fezco