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Trust me, you'll never know this kind of pain. And that's a good thing. If there's anyone like me out there, no I better not finish that thought.
There it comes again
My entire core being stretched and contrasted with no rhyme or reason, like I am a ball of dough in the hands of an irate child.
I know how to make it stop
How to ease these hunger pains
How long did that art student last me?
A good few months at least. I should be good in this city for another dissappearance.
Who will it be this time?
The answer comes to me in the hallway of my apartment complex. A young woman, can't be older than 25. Black hair and brown eyes, a ray of sunshine. She saw me collapse and wanted to help me. I could feel my heart wrench with guilt as I saw her and knew she'd be the one.
I invited her into my apartment, told her I had an epipen or something to deal with the violent shakes. Pointed to the kitchen for water so she wouldn't see me lock the door.
I tried my best to block her out as she said her name. Something on O. Just came home from a study session. Perfect. Never made it home. Too easy, but I'll take an easy win.
After feigning a shot with the unused epipen I manage to calm down the shakes. Having a target in site usually calmed my nerves. I poured us some wine and sat her down on my couch, a little thank you before I end her life. Her college life mirrored mine to some degree, just like her I'd been a popular girl, partying studying and barely sleeping. We laughed at each other's jokes and talked the night away.
It was two in the morning when I made a move. But not the one I had planned. We had watched some rom com and truth be told the leading ladies were quite eye catching. I noticed the way she'd looked at them and decided to make a move. Straddling her with a wine hic before kissing her soft lips with unrestrained desire. Her kiss tasted so familiar, a tinge of iron. My blue eyes mirrored her brown as her bellowing laughter forced me back. "do you treat all your victims this way, or am I just lucky?"
I must've blinked at her for a solid minute before muttering a weak "what".
"I could tell those were hunger pains honey, I haven't eaten in a while myself. Figured you could use the support." her confident smile hit me like a freight train.
I kissed her again.
After a while I pulled back and quietly stammered
"how long have you known?"
She looked at me with such care and affection that I melted into her embrace, all bravado drained from me.
"a while, my dove. Takes one to know one"
I cried into her shoulders as she stroked my hair and my back
"I've been so alone, I thought I would always be alone, yet here you are"
She helped me up for a warm kiss and looked at me with those brown sunshine eyes
"here I am, and here I would like to stay. Do you want me to stay with you?"
I nodded more genuinely than I've ever emoted in my adult life and pulled her in for another kiss.
When at last our lips parted she led me to my bed and got us both on there.
"you need sleep, my dove. I've got a frat boy coming over for Netflix tomorrow, let's share him, shall we?"
I smile and nod, snuggling up close to her, already half asleep.
With a kiss to my forehead she chuckles and whispers the last words I hear before sleep takes me and the next phase of my life begins
"I'm Ophelia, in case you decided to not listen to that earlier"