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"Kiss me on the mouth and set me free," the girl hissed through her fangs.
I woke up tangled in blankets, breathing hard. A nightmare.
Some sick part of me wanted it to come true. Wanted the vampire girl from my dreams to be real. Sometimes she sang to me. Sometimes she just wanted to be free with me.
It all started when I kept seeing her, my view of her always half obscured by something.
Her presence drew me in, I had to be near her.
In my dreams she started to look like you, sometimes I forgot she wasn't you. "Don't you want to see a man up close?" I asked. "A phoenix in the fire, if you will?"
Back then her voice was melodic. She pulled me in, maybe too easily. "Kiss me on the mouth," she had said. "Set me free..."
That's the same thing you always said to me. It was like a tagline.
I kissed you. Her. "Please don't bite..." I trailed off, your lips against my neck. Right now it felt like it was only you and I, nothing else mattered.
You ran your hand down my back and everything was right. The cold white tile didn't feel so cold anymore as you draped me in your warmth.
You turned the lights off, knowing I'd feel at ease in the dark.
Darkness was like being in the eye of the storm. While I couldn't see much of anything, the silence, solace, escape were what I needed.
I told you once that I wanted to walk down Easy Street, your only response was asking if I wanted to be reborn. "Kiss me on the mouth, set me free..."
I should have figured that was your goal the first time I saw your fangs peeking out over your lip.
"Please, don't bite..." I breathed, I wanted so badly to set you free but I was determined not to get stuck in this space forever.
Still I pulled on your heart, pushing my luck as I so often do. Thinking "who's got time for growing up?"
Even when I'm awake you sing to me, "I can be the subject of your dreams, your sickening desire," and I reply, "don't you wanna see a man up close?"
I call myself a phoenix in the fire, but all I want is for you to kiss me, set me free.
But please... Don't bite.