Post by ESSEN D. Bönnigheim on Mar 24, 2012 19:31:35 GMT -5
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the smell of the salt air collided with the sweet metallic scent of blood.
a flicker of light. the pattering of the ocean waves, the crash of the foam against the pier. sounds of gulls and slaps of sandals fill the busy docks. she could feel the warm breeze tickle her toes and her curly wisps of hair scratching at her nose. soft warm sand caressed her legs. the shadows of the wooden dock above her brought some protection from the mid-morning sun that hang overhead. what time was it? the girl that lay in the sand brought a lazy arm to her forehead, shielding glued eyes. a pang of sharp nerves electrocute her senses, sending pain signals burrowing into her head. the pounding sensations from last night come rushing back. thirteen cringes in irritation, the feelings so familiar, but the recollections nonexistent. what the fuck happened anyways.
thirteen brings her arm back to her side, eyes peeling open slowly to adjust to the peeks of sunlight coming through the cracks of the boardwalk above her head. licking her swollen and cracked lips, she could taste leaden iron, tongue dampened from the blood that traveled up from the back of her throat. hauling herself up from the comfortable surreal position in the sand, thirteen grunts silently and blinks her teal eyes, rubbing the sand from her lashes. studying her surroundings, the young woman thought slowly before being overtaken by a nauseous sensation that crept up her nasal passage. touching her nose, she discovered some cracked dried blood. scraping it from her face and cheeks carefully, thirteen looked down at her neck. bruises. she also realized she was still in last night's dress suit, her white polo button-up creased with the cuffs rolled up. black leather pants scratched with sand and a pair of red highlighter colored heels decorate her legs and feet.
what the fuck. her thoughts began slowly as she continued to knead at the temples of her head, caressing away the pounding headache. last night had been a social gathering at the courant new yorker's club-- full of the young promising and beautiful people of the city. her thoughts flickered and she began to recall the fuzzy details of her misadventure. she had spent a great portion of last night nursing a dry martini at a window-side, minding her own business and busy judging the fuckers in the room who waxed poetic and bragged of their recent accomplishments, tenure, and fabulous new cars. yes, that was all flooding back into her head. but what happened next?
thirteen propped her weight with a bony arm on the sand. her fingers stroked a soft plastic shindig in the sand and her attentions were diverted to the new discovery buried in the soft rock. she picked it up and her stormy eyes flickered with new memory. the plastic in her hand was a syringe, still glistening with a few droplets of brown substance. fuck. she closed her eyes in anger.
the boardwalk was getting busy this time of day and thirteen smoothed her clothes out, tossing the used needle out from under the wooden deck. she ducked her head and crawled out from under the dock, greeted with lush sunlight and salt air. the nauseousness that had afflicted her earlier seemed to vaporize into a form of light-headedness. as she began to stand and take a few steps with her horribly out of place high-heels in soft white, she couldn’t help but lose her balance and fall to her knees, head and eyes heavy from what could only be another blackout experienced last night.
“fuck me.” the raspy words escaped her lips, slamming a palm to her own forehead in aggravation. remember, remember.
ooc: essen goes by thirteen, btw. also, note she is a M.D, Sc.D wielding research fellow at columbia with a drug addiction and worsening "blackouts" attributed to a possible mental/dissociative personality disorder or schizophrenia. c; that's about all you need to know about essen (13).
DATE: august 30th
TIME: 11:20 am
WEATHER: nearing autumn, getting progressively chillier, but warm breezes at beachside.
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