Erica Prologue

I feel like I haven't posted here for ages, so at the moment I'm just putting up whatever I can find in the depths of my laptop:

The prologue of a story I started about a year ago:


The wind ventured to her in a small gust, sweeping her hair off her shoulders and into her face. She could feel her locks press into her cheek lightly, but did not bother to brush them away. Her eyes were closed softly yet solidly, shutting out all but her own thoughts, her own fears, her own actions.

She licked her lips slowly, savoring the sensation. The wind was stronger now, whipping past her and throwing its chill air into her face. She felt her lips glaze over and licked them again, then opened her eyes to look down.

The water below churned ferociously, chunks of white dancing in the dark. Every now and again a silver gleam would catch her eye, the reflection of a star glaring at her as though angry, but it soon disappeared into the turning tide. She imagined she could feel it all – the fierce cold of the river, the bright stare of the stars, the invisible grasp of the night. She felt the win caress her cheek, and she closed her eyes once more.

Her eyes darted beneath their lids, rapid and desperate. Her mind jumped through thoughts and topics and ideas – What’s Lacey doing? I wonder if she broke up with Clay. Lord, I hope she ended –

She took a deep breath and threw herself forward.

For a moment she felt weightless, and she forgot why she wanted to die, as though she were truly living for the first time, adrenaline coursing through her fractured veins, her lips stretched into a small smile, the wind rushing though her hair and around her slender body, with a bright looming abyss before her; from here the waves in the water, the splashes of white, looked like candles in the dark, inviting and beautiful and lovely; she hit the water with a crash, icy cold to her soft white skin, refreshing she thought or a split second –

And then she remembered, remembered everything, and she made herself go limp and she began to let herself drown.