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The floorboards creaked as he trod anxiously along the narrow passage leading up to the rickety old door. A key turned to reveal a drowsy room. Canopy of webs hung on the four sides of the wall. A single bed stood on the corner and a hardwood dressing table in the other. He walked over to the table and carefully seized the letter between his fingertips.
“When you receive this letter, I will no longer be here. I loved you... brother. Ever since I was a child you were always affectionate towards me brother. I used the perfume you liked, put on the dresses you like. I even let my hair grow long; you liked it that way. You watched me like an enchanted man. You always said I was beautiful and gave me kisses.
When I was 13, I received my first lipstick. It was a present from you brother. And for my prom you gave me a beautiful lace dress. It was my favourite.
I was trying to escape from your accursed charm. That’s why I chose that man. And ever since that day, I saw that maybe if I had stayed with him, I might have been happy. He carries the aroma of a summer’s day. This is why I chose him- he was your perfect opposite. No matter how I looked for it, there was nothing in him to remind me of you.
But that time I saw it brother, your true face behind your mask. I know you. You heart is black as coal. When I’m gone you’ll probably pretend that you’re searching for me with all your heart and soul. You want everyone to say ‘Ah, he cares so deeply for his sister! He must be in so much pain now...’ But we already said our farewells.
I am always out of luck when times become tough. I’m sure nobody would realise the truth. Yes, when it comes to you, I’m sure luck will always be on your side. “
His cold eyes swept over to the lifeless body spread across the bed. White as snow, she laid there with crimson blood painted in her hand and a pair of rusty scissors wrapped around her lifeless fingers.
“The truth about your face below the mask, you keep hidden from the world- your greatest secret. In the basement, secretly and silently, you feigned the disappearance of your own little sister. You imprisoned me in the basement of our own room. You put shackles on my wrist, you confined me. You drove me to suicide.
“How can you ever think of an engagement with that man? You are only mine... ever since we were children. I don’t want to be apart from you. I want you to stay with me and only me. You’ll never smile like that for anyone else. Or how else can I stop myself tearing off those eyes and that neck! Don’t look at anyone else with those eyes. I won’t let anyone else hear that voice. Even if you don’t speak to me, even if you detest me, I don’t mind. I just want you to be by my side.” you’d say with those mad eyes. I was so scared of you.
You are self-righteous. And I am entwined in your words of love and madness. But this time I’ll escape from you. I will never make the same mistake twice; I’ve arranged everything. In one week’s time from the moment I go missing, he and the authorities will receive letters from me. That’s right, brother. Thing will not go your way this time.”
Momentarily, footsteps closed in through the door.
Bang!
The door started knocking violently as he looked towards the girl, lost in his world.
“This will be the end of our secret affair. Of course, they will search this basement. Somewhere deep inside me, I thought that if you loved me, even this was fine with me. But this is my revenge, brother.”
As he tried to grab the girl in his hands, the figure stared back with beady liquid eyes. The girl reached his face as he gawked in wide eyed horror. He leaned in to her, smelling the scent of her skin- rose, yet a tinge of festering flesh. Unable to read on, he dropped the note on the ground but the words still echoed in his head.
“Hey brother, did you know that you saw me in your own reflection...that you loved me because I had the same blood as you? Was that really me? Was ‘I’ the one wearing that black dress? Was ‘my’ long hair trailing behind? Was ‘I’ the one who put on my lipstick and danced in the moonlight? Who was the one you were watching with those enchanted eyes? Whom did you call ‘so beautiful’ and whom did you kiss? Who was the one bound in chains that you made love to? That wasn’t me at all, was it?”
He reached up to tangle his hands in her hair, losing himself in the pleasure of his kiss. Intoxicating as he had remembered. He felt a spark of coldness that radiated from her lips that suffused his body, with intense passionate need.
“Hey brother, did you know you were one corrupt, perfectly narcissistic flower yearning for its own reflection in the calm waters?”
Suddenly, a crowd of policemen gathered into the room as the door was bolted open. Lipstick smears his face as he pulled slowly away from her, plastering on to her a quirky smile.
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