short crime story (25 points)
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few or so fingernails clawed
Along with the cold mattress,
As they continued to screech
And scratch neath the white velvety sheets.
A soft thud echoed in the canals of my ears
As the back of my head met
The frigid headboard of the bed,
While the tips of those nails
Now trailed along the forearms of mine
Until I wrenched my eye open
With my very own fingers clasped
Around both of my bare arms.
The crook of my neck,
Writhed with patches of stiffness
As I stretched out my limbs
Only to wince at the horrid creaking
That erupted out of them.
My shoulder blades turned and twisted,
As I caught the blotches of vivid redness
Lingering upon them before frowning
At the absence of the straps of my lingerie
That were ought to be there.
Twitches of numbness exploded
Along the spine of my back
As I propped onto my elbows
To lean against the headboard
When a sudden soreness
Bolted through the hips of mine.
And I wondered,
What were those srcaps of harshness
That I felt running back and forth
Upon the flesh of my thighs.
My head hurt with the abrupt
Unknownness of my surroundings
While tides of debilitation and
An overwhelmingly inexplicable fatigue
Hardly ebbed away as they ceaselessly
Wrecked through the nooks of my mind
Along with every inch of my every limb -
Until my gaze found what it had been
Seeking out all this while.
I saw you, slumbering away beside me
While the sheets shuffled and shrieked inaudibly
As I inched closer and closer
To the haven of familiarity that I lacked till now.
And everything, slowly and steadily
Crept back to its place,
The instant I tucked myself to your chest
As the placidly kempt heaving of it
Began to lull me back to sleep
Until I couldn't help but see it -
No, not the ripped off buttons of your shirt
But the long and dried scratches, resulting -
From these sharply clipped fingernails of mine,
That glistened across your very chest.
And indeed, each of them
Never once failed to resemble
Futile endeavours of resistance,
Perhaps from last night, which I absolutely
Seemed to have forgotten.