Midnight Affair: 16
When i look into your eyes, i caught a glimpse of heaven.
If curiosity kills a cat, how about an inquisitive being? I say, curiosity corrupts the mind, eventually spreading its vicious hold onto your body like a malignant tumour. Everything starts with curiosity, all this drama, it started with the want of first taste. Thanks to curiosity my life has no longer been the same. You’d walk in broad daylight and brave the world without noticing anything out of the ordinary. But people of my kind, we know, we are aware that every face spins a different tale. We know of the illicit business the likes of you are ignorant of. We know people like us exist exist. They exist.
She wakes up in the morning, put on her face, the one that’s going to get her through another day. It doesn’t really matter how she feels inside, cuz life is like a game sometimes. Her weathered hands would do the laundry as always. Her lined face never betraying the invisible facade she had long conjured. She has never allowed that emotional embankment to shatter. Until today. She would walk past these doors and still refuse to ignore those creatures living and breathing in these hallowed rooms. Her thoughts are always lingering around work and the bills. She has always led her life in denial of the fact that she has carried the burden of her husband and son. We know she isn’t a particularly pleasant woman. Enough is enough, and i have had enough. I’ve been invisible all this while and there has never been a reason to stay. I wish to break away and never come back. Nevertheless, this is home. And, she is mother.
