Habit
By Hades502
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Habit
You are a creature of habit and your habits are bad.
You awaken. The morning chill on your face and left leg, a limb that has wandered outside the comfort of
the duvet at some point during slumber, feels slightly refreshing. You love the warmth that two human
bodies have made in the mild coldness that had descended on the room at some point during the
apprehensive unconsciousness that sleep sometimes brings.
You pull your cold appendage back into the warmth. You relish the warmth. You relish more than the
warmth. You relish the comfort that has happened due to the sexual activity and human sharing that
occurred the night prior. You need to leave the enchanting scene, but you don’t want to.
Maybe you can stay. You probably cannot, but maybe…no. No.
The chill in the air makes you want to stay longer, make the moment protract more. It seems warm and
safe under the comforter and satin sheets, yet you know better. It cannot last too much longer. Things
need to be done.
She is quite pretty, borderline beautiful. You remember her breasts from the coitus that had occurred
hours ago, C-cup, flawlessly soft flesh, tiny nipples, small areolas, an impeccable handful of human
perfection. Her breasts were so luxurious and inviting when you were caressing them while inside of her.
You roll over onto your side and put your arm around her. You hold her left breast in your hand. You don’t
want the inevitable to happen, but it will.
She moans slightly in a half sleep and mumbles something that sounds like, I love you. You love her, you
realize. You do love her. But you are aware that love only hurts.
You remember her gorgeous, brown eyes. Last night you thought you could just drown in them. They are
probably the most beautiful eyes you have seen in your life. You remember falling in love with those eyes
when you picked her up. There was certainly chemistry, but when certain chemicals are haphazardly
mixed they can often become unstable and things that seemed immortal can corrode and fade, or
become increasingly unstable and just explode. It is best to avoid that. You have learned this; it is true; it
is known to you.
You are a creature of habit and your habits are bad.
It has to end. You won’t be hurt again. You refuse to be hurt again. You opened your heart up once and you
watched helplessly as the woman lasciviously ripped it out of your chest, threw it on the floor, and
proceeded to stomp on it until it was a small, bloody pile of flesh, indiscernible from a dead rat that has
been put through a blender.
Your newly-found lover is a complete slob, so you cannot make it work. She doesn’t care about all the
trash that wantonly lies about her apartment. A layer of dust and filth has accumulated on the floors due to
her laziness. Old mail and random papers take up space on countertops and tables that prevent any
semblance of orderliness. Mold and mildew grow in her toilet and shower, black and green and ugly and
repulsive, stinking of someone who doesn’t give a shit if she lives like an animal. This will never work
out. Besides, she will ultimately hurt you.
You perused her kitchen the night prior after she explained to you that she “had to tinkle.” So you took the
opportunity to look through her kitchen. One might expect her to have dishes piled up in her sink, as she
had proved to you that she was not an overly clean person like yourself. But, she had no dishes, no
cutlery, no usable knives. Later she explained to you that she does not cook, never has and never will.
She eats out all the time or orders take-out and delivery, the trash that wasn’t mostly disposed of properly,
many styrofoam packages and greasy, brown or white paper bags, proves that she was telling the truth.
Discarded refuse carelessly abandoned throughout her abode shows you this. No knives.
She does have a baseball bat near her front door-selfdefense in case anyone decides to break in. She
explained that her ex-boyfriend was a jock-sort, loved to play baseball, minor league even. He had
several baseball bats and he forgot this one when he moved out. You don’t blame him for moving out.
She is a filthy person and she would have eventually broken his heart. You suddenly wish that you were
as strong as her ex, able to just leave and not worry about the consequences that can occur to one’s
emotions. You are not that strong. You need to say goodbye.
You once played baseball back in high school. Things were different then, as you were still innocent to all
of the hate and pain in the world. You thought things would remain unadulterated and uncorrupted. You
were wrong then, but you are very correct now. You were not great at baseball but you knew how to swing
a bat. You still know how to use a bat. It will work.
Slowly and regretfully you remove your hand from her breast and unwrap your arm from her body. You get
out of her bed and let the soft dawn wash over you. The chill hits you. It is not cold, but cool. You have
never liked what that does to your penis, almost makes it shrivel in upon itself. It isn’t really supposed to
look that small, a tiny turtle tucked into its shell, testicular sac withered up and trying to get away from the
temperature also, like a scared child. It doesn’t really matter. She has not stirred. No one will see how
small your genitals appear this morning. She still sleeps.
You consider for a moment, putting your clothes on. You decide against it. You should say goodbye as
intimately as possible, bare as you were when you made love to her. The baseball bat is not far off.
You make your way out through her living room and into the entryway. The bat leans up against the corner
of the hallway, next to the front door. It is old, wooden, and used. You always preferred wooden bats as
they just seem more natural. It is chipped and has many nicks in it. The lacquer has all but faded and the
base is no longer rounded, but dented, rough to the touch, and the wood has started to split; perhaps it
was left to the elements too long. You think it might be made of oak, but you are not sure as you don’t
know your wood that well. It is really no wonder that her former lover left it. In a way, you can help him say
goodbye to her too.
Back in her bedroom you lift the bat above your head, ready to strike. You hesitate. Some part of what
used to be your mind is objecting to this. It has happened before, while you were attempting to prevent
other women from hurting you. You know it will pass. It does.
It is just like chopping wood. You have chopped wood before. You split it along the grain to make a larger
chunk of timber smaller, ready to burn, better to burn, able to burn through easier, promoting more heat.
It is time to say goodbye. You give her a rough kiss with the bat. It is hard and passionate and full of love
and regret. The final kiss is always spectacular and sad.
You didn’t expect the sound. You were thinking that when you brought it down on her skull that it would
crack like striking wood or crack like making contact with the ball it was designed to hit. Instead, it
sounded more like dropping a melon onto the pavement. Squishy. The sound was more like fruit being
tossed away. Well, you learned something. It is always good to get a new perspective on things. You have
at most times used knives before. They are certainly more intimate and romantic when saying goodbye.
You spend a moment staring at her. You have never really liked the blood and it is leaking profusely from
her head. She used to be pretty, now she is just meat. Blood pools up on the red, satin sheets quicker
that it can be absorbed. You remember something from a television show…something about corpses
not bleeding. Only people whose hearts are still working bleed. You bring the bat down three more
times. You never could have been a professional, but you have a strong swing.
The blood ceases to pool. It was a good idea. She is definitely not pretty now; her head looks like your
heart did, kind of used up by a blender, shattered and destroyed. You think that in the blood spray that has
appeared on the headboard and walls there might be chunks of skull and brain matter, but it is difficult to
be sure and you hate to touch it and examine it. Some things are better left alone.
You don’t really like that you have been splattered with her blood. Now, you will have to use her shower.
You are not fond of the idea; her shower is disgusting. If the first blow had been cleaner and more
precise, you would have remained unsoiled. It is a good thing that you decided to say goodbye in the
nude. You should shower before it starts to coagulate.
Well, it was better to make sure. You don’t want her to hurt. You don’t want her to suffer. You almost start to
imagine that you might have been able to work things out with her, but even as the thought enters your
mind you realize that that is just a fantasy. She would have ultimately hurt you. Now, she cannot. You have
not allowed her to hurt you. It is all for the best.
You are a creature of habit and your habits are bad.
Still, it hurts a little to say goodbye, right?
G. Gnosta
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Hi Hades, is it the format
Hi Hades, is it the format you're struggling with?
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