piper levesque | d12 cb

We come from dirt, tangled up like dirty little weeds. Blinded by her sunshine smile, it wasn't until my roots went rotten that I realized how comfortable I'd been living in her shadow. We were effortless, too easy to be anything worthwhile. She could have fought it, I would have let her win. I'm not something beautiful but I know we were close. Another secret locked behind bared teeth.

I don't mourn, I'm better this way. With a dead weight in my chest that doesn't remember what it's like to hurt. She's the only friend I've ever had, a first and last mistake. They don't understand what it's like to be worthless. Glass stuck in the skin of my knuckles because my reflection smiled back with malice, watching blood ruin what I never wanted to see.

Anger burns, headfirst into hellfire and everything else goes up in smoke. I'm better than a coward, better than her. It's easy to take what you want when you wear a viper's skin. They're too scared of the strike to wonder if you've even got venom.

It's more than hunger pangs, I'm insatiable. We searched for ghosts when the foundation groaned, oblivious to a hometown on the edge of ruin. I've never known what it is like to have, only want. So desperately that you go hollow from the inside out. It's more than lips I thought would taste like butterscotch - but only when she smiled at me.

She might have meant happiness, but I don't want to die content.

Someday I'll be so full I won't even remember her name.

"i hate you so much right now"