In Continuum.

The Morning After

It emerged from the stained hole,and slowly gathered against the gravity.Like a crystal it now looked,hanging dangerously off the edge of the shower head,and it could fall at any moment,any moment now.A blade of light shines in through the window next to the mirrors,and the puddles of water glistered to the morning sun,silently evaporating into the humid air of the white-tiled room.A puddle of shower foam forms a pool under the bottle,the pink cream flowing down the side of the tub.The tub was empty then,and the remnants of the bubble bath yesterday night left a mark towards the edge of the tub,and around the hole of the drain pipe,a small hill of foam.

The door knob twisted,followed by a squeak.The hinges were old and rusted,and the plain white door opened.In came the girl in a high sleeveless top and her white panties.She was beautiful,and for a moment her body blended with the white tiles and the white tub,the white sink and the white door.Her blonde hair glowed and bounced off her shoulders,and as she looked through the mirror she adjusted her feet onto the mat,as they were feeling chilly and cold.She felt the skin on her left arm with her right,and she thought she felt goosebumps forming silently and slowly.It was a cold morning,colder than usual.Perhaps it was just a misjudgment of hers,a trick of the mind especially what just happened minutes ago.

She ran her tongue over her white teeth,still admiring how beautiful she looked,this way and that.She tilted her head,the weight of her hair rested on her right shoulder,and inspected her face with her eyes,tired and exhausted.She smiled a little bit,with the lips touching each other,and brushed her fingers through her beautiful blonde hair once,and then twice.

The dripping of the tap in front her was rhythmic,pulsating around the walls of the bathroom,giving off soft echoes,bouncing off each other.She gathered a handful of water with her palms,and the water felt icy cold.She shuttered a little bit,and buried her face into her palms.It felt refreshing,and as the water escaped through her finger gaps,she rubbed her cheeks with the palms and ran them over her white top.Two obvious handprints now appeared on the lower half of her shirt,and as she blinked she thought she saw blood instead of water.Or was it blood?She looked at her hands again,and they were clean and cold,no trace of other colour - no red.

The door opened into the narrow corridor,and on this end of the room it was beyond the reach of the morning sun.She appeared in the doorway and stretched a little bit.Looking at the clock on the dresser,she decided to leave.The denim jacket hug loosely at the back of the chair,and the jeans were tangled amongst his clothes,in the corner of the room with his bags.She put those on,and adjusted them in the full-length mirror.Her chest rose as she took a deep breath,and before the mirror she saw herself standing tall,still beautiful.The morning sun angled through the curtains,and revealed what was in the shadows before,what laid between her feet,as she saw it through the reflection.

Todd laid between her feet,his face to the left towards the bed,his eyes closed as if he was sleeping.He was naked then,with his boxers still hanging between his legs.His bare buttocks looked like the surface of two eggs,and in the morning sun they glimmered.She took her keys and her wallet,her cellphone and the cigarettes,and stepped over the naked body on the floor.

She was about to leave when she hestitated,noticing the mess around the room she made.The lamp with the broken bulb,the smashed vase in the corner and the flowers laid on the carpetted floor.And there he was,with his chest against the ground and a knife in his back.A trail of blood oozed from where the knife sank into his skin,and came down the side of his bare body and onto the carpetted floor.She watched,as the puddle grew in size,and the brown coloured carpet darkened to the advancing blood.

The front door crashed opened,a couple came into the room,laughing and drinking from the bottles they had in their hands.In the hallway they embraced and kissed,and the boy ran his hand up the girl's shirt and fondled her breasts.The girl watched all this happening without uttering a sound,just standing there before the television while it all happened before her eyes.

The girl in the hallway chuckled,and started undoing the boy's pants.As she did so,the boy backed into the room,ignorant of the girl's existence and pulled the girl onto himself as he tumbled onto the bed.They laughed,and as they laid side by side facing each other,they kissed again and this time the boy lips kissed her cheekbones and down to her neck,and after lifting up her shirt,he kissed her belly and eventually took off her pants and kissed in between her legs.She moaned,and ran her fingers through his hair.The water in the tap started to drip,and that started the pulsating sound all through the night.

They made love in the plain white sheets,careless of the body on the floor and the girl,watching them before the television.And after they did so,their naked bodies were tangled into one another's,as the boy started playing with her nipples.She smiled,and under her breath she whispered something into his ears.

"Do you love me?"

"Why,yes.Of course i do." the boy replied.

The girl stood there watching as it happened before her eyes,with the body on the floor slowly turning cold.

"Do you,really?" she asked again.

"Why are you asking me these questions?We just made love for heaven's sake."

The boy sat up and hung his legs over the side of the bed,and the girl ran his tongue down the depression in his back.

"But that's what you tell everybody."

"Only to you,my dear.Only to you."

"Liar."

"What are you talking about?"

"You told Sally that you loved her too,didnt you?"

"Sally was an over-sensitive bitch.She needed some person to tell her that and i did.She was a crazy slut,which is why she threw herself off the hotel window,remember?Look,can we just drop this?We are naked here,if you havent noti..."

He didnt get the chance to finish his sentence.A knife ran through his back and punctured his lungs.He gasped,and collapsed to the front,trying to pull the knife out of him.The girl jumped onto his back,and drove it deeper into the skin.He screamed,and the girl pushed his face into the carpet to muffle the scream.She brought her mouth close to his ears then,and as his eyes widened to his impending doom,she whispered into his ears.

"Sally left me for you,Todd.Now you know how it feels to be pierced,you fuck."

They disappeared,and all of a sudden the room resumed to it's silence.The girl stood there before the cold body.She stared,and the crystal from the shower head succumbed to gravity.In the corner of her mouth,a hint of a smile.In the corner of her eyes,the remnants of running tears.The water kept on dripping,breaking the silence in the room.The morning after,the morning after...