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..~:*$#### *:~~~~~.... ....~~~~~:* ####$*:~..
..~:*$##@@ * * @@##$*:~..
.......:$# * mirage class goth gf * #$:.......
.......~*# * * #*~.......
..~:*$##@# *:~~~~~.... ....~~~~~:* #@##$*:~..
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..~:*$##@@ i used to be a goth, in my youth, doing @@##$*:~..
..~:*$##@# crimes mostly from or in my beloved and #@##$*:~..
.....~*$#@ trusted car, and sometimes my mothers @#$*~.....
..~:*$#### barn. we lived just outside town, a ####$*:~..
......:*$# grove at the end of a dirt road, and #$*:......
......:**# the barn was placed so you could just #**:......
..~:*$##@@ make out the surrounding fields through @@##$*:~..
....:::$## the trees. ##$:::....
..~:*$##@# #@##$*:~..
..~:*$##@# my car was black and loud, both the #@##$*:~..
..~:*$##@# engine and the way the parts didn't #@##$*:~..
..~:*$##@# really stick together. i took my #@##$*:~..
....:**### crimefriend for rides, in the dark, the ###**:....
....~~*$#@ eternal dark that seemed to surround @#$*~~....
..~:$##@## us. she seemed to cast this veil over ##@##$:~..
...~~::*$# everything. her black skirt reached to #$*::~~...
..~:*$#### her knees but then somehow also back ####$*:~..
.....~::*# around, enveloping all my memories of #*::~.....
.....~::*# our time together. #*::~.....
..~:*$#### ####$*:~..
..~:*$##@# there was blood everywhere. sometimes #@##$*:~..
..~:*$###@ the blood was her red lipstick or her @###$*:~..
..~:*$#### checkered shirt. she was on television. ####$*:~..
..~:*$##@# we did crime, and we made weird #@##$*:~..
......~*$# structures in the barn, tall pillars of #$*~......
......:*#@ dark wood, ladders and plateaus, fires @#*:......
..~:*$##@# and fairy lights. we would sleep there #@##$*:~..
..~:*$##@# and drink there and she would go in the #@##$*:~..
.......~*# television. #*~.......
..~:*$##@@ @@##$*:~..
..~:*$#@## and then the sun came out, and she went ##@#$*:~..
......~**# away. everything changed... i yearned, #**~......
....~~*##@ and the world became dull around me. @##*~~....
..~:*$##@# #@##$*:~..
..~:*$##@# i stopped doing crime, except when #@##$*:~..
.......~*# necessarry. things somehow seemed like #*~.......
..~:*$##@# they were allright, moulded in place, #@##$*:~..
.....~:*#@ and i loathed it ------ i missed her @#*:~.....
..~::::*## so much. ##*::::~..
..~:*$#### ####$*:~..
.......~*# #*~.......
.~:*$##@## ~~~~~... ...~~~~~ ##@##$*:~.
..~:*$##@# #@##$*:~..
..~::*$$$# #$$$*::~..
..~:*$##@@ i searched for her, but nobody had any @@##$*:~..
..~:*$##@# memories of her. not so much of me #@##$*:~..
..~:*$##@# either, from the time we were together. #@##$*:~..
.......:$# my mother said i kept to myself in the #$:.......
......~*$# barn, or in the car. #$*~......
.....~:**# #**:~.....
..~:*$##@@ sometimes i could still see her @@##$*:~..
......:$$# flashing by on the tv in the barn. #$$:......
....::***# everything was black then, for a #***::....
..~:*$##@@ moment. i remembered her laugh and knew @@##$*:~..
..~:*$##@# we had done crimes together, that it #@##$*:~..
..~:***### had been real... ###***:~..
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..~:*$#@## ~~~~~... ...~~~~~ ##@#$*:~..
..~:*$#@## ##@#$*:~..
..~:*$##@# #@##$*:~..
.....::**# i died by getting shot in the head #**::.....
......::*# while ramming the fence to a military #*::......
.....~*### facility. by this time they had been ###*~.....
.....~*$#@ chasing me for days. i lost control @#$*~.....
....::**## over the car, crashed it into a rock ##**::....
......~*## wall and flew out the windshield. ##*~......
..~:*$##@# #@##$*:~..
...~~:$$## and then i got up, and looked around. ##$$:~~...
..~:*$###@ it was dark, where it previously had @###$*:~..
...~~**$$# been a bright day. around me where #$$**~~...
..~:*$$$## dozens of crashed cars, all my car, ##$$$*:~..
......:$$# some on fire. #$$:......
..~:*$##@@ @@##$*:~..
..~:*$##@# the ground was sticky, red. #@##$*:~..
..~:***### ###***:~..
..~:$##@## and then i realized that i knew this ##@##$:~..
..~:*$##@# darkness. i knew the way the sky #@##$*:~..
..~:::**#@ touched the ground. this was her doing! @#**:::~..
..~:*$###@ she was here! @###$*:~..
.....~**$# #$**~.....
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