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.-»^%%¤### ###¤%%^»-.
.-»^%%%%@# #@%%%%^»-.
.-»^%%¤¤@@ @@¤¤%%^»-.
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....»%%%%¤ %^»»»»»---. .---»»»»»^% ¤%%%%»....
.-»^%%¤@@# % % #@@¤%%^»-.
.....-^^%¤ % mirage class goth gf % ¤%^^-.....
.-»^%¤@### % % ###@¤%^»-.
.-»^%%¤@## %^»»»»»---. .---»»»»»^% ##@¤%%^»-.
...-^^%%@# #@%%^^-...
.-»^%%¤@## ##@¤%%^»-.
...-»»%%%¤ 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... ##@¤%%^»-.
.-»^%%¤@## ##@¤%%^»-.
.-»^%%%¤¤@ @¤¤%%%^»-.
.-»^%%¤@## »»»»»--. .--»»»»» ##@¤%%^»-.
.-»^%%¤@## ##@¤%%^»-.
.-»^%%%¤¤# #¤¤%%%^»-.
......-^%@ 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! #@@¤%%^»-.
.-»^%%¤@## ##@¤%%^»-.
..--^%%%¤# #¤%%%^--..
...--^%%%@ @%%%^--...
..---»%%¤# #¤%%»---..
.....»^%¤@ @¤%^».....