,:=††¤§@## ##@§¤††=:,
,:==†††¤§@ @§¤†††==:,
,,,:††††§§ §§††††:,,,
,:=†††††§§ §§†††††=:,
,:=††¤§@## ##@§¤††=:,
,,,,:=†††§ ††=====:::, ,:::=====†† §†††=:,,,,
,,,,,===†§ † † §†===,,,,,
,:=††¤¤¤§@ † 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! ##@§¤††=:,
,:=††¤§@@# #@@§¤††=:,
,:=†¤§@@## ##@@§¤†=:,
:=††¤§@@## ##@@§¤††=:
,:=††¤§@@# #@@§¤††=:,
,:=††¤§@@# #@@§¤††=:,