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Likeness.
The visions taunted her with memories that she knew had no right to invade her life. Her eyes strained to make sense of the figures that moved ghost like towards the bed. Her vocal chords tightened around her neck like a noose, the visions became clearer, each one spoke with a voice that only they could hear. She felt the cold touch of one of the visions, she screamed, she woke.
The sweat trickled down her face “Fucking hate dreams” Jane heard her joints creak as she got out of bed. The alarm clock rang the familiar tune “Fucking hate waking up as well” she knew today was going to be one of those days that seemed to last longer each passing hour. She instinctively held her hand out to touch her husband “Shit!”. The familiar silence had become almost unbearable; Jane knew that her husband had gone to work. She allowed herself a sardonic smile on her face as she thought of how her husband tried in vain to cover up his affair. “I have been given a great opportunity to get that promotion I want” that is what James had told her, what he meant was “I have met a new piece of ass and I am having it”. Did he really think she was that naïve, if he did then he was as useless out of bed as what he is in bed. “At least you won’t leave me, eh beast” . The large white dog snuggled up to Jane, as much about its need to eat rather than show affection. “Come on then! Let’s get you your food”
The clothes that Jane put on her slightly built body covered her smooth skin as well as her scars. Jane took the familiar piece of metal from her ‘hiding’ place and smiled as she added another cut to her thigh. Each cut was placed on her body to remind her that pain was a sensation that could be controlled. She felt that the pain that James caused her was his way of trying to control her, the pain that he would soon feel would be controlled by her. “Fucking hell Beast!!! Try letting your food touch your mouth next time” Jane picked up her car keys and psyched herself up for the boring journey to work. At least James had no way of hiding from her at work. Wait till her father found out about his affair, he never wanted his daughter to marry a loser and he never wanted to give James a job at his business. Jane wondered if James enjoyed his sex with that bitch he was having an affair with, didn’t really matter he was going to lose everything.
