A Challenge and A Drabble – The Darkness

Caroline Smailes issued a tiny challenge here on her blog to write a 100 word story (what I would call a drabble) inspired by any song on Youtube.

Here is my offering, inspired by Florence and the Machine’s ‘Cosmic Love’.

The Darkness

by PC Wheeler

I did not expect to find Julie in the boy’s bathroom. Blood circled her wrists and streaked across the floor.

“What did you do?”

This was Julie: honor student and cheerleader. She was nothing like me. She lived in a mansion;  my mom and I lived in a trailer.

She looked at me, maybe for the first time, and said, “I needed to know I could feel something.”

“You’re not doing it right,” I said and pushed my black sleeves up to show her the parallel scars on the insides of my forearms. “I’ll show you how.”