
Somewhere
in modern Japan...
She is
terrified. Her wide lavender eyes are dilated
to impossible blackness. Her full, cherry
lips part on a scream that refuses to emerge.
Her bosom heaves with her panting, panicked
breaths. Her full, firm breasts strain against
the buttons, threatening to burst from her
short-sleeved, white school-uniform blouse.
She takes
a single step down the stairs, her shoe tapping
lightly on the linoleum. Her pleated skirt
flips, showing a long line of thigh. She pauses,
biting her lower lip and a single tear streaks
down her cheek. A delicate hand swipes away
the tear then tucks a flowing lock of her
impossibly long, lilac-colored hair behind
her ear.
She stops
her descent, frozen halfway down the dark
stairwell. She can just make out the outline
of the steel school doors to the basement
gymnasium. The dark windows on the double
doors seem like eyes closed in sleep; waiting
for her to awaken them.