i was sexually abused by my older sibling and all i got was this dumb rape fetish (not rlly erotica nothing actually happens sorry)
when i wake up in the middle of the night too hungry to fall back asleep, i put a hoodie on over my nightie because i dont want to run into you while im braless in the kitchen. i hate it when you creep at my awkward sideboob and nipples poking through the thin fabric. sometimes i feel like you’re leering and sometimes i feel like you’re glowering and sometimes i feel like you’re planning on killing and eating me. i hate it and i hate you and i hate myself for feeling so weird all of the time.
the wooden floorboards always creak when i go down the stairs. i try to shift my weight as carefully and subtly as possible but it’s no use. my efforts don’t even dampen the sound. still loud and grating as ever. it’s a part of living in a 150 year old house. another thing to hate i guess.
the stovetop light is still on and before i even step through the archway i can make out your shadow at the kitchen table. i wish i was an only child. i would also take dead. i tell myself that i’ll live alone one day but i don’t really believe it.
“what the fuck are you staring at?” you spit at me, sitting up a little taller. you check your phone.
the only thing that comes out of my idiot mouth is “sorry”. i’m still just standing in the archway, frozen and overwhelmed and making it worse. i don’t know what the fuck is wrong with me. i force myself to enter the kitchen. tense and jittery and robotic i grab a random box off of the snack shelf in the pantry. i tell myself to play it cool and try to not acknowledge your existence. i’ve found the only way to handle being around you is to to pretend nothing is happening. to be flat and affectless. you get bored quicker when i don’t give you the satisfaction of a big reaction.
my brain suddenly supplies me with a lurid vision of what you might look like naked and a weird unpleasant memory of the way your skin smells. i want to pour bleach on every part of me, drown in it. delete my thoughts like they’re computer files. maybe a total personality and memory wipe. the idea of being nothing at all doesn’t sound so bad.
i robotically head back to my room, as fast as i can go without seeming like i’m rushing. i feel too nauseous to eat any of the granola bars i grabbed. i spend the rest of the night staring at my bedroom door. i don’t know why.