Days had passed and it was only now that she was accepting it, wanting to try and clear her confusion away. Because days had passed, days of avoidance of not wanting to meet the other woman so that as she sat there with the newly bought journal, with just a few pages used for a good purpose. A purpose that filled her with an odd sense of shame at having felt those emotions but pride at having put them aside successfully.Â
But then she was adding onto it, right onto the next page. Words she did not want to sleep with, words she’d not wanted to think about for days. But she could at least scribble down with the thought of the woman she wanted to let them out to.Â
What are you doing right now? Now that you know that I’m not all that I seemed to be. They’re not demons, what I have, they’re not demons and I always try to make people believe they are because people want me to think that they’re demons, but they’re not. They’re the closest things to heaven that I’ve ever had. They say happiness is in accepting everything that comes to you as a blessing, so I accepted all of it as a blessing but my blessing was one that everyone else condemned as a curse.
A curse or a blessing, I may never know if I ask them but you looked like you were just sad that you’d be lied about who I was. Who I am. I am both. I am Haeri, I’m the little girl who smiles and curses and is a bit too loud, speaks too much and the one that crawled under her shadow when she had to talk about who she’d been keeping locked in her heart. Both the good and bad, because without the bad I would not be me. I do not seek forgiveness, because I did no wrong. I just hid, did no wrong, because to me you were still the good. I wanted to keep the good with the good and leave the bad, to the bad, was it so wrong of me of wanting to do so?
That you’re mad because I hid rather than because I cannot come without the wrong side of me, it makes me happy. In a certain way, I feel as if I at least do not repulse you. It’s strange. Then I think why is it so, but then I realize that I may not want to know the answer. Because it might mean that I kept you good, yet there you were, looking as if the bad was the good. I let him write this letter to you because I could not think of a word except that, he whispered the words to me while the only thing i could think was, I miss you. I should stop hiding, because you did not despise what I told you. Yet, I miss you and I hide because you did not reject what I let out.
Because that’s scary in itself. No one but him ever accepted it.
There’s a little protective side of me that wants him to be the only one. Because you cannot stoop to his level, because you’re above his level, you’ve always been but with the right, the good. If the balance switches, then what am I to do? Do I forget the good, do I let it go, do I let the illusion of it just deteriorates and replace it with the bad or do I put them together? I don’t know what to do.
I wish I could talk, but I don’t want to talk. So that I’m here, writing this, as if addressed to you, instead of facing you. This little shadow of a shelter shall keep me the way I am, insanely happy. For a little while, until I swallow the pill and kill him once again.
I need to find the balance.Â
She shut the journal, pencil lodged between the last pages that wore the print of her writing and fumbled for the bottle sitting at her desk. How long before she gave it all up? She shouldn’t think of that, Haeri shook her head, quickly downing away her dose, she wouldn’t give up.