You have a stupid fight with your friend (23F), and now you can't stop thinking about it. You miss her smile, her goofiness, you miss the warmth of your bond where she used to just randomly come and lie down on your chest, listening to your heartbeat.As you are lost in thoughts , you feel a soft weight settle on the left side of your chest. It was her ofcourse. She doesn't say a word but she rests her head on your sternum directly above your beating heart. Then she slowly undoes the first three button of your shirt and before you know her long icy fingers are caressing your bare chest, tracing the outline of your heart, feeling it hammer softly against her palm. She runs around her fingers like stethoscope, analysing every auscultation point...feeling, counting, observing ,cherishing every beat of your heart like precious stars. You can feel her touch linger on your PMI for a minute longer, her fingers digging deep into your ribs with a pressure that surprises you. You feel a sense of calm wash over your body which normally happens everytime she listens to your heart. But this time something strange happened. Having completed her tour of your heart, she nestles back on your chest ready to fall asleep with the comforting sound of your heart beating steadily in the background. But as soon as her warm cheek touches your cool, clammy skin, your heart stutters in your chest, you can actually feel it skip an entire beat before your heart roars back to life racing frantically now.
It gets faster and faster beneath her ears jolting her into alarm. "Hey hey hey" she gasps. "i knew your resting heart rate is a bit on the racier side. But holy shit!!!! What is happening today? "
"maybe it's you !" You try to tease her. Your words coming out in breathless gasps.
" Hold on there, Gwen ... Parker wont let you die this time" she smiles mischievously referring to an inside joke you guys have where she thinks you look like Emma Stone. Then she springs up in action, the warmth from her flushed face still lingering on your chest. It's getting harder and harder to breathe for you now, a dull throbbing ache spreading through the area exactly where her head had been moments ago.
"Gosh it's too fast we gotta slow it down okay?" She tells you before positioning her hands exactly between your breasts starting the compressions. Slow deep compressions. You can feel her using every last bit of her strength in pushing down on your aching chest in a deep, deliberate fashion, desperately trying to coax your stubborn heart back to rhythm. You can also feel your heart reacting to every compression, the rhythm faltering with each passing second, the pain getting more and more excruciating ... She keeps on with the compressions, tired but relentless, your heart playing a cruel joke on her efforts. The harder she pushes down trying to slow your heart, the faster your heart beats beneath her palms as if mocking her.
You just lay there , as a mere, powerless spectator , of a battle that raged between your own heart and a young woman of 23 desperate to save your life. The situation was both agonizing but strangely comforting at the same time , the irony stealing the air from your lungs.
Suddenly, you feel lighter. The rhythmic, suffocating compressions have stopped replaced by a few seconds of profound silence where all you can hear is your own heart withering away at 180bpm
She looked directly into your eyes. Teary and helpless. "I can't... I can't seem to get it to slow down.." she whispers planting a soft kiss on your forehead. It was an apology for seemingly failing to save her 'Gwen'. " But...i can make it go faster. " She smiles. A chill runs down your body, a sharp contrast to the feeling in your lungs that were now burning with the lack of oxygen
You watch in disbelief as well as admiration as she brings out a syringe from her pocket, the sharp silver edges shimmering in the moonlight . "I'm sorry" she speaks again her voice surprisingly cold now " but your heart needs to be punished for not listening to me" . Before you can fully comprehend what she means, she has already jabbed the syringe just below your left breast, your left ventricle now flooding with adrenaline. Your heart protests going into a frenzy. It violently twists inside your chest, stuttering and skipping multiple beats and then going for a sprint again.
190 ...207...225....248bpm?
Your heart has lost count. You feel like there's a volcano bubbling inside your chest . Everything hurts everything burns inside but you don't want it to stop. You want to stay awake and feel it all. You want to savour every beat of your struggling, tortured, failing heart.But darkness beckons and the pull is too strong for you to resist. The last thing you remember is the feeling of icy long fingers rubbing a cold gel on your red, battered chest. You may have heard the sound of paddles charging but you are not sure what had happened next
You wake up to find yourself lying on your bed, the excruciating burning in your chest replaced by a soft throbbing pain which hurt with every beat of your heart . Next to your strong but faintly irregular heartbeat, she lay nestled , her heading resting against the bruises her strong deep compressions had carved on your chest. It was the scars of a battle. A battle she had seemingly won in disciplining your naughty , unruly heart. "Did it hurt ?" She softly whispers kissing the red, painful area below your left breast, the area where the needle had pierced through trying to access your fragile heart. "Did it hurt a lot? " She asks again. You are too tired to speak so you just sigh in response. She snuggles closer to you , the soft, irregular rhythm of your weakened heart lulling her to sleep. You stroke her hair gently oblivious to the fact that she's dreaming about the knife she had kept hidden in her room . She is dreaming about cutting open your chest and squeezing your heart with her bare hands. Your heart needs to be punished more for not listening to her.
Holy fuck this is incredible!! Such a hot story and I love the details - you've clearly being paying attention. π―π I need someone to control and monitor and torture my heart like this. π₯΅π₯΅π₯΅π₯΅
Thank you SO much for writing and sending this! Though I'm going to need a bit of a break from work now before I can concentrate again... gotta read it again... π¦π¦π¦π¦