Chapter 121

Practically crawling to the bathroom, I hastily turn on the shower and shimmy out of my dress. Pulling out the pins from my hair, I let it fall against my bare skin. Taking one step into the shower, I sink into the feeling of the hot water blasting onto me. I blindly reach for the handle on the shower door and tug it closed. Leaning against the walls I watch myself in the mirror, I watch as I slowly disappear in the foggy steam that grows on the shower door. My skin turns hot and itchy as the minutes go by, the scalding water spraying across my front as I step towards the door. Luna. The word is only there for a few seconds before the steam covers the glass again. I quickly write the word again and again, but I can't keep up with the heat in the air. It's an irony I can't ignore. Grabbing the shower head, I blast the door, washing away any half-hidden lies. I turn away from the glass and the now visible mirror and look at the blank, white walls of the shower.