Screams, hopes and dreams

A cracking sound breaks the brief silence. Two people yell at each other from the bottom of their lungs, spreading hate around the room. Kim is two doors away and can still feel it. She closes her eyes as hard as she can and then covers her face with her hands, in a primitive attempt to make that nightmare vanish. Unfortunately, unlike sleeping, when her eyes reopen the nightmare remains.

Several things are being broken in the kitchen, but now she can only hear one person there. Kim’s bedroom door bursts open. He picks her up from her bed, as if there was no gravity and starts beating her up. She does not react anymore, there is no point. Maybe because of that, he gets satisfied sooner and leaves her bleeding.

Kim just stands up, cleans the tears and the blood off her face and gets to bed. Her laptop lies next to her. She likes to look at cute pictures of animals cuddling, looking after each other, being more “human”, more caring than her parents will ever be. Kim gazes at the desktop background, a picture of Dave Navarro. His piercing eyes comfort her. He is smiling with the corner of his mouth, she smiles back to the laptop screen and gradually falls asleep.

In the following morning Steve, Kim’s boyfriend, shows up. He is unpleased to see how her face looks. He wants to take her to his game, around his friends and she looks trashed. He takes her out of that house, away from her crazy parents.

Steven drives Kim to his house. She is not going to the game with him anymore, not looking like that. He promises she will never have to go back to her parent’s house again and leaves to the game.

Kim has a small backpack full of clothes and her laptop in her arms. She places the laptop on her side of the bed and decides to have a bath. A long one. She watches TV all day, lying on the couch and eating nothing but ice cream and snacks. She loves that, not having to worry about anything around her and doing what she feels like doing.

It’s dark when Steven gets home. Singing loud, he picks Kim up and dances with her, spinning. They laugh. He is completely drunk. Steven looks at her, but it is like he is no longer there. His sight is lost somewhere, his eyes are blurry. This picture scares Kim. Steven, just like in the games, smells the fear and gets excited. He starts playing rough, which frightens Kim even more, so she pushes him away. The look in Steven‘s eyes instantly changes. Now Steven is the predator, the predator constantly needs to feel the excitement of being dominant and her reaction definitely unpleases him. So, he beats her up. He does it until he gets bored and passes away on the couch. Kim picks herself up, one more time. Rage takes over her head. Why is that repeating? She finishes the whisky bottle Steven left on the floor and heads to the bedroom. She locks the door and lies down next to her laptop.

One more time Kim gazes at Dave Navarro’s picture. She loves the fact that he wears make up, that his nails are always polished. She sees a strong, but still, sensitive person that is everything he truly wants to be. He is dreamy. Kim wonders why she cannot be with a man like him. She smiles at the laptop screen and falls asleep.

At this exact moment a fairy passes by and gets aware of Kim. -A what?- Yes. A fairy. Pinocchio’s fairy is flying around, helping the tooth fairy with some fairy business. Is this the part of the story that is hard to believe in? Wouldn’t the world be just great if the violence that happened to Kim so far was the awkward part?

But, yes, a fairy gets in action. Fairy tales are actually based on true facts. For some reason the religion stuff was more catchy. I feel this is because religion history is more tragic and filled with hideous acts. However, the nice fairy tales are also true, although, due to the human nature, harder to believe in.

Pinocchio’s fairy gets aware of Kim and enters the bedroom. The beautiful light that surrounds her paints the room blue. She gently moves the hair off Kim’s face, briefly watches her sleep with the kindest of looks and then turns to the laptop, concentrating on her work. Just like Kim, the fairy smiles at Dave Navarro’s picture and, moving as gracious as if she was dancing, the fairy touches the laptop screen with her magical wand.

The pixel man stretches like a cat, leans towards the fairy and astonishingly emerges from the laptop screen. This now flesh and bone Dave Navarro charmingly tips his hat to the fairy. He gently lies down next to Kim, putting his arms around her. In her dreams, Kim takes a deep, calm breath. The fairy leaves the room proud and satisfied.

Kim will wake up next to her now real dream man and they will live happily ever after. Against all odds.