Nightmare6

"why are you putting up a curtain dad?" little Nicola asked, "the light is coming right in the room and it'll make it nice"

"listen Nicola, you want people looking at you when you're sleeping? when you're taking off your clothes? when you're naked?"

his voice was happy when talking about him being naked, maybe a little too happy.

but little Nicola was too young to realize it.

"I don't think so"

and that was when Nicola learned his first lesson from his daddy.

You can never let the light shine in.

unless you want to be judged.

watched.

Nicola realized how putting up curtains can make you safe from outside.

so when he grew up, he bought a curtain for his heart because he knew it was the only way to hide

the surface of the sea seals what's in the deep ocean but once she sun shines again, the only way to hide what's inside is a curtain strong enough to hide your deepest thoughts and desires.

Nicola hid how he felt

how his father made him wear dresses and makeup

how much he suffered all these years

but you can't hide something as strong as what makes you you.

you can't hide something that's been so engraved on your soul that can't be erased with any amount of beautiful lies.

lies erase everything

that's what Lily learned from her mother.

she knew how many memories her mother erased from Lily's mind

how many bottles of Juice she drank

how many friends crashed the night

how many tears she shed because of her habit to cry when she was happy

and Lily knew all about these

she appreciated how kind her mother was

to hide the chaotic reality from her

she still remembered the stories her mother used to tell, about another world with dragons and wizards and somehow, Lily wanted another story with all her heart right now.

she wanted to sit with her mother again

listen to her voice only one more time, instead she was crying on her grave

alone

Nicola was on his father's grave

so glad that he's finally gone

Nicola is finally free

but once two miserable people meet in the same cemetery

the misery and the hatred between them blossom into something else

not love

something even better

the urge to hurt other people

one do beautiful the call "sadism"

Lily finally began writing her own beautiful story with Nicola

filled with adventures and love

and they lived happily ever after