Today’s prompt was “Lust” and I used it to explore the nature of a character I really do not like at all – Rosalie Hale, from Twlight. I wondered if I could find it in me to write about a character I really dislike with some sense of empathy or sympathy. Sure, I could have picked Charles Manson, but where’s the fun in that?
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January 11, 2010
Prompt: Lust
Derivative Fiction (Twilight – Rosalie)
Rating: R (adult, sexual themes)
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Lust
Sometimes, not often, I think I may well be a sex addict. I am usually honest, however, and in being so I admit that it’s not the sex I crave. It’s not the physical act of love, the penetration, the kissing, the touching; it’s the allure, the dance. The lust.
I want to be wanted. I want to want.
It was no different when I was alive – when I was human. It was perhaps muted to a degree, as social morays dictated at the time; but I still searched the eyes of those around me and paid closer attention to body language than did most. I sought out and more often than not I found that desire; that lust; that want, in the eyes and in the actions of the men around me; sometimes in women, as well. I did not suspect that most women wanted me sexually, although I realize now that some did. There was something else that they longed for. Something about me they wished to have as their own. Something they wanted to absorb by osmosis.
It started at a very young age. When I was but eleven, my older cousin’s friend – Reed - trapped me in the barn at the back of our property and forced me to kiss him. I say he forced me, but in truth I was more than a little intrigued. I had seen him watching me for several weeks, as he was staying at our farm, with my cousin, for the summer. They were working with the horses. My uncle thought it would be good for them to “work hard for once in their lives” and “get some direction” before they went back for their last year of school.
I have no idea if his ideas for the boys’ summer education came to fruition. I know only that I saw that look on his face every night we would sit down for dinner and every morning as I would sit on the front porch, waving good-bye to them as they embarked on their daily chores.
The look of want.
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