(by DRM) Chapter 2: But love still penetrates

CHAPTER ONE: imgflip.com/gif/89w14t
CONTENT WARNINGS FOR (BADLY DONE) GORE AND ALL THAT STUFF YEA

The dream was different this time. Not by much, but still different. Now there was dried blood on the walls, and even on the noose.
...
An hour must've passed. Or only 5 minutes; time had no presence here.
401 was seriously tempted. She couldn't take another eternity of just SITTING, doing nothing but THINKING about all her failures. She got up and grabbed the rope. The blood cracked from being bent with her touch.
As the rope tightened around her neck, regret started to sink in. Lots of regret, but there was fear and relief as well.

401 woke up with a startle. She looked outside and saw that it was dark out. It seemed that either way she chose to spend the night--forcing herself to stay awake or get taunted by the noose in her dreams--was going to be torture.
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Several weeks passed, with the same story each night. She grew to find unfortunate solace in hanging herself with the noose, and that scared her.
Her back started aching after the second week, which made it more unbearable to stay awake.

Along with her back aching, her heart began to as well. 401 was lonely. She missed getting hugs and being told 'I love you'--along with saying it back. 401 pulled out one of the few things she kept after being kicked out of Inky's house: a framed photo. It gave a bittersweet feeling. The photo was of her and Inkmatas at the park on Inkmatas' birthday. A week after the photo was taken, they broke up, and everything went downhill from there. If only she wasn't so F**KING stupid and hadn't acted like a possessive CREEP--
She sighed and put the photo back in her small bag. Maybe if she didn't look at it, she would forget. But she knew very well she wouldn't.

What did 401 do even do?

stalk inky

Oh

The title

i know

Ok