[It's taking longer to die than he thought it would.
[In the movies, when someone is stabbed in the gut, they hit the ground, bleed out, game over, but that's not how it went.
[The knife went in once, and he barely felt it. He thought he missed. He tried again.
[Again.
[Too many times, and then he dropped the knife. He's lying in bed, a blanket pulled only halfway over his shivering body. Blood pools and drips off the side of the mattress, and he's starting to taste it. He hears the door open. His mother won't be able to call 911. He cut the phone lines first.
CWs for thread: MAJOR SUICIDE WARNING, major character death, blood, gore, etc. <3 wretched
[In the movies, when someone is stabbed in the gut, they hit the ground, bleed out, game over, but that's not how it went.
[The knife went in once, and he barely felt it. He thought he missed. He tried again.
[Again.
[Too many times, and then he dropped the knife. He's lying in bed, a blanket pulled only halfway over his shivering body. Blood pools and drips off the side of the mattress, and he's starting to taste it. He hears the door open. His mother won't be able to call 911. He cut the phone lines first.
[The stairs creak. It isn't her voice.]