Step after step Nina's sneakers caused small disturbances in the calm summer night. Only one long bridge was separating her from her apartment building that was too shrouded in mist for her to see. Though as she had crossed the bridge hundreds of times by now, she could imagine its shape in her mind with great detail.
The effects of the drinks Nina had taken during the company party were still numbing her mind but she could have sworn someone had decided to make the already long bridge way longer. Even if the lamp poles of the bridge with green railings were all next to identical, the ones she had walked past looked far too similar.
"Fuck this, I'm calling a cab," Nina flared and leaned into the railing only to see how the fog was even covering the river below. Like nothing existed outside the light of the single lamp above her.
Nina barely needed to look at her phone to dial for the taxi company, but when she did so the phone informed her that there was no signal. It gave her an impulse to throw the damn phone to the river as she could have seen the mast from any part of the bridge in clear weather.
Once Nina had conquered her impulse to discard her only weeks-old device, she opened the camera app to make sure her long black hair was not too much of a mess. She also checked the condition of her mild work makeup and shook the phone to see if the signal would return.
The thick mist served as a unique background for her alabaster skin and green eyes. Especially with the way her black hair had gotten a bit loose from the ponytail. So before taking a few selfies, Nina adjusted the strands of her hair to be tactically placed on her forehead to make it look smaller. Not that it was that big but it shined from the lamplight above.
"Bridge slut?" Nina uttered as her eyes spotted a scratched text in the green pole next to her through her phone. It made her tilt her head to look at it to take a photo that showed her neck. A memory of seeing the same scratched shape on several poles she had passed tonight visited her mind. It had been too blurry for her to read what it had contained before, but now that she had focused on it, the letters were clear.
Nina shrugged before making sure the pole was not in her next selfie. As she wore an old jean jacket, the photos were something that she was taking more on a whim than to actually show anybody. Though she could always put one as her work email profile to show her coworkers that she truly always wore as unattractive clothing as during the semi-mandatory company events.
The damp misty air was getting disgustingly warm so Nina took steps to leave. She did not think that she was so drunk that she would have walked forth and back on the bridge so there must not have been that much left. Though she doubted for a moment that she might have taken the wrong direction right there, but her eyes spotted something before she could think about it.
A bit shiny white square was on the ground and it took a moment for Nina to realize it was a flipped photo. It had been so long since she had really looked at one. On its white surface read the same perverted words as on the green pole. It made her think that the guy who had scratched that had also dropped it.
There was a sudden urge to see if there was an actual picture on the other side. Maybe it was some guy's dick or a silly group photo. So Nina looked around to make sure that nobody would catch her in the act of impulsive curiosity that she was even getting ready to regret.
Nina had no trouble kneeling in her jeans and she easily lifted the photo with a corner of her nail from the asphalt. It did not cause even a fracture with the skill she did so. And she stood back up before flipping the photo around.
As someone who had seen porn before as a casual viewer, the picture was not that shocking at first glance even as it made Nina's eyes dilate. In it, a blond woman was crouching down naked in front of the lamp pole with double victory signs. She only wore white gloves and socks.
There was a sense of dizziness just from Nina trying to look at the picture's face. It was blurred and she shook her head out of an instinct to focus. Suddenly it looked very familiar to her, the moment her mind thought it was her, the mist blurred her eyes.
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The mist parted only to let Nina see a part of the road in front of her. From it, she knew the green railing was behind her and the night was as damned silent as before. There were not even distant sounds of the cars, just the damp quiet of the mist.
It took several seconds for Nina to realize she was unable to move her body. But it did not mean a part of her was not moving. Her fingers were trailing along her bare vulva, a place that was not supposed to be bare.
All of Nina's skin felt hot burning pressure even as she knew she had no clothes. At least not the clothes she used to have. She could tell she had gloves on, at least it felt like she had gloves on while her fingers kept sliding the sides of her vulva.
An urge to escape from the crouched position filled Nina, but she could not move. Like her body did not even receive the command she wanted to give it, or she could not even send it. Her knees just stayed spread open while the ground burned against her feet. Feet that barely felt like they had socks on.
Despite the heat, Nina was frozen, she barely felt her heart, she barely felt anything that was not the heat. She knew her lips were gaping open, she wanted it to be a scream, a scream to make it stop. But her lips were wide open to something that felt like a smile. A wide smile that showed her teeth she could not stop.
Suddenly there was a faint flash in the mist, and then another, they left behind a form. A from that looked almost human that floated in the distance. It was just beyond the mist Nina could see.
The flashes let Nina focus on the hair that framed her face, even it felt wrong. It looked blond and was far too short. It brought the memory of the photo into her mind, it felt so distant even as she had just seen it. The blond woman in the picture was her and not her. It was her body but different. Like someone or something had altered her, made her different.
Nina knew that something was making her crouch, making her hands move to slide on her vulva. But making was not the right word, she was not made to do anything, that someone had skipped her entirely and gone straight to her body. To move it without her, but that was not possible.
It was not possible, there was no way someone else could move her body, Only Nina could move her body but clearly, someone did not know it was impossible for others. The thing in the mist did not know he should not be able to do this, but he was and no matter how impossible Nina thought it was, it was not stopping.
Something was terribly wrong, so wrong, beyond wrong. Even Nina's breathing was wrong, it was ragged and burned her lungs. But even that was shadowed by the burn in the place her fingers were touching. They kept trailing her vulva but still the knob they barely touched burned, even more so than most of her body.