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Ah, why didn't it occur to me, to look for the portrait in the same place where Caroline showed me her drawing of the rabbit? That's where it landed, and now that I think about it she could have done the same thing that day I went crazy looking for my sketchbook; now there was doubt there was a ghost in the house.


The black velvet cloth was still covering it but as I slowly unveiled it my hands began to shake and I sat down because like I was sort of dizzy.


God, I haven't seen this in ages and it still frightens me to this day. I painted Lisa exactly the way she was, with impeccable detail back when my style wasn't so abstract. She had incredibly long black hair down to her waist and her face was pale and round; her lips seemed like a cute and yet macabre black bow. Her eyes were ready to tear you apart even if she didn't know you. Her tight velvet dress had a matching choker and to top it all I asked her to sit my favorite Siamese cat on her lap, which is probably the reason why she had that shitty expression; they hated each other.


Now I'm gonna hand it over to my drunkenness because I noticed how a very thin black cross was surfacing over Lisa's face, like a crack glowing and growing, glowing and growing...

I wanted to touch it by mere curiosity to see how it real it was and it turns out that I could penetrate it, like going through the looking glass, not sure where it would take me.

And so I went ahead yet it felt even colder than my apartment enough to chill your bones. Finally, when I got to the other side the scenery looked somewhat familiar...I was inside my studio, again! So what the Hell was that all about, for crying out loud.

It must have been around 4 AM already, too much madness for one day truly seemed like I went to a fucked up Wonderland. So I slowly crept back to my bedroom, making sure the hardwood didn´t creak that much.

WAIT...that wasn´t Edith in my bed, and to my sad fate I knew exactly WHO it was...

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One, I personally hate the fact that someone who´s not my girlfriend is constantly bragging me now about my ex-girlfriend and I swear the God I do not wish to call her that. Second, I´m too goddamn superstitious to even get rid of that portrait. Up to now I´m wondering what will happen with if I attempt with all my might to destroy it; will it burn, will it bleed?

It´s not that I automatically assumed that Lisa was some sort of witch but I already kinda was; still, how did Caroline managed to find it? I went back to the studio somewhat light headed to have a look at it, but it turns out that the little dead lady placed it somewhere else and I begged that it wasn´t in a very evident spot or else I would literally hanged.

What rotten favor was I supposed to do for her anyway? I already listened to her enough before I crossed the fine line between sanity and madness. I had to find it somehow, in the middle of the goddamn night...

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