TITLE:		Bad Habits (1/1)
AUTHOR:		Avalon (avalon@fuse.net)
CATEGORY:	MSR, 155 Word Count Challenge
RATING:  	G (What?!?)
DISCLAIMER: Not mine.  But I try to treat them well.
ARCHIVE:	You want it, it's yours.  Please tell 
		me where you're putting it.
FEEDBACK:	Read and answered, thanks.
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SUMMARY:	We all have them, don't we?  The title
		says it all.
AUTHOR'S
NOTES:	Everyone else was doing it, so I had to try
		too.  Conformity is not always a bad thing.


Bad Habits (1/1)

In her neat and orderly world, he is Hurricane Mulder.

The toilet seat raised, calling attention to his presence in 
her household.  The tube of toothpaste squeezed from the 
middle, the cap never replaced.  Whiskers in the sink, its 
porcelain decorated with dollops of shaving cream.  

Running shoes forgotten on the bedroom floor.  A wet 
towel draped from the doorknob.  His reading glasses, 
poised at the stacked pinnacle of books by the bed.  Her 
radio alarm, set now to play rock music instead of classical.

He has too many bad habits.  The surprise of slimy 
sunflower shells.  The orange juice carton left empty.   He 
upsets her equilibrium, her way of life.

She smoked cigarettes once.  They calmed her, helped 
focus her ricocheting mind.  A nasty habit, one whose scent 
permeated her entire existence...but one that she 
perpetually craved.

She smiles softly, wiping the sink.  

He is her bad habit, the one she cannot break.  

 



-- 

  "I would rather be a ghost floating at your side seven days
   and be together, than enter heaven without you.  My love
   for you will always keep me from being a lonely spirit."
			--Mu Bai to Shu Lien, 
			  "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"


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