way of being

Bernhard 2022-09-17 05:49:39

On a midsummer night, 17-year-old Isabelle hurriedly handed over her debut to the tourists who met by chance by the sea. She looked at herself crushed on the beach with a cold face, as if she was watching an innocuous good show.

Back at school after the holidays, she was someone else: a prostitute who pretended to be an adult and showed her body online looking for customers. Her customers are all kinds of people, and they are all fascinated by her beauty. Even her stepfather said: She is beautiful enough to do anything. Young and beautiful, she came to know and be herself in an unethical way—in her own words: I want to do it.

Overdraft luck cost her. The guest who gave her the honor died beneath her, she fled with money in panic, and the escalator leading to the ground heralded her falling into the abyss in ignorance.

The prostitute's disguise is dismantled. Her mother's questioning was insignificant in her eyes, because the righteous and awe-inspiring woman in front of her was just a cheater. What really tormented her was the death of that man - made her lose her desires and senses; made her cynical and masked her fears with mischievous fearlessness; made her life into a long winter, cold and bleak, and no one wanted to trust her , she also disdains to trust people. So when she met a warm boy, she desperately grabbed the straw, eager to catch him to make her return to "normal".

spring is coming. When everyone thought that everything was finally on the right track and this rebellious girl finally recovered, she said to the boy: I don't love you.

She stood on the escalator leading to the hotel again, and the escalator took her up until it was bathed in sunlight. She met the wife of the man who died under her in the hotel. This woman has a beauty similar to hers, just more aged. They were lying face to face on the bed, and she seemed to see herself in a parallel world—the future self who locked desire into fantasy, lived a proud life in morality, and finally paid the price.

What choice will Isabel, who has just woken up from her dream, make?

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  • L'homme de la Mercedes: What's your name?

    Isabelle: Isabelle.

    L'homme de la Mercedes: Isabelle... What a lovely name. And you're 17. Have you ever done this before?

    Isabelle: Yes, what do you want?

    L'homme de la Mercedes: A blowjob but without condom.

    Isabelle: Sure.

    L'homme de la Mercedes: [after they have sex at the backseat of the car] Wow. You're pretty good at this for a 17 year old girl. Do you know what they say?

    Isabelle: What?

    L'homme de la Mercedes: Once a whore, always a whore!

    [laughs]

    Isabelle: Yeah?