Pride comes before the fall, chapter 2

Chapter 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/timebombchallenge/comments/t4zg6j/pride_comes_before_the_fall_writing/

The bus ride home was a blur. There was a curious lack of feeling as if Lena were a passenger in her own body. There was emptiness where there should have been panic and anxiety. Her body went through the motions of the journey home and it was only when she stood before the door of her studio that the weight of what happened hit her. Lena took the stairs with a tremble in her legs, her coat and scarf had kept her warm but beneath the layers, there was a cold sweat. Her head swam and Lena felt as if she might collapse with each step.

The drive with the little devil emoji hadn’t left her hand since stepping onto the bus. But now that Lena stood across from her laptop, she was reluctant to cross the distance, instead her eyes wandered over the room until they fell on her bed. Her favorite toy, Mr. Purple, lay innocently on the top, along with a few of his friends. Just hours before Lena had lain with them, naked and hunched over her phone with the vibrator buzzing against her clit. So lost in the excitement that came with the hunt for her drive that she had reveled in every shock that coursed through her body. The sheets were rumpled while Lena’s pillow was on the ground with several stains. Half her studio looked like it came from an amateur porn scene.

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Step by careful step, Lena drew close to her destination. A nervous energy had taken hold of her body, urging her to go faster. The blonde wanted to run, to make her feet pound the floor in the same way that her heart was pounding against her ribs. Lena wanted to but knew that she couldn’t.

Despite the nerves edging her on, Lena couldn’t race through the corridors without attracting attention. Ikea had many hidey-holes but it there were always customers as well and Lena didn’t know which were the ones hunting her. From the moment she had set a foot inside Lena had been sporting a blush on her cheeks at what she’d hidden in the building. Each time her eyes lifted from her feet the gazes of the people around her burned into her skin. As if they knew what she’d hidden here. With a shallow breath, a thundering heart and a wetness that made itself known with each step, Lena kept walking.