She snuck up on me while I was looking at my cluttered desk with unfocused eyes searching for inspiration in the depths of my sleepy mind at 12 o'clock in the night.
I'd been stupid. Very stupid.
Dropped my guard. Stopped jigging in my chair which must've kept her at bay for hours.
And she was clever - went right for my weak spot.
She slowly came closer towards my hand. The very tips of our forelimbs touched and I felt something on the surface of my fingernail. Perhaps I thought I imagined it, or maybe I was too engrossed in search for inspiration. Whatever the reason may be, I ignored this sensation.
My mistake.
I was going to pay for this in blood.
The stupid search for inspiration in my sleepy mind went on and all the while she bided her time.
She probably gawked at my dozing form with her hungry eyes, no I mean it, literally hungry eyes.
She could hardly resist my tempting body, its warmth, and my breath was too sweet.
Ten silent minutes later, craving had nearly driven her to insanity, she could no longer control her primeval desires. She gave in to the urge..
Her mistake. Could've costed her a lot if she wasn't so damn lucky.
She was not going to pay for this with her life.
She touched me. I had a mild tingling sensation on the surface of my skin. It was mysteriously pleasant. Then the feeling grew more intense.
I snapped into DEFCON 1.
It took me a splitsecond to realize her presence and intentions. My reflexes triggered an impressively aggressive and quick response. I shook my hand and she hurriedly backed off. I wanted to slap her hard with both hands and brutally murder her.
The mad, angry, insane part of my head said, "See her bleed!!"
The calmer, tired, almost sane part of my head argued, "But that would mean noise, waking the whole house at midnight (including mama), then you would bleed..."
Saner minds prevailed.
I went to bed. She was already there. I fell asleep, there was no escape. She probably siphoned my ichor with mad pleasure until she bloated.
Next day I woke up with an annoying itch. I took one-hundred and sixty-nine rupees from my younger brother's piggy bank (surreptitiously, of course) and went to the grocer's. I bought a pressurized can of a chemical agent used to keep the likes of her away. I was going to hit her with Godrej Hit.
And just in case you're a slow one : Only female mosquitoes suck blood. They sense the presence of humans by detecting the carbon dioxide we exhale and are always attracted to human skin. You're very vulnerable to them while dozing off at your desk with the window open. The defense readiness condition(DEFCON) is an alert state used by the United States Armed Forces. Godrej Hit is a mosquito repellent( very effective, haven't had problems with her ever since I bought it.)
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