A Thousand Broken Dreams

She woke up, panting again, breathing to steady her own betraying body. So it was a lie, a dream, I wasn't there,and neither was he, she tried smiling in relief, but it was a pathetic attempt. She decided she needed a drink, stood and realized she had severe cashes down each of her thighs, as though someone clawed through her fragile pale skin.
"No, no, no,no, no" she stumbled back, trying to escape whatever monsters were that she pictured. She ran her fingers over the cuts on her small legs, wiping some of the remaining blood off. She dragged herself into her younger sister Melanie's room, where the child laid unperturbed.
"Meli, can I sleep with you" she asked her younger sister, who groaned, and rolled over in response. The other girl slid into the bed, wrapping the covers over both her and her younger sister. She quicky drifted off to sleep.
"How could you" it was her mothers voice which first pulled her out of the darkness of her nights. She shifted.
"How could you" the yell came again, ofrcing her to open her eyes. In her arms laid the body of her younger sister, cuts running down her neck and to her stomach, neat lines on each of her thights, and several small cuts on her face. A knife in her hand, blood all over the both of them. She looked down, dropping the knife on the floor, the clatter echoing across the room. When had all this happened?