

Now, the athletic giant has a new facility at the heart of its headquarters to fuel creativity. Innovation has always been at the center of everything Nike does. How Nike’s Massive New LeBron James Innovation Center Will Inform Product Creation for Years to Come She has become too afraid to switch it off. That surviving on burnt toast and Altoids and walking around feeling like her stomach is full of wet matches is just another sacrifice for the man that has given her everything. This is the kind of job that eats away at a person, forces them to really look at themself and wonder, can I live like this? Caroline is a good liar, so she tells herself that what she is doing is living. She tells herself that it’s better than biting her nails or smoking, but she knows that it is all exactly the same, in the end. Brush her hair until her arm aches from lifting it to her head. Sometimes she’ll wash dishes that are already clean. And the fact that she cannot bring herself to feel regretful is what pushes her to drink until she throws up. She is always the one to keep the tests going when the subjects start to scream. It dawns on her one evening that she has probably killed someone. Johnson has become too formal), but no one else could stomach the work. And sure, Cave makes her keep a gun in her desk drawer (and she has started calling him Cave now in her mind because Mr. And sure, she is often forging signatures. She doesn’t remember what that dream had been about. Once she woke with her pillow covered in blood from biting her tongue.

Sometimes it is faceless people clawing at their throats, or a painfully familiar voice chastising her even though it is clearly angry at something else.

More like ugly minglings of whatever happened that day at work. The nightmares aren’t about anything in particular. But there is still that empty feeling of uselessness, of terror at the darkness in the corners of her house that threatens to chew her up and swallow her. The alcohol soothes the urge to scream or cry or slam her fist into her bathroom mirror, and she thanks God for that.

She comes home smelling like the Enrichment Center, sharp and sterile, and turns the television on for some background noise while she washes her face and opens a bottle of wine. Caroline never knows what to do with her hands, after.
