Post by veronicaaaahhhh on Jun 7, 2014 23:14:37 GMT -5
-1-
Hail Hail
“You can’t sleep?”
“No, I can not.”
“You wanna talk about it?”
“… Maybe, I don’t know.”
Enchanted got up from the bed and leaned over Slanted so she could switch on the lamp.
“Come on, let’s talk.”
“…”
Enchanted got herself back to her spot on the bed, the one right against the wall and propped her pillow up as she sat back and lit a cig.
“See, this is the thing that bugs me about you.”, Enchanted began and she looked down as Slanted to was still lying on his side, facing the opposite direction. “When something bugs the sh*t out of you, you don’t even try to talk to me. You just do something else and hope that it distracts you enough that it goes away.”
“I don’t want to bother you about it.”
“Dude.”, Enchanted shot out. “You don’t want to bother me?! I f*ckin’ bother with your dork *ss all the time!”
Slanted shrugged.
“Which, if you haven’t noticed, shows just how much I love you! So, just please- baby, for me. Drop the tough guy stick and talk to your girlfriend.”
Slanted turned over to Enchanted and looked at her smiling, shrugging slightly that he was close to a chuckle.
Enchanted grabbed Slanted’s hand and leaned down at him. “I’m here and I’m not going anywhere.”
Slanted kissed Enchanted’s hand and dropped his head over her lap; stretching out his hand to get a puff of Enchanted’s cigarette.
Enchanted passed the cigarette and Slanted took a drag.
“… I’m just-”
“It’s okay.”
“-I’m just so tired of losing. And I don’t get it, you know? Even though, I fall on my *ss time after time after time, it isn’t like I’m not trying. I’m trying and I am doing the best I can, but no matter what I do- it just doesn’t want to go the way I want.”
“Dude, not for nothing, but in all the time we’ve spent in the WFWF, they’ve put us in front of their biggest names. We have value, we’ve gotta mean something if they’re giving us this kind of treatment.”
“… I know.”, Slanted shrugged.”But… That’s good enough for me.”
“What?”
“Yeah, I’m grateful for all that stuff, but it never felt like I deserved it. Like, it’s all been some kind of fluke that we’re even here.”
“It’s not.”
Slanted took one more drag and handed it back to Enchanted, who tipped some of the ash on the ashtray before taking it back to her lips for a drag of her own.
“I can’t help it, as stupid as it sounds. I want to be the best, I want to do everything perfectly.”
“But dude”, Enchanted said, pulling the cigarette away from her lips, exhaling. “How do you know if what you’re doing is perfect if you aren’t even allowing yourself to f*ck up?”
Enchanted turned her head and took another drag, a quick one this time. “I don’t even know why you can’t believe in yourself sometimes.”
“I’m afraid to f*ck up.”
“Don’t be.” Enchanted smile, running her fingers now over Slanted’s hair. “I’ve made a lot of f*ck ups in my short existence, and for better or worse, I don’t try to regret any of it because every f*ck up led me to you.”
Slanted held Enchanted’s hand. “You mean that right?”
“I am so close to slapping you!”
“I kid!”, Slanted shot out, laughing
“F*cker!”, Enchanted shot back, slapping Slanted’s arm so hard that the cigarette flew out of her hand and landed on the bed.
Slanted quickly grabbed it and placed it gently on the rim of the ashtray and looked up at Enchanted.
“I can’t do this to myself.”
“You’re too hard on yourself.” Enchanted sighed, pressing her hand on his shoulder. “Just, let it go and enjoy ride. Like, we both know how good you are- you can wrestle. A lot better too than half the dudes who wrestle there! You’ve got what it takes and I’m not saying that as your girlfriend, I’m saying that to you because it’s true.”
“I guess I just have to do my best and try to win.”
“Don’t f*cking try. Do it. Win.”
Slanted took a deep breath and nodded.
“Like not for nothing, but you got me.”
“You weren’t easy.”
“I’m sure I wasn’t.”
“You were worth it though.”
Enchanted leaned forward and with her boobs resting perfectly against Slanted’s head (not that he minded it or anything. It was really nice) and then kissed Slanted softly on the lips. “I’m glad you think so.”.
-2-
Jump Start
With Nirvana’s cover of “Molly Lips” cracked up so hard on his headphones that you could have sworn that his brains we’re literally going to explode all over the place, Rob walked all over sunshine, just thinking about that girl he met the other day.
Renee.
The girl with the pretty face that kind of looked like the moon.
They met at Planted Sound, one of the last good remaining record stores in Little Olympia. Rob was there for a Fugazi album, and Renee wanted a- well, she said so many things that he forgot exactly what she came in for- he knows, he knows. It sucks but he’s really hoping that it’ll come back to him the more he thinks about her.
Which is a whole lot.
“Huh.”, Rob said, stopping right in the middle of the street. “… I think I might have a crush on this girl.”
Rob thought about it again.
“Okay.”, Rob shrugged, taking a step forward that he didn’t see the car coming in from the other direction. And the Honda would have totally hit him too, if it wasn’t for a certain stoner who just happened to click her heels and spear him across the gut so hard that the guy straight up flew to the sidewalk.
“The f*ck?!”
“You didn’t see the car that was coming?”
Rob picked himself up and dusted off as he looked over at Penny and replied, “No?”
“Well, there was one and if my black *ss wasn’t here, you’d be roadkill.”
“But you’re not black.”
“I very well could have been.”
“But you’re not.”
“That isn’t the issue. The issue is that you could have just died or, got the very least gotten paralyzed from the waist down. But that really would suck because that’d mean you can’t have sex anymore and stuff. So yeah… Thank me for saving you.”
“Thanks for saving me Penny!”
Penny crossed her arms and shrugged, “It’s cool. So, what made you decide to stop in the middle of the road?”
“A girl.”
Penny smiled. “Alright, I’m going to cut you lose on that one.”
“I think I like her.”
“You did stop in the middle of the street just to think about her.”
Rob scratched his head and shrugged, “Guess I did, didn’t I?”
Penny smiled and hooked her around Rob’s and pulled him close. “Wanna walk me to work and tell me all about it?”
“Yes, m’am!”, Rob shot out, saluting Penny
Penny giggled. “After you, good sir!”.
“Are you sure we can smoke here?”
Penny looked back at Rob. “Dude, it’s ten o’clock on a Sunday morning. Who the hell is coming into this store?”
Rob shrugged. “Alright, since you work here.”
“I’m the manager, I can do as I please.”
“Oh that’s right. You and you’re bro take turns?”
“Yup, yup.”
Penny opened up the Whistle-Stop and held the door open for Rob. Penny came in after him, locked the door and switched the lights on.
“So we’re smoking in the store?”
Penny marched after Rob and shot out, “Nah, the stockroom.”
“Cool.”, Rob shrugged, following in after her.
Penny plopped herself on top of a crate, sat down In’jun style and pulled the joint from the pouch of her hoodie.
“From what you’ve been telling me dude, it really sounds like you like this girl.”
“Yeah.”
“But, it’s only been what? Day?”
Rob was going to open his mouth and say something, but Penny cut him through it. “I mean like, I know totally where you’re coming from. It happens to me all the time! But take it from me, try to enjoy this for what it is and try not to get your hopes up too much.”
“But I want to get my hopes up!”, Rob shot back
Penny rolled her eyes and chuckled. “Oh hun, we always want to get our hopes up.”
Rob sat down next to Penny as she lit the joint, took a quick hit and passed it over. “Talk to me, dude.”
Rob took a few quick hits and passed it back over to Penny; it was just so obvious that the kid just started smoking.
“It’s just…”
“Say it.”
“It’s just that it’s been a long, long time since I’ve had something like a girl in my head this way. And it’s weird… It’s like before that, I wasn’t thinking about anything, even though I was.”
Penny took a hit. “I think I know where this is going.”
“And I had all these things and this girl comes along and makes me feel like there was something missing and she’s this missing piece to it all. And the world looks a lot new because of it.”
“WOW.”
“What?”
Penny passed the joint back to Rob. “You’ve got it bad.”
“Yeah?”, Rob asked back, hitting the joint.
“That was so
ing deep.”“I’m sorry.”
“No, don’t be. You
in’ hit the nail right in the head with that.”Rob passed the joint back. “It’s pretty obvious I’ve been thinking about this girl a lot, huh?”
“It is.”
“Yeah, I’m thinking about her a lot more than I should.”
“It’s fine, dude. Girls do that.”, Penny said, pressing the joint to her lips for a drag.
“What do you think?”
Penny blew smoke from the side of her lips and replied, “That’s up to you.”
“Then what do you think I should do, then?”
“Keep the crush, play it cool.” Penny replied, passing back the joint. “Just don’t expect too much, but hey, if you actually think that somewhere down the line you could get this girl and win her over, then more power to you bro!”
Rob smiled. “Thanks, Penny.”
Penny hugged Rob. “It’s what I’m here for!”
The hug didn’t last too long because just as Penny got settled in, her brother Kevin stormed into the stockroom and found himself struck by the dank, moist stench of burnt herb.
“JESUS-F*CKING-CHRIST, PENNY!”
“Chill, dude!”
“There’s people out here!”
“I locked up the store when I came in.”
“Yeah, and I opened it.”
“
.”, Penny said, marching up as she handed the joint to her brother. She was still trying to get used to that bread thing he was growing- he looked like in’ Affleck in Chasing Amy!“Hold this. I’ll get the Glade.”
“Thank you.”
Penny stormed out of the stockroom, leaving Kevin and Rob alone with each other.
… They we’re very quiet.
“…”
“…”
“… Is it chill if I finish that joint?”.
To Rob’s surprise, Penny’s brother actually gave him the joint under the condition that he smoked it outside and bought something in the store, just as long as it was over five bucks.
Rob sat on top of the dumpster behind the Whistle-Stop and had his headphones on again, chilling out this time to Coldplay (Rob didn’t even know what he was doing listening to Coldplay to begin with, let alone why it was even on his iPod)as he finished what was left of the joint.
“… Coldplay t-shirt!”, Rob muttered as a stare of deep thought and eventual realization wore itself across his face into a grin. “… A COLDPLAY T-SHIRT!”
A light-bulb practically turned itself on inside Rob’s head.
“That’s what she came in for! A Coldplay t-shirt!”, Rob shot out. “YES! I knew I didn’t forget it!”
“-HEY!”
The sudden pat on the shoulder took Rob by surprise, that he over reacted, jumped into the air in what looked like some attempt to look over his shoulder and because of that, he fell off the dumpster, just landing on his back over the pavement.
Rob blinked for a couple moments until his vision started to settle into the sight of Renee’s face, crept up against the right of his field of vision; that red hair dangling over her pretty moon face.
“I am so sorry, I didn’t mean to surprise you like that.”
Rob closed his eyes and opened them again just to make sure he was looking at what he thought he was looking at.
“… Hi.”
“Heya!”
… Rob closed his eyes again and opened them (again), and there she was, Renee. The girl from the Record Store.
“OH!”, Rob shot out as started to get back to his feet.
Renee extended her hand. “Need a little help?”
Rob waved her off. “I’m good. What’re you doing here?”
“I was here for a pack of cigarettes and I started to hear some dude scream about Coldplay.”
“Which is a pretty random thing to be screaming about on a Sunday morning.”
“So naturally, I just had to come over and see what the whole fuzz was about, and low and behold, it’s you.”
“That’s cool, I guess.”
Renee eyed the joint. “Mind if I take a hit off that?”
Rob passed it over. “Please!”
Renee brought the joint over to her lips but didn’t seem to be getting anything from it.
“I think it’s dead…”
“Wait up.”, Rob said as he dug into his pockets and fished out a lighter.
Rob smiled as he motioned a little closer to her, covering one hand over the lighter as he lit the joint for her.
Renee started taking quick pull, getting the ember going until it was full enough to take the joint away and give it a nice drag.
Renee coughed and handed Rob back the joint. “So, what we’re you doing screaming about Coldplay?”
“Uhm…”, Rob trailed out, scratching the back of his own head, just trying to thinking of something else to say. “There was a song that came into my head when I woke up this morning and remembered it was Coldplay.”
“That’s cool. I like Coldplay.”
“Yeah, I know.”, Rob said, taking a hit off the roach.
“How do you know that?”
Rob’s eyes shot out as he belched out a cough of smoke.
“Woah, you okay?”
“Yeah, I’m fine.”, Rob coughed. “… Smoke went down the wrong tube.”
“Gotcha.”
“So anyway, how do I know you like Coldplay?”
“We’re back on that?”
“Well, you asked a question and I feel like I should reply to it.”
Renee laughed. “You’re a funny guy, Rob.”
Rob smiled and turned his head away. “Glad you think so.”
“So, why do you know I like Coldplay?”
“Because you bought a Coldplay t-shirt when I met you at Planet Sound.”
“Very observant. I did buy a Coldplay t-shirt.”
“How come you’re not wearing it now?”, Rob asked, passing Renee back the joint.
“It’s Sunday, I’m really just waiting for the right time to unleash it into the world.”
“And when’s that gonna be?”
“This time tomorrow, sociology.”
“Cool.”
“…”
“…”
“…”
“… You doing anything today?”
“Not a damn thing.”
“You wanna hang out?”
“Yeah.”, Renee smiled, looking up at Rob.
Somewhere past midnight, Rob and Renee just found themselves completely baked in the floor of her dorm. She didn’t have a roommate, so the place was just all hers.
“Huh.”
“What is it?”
“I just noticed there are stars in your ceiling.”
“My stars!”, Renee giggled softly as she held out her arms and sighed
“It’s really cool to look at.”
“I like looking at them before I sleep.”
“… What do you have to say that?”
“What is it?”
“Nothing.”, Rob shrugged. “Just forget I said anything.”
“No, what is it?”
“… I-it’s just that…”
“… Well?”
“You say things like that and bah, it just makes me like you more!”
“Well of course we like each other, we’re friends.”
… There was that word again… Friends… What does that even mean?
Rob leaned to his side and got close to Renee.
“… Do you like me?”
“…”
“And I mean that in more like, is it a kind of fond attraction that could become a crush or something, someday?”
Renee turned to her belly and smiled at Rob. “I don’t know yet.”
“Is there anything I can do to swing it that way?”
“Keep making me laugh and just don’t be so nervous around me.”
Rob smiled and turned his head away (again).
“If it means anything, we wouldn’t be here right now if I didn’t like you on some kind of level.”
“That’s true.”
“So, stop worrying about it.”
“I will.”, Rob said, nodding his head.
“…”
“…”
“… Anything else?”
Rob closed his eyes and nodded. “Yeah, one more question.”
“Ask me.”
“… Can I kiss you?”
Renee chuckled and rolled her eyes. “Did you just ask permission to kiss me?”
“Yes, I did.”
“…”
“… So, what’s it going to be?”
“You’re lucky I find you cute.”
“So, that’s a yes?”
Renee rolled her eyes and chuckled (again). “Just shut up and kiss me already!”
“Okay.”, Rob said, taking a deep breath, closing his eyes until he felt the touch of Renee’s soft lips against his, opening just a little.
Rob and Renee held on to the kiss long enough just to tease each other with the promise of a little tongue.
Renee pulled away. “You asked for a kiss, not a make out.”
“Can we make out instead then?”
Renee punched Rob in the arm, grabbed him by the collar and pulled him over her. “You cute little f*cker!”
Rob leaned close, but Renee put up her hand.
“Look, I don’t want you expecting anything, okay? We’re just making out, yeah?”
Rob eased off Renee and held himself. “Oh you mean sex?”
“What else am I talking about?”
“Just making sure.”, Rob replied. “But I didn’t come here looking to sleep with you or anything. I’m just happy to be here with you, making out.”
Renee smiled up at him. “You mean it?”
“I’m not here for sex, I’m here for you.”
Renee gave him one of those “Are you for real?” kind of look, and he was.
“Okay, I know how that sounds like… So let me explain.”
“I’m not even saying anything…”
“…”
“Relax, dude.”
“Renee, you’re
ing cool.”, Rob began. “And I don’t care if you think that me saying that is some kind of lame attempt to get into your pants. I mean that sincerely.”“I don’t know what to say.”
“Well, it’s true and I hate how my brain melts and malfunctions around you, because you’re cool and cute and we get along and I don’t anything weird to get in the way of something that could be great, so maybe it’s best if I let it all out now and got it out of the way because at least I know that after tonight, there won’t be any awkwardness around us and we’ll be cool, like two responsible grown-ups.”
“Good to know.”, Renee said. “… Thank you for that.”
“You’re welcome.”, Rob said. “Can I still kiss you?”
“No.”
“Oh…”
“Dork!”
“You’re one to talk!”
Rob and Renee laughed at each other and rolled their eyes (again). They leaned close enough that their noses started to tip and almost instinctively, they just went for it- picking right up from where the first kiss left off.
-An hour and a half later-
… Rob and Renee’s clothes were scattered all over her floor, spread out and curved just perfectly right that it looked like a map of the f*cking world!
“… Well, that escalated quickly.”
“Right?!”, Renee shot back.
And there they were, buck naked on Renee’s bed with nothing but her sheets and a couple pillows to cover them.
-3-
You And Me And The Moon
“… And the rest as they all say”, Enchanted sighed. “Is history… You went into my dorm that night with every intention of standing your ground and making me your girlfriend, and you weren’t a jerk about it… Even up to now, I still don’t know what it was that made me said yes to you.”
“A love roofie!”, Slanted shot back, pointing his finger into the air as he lay his head over Enchanted’s belly.
Enchanted slapped him on the arm. “The f*ck dude?! Here I was singing praise to the only guy who actually seemed to respect me and you’re telling me you slipped me a love roofie?!”
“You poisoned my heart first!”
“With what?”
“Your charms.”, Slanted :3’d
Enchanted chuckled and grabbed Slanted’s hand. “You’re such a dork.”
“I’m a dork that’s going to kick some butt and win the two of us titles- you’ll see it’s going to happen.”
“That’s what we always say.”
“But we’re going to do it, my god we’re going to do it. It shouldn’t too hard.”
“Go on…”
“Why?”
“I want you to finish this train of thought.”, Enchanted said, leaning forward
Slanted leaned back and looked at her. “Alright.”
“Good.”, Enchanted sighed.
But then, Slanted marched forward. “Each and every time they’ve called me up, they’ve given me nothing but chances. And I was so consumed by the very thought of losing that I didn’t realize that the only person stopping me from getting the job done and becoming something really special was me.
It was me all along…
I was a face running away from my own heel and you know what I let him do to me?-”
“He r*ped you?!”, Enchanted shot back.
“HE DID R*PE ME!”, Slanted shot back, pointing his finger to Enchanted. “He made feel insecure and made me feel inadequate that I couldn’t get the job done when it was perfectly clear to everybody else that not only could have I actually beaten all those icons they put before me, but I can do it sooo good that you aren’t going to see it coming.”
Enchanted sauntered over and hung her elbow over Slanted’s arm, leaning up against him now.
“But I didn’t realize it now and holy cat piss, what a revelation!”
“His eyes’a open, mah gawd!”, Enchanted praised. “He can see!”
Slanted grabbed Enchanted and gave her a big-f*ckin’ wet one right in the lips and praised back, “MAH GURL, I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW!”
“Does this mean what I think it means?”, Enchanted whispered seductively.
“You’re damn right, babe!”, Slanted shot out as he and Enchanted looked into the imaginary camera in front of them. “Now that I know how good we really are, there’s not a damn thing that can stop us from being all those things.”
“The only limitations we have are ourselves.”
“And look at us! We can totally get over ourselves!”
“I remind you when you’re being an overgrown man-child and you stop me from being a stubourn b*tch.”
“And our lives are perfect because of it!”
“There are people who write about us on the internet!”
“You see?” Slanted shot out, looking back again into the invisible camera. “Yeah, I know we’ve f*cked up but the age of failure after failure is over because it’s about time me and my girl made superstars of ourselves.”
“-His girl!”
“Which is something my opponent, William Hesse probably doesn’t have nor will ever have because all he does all day is mope around and pretend he’s something he isn’t.”
Enchanted coughed. "We do that too..."
“Oh right.”, Slanted said, looking down at Enchanted. “Anyway, I have a girlfriend and he doesn’t and that just easily makes me so much more awesome than him! And even more awesome is that the two of us are going to kick his sorry butt so hard that once this match is over, we’d have created a new hole in his body that they’re going to name after us.”
“Right in the Slanted!”
“My Enchanted’s acting up again!”
Enchanted kissed Slanted’s cheek and :3’d, “Awwww, you hear that, my boyfriend has an Enchanted.”
And then Slanted jumped into the air and looked at Enchanted, grabbing her as he brought her in real close.
“Idea!”
“Oh?!”
“We should see what happens when we rub your Slanted on my Enchanted!”
Enchanted xD’d, “Yes, please!”
And with that, Slanted scooped Enchanted into his arms and made a mad run for his bed.
“Sexy time, b*tchez!”.
