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It has been a while since I have made an entry. I have had some time to revisit the prologue, here are some excerpts.
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"Don't smoke in the house," his mother snapped as she came through the front door, dressed in her Sunday finery. Sebastian arched a thick brown brow over a bruised eye.
"Make me put it out," he challenged as he took an impudent drag, staring defiantly into her amber eyes. His tail, which he usually wore wrapped around his waist, unfurled and began to sway menacingly. The tip flickered in unconscious agitation. She glared at him and dropped her purse onto the floor.
"Your father will take out of our hide when he gets back."
"I just bet he will," Sebastian retorted. "He definitely won't take it out of yours."
Perhaps he should have kept his mouth shut but he never had been one to listen to anyone, not even his own self. His mother stalked over toward him much quicker than he had anticipated, the sound of the slamming front door echoed loudly in time as her raised hand, nails retracted slapped him hard across the face. The force knocked him onto one knee.
'Disgusting little whore...' Not his thoughts. His mother's. He slanted his eyes up to meet hers. She still had a few inches of height on him with each half year the differences decreasing.
"Calling the kettle black are we, mother?" She took a step back, amber eyes widening in fear, her own ears now folded back in contrition, barely hidden within her own dark brown hair. "If I'm a whore, so are you, just much worse."
"Devil spawn," she hissed. "No wonder why he goes to your bed."
Sebastian laughed bitterly as he picked the ragged stick of nicotine out of his mouth, his own immature claws extending against his will. He fumbled and dropped it on the floor. He stepped onto it, extinguishing the lit end under a sneaker clad foot. Casually he watched it burn a hole into the carpet.
"Must be missing something in yours," he said, his words filled with the acid contempt he felt for them both, but especially her. He got to his feet and shoved past her. He could feel his nape hairs raised and his head hairs expanding more. "You can have the bastard back. I certainly never wanted him."
She glared at him, his back to her, "I should have left you on the street the moment you were born."
"Love you too," he told her. He turned toward her, for one moment she was able to meet his gaze. His smile mocked her. She turned away. Nothing would be the same between them, it was her moment for her epiphany and he knew she wasn't even worth hating. With a soft laugh Sebastian headed up to his room, slamming the door shut.
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Sebastian turned his stereo on and popped in a bass heavy rock CD, setting the volume as loud as he could stand it. The volume made his ears hurt and the window glass shake in its frame, he didn't care. Throwing himself onto the bed he flung an arm over his eyes and tried to ignore the headache that was pounding out a counter rhythm to the music. Another fucking migraine, hopefully he wouldn't develop nausea. For a time all that existed was the music that chased away the voices in his head. He'd lost track of the time but that did not matter anymore. Suddenly, a weight pressed down on his bed and he moved his arm, staring dispassionately at the drunk figure of his father sitting beside him.
"What do you want?" He hissed, even though he knew very well what the man wanted. Sebastian doubted his father could hear him anyway. He never did. Silently, he reached for the boy, green eyes blood shot and glazed over from too much liquor. Yes, he may be drunk, but he knew exactly what he was doing. Sebastian attempted to move away as a fist slammed into his gut much faster than he could dodge. The impact drove the air out of his lungs. With a choked gasp Sebastian curled around the pain, rolling onto his side. He didn't know how long he remained immobilized by his pain or when he became aware of a heavy body pressing down on top of his own, blunt fingers forcing his chin up. Always, he was required to face him. Instinctively he let his body become limp, a body manipulated as if by knotted strings. Lying there on his bed, glassy brown eyes, wide...vision tunneling at the view of a white ceiling. Sebastian let the pain drag him into oblivion as it always did, his father's mind all the while whispering obscenities into his own.
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Marti poured him another shot of vodka. His fifth. Maybe his sixth? He didn't know anymore. He had lost count after they had finished the Tequila bottle and were now making in roads on the vodka. Marti was sitting across from him at the bar counter. He was standing.
"Sunday fucked you again, didn't he?" She asked as causually as her slurred speech would allow. Chocolate rolled his eyes. She could be a real bitch.
"That obvious?" He knew his voice didn't project any bravado as much as he tried, he was still a little self conscious.
Marti smirked and waved at him nonchalantly, "You're not sitting down are you?"
"I don't want to," He muttered into his drink, shifting uncomfortably on his feet.
"Figured you wouldn't."
They were at the club again, like always. This day she was dessed in a red matte leather dress and overly bright red lipstick, blonde hair falling over one shoulder. Chocolate wore a pair of beige skater pants and an oversized long sleeved tee shirt, it bore the symbol of the Transformer Deceptacon on the back. His brown hair uncombed and falling over his bruised eyes. Marti set down her shot glass and rested her elbow on the bar's counter. She sighed.
"You look tired," She said softly.
"Mind your own damned business," He growled, the last thing he wanted from her was her to be openly sympathetic. She shrugged.
"If you want me to."
Chocolate stared moodily down at his drink. With a grimace he downed the bitter liquid and wiped his lips on his sleeve.
"Anyone here for you tonight?" He asked.
"None with any good shit. No one you'd want to trade for. Trust me on that," Marti told him. "Why? You hearing voices again?"
He gave her a bitter smile. "I always hear voices, Marti. They never go away."
She nodded and put a cigarette to her lips and lit it. Offering him one out of her case. He took it and lit it off of hers.
"My poor crazy, milk chocolate head. What will I do with you?" She mused and chuckled.
"Watch me die, just like you watch everyone else dying," he retorted. She nodded slowly, blue eyes empty.
"Mind if I join you on that journey to hell?"
"There's room for us all, to hell," he told her with a wide, empty smile. Marti threw back her head and laughed wildly.
"I just bet you can, Chocolate. I just bet you can."
He reached into his pocket and fingered the last bills there. With a sigh he drew it out and stared down at it. He shrugged.
"Not enough for anything, much less for the silence, " he whispered, more to himself than to her.
Marti took a deep drag on her cigarette and blew out the smoke, crushing it out on the countertop, "You that desperate?"
He clenched his hand into a fist accidentally triggering his nails to unsheathe, he nicked himself, cursing he pocketed the bloodied money.
"For the silence," he told her through clenched teeth. "But you already know that."
Marti nodded and slid off the stool. She looked at him as if seeing him for the first time.
"You willing to take my jobs tonight?" She moved closer to him fingering his hair and taking out her make up searching for a concealer to hide the bruises over his cheeks and under his eyes.
He eyed her, "For what?"
"Two lines. Almost as good as a shot." Marti selected a shade and began rubbing her small finger into the mixture. Chocolate pondered this offer for a moment, but they both knew what the answer would be. He moved his face closer to her awaiting finger and allowed her to apply the concealer.
"Deal," he said.
"Then come on. I'll take you to your first customer." Marti stated after finishing the application.
"Why tonight?" He asked her as she led him into the main part of the club.
"That time of the month." She lied.
"Oh. Right." He chided, letting her know he knew the truth. But she would protect his pride even as she knew he wouldn't admit to appreciating it.
"Give me three-fourths of the cut and I'll make sure you get your lines." Marti promised.
"No, problem." Chocolate nodded, "I know the drill."
She smiled mockingly at him, she ruffled his head hair, "I just bet you do."
He ignored her and shoved her forward.
"Move," he snapped. Like he had said, he'd do anything for the silence.
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