I can see him from where I’m supposed to be. I can
make out the chiseled facial features that form a perfect pale face, so
perfect. I can see the muscles tearing at his white t-shirt as he trudges
through the florescent room. I could have left by now. I should have left by
now. But my body is incapable of doing such things without knowing that whoever
he leaves with tonight, and wraps those tight arms around, will be just as
drunk so that she doesn't have to feel the tortuous mixture of my wrath, his
love, and most likely the excruciating urge of her puke traveling back up the
trachea.
As I circle my way through the parking lot, my
fingers trace the graffiti on the gray, sad bricks next to my cold fragile
body. I can feel my lips begin to quiver, and the sweat starting to trickle off
of the palms of my white hands. I start to imagine myself in her position, the
sweet sensation of being wanted by him. The unforgettable stench of cigarettes
and poisonous, sweet, love that I found once while staring at the stars.
I continue to picture myself isolated into his chest,
and feeling his breath blow onto the surface of my skin, then disintegrate into
the deepest particles of the most inner surface of my soul. I had wanted him
like this before, but something about how that bar reeked of loneliness, and as
the slow music sounded so lifeless, and the liquor managing to make the taste
buds on my tongue feel loved and nonexistent all at the same time.
If this is what fun is, I don’t want to have any of
it anymore.