๐๐๐๐๐;
Marcus knew it was a bad habit.
Smoking, drinking, fucking; they were all ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ฉ๐จ. Stupid impulses driven by the stupid monkey brain housed inside Marcus Arguello's stupid fucking head. The same head that couldn't pick between the two most dangerous women at Kings Dominion, the same head that currently boasted a slew of injuries for his indecision.
Splattered into a Picasso mess of bruises and blood, Marcus' right eye was already swelling closed. He'd felt his cheekbone shatter under Chico's fist, his nose crunching in quick succession. Dual trails of crimson trickled from his nose, into his mouth, where he tongued at the fleshy hole that used to contain a tooth. The bridge of his nose bloomed with constellation bruises, the purple-yellow splotches peppered with microcuts from aggressive jewellery. Splotchy, lumpy, bumpy and bloody - Marcus Arguello; walking roadkill.
Fat lip stinging around his dwindling cigarette, Marcus blew wobbling smoke rings into the dusky evening. He was used to it now; the copper taste of blood in his mouth, the dull ache throbbing in his temples, the rosy rings around his spent cigarette stubs. He'd wash it away with a mouthful of whatever alcohol-adjacent contraband Lex had smuggled into the school - whiskey, vodka, fucking moonshine. Tonight though, the best he could find was ๐ฑ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ.
It'd do. He'd adopted worse habits from living on the streets, and finding a high almost anywhere ended up as more of a blessing than a curse. Throwing back the dayglo blue liquid, Marcus winced. It scalded his throat on the way down, and stung the toothless cavities in his mouth. Sighing and spitting a shot of fizzing blood to the concrete, Marcus mumbled an admission into the temperate night.
"You fuckin' deserve it, Arguello."
๐๐บ ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ญ๐บ ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ด๐ด, ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ง๐ข๐ท ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ช๐ค ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ (๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฃ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ท ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด) ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฐ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต, ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ต๐ค๐ฉ ๐ช๐ต. ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ค๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ Rick Remender.
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Originally written and shared as part of Verbuary 2022: https://tinyurl.com/bp7fc4da
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