“Oh, baby,” Lana echoed below her breath, lips barely bobbing with how softly each syllable fell. “You sound like a black and white movie.” Not bothering to disclose an explanation in typical Lana style, she abandoned the train of thought in the space of another blink, leaping like a flea to the next topic. “Kind of depressing, sometimes – remembering the whole ‘straight’ thing. Like, I’ll spend a few nights in gay clubs, in a row, and completely forget other people exist. It’s fun, sometimes. Mentally ejecting yourself to Mars, or whatever.” Begrudgingly springing upright, Lana sifted over a fresh stain on her thigh. Her eyebrows never once furrowed. She found it difficult to care about bumps and smudges – in her eyes, they were the girl scout badges of a day lived wild. “Brett? Like, Aldana?” she attempted to place him before Cleo had finished, nose crinkling once she did. “Ew, gross. Probably not Aldana. He’s the worst, but I don’t think he’s… that kind of worst. Anyway, no. I think this guy’s name was… Um.” She itched lazily at her temple. “Ryan? Br–… Brian? Whatever. It’s gone. It’s salad in the wind, now.” Rectifying her posture with a hand on the bench she’d found a seat on, Lana leaned her weight against it, other pulling her cup close to take a sip. “Think we should cut a lock of hair out, each, and throw them together in a cauldron? Go new wave Lana del Rey and hex him? Brett, I mean. Bad Brett. Or we could stomp off all of his toes. Pick them up, when they fall, and throw them into a sandwich bag. Shake like a homemade maraca.”
“Yeah. Heterosexuality is a plague to the earth,” she said as she leaned back, fixating on her white lighter as she flickered the flame on and off. She’d always known white lighters were a symbol of bad luck, but that was why she liked them. If anything, it was the one thing she collected -- this one was a Joy Division-branded lighter that said “Disorder” in black lettering that she found on the ground a few weeks prior. “Stoker,” she corrected Lana. “Brett Stoker. A name too similar to Bram Stoker, quite frankly, the poor bastard. His parents really had it out for him considering he looks like Nosferatu on a bad day. He’s a dick.” Her expression lightened as Lana suggested hexing, causing her to fantasize all the ways she could get revenge on men who were useless to her. It was beyond her understanding why Cleo still had a liking to men, or rather, an attraction as opposed to a liking. She hadn’t met one that didn’t make her so hyperaware of her surroundings due to the fact their company was probably boring her to death. Tragic. “We could get some ski masks and a baseball bet, you know, corner him like it’s Spring Breakers. Threaten to eat his firstborn if he doesn’t succumb. Brilliant!”