IT'S NOT FICTION.

this is reality. creatures bump into the night and the real boogey man is beneath your sheets. you should fear this. you should fear yourself. but hey, what do i know? i'm just a witness. arizona meyers / mother / human

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ACHILLES

“Sounds like a plan,” he wanted to say her name but he wasn’t sure if she gave him one yet. If she did, it was probably something simple that Achilles didn’t see the need to remember. “I will, but make sure it isn’t an email that will go straight to spam. That’s probably what happened,” though he highly doubt that. Achilles wasn’t really technology savvy and rarely looked at his emails. “Is there anything else?” He asked the woman, giving her a perfectly practiced smile that tended to hide his annoyance. 

      “I think I got all that I needed today, Mr. Lin.” Arizona offered a courtesy grin, turning away as her boots clicked against the glossed floors. She turned her head only a fraction before exiting the door. “I’ll leave my card with your front desk.”

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VICTORIA

                Victoria smirks, pursing her lips in a faux kiss over her shoulder before she turns and leans back against the counter, tea in hand.  ❛   –  you can only dream, honey.  ❜  A quick quip and a grin, rolling her eyes as she lifts the cup to her lips.  ❛   I’m allergic to the uninteresting… Julianne Moore gives me hives.  ❜

             Honey rolled off of her partner’s lips. It was easy to see why the world gravitated towards Victoria. She had her back pressed against the opposing wall, trying to distract her mind with a cup of joe. Her lips paused before the cup. “Still Alice didn’t get you in tears, man? Silence of the Lambs? I could go on and on.”

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MARIE

“You’d be surprised.”

       “Oh?” Arizona rose a brow. “Care to give a little preview?”

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MALACHY

“…I just work. Yer ex just happens to be ‘round me during work. I don’t need to get into details. It doesn’t matter–lavender scented bath sounds nice. I should try it out.”

      “You know Google exists, right? I’m pretty sure there are endless lists for falling asleep.” Arizona quipped, finding fault in looking it up herself. That didn’t need to be mentioned. Not yet. She merely shrugged at the idea, trying not to focus on the idea that Malachy was already familiar with the two of them.

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SHILOH

Shiloh hardly knew what to say, eyelids feeling heavy. “No,” she said lowly. “It kinda feels like I just took a whole bottle of NyQuil but, uh, it happens every once a while.” Using the back of her hand, she wiped off the drool on her cheek. She was used to feeling as if she was in a fog – sometimes crying too much, sometimes feeling nothing at all. Unfortunately, she was far too used to these days that she didn’t attribute it to anything else but her brain.

       The woman listened, not quite sure if she was able to diagnose it herself. Part of her brain screamed ‘hangover’ but it didn’t quite fit. Nothing did. Her brows twisted together, giving a soft nod in response. “Well, if it continues, you should really see a doctor, y’know? Better that than passing out somewhere.”

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AMELIA

“I’m not actually sorry but don’t tell anyone I said that.” Amelia nodded, “Okay, but you are…? I could keep the whole stranger thing up, however, I do like to get to know the people I’m eating with. Plus, first name basis is usually some sort of relationship marker. Like heyo we know each other by our first names.” The woman couldn’t help but want to talk of the other’s son. But she knew to keep that information for a later time.

        "Oh, but it was so fun to play with you.” Arizona crossed her arms, a grin slipping easily on her expression. She couldn’t help herself. Despite the awkward tension of strangers, the girl before her was out of the ordinary. “What if I gave you a fake name, hm? Would it be so much of a marker then?” Pause. “It’s Arizona.”

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PADEN

He wondered if she ever got tired of this. If she ever got tired of doing the same thing over and over again – endless game of bait and yank that ended in a screaming match or him just knuckling under. He was tired of the bared teeth, he was tired of the maintenance that she required. Paden had had the expectation that love was easy, but that was the thing, he didn’t love her. He didn’t even consider her a friend. He gave zero fucks about her or her life aside from how it intersected with his and their child. So he, like everything other time, he gave her nothing. Her vemon-laced tone caused no reaction. He was truly and fully numb to this shit by now.

Eyes flickered to the crowd, who was beginning to notice. A soft sigh escaped from him. Sure, he had poked the bear, but he was tired of being screamed at. Screamed at because he could not give her what she wanted and she refused to understand that. She refused to just separate herself from him – instead she was hell bent on making this complicated. And for what? He idly wondered how much happiness and satisfaction she was getting from this. Did it outweigh the exhaustion he knew she had to feel? The isolation? 

His fingers glided over the keys and he shook his head. “Take of your rose-colored glasses, and then you’ll have your answers.” If she wanted to dredge up the ugly side of their relationship, he could do that. If she wanted to twist the story, he could do that. And he was better at it than her – he was, after all, a master of lies as she painted. Playing with fire on that, playing with fire that he was incapable of doing what she was doing. He marketed the band in such a way that drew profits, he knew how to market dirtily. Agent-warfare was something he was well versed in. But when the big guns came out, he needed to know that he wanted to truly follow through: there was no going back.

( - - - END. )

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MALACHY

“I drink plenty. Mind can sometimes be more powerful t’an alcohol itself… Any other treatments? Didn’t think I’d see yous again.”

     “Ah, because you fuck with my baby daddy? I don’t scare that easy.” Arizona said, placing her hand on her cheek. “I usually go the route of hot lavender scented baths.”

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MARIE

“I doubt it, but if you want to tell yourself that.”

     “How much wrath can that sweet face bring?”

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what would it take to forgive someone who broke your trust?

                    “Circumstantial.”

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do you overexaggerate? what are the pros and cons of this?

                    “ . . . I feel personally attacked.”

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is there anyone that you could see yourself dating?

         “I’m not really in a dating mind frame at the moment.”

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do you bite or lick ice cream?

     “It depends how much time I have to eat it.”

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XAVIER

“Well that’s different. I would protect her with my life… Her father did the same for me.” He looked down for a moment. “Sorry. That might be a little personal for the first date.”

      “Oh.” The soft admission caused her to stare, probably a bit longer than she should have. Her brows knitted together, folding down at the news. “I’m sorry to hear that. You don’t really have to apologize. Honestly, it - - - makes your seem genuine, y’know? Not a lot of people really go that deep anymore. After all, we live in a generation that thrives on keeping emotions out of everything.”

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MALACHY

“Fuck, I can’t seem to find a proper way to fall asleep anymore. My mind is rattling.”

       “You apparently aren’t drinking enough.”

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OLIVIA

She definitely was a pretty girl/woman in a big city, knowing how to defend yourself really was a must in this day and age. “I didn’t know they did that, actually,” she said with a scrunching of her eyebrow.

      “I can check up on that for you. It’s usually on orientation. It’s not really something that counts towards your majors, so most people kinda overlook it.”