YEAR: 2014
SETTING: it's an after party and everyone is pretty drunk--alex can hardly remember just what this particular party was for, but he and matt had decided to make an appearance anyway. feeling quite warm after downing a few glasses of brandy, alex can't help but notice a certain starlet that caught his drunken gaze.
she was, for lack of better words, the very essence in which alex found appeal. drunk? yes, and it's a wonder that he can catch sight of her with his shades on and with the dimmed lighting of the hallway. a foreign house in hollywood hills in which the gathering turned into a moderately packed after party in which she, in all her ethereal glory, graced the gleaming tiled floored and papered walls. yes, okay, it's her. be cool, turner. you're not that wasted (yes you are, and she looks so beautiful how are you even going to manage a hello?).
she's fumbling for a pack of cigarettes and he wants to know what brand they are, he wants to know how often those slender, bejeweled fingers catch the flimsy pack in her purse--he wants to know what shade of lipstick will press into the white paper of the cigarette and oh shit does he want to know how that rosy shade of lipstick will feel on his cheek or mouth or neck (let's not get ahead of ourselves, al).
but she doesn't seem to have a lighter, does she? the cigarette caught between her full mouth, and she's looking moderately distressed as she searches her purse for something to light the drug with--that's it! that's right! he tries too hard, sometimes, but he's drunk this time, stalking towards her swiftly and drawing out his own lighter to slip forward and offer her the flame.
so suave. so old hollywood, holy shit.