SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET / MARCUS & MARIANA
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All it took was one sip for Marcus to know that everything was wrong.
It might have been a little bit of an exaggeration to glare at someone the way Marcus glared at the lady because of one wrong thing. It might have been a little bit of an exaggeration to begin yapping at someone because they’d put one wrong ingredient in a cup of coffee. It might have been, but as Marcus Ealy glared at the woman with a glare so strong that it made her want to sink into the ground, and yapped at her with words he couldn’t even hear himself, he couldn’t really care less. Marcus Ealy was as Marcus Ealy was, after all --- and this was not the first time that he was caught doing unkind things. Marcus Ealy was as Marcus Ealy was, and this was not the first time that he had caused an innocent person to squirm where they stood.
However, his bad day did not begin with the lady giving putting in a wrong ingredient in his coffee. It did not even begin with him stepping out of his apartment building to attract solicitors who would follow him as he walked the parking lot to find his car. Not even when he wore the wrong tie because he had forgotten to do his laundry the other day. Not even when he stepped into the shower only to find that his apartment building had decided to cut water off for the day. These were all contributors to the bad day he was having, yes, but it did not begin with these. Instead, it began when he woke up late because his fucking alarm didn’t fucking ring. One would think that never would one have to deal with this shit again what with technology these days, and yet there Marcus had been, jolted awake early in the morning because of something that he could not have helped in the first place.
From there, things had just spiralled.
The lady that he was screaming at now just so happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. She happened to be serving the wrong person with the wrong order, something that she should have learned not to do. She also happened to be the breaking point, the tipping point; the one who made him snap. It wasn’t as if Marcus’ day was bad enough, after all; he just had to be served the wrong order. Despite the glaring and the yapping, however, Marcus hoped for one thing: that this would be the end of his bad day. He’d broken, he’d tipped, he’d snapped --- and he hoped that that was that.
Only, he was wrong. Things were just about to get worse, starting with the voice that came from behind him.