School for yet another set of people, halfway across the U.S.A. from one another… Sujit and Unmei. Later into the day, at long last, both texting quickly back and forth with one another, Unmei’s chuckles, Sujit’s smirks, their groups of friends around both.
Unmei- ‘its been so long sujie’
Sujit- ‘ik’
Unmei- ‘MLP is the best, im telling you’
Sujit- ‘ik ik’
Unmei- ‘so what’s up today?’
Sujit- ‘long ass history paper due tomorrow that I totally have not written shit for.’
Unmei- ‘all I get is to go home and deal with my folks’
Sujit- ‘ugh, sorry to hear’
Unmei- ‘itz cpp;’
Sujit- ‘?’
Unmei- ‘its cool*’
Sujit- ‘oh’
Unmei- ‘haha, stupid phonme’
Sujit‘so unmei, ive been thinking about us and the future yet’
Unmei- ‘this talk again?’
Sujit- ‘seriously, I think we should consider things’
Unmei- ‘i need a job and to finish school’
Sujit- ‘just be an artist like zero’
Unmei- ‘hes a writer, not a drawer, and there are no sights to get paid for it. also my parents dont like it, they keep saying I need a real job’
Sujit- ‘so, just dont tell them’
Unmei- ‘you just need to wait… we both need money and jobs and to finish school anyway’
Sujit- ‘your parents dont know about me yet do they’
Unmei- ‘theyd take my internet away if I told them.’
Sujit- ‘bullshit’
Unmei- ‘i know’
Sujit- ‘you just need to leave’
Unmei- ‘i cant afford to’
Sujit- ‘damn, then I will get a job and move there if I have to’
Unmei- ‘you cant do that sujit, think of what you have to do yet for school. If you leave it will mss you up’
Sujit- ‘idc I just want to be with you’
Unmei- ‘awww <3 but we cant’
Sujit- ‘some day we will… msg you later, I have a makeup test to take quick’
Unmei- ‘k, home now anyways in 2’
Sujit- ‘k, talk to you later, love you’
Unmei- ‘love you too :)’
“Ugh… at least I’m finally..-”
Her eyes darting up, a fire in the yard, paper blowing out of it and rolling across the ground. Notebooks in the fire, paper with color, drawings. Her eyes wide, a scream, a bolt and rush of running with the ground crunching, dirt being kicked quickly at the fire, “No!! What the fuck!?!?!?!?”
“God dammit Maria get the hell away from the fire before you get yourself burned!” came the bark of her mother.
“What the hell is this!?”
“We burned your stupid scribbles because we’re sick of you wasting your time.”
“WHY!?”
“You need to focus on getting a job and getting income for the family young lady, don’t talk back to me!”
“Drawing is my job, I want it to be my career!!” she’d shout back, red faced, a bit teary-eyed from the intense rage, the disgust, the hatred.
“Oh hell no, this is a waste of time. You’re going to get a real job and that’s that, no more wasting your time. I already got you a job at Mcdonalds for Eight Dollars an hour starting tomorrow after school.”
“You fucking bitch!”
The gravel flashing below, her turn and bolt away down the street, her mother shouting back though Maria gave not a care for it, not now, perhaps… not ever.
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The switching of a lighter, the ignition of flame, the crackle of a wrap just lit, the breathing in and out puff of smoke, lying back upon a bush, the night star sky above, David’s amber eyes drifting off with thoughts of life filling his head, despair mostly, “Tch… stupid...”
Thinking back to the night prior… the mugger, the incompetence of the girl, his lips curling into a scowl, the fire of his eyes glowing bright.
“I… no, no more...”
“Oi, David buddy, that you?”
“Yes Paul, it fucking is. What do you want?”
“What happened to that fine looking piece of ass you brought on that walk?”
“We got mugged after I told her a few times it could happen where it did, then after I beat the guy up she freaked out and left me.”
“Wow, foreal though?”
“Ya. Fucking women man, such a pain in the ass.”
“Hell they are good for one thing unless it stinks or if they got that time going for them.”
“Just shut the fuck up!”
“Man why you care dawg?”
“Because… I don’t want to die alone idiot… I hate this feeling, I hate everything about it, I can’t stand to fucking feel this way!”
“Hey, fortune shines down on us all, one day, things will turn your way.”
“Man… I hope so...”
“Man, come on, let’s grab a burger or something, get some laughs in, go down to the titty bar this time.”
“Fuck off or I’ll bash your fucking throat in!”
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