in the industry, we call them cigarette burns.

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She’s furious because he took her mom’s butt fat and made it into a bar of Lemon Verbena and Soothing Rosemary marble soap. Maybe she’s furious because he borrowed one of her favourite sweaters and stretched it out, didn’t clean it, left it in the rain. Maybe she’s furious because someone smoked her last cigarette. Or she’s had enough of the recurring surprise of him being there, the frenemy who also benefits. Whiplash can be more damaging than the sufferer initially realises. The best way to avoid a crash is to expect it.

he doesn’t know how long he’s supposed to wait, but by the state of the men let in before tyler stepped out, he can guess it’s nothing short of a day. with a sense of dejection that’s not well hidden, barry angles himself away from the doorframe, freeing up a path for anyone to pass him on by. if there was something more than fuches’ missed calls waiting for him at home, he’d be gone already, dust. then again, if there was something more than fuches’ missed calls waiting for him at home, he’d never have gone to a fight club in the first place.

      ‘ can i uh, can i ask what “maybe” means? is that a bluff to test my resolve or are you really kicking people out? ’

really old meme

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‘I can learn new tricks,’ his self-defence is just as much of a joke; the whole prank was Tyler’s idea in the first place, so everything that happened does rest squarely on his shoulders, even if those shoulders aren’t really his. 

Standing with his foot on TJ’s neck, Tyler presses him facedown into the concrete and holds him there, expecting he’ll tap out any minute. He’s been a slippery little son-of-a-bitch until now, it was lucky for Tyler that some judo-style grab got the better of him. Capturing him in a twist, putting his weight on his arm. Now they’re both on the ground and Tyler is still pressing down, listening. 

The noise of the gathered group is cacophonous until the moment of struggle, that’s when all sound in the room drops except for the two in the middle. Each pair of eyes ready for the moment of release, the moment of relief and then everything they just saw will be briefly forgotten as it’s replaced by another two tearing into one another.