#c:mar

There was a bottle on his lips the moment his eyes found her in the corner of the bar. The fact that they were staring right back at him had Sam choking on warm beer and Randy asking, 'you good?’ from beside him.

Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. She’s not looking at you.

The music playing over the bar’s old stereo system and the world turns cinematic, if just for a moment before he grounded himself with the memory of the last time he’d seen her, staring back at him through the window of Joe’s cop car. 

She’s looking at you, but it’s not for anything good. 

@sincityszn

“—Now I’m not in the business of tellin’ others what to do, but this town becomes somethin’ else after dark. Somethin’ dangerous.”

A lift of two fingers in the bartender’s direction conjures up two shots mere moments later, joining the group of empty glasses before them, and the woman beside them. Not for nothing, but they’d been watching her through a steady side-eye long enough to know that she looked like she needed something strong. 

“Take one if you need it, but you really shouldn't be out this late.” 

If this is flirting, well, admittedly, they’d lost a bit of their touch. Blame the sudden arrival to this greyscale town, rather than the (minimal) booze— though that certainly didn’t help, either.

Mar: I'm cooking tonight.

“Luces como si te hubiesen arrojado al cubo de la basura.” la ojiverde delineó una de sus finas cejas en señal interrogativa. “¿Has estado armando triángulos amorosos otra vez?” subrayó ‘otra vez’ con un suave delineador azul, queriendo dar énfasis a la repetición tan irresponsable de sus actos y el cobro de éstos; una factura costosa para su cara bonita.

“¿Por qué no cambias el color en esta parte?” su caligrafía pese a ser vulgar era defendible. Martha no poseía muchos miramientos en garabatear mayúsculas o minúsculas de forma aleatoria. Algunos la tacharían de tontita mas la pelirroja fue escolarizada como cualquier otro muchacho. Rápidamente volvió a garabatear. “Un color pastel se ajustaría mejor en esta fraja” Abandonó su método de comunicación en la mesa para enseñarle la parte a la que se refería.