ext_194176 ([identity profile] gollumgollum.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] drydem 2004-04-27 03:33 pm (UTC)

i CAN'T BELIEVE you SHOT me!1

...or something like that--i don't remember *exactly* what that t-shirt said, only that it had fake latex blood dripping from four or five grotesque bullet holes in the back--you know how trashy and over-the-top those tourist places get.

but you love that trashkitsch, and you looked at me with those puppydog eyes, so i bought it for you, cheri. i never could resist those eyes.

and i have to admit...it looked good on you. after so many years of self-disciplined starvation you were rockstar hawt, and that shirt with its rubbery, terribly fake wounds hung off of you like neither of you had anything better to do than lounge on the corner of sixty eighth and broadway in the sticky summer heat. you were so cool, even in that muggy gotham august, that the rest of us sweated even more just by being near you and the self-contained ideal of chill you projected. it was the *perfect* shirt for you, emphasizing your litheness while giving only the barest suggestion of the ribs straining against your taut skin.

god, it was gaudy. but i ruined it all--while i knew it wouldn't be that plasticized, painted red, i figured real blood would at least be *close* to what was already on the shirt. next time, i'll remember that blood dries brown.

but i won't ever forget the look on your face as you sank to your knees, the look that mirrored the words still visible in the blood seeping through your chest:

i can't believe you shot me!

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