The Last Punch

Tony’s lip quivered as he moved his face closer to mine. As he was about to kiss me I was awoken by my phone going off. My eyes shot open and a wave of emotional pain overcame me. I wish that dream was real, I felt as though I would cry because it wasn’t real. I reached for my phone and say a message from Adrien.
GAYBOYYY: Check your face ;)
“Fuck..” I mumbled quietly. I went to my camera and, annoyed, I switched to front facing. I gasped when I noticed that Adrien had made me into a frightening clown, but not just a random clown. He used his makeup artist skills to actually draw Pogo the clown on my face. If you don’t know who Pogo the clown is then let me educate you.
So… I have a strange fascination with serial killers, not applauding them, just the psychology aspect. And Pogo the clown was a persona of the serial killer John Wayne Gacy. I always found him interesting, but less so as my own face. I got up quickly to hear laughing in his bedroom. I heard Shep get up madly and started to talk to Adrien. I burst into their room and Shep looked at Adrien madly.
“Adrien James!!! What did you do to her?” He sat up and looked at me. Adrien was still laughing but became serious as he noticed no one else was laughing. I heard Mel get up and and she came to the doorway of the room. I turned around and Mel’s eyes opened wide.
“Adrien… What did you do?!” She asked putting her finger on my cheek. She dragged it down to my chin and exhaled as she did so. “We leave at 1 today for Paris… She has to have that off by then. How do you get Sharpie off?” Mel asked frantically looking at Adrien and Shep. Adrien swore under his breath.
“I forgot you were leaving today..” He sighed and looked down.
“It’s okay.. I know how to take it off.” I walked to the bathroom and looked in the mirror. “I fucking look creepy..” I said to myself as I started to run hot water. In 20 minutes I had most of it off and rubbing alcohol took off the rest. I walked out into the living room and Mel was there twirling her keys on her pointer finger. I looked at her finely manicured hand and was hoping that the keys wouldn’t mess up her almond shaped nails.
“Looking good babes. The red will go away.” Mel smiled and looked over to the boys whom of which were pouring coffee into mugs.
“You ladies want any?” Shep offered holding up the pot. We both shook our heads and I ran my fingers through my hair.
“We have to go and finish packing.” Mel said rolling her eyes, annoyed that we had to leave in an hour and a half. We will be in Paris for 2 nights, fly to Rome for 2 nights, fly to London for a week then come back home. I walked over to Adrien and gave him a kiss on the cheek.
“I’ll see you in London.” I smiled and waited for Mel to finish saying goodbye to Shep.
“So you guys are flying over in a week? Make sure you tell Mom or Dad..” She was picking at her nails nervously. “Make sure you tell them. They’ll want to know.” He pulled her in for a hug and instead of doing her usual squirm away in discomfort she hugged him back. He let go of her and she did the same.
“Let’s go Mel.” I said moving towards the door. Mel and I walked out of the door and headed for the lobby.
“This is bullshit..” Mel said pressing the lobby button on the elevator. The doors shut and she huffed.
“This is what you signed up for when you became a successful model. I’m just happy that I can get out of the US and away from Mike and..” I trailed off, not wanting to say his name.
“Tony. You were talking in your sleep, saying his name a lot. Dreamin’?” Mel asked slightly laughing. I laughed little and shook my head.
“You don’t even know..” I ran my finger through my hair and sighed.
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As Mel and I boarded our 13 hour flight I sighed, I wouldn’t see Ghost. I just got back from a tour and now I’m leaving him again. Once I get back from this flight I will stay home for a long while, don’t worry Ghostie. Mama won’t leave you.
“We layover in Michigan right?” Mel asked looking at the boarding pass. I nodded and we took our seats in the 5th row. Emme was supposed to do this but refused. She didn’t want to be far from Ricky again, seeing that Warped tour was so long. “It’s bullshit that Em didn’t come… I don’t want to be far from Alex but I have to. It’s what our job makes us do. Bull. Shit.” She said frustrated.
A short time later we were in the air, I looked out the window and saw the city I loved below us. I pulled out my phone, maybe he did really text me… I opened my phone and went to my texts. Empty. And with my empty texts, my heart became progressively more numb.

Notes

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