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VERO — captiol, fin Sept 28, 2021 14:32:13 GMT -5

Post by fox on Sept 28, 2021 14:32:13 GMT -5

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I've always wanted to be someone great – that's the thought I have when the convenience store downstairs starts stocking candles with my face on them. "This smells like Vero," the label says. Mom, I made it.

I woke up in a pile of feathers, curly-feathered chickens sipping the champagne collection, a prairie pup roaming the halls – bought them off the internet a few days ago, one of those backyard mutt breeders I guess – and there were bottles everywhere, tabs of acid, a bong, vomit, and a million missed calls from my agent. I don't know, I was really high lol

Oh shit, forgot about the company gala, haha.

Now, already thirty minutes late, I'm buying shots of espresso, sliding bottles across the counter to the cashier, one after the other aaaand might as well buy my candle too.

Fascinating.

I've become iconography and vanilla bean.

I call a car, sitting on the curb chugging coffee until the driver comes. Halfway there to the gala, my stylist dials me, and I swear I mean to hit ignore but my hands are fucking shaking from the sudden strike of caffeine bubbling into my blood, nerves trembling and electrified.

His face pops up in video chat looking utterly aghast and now comes the hurricane of questions, oh great – "What happened to your face? Are you in your bathrobe?? Did you even shower???"

The car does a U and I vomit on my shoes.

Wiping my mouth, I spit out "Hey fuck you. This is fucking chic okay? Grunge is coming back."

In the dressing rooms, they resurrect me with clear vials of smoking liquid, a green tea facemask, a sparkling purple suit – recite a prayer to the pop gods in my holy trinity of remedies and send me out there. The peppermint hangover cure unfogs my brain just in time for more alcohol! I grab a rose quartz cocktail.

My agent sweet talks the infamous Reaper by the bar, his words falling like gold coins into an infinite well, "Let's get you and Vero in the studio together sometime, man – it'll be awesome, your sound is perfect –"

I hear my publicist's paying off the paparazzi again, washing my image with an ivory bar of soap. She's offering thousands to some guy dressed as a bush taking snaps of me on my weekend bender, but why bother? I've gotten so good at heartfelt apologies and crocodile tears, always pretty crying about how "my fans are everything to me." I could bottle my sadness and sell it probably.

These are Vero's tears. I can see the label now.

Management's over there trying to get me to do a photo-op in Twelve for the charity thing – I told them to just use a fucking greenscreen haha?? It's not like anyone in the Capitol really knows any difference.

I'm not going there, it's the fucking dumps.

Not missing a beat, some magazine editor hands me a copy of my most recent spread, dressed in vintage clothes with the shirts gratuitously unbuttoned, hair dyed pink, and sprawled with guitars in candy colours. I hold a guitar a lot for someone who doesn't play.

The violin isn't a sexy instrument I guess, those thirteen years of classical lessons yoinked out the window.

Walking barely three feet, someone dressed like a tent top asks me how I'm doing and "Yea, I'm doing great. Working on another album or something..." Trailing off and disappearing into the crowd, there's an indication of a whole thought.

I never need to finish my sentences these days; life moves fast, catastrophes and miracles crashing in technicolour at every moment, and just then someone smashes a wine bottle over a priceless piece of art – or maybe that's just a trashcan? – with the elite, who knows. I too, pretend to attribute significance to wanton things.

Alright, I need to sit down.

A girl joins me on the couch, her hair moving like flames, dressed in a red leotard. Uhh was there a theme or something? Whatever. I drink, she drinks – oh, now we're making out haha.

I wonder if this is the life my mom imagined for me when she sent me to all those auditions.

"Oh no, oh dear," a man gasps beside us, a gloved hand over his mouth, and I turn to look. Oh shit, the lion's eating a person whole, wow, damn that's crazy – anyways, the girl in my lap pulls me into another kiss, turning my face until our lips touch. She smells like citrus.

My life is great, I guess.

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Deleted 0 POSTS last seen Apr 20, 2024 9:16:48 GMT -5	VERO — captiol, fin Oct 4, 2021 14:47:40 GMT -5 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2021 14:47:40 GMT -5 Some would say he’s charitable, I say he’s iconic