venus :: one [cbd1 - fin]

"So, Venus. Please explain to me why you're in my office for stabbing a student."

Gum smack.

"Okay, first off I aggressively poked him. With steel."

Gum smack.

"And he deserved it."

"Venus, the gum."

"Huh? Oh, yeah. It's spearmint. You want some?"

"Spit it out. Now."

Gum smack, spit. Gum, smack into the can. Bullseye.

"Anyways, kid's a total shit head-"

"Language."

"Fine, total fucking shit head. I mean it's not like he's a Fray or anything, definitely not a Le Roux. Some no name punk comes and talks shit to me about my accuracy with the knives? That's not even accurate, I'm a fucking wiz with those things. Boom, steel to the jugular and everything, I fuckin' swear."

Hand raised. Okay, stop speaking.

"So, you're solution was to stab him?"

"No, my solution was to punch him."

"Oh?"

"Yeah mate, full fist of knuckles to the nose."

Count em. One two three four.

"Fucked him up pretty good honestly. Probably broken, shit ton of blood."

Peer over the desk at the notes sheet.

"Oh, and about the cracked skull, he fell to the ground when I hit him and hit his head. I didn't do that, I'm just lucky like that. Crazy because my dad always called the Mardyr family lucky but I never believed it, honestly. Something something in the name, y'know? Classic One ideology-"

"Back to the point, please."

"- Oh, yeah. What was the point again?"

A sigh.

"So, if I am to understand this story correctly from your end, you did not stab-"

"Aggressively poked."

"you did not stab him at all?"

Silence. Listen to the clock hands tick, tick tick tick tock.

"Welllll..."

Two for two on the sighs. Smirk.

"You punched him, and then-"

"And then I stabbed him."

Shit, meant to say aggressively poked.