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Cherry Saturation: Cherry On Top
Author: Kat
Title: Cherry on Top
Story: Shine Like It Does
Colors: Cherry saturation.
Supplies and Materials: Miniature collection, canvas, frame, graffiti, pointillism, stain (We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong. -Sir Arthur Eddington), feathers (this pictures), pastels (toys and games).
Word Count: 1113
Rating: PG-13.
Summary: Jack qua Jack.
Warnings: underage characters in sexual situations, depiction of depression, some not entirely healthy drinking, and you may never want to eat papaya again.
Notes: My kitty says hi.
1. apple
In Sunday school they taught that Eve gave in to the temptations of the serpent and ate the apple of knowledge, and for that all women were condemned to suffer; Jack looked at the apple in Eve's pale white hand, and knew he wouldn't have needed the serpent.
2. cherry
He was thirteen the time he first had sex, sucking Seb's cock in a shadowed corner of his bedroom, the penis hot and heavy on his tongue and pleasure racing up his nerves like liquid.
3. banana
He got really good at attracting people over the years, lowering his eyelashes and smiling, caressing a bare forearm, pursing his lips just right to make people think of kissing... or other activities.
4. pomegranate
Six seeds and Persephone stayed in the underworld for half the year, in the dark among the dead—Jack picked at the pomegranate's skin, and wondered how many he had eaten.
5. pineapple
Like your standard rich idiot about town, Jack loved Hawai'i—unlike most of his peers, he went there for the fruit.
6. orange
He loved being at home, whether that was in Mexico with his grandparents or Orange County with his parents or Georgia with Charlotte or wherever Miranda is today, or, more and more recently, in a tiny walkup in Chicago with Felix.
7. lemon
They said when life gave you lemons, to make lemonade, but Jack didn't know how to make lemonade and he wouldn't want to drink it if he did.
8. strawberry
Charlotte made sugar-dipped strawberries and let him have a few, sitting on the porch in the late afternoon warmth watching the sun set into the Pacific.
9. raspberry
Jack had never been one to follow authority, especially when he thought they were wrong, but he usually didn't defy them outright—usually.
10. blueberry
His sisters' kids were freaking adorable, and hanging out with them sometimes made Jack want kids of his own, before he remembered he'd be a fucking awful father and took the kids blueberry-picking instead.
11. kiwi
His first real crush was from New Zealand, with a charming accent and a sweet smile; he moved back very suddenly when they were both twelve, and Jack wasn't sure he ever really got over it.
12. grapes
It was surprisingly difficult for Jack to get drunk; when wine and liquor wouldn't do it and tequila just got him tipsy, he practically needed Everclear to knock him out.
13. pear
College was a revelation, the first time he had the freedom to choose his own classes and his own direction, and the first time he ever ate a pear.
14. lemon
If there was one thing Jack was good at it, it was sex: men or women, one partner or multiple, oral, vaginal, anal, toys, whatever, he could do it (or them, as the case might be) and do it well.
15. lime
There was something about leaning back in the corner of a bar, a cocktail glass smooth in his fingers, music pounding through his blood and the voices absolutely, completely silent.
16. passionfruit
He'd been in love with Felix for years—comfortably, warmly in love—but some days Felix turned a smile on him and the sweet, sharp pain felt like falling all over again.
17. apricot
The Pallivers had made a little sculpture man out of apricot slices, which was pretty but puzzling; Jack shrugged, and took an arm, because it wasn't even close to the weirdest thing he'd seen his financial peers do.
18. starfruit
When Charlotte was fifteen or so she went through a stargazing phase, and Jack used to sit out with her to keep her company—even now he found the night sky relaxing, and oddly friendly.
19. cantelope
He wouldn't risk what he had with Felix, because to be totally honest he thought they were both happier as best friends than anything else, and he tried not to think about what could have been if he was just a little less fucked up.
20. honeydew
He broke up with Samantha because she was falling way too fast, and didn't realize how far she'd already gone; he wished he hadn't hurt her as much as he did, but some things just weren't meant to be.
21. watermelon
One of the "normal kid" things their parents spared them were summer jobs; some of Jack's best memories were of lying in the sun with his sisters, eating watermelon and cloud-watching.
22. grapefruit
Surprisingly, Jack is a morning person, even when he's completely hungover, but he still won't eat anything but grapefruit for breakfast.
23. papaya
He saw a papaya once, all bright orange flesh with a crowded core of insectoid black seeds, and thought that, that right there, that was depression in a single image.
24. dragonfruit
Jack did not like bullies, and he liked them even less when they were targeting women—but if they targeted a small, dark-haired woman with honeyed skin and big brown eyes, he went fucking ballistic.
25. peach
Charlotte was older than he was but she might as well have been his junior, the way he protected and watched over her, so sweet and shy and frightened; he would have given anything to make the world a safer place for her, and hated that he couldn't.
26. tangerine
Miranda, on the other hand, needed no one's protection and least of all his, sharp and prickly as she was; her he wished he could file down a little, show the world who she was with him and the rest of their family, but he knew better than to even try.
27. plum
He was just starting to figure out how to be happy, how to go out with friends for Chinese food and plum wine and just talk, without the rushing of the music or the dark tide of alcohol to drown out the voices; learning to ignore them was going to be hard.
28. mango
When Jack was younger he'd made mango bugs and cantelope frogs, strawberry mice and watermelon turtles; he wasn't sure when he'd stopped, or why, but he missed that feeling, that loose, easy joy in creation.
29. date
He'd dated a lot of people—a lot—and even been in love with a few, but he'd never had what Miranda had with Peter, or what Charlotte had with Daniel, and if he was perfectly, completely honest, he wasn't sure he wanted it at all.
30. kumquat
Anxiety tasted sour in the back of his throat, a burst of kumquat juice from a sweet tangerine, when Charlotte didn't pick up and didn't pick up and wasn't, inexplicably, home.
Title: Cherry on Top
Story: Shine Like It Does
Colors: Cherry saturation.
Supplies and Materials: Miniature collection, canvas, frame, graffiti, pointillism, stain (We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong. -Sir Arthur Eddington), feathers (this pictures), pastels (toys and games).
Word Count: 1113
Rating: PG-13.
Summary: Jack qua Jack.
Warnings: underage characters in sexual situations, depiction of depression, some not entirely healthy drinking, and you may never want to eat papaya again.
Notes: My kitty says hi.
1. apple
In Sunday school they taught that Eve gave in to the temptations of the serpent and ate the apple of knowledge, and for that all women were condemned to suffer; Jack looked at the apple in Eve's pale white hand, and knew he wouldn't have needed the serpent.
2. cherry
He was thirteen the time he first had sex, sucking Seb's cock in a shadowed corner of his bedroom, the penis hot and heavy on his tongue and pleasure racing up his nerves like liquid.
3. banana
He got really good at attracting people over the years, lowering his eyelashes and smiling, caressing a bare forearm, pursing his lips just right to make people think of kissing... or other activities.
4. pomegranate
Six seeds and Persephone stayed in the underworld for half the year, in the dark among the dead—Jack picked at the pomegranate's skin, and wondered how many he had eaten.
5. pineapple
Like your standard rich idiot about town, Jack loved Hawai'i—unlike most of his peers, he went there for the fruit.
6. orange
He loved being at home, whether that was in Mexico with his grandparents or Orange County with his parents or Georgia with Charlotte or wherever Miranda is today, or, more and more recently, in a tiny walkup in Chicago with Felix.
7. lemon
They said when life gave you lemons, to make lemonade, but Jack didn't know how to make lemonade and he wouldn't want to drink it if he did.
8. strawberry
Charlotte made sugar-dipped strawberries and let him have a few, sitting on the porch in the late afternoon warmth watching the sun set into the Pacific.
9. raspberry
Jack had never been one to follow authority, especially when he thought they were wrong, but he usually didn't defy them outright—usually.
10. blueberry
His sisters' kids were freaking adorable, and hanging out with them sometimes made Jack want kids of his own, before he remembered he'd be a fucking awful father and took the kids blueberry-picking instead.
11. kiwi
His first real crush was from New Zealand, with a charming accent and a sweet smile; he moved back very suddenly when they were both twelve, and Jack wasn't sure he ever really got over it.
12. grapes
It was surprisingly difficult for Jack to get drunk; when wine and liquor wouldn't do it and tequila just got him tipsy, he practically needed Everclear to knock him out.
13. pear
College was a revelation, the first time he had the freedom to choose his own classes and his own direction, and the first time he ever ate a pear.
14. lemon
If there was one thing Jack was good at it, it was sex: men or women, one partner or multiple, oral, vaginal, anal, toys, whatever, he could do it (or them, as the case might be) and do it well.
15. lime
There was something about leaning back in the corner of a bar, a cocktail glass smooth in his fingers, music pounding through his blood and the voices absolutely, completely silent.
16. passionfruit
He'd been in love with Felix for years—comfortably, warmly in love—but some days Felix turned a smile on him and the sweet, sharp pain felt like falling all over again.
17. apricot
The Pallivers had made a little sculpture man out of apricot slices, which was pretty but puzzling; Jack shrugged, and took an arm, because it wasn't even close to the weirdest thing he'd seen his financial peers do.
18. starfruit
When Charlotte was fifteen or so she went through a stargazing phase, and Jack used to sit out with her to keep her company—even now he found the night sky relaxing, and oddly friendly.
19. cantelope
He wouldn't risk what he had with Felix, because to be totally honest he thought they were both happier as best friends than anything else, and he tried not to think about what could have been if he was just a little less fucked up.
20. honeydew
He broke up with Samantha because she was falling way too fast, and didn't realize how far she'd already gone; he wished he hadn't hurt her as much as he did, but some things just weren't meant to be.
21. watermelon
One of the "normal kid" things their parents spared them were summer jobs; some of Jack's best memories were of lying in the sun with his sisters, eating watermelon and cloud-watching.
22. grapefruit
Surprisingly, Jack is a morning person, even when he's completely hungover, but he still won't eat anything but grapefruit for breakfast.
23. papaya
He saw a papaya once, all bright orange flesh with a crowded core of insectoid black seeds, and thought that, that right there, that was depression in a single image.
24. dragonfruit
Jack did not like bullies, and he liked them even less when they were targeting women—but if they targeted a small, dark-haired woman with honeyed skin and big brown eyes, he went fucking ballistic.
25. peach
Charlotte was older than he was but she might as well have been his junior, the way he protected and watched over her, so sweet and shy and frightened; he would have given anything to make the world a safer place for her, and hated that he couldn't.
26. tangerine
Miranda, on the other hand, needed no one's protection and least of all his, sharp and prickly as she was; her he wished he could file down a little, show the world who she was with him and the rest of their family, but he knew better than to even try.
27. plum
He was just starting to figure out how to be happy, how to go out with friends for Chinese food and plum wine and just talk, without the rushing of the music or the dark tide of alcohol to drown out the voices; learning to ignore them was going to be hard.
28. mango
When Jack was younger he'd made mango bugs and cantelope frogs, strawberry mice and watermelon turtles; he wasn't sure when he'd stopped, or why, but he missed that feeling, that loose, easy joy in creation.
29. date
He'd dated a lot of people—a lot—and even been in love with a few, but he'd never had what Miranda had with Peter, or what Charlotte had with Daniel, and if he was perfectly, completely honest, he wasn't sure he wanted it at all.
30. kumquat
Anxiety tasted sour in the back of his throat, a burst of kumquat juice from a sweet tangerine, when Charlotte didn't pick up and didn't pick up and wasn't, inexplicably, home.