pups_dt (pups_dt) wrote in morningstar_mnr, @ 2011-03-28 06:28:00 |
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Current music: | When I'm Small - Phantogram |
Entry tags: | cleo, jazz |
Apt. 12221 and Apt. 229, Late Afternoon/Early Evening, Jazz (Open to Cleo)
Pajamas from the drawer in the big dresser in the bedroom; the pretty silk robe from the hook in the bathroom, the toothbrush next to his from the shiny silver holder on the counter....
Jazz had a list and she did her best to follow it without thought, to ignore the trembling in her hands as she gathered up every small piece of herself scattered about Tom's apartment and dropped them into a simple Micheal's Bros. box she'd saved from the trash.
A pair of heels from the end of the neat line of men's dress shoes in the closet; the lovely polished hair brush from the nightstand.
She lingered for a moment by the bed, idly picking hair from the brush as she pictured the watch she'd given him for his birthday sitting in the box amongst his other shinies and wondered whether or not she should take it...but, in the end, she dropped the brush with the rest and hefted the box into her arms, leaving the jewelery behind.
It'd been a gift, and whatever he decided to do with it (sell it probably, a vicious part of her hissed) was his business. Not hers.
Not anymore.
She paused long enough in the living room to fish the apartment key from her pocket - she left it on the bar under an upturned wine-glass - then she left, shifting her box noisily so she could pretend she didn't hear the click of the lock behind her.
She managed to remain dry-eyed through the elevator ride down to two, but by the time Jazz was back in her own apartment, gathering up the mementos of their relationship (the photo of them together in Barbados from the nightstand, the necklace he'd given her for Valentine's Day from the box on her vanity), the breaking point had been reached and she had to stop.
The tears started and she sank atop the cool bed, curling fetally around a pillow and clutching tight when her arms ached for something, anything, to hold on to.