Part Three

 Black... the rotten color rising through the air with every single puff of this cigarette. It seeps into my throat and burns it. The acidic black substance vaporizes my lungs in less than a nanosecond. I feel the burning sting coursing through my insides and clouding my heart with a melting green-black smoke.
I rasp out my scorched throat. "KHACK!!! Ahh, I'm gonna die! Fuck!"
"Don't pick up bad habits."
Girl reaches up with one smooth swing of her arm and plucks that sucker outta my mouth.
"You'll ruin your beautiful voice." Throws it on the ground and crushes it out.
You don't waste a movement, do you, girlie?
"I used to smoke a pipe, y'know."
"Unbelievable."
"I was a classier girl in my youth. Had more refined interests. Ah, y'could call me a real witch back then..."
"Stop acting old. You're still somewhere in the range of 1700-2000."
I am?
"And just how long is my life span, may I ask?"
"About as long as a rock's."
"We measuring in how far you can skip across a lake? Bleak, girl."
"Rocks live for a long time."
They are long lived, kid. Shame nobody even knows they're alive.
"I am alive. It's your fault."
It is my fault.
"Yeah, kheheh... I guess I am a pretty horrible person."
"You're yourself. Haven't you noticed why I'm here with you?"
"Pity?"
"It's because I want to see Charlize be as much of herself as she can be."
Chloe plants a kiss on my cheek.
Her lips soft as stone.
Our conversation ends.


Come to think of it, how old am I?

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