Verse
Star
- Joined
- May 8, 2011
Jarow Iken was etched into the moment. It's how he lived and survived on the Yareli streets. He'd seen the world of their New City - affectionately named so by the optimistic people from a few generations ago, at the dawn of its organized crime. The boy, with youth stretching the skin over his facial bones and an old man's eyes, haunted the present. He was wickedly alive just for this instance, and it drew girls in. Maybe it was their self-destructive nature, that wanted him. It certainly couldn't be the parts of them that wanted to live forever.
And as a lad who would do as he pleased, unless there were orders from higher up the food chain in his criminal cosm, he wasn't the best attendee at class. Good thing he barely went. Seemed lately, though, that when he did, Yumi, the new and admittedly easy-on-the eye asian teacher, was on his case. When they first met, she gave him a hard look for being late, and then asked him about it. He'd been so surprised, usually enjoying any and all leeway in class on account of his lethal extracurricular activities. He wasn't some highly appointed Yakuza prince or someone worth their weight in the Xuy triad group - for a white boy that wasn't really a choice. But they didn't mind hiring him for the grunt work. The cartel and the men under the Don, too. Russians and Italians, nobody minded the extra muscle. His agency, if you'd call it that, was well familiar with his lack of scruples, and rewarded him accordingly. They didn't mind his youth, as long as he put it to good use.
That air and aura of violence around the otherwise pretty boy made him king here, among the lambs in these corridors. There had been new teachers before who got the hint, when a murder-eyed rascal, long and dark, scampered into their classes. Most of the time they'd been warned too. Faculty knew the Iken boy. That's why Jarow was so surprised, unbecomingly so, when Yumi insisted he listened to her prattle on about her numbers. But he usually dismissed it, eventually. He'd been insulted worse in the dead of night, when he'd come to enforce debts.
In fact, that's what he was doing now. Late to class as always, he was seated half on his desk, and trying to look down Emily's top while getting her attention. The girl was pretty, with freckles, and she wore the same perfume as one of the new hookers in the Lantern Houses he got play in, when he'd done a good job. Some of those girls said he fucked like a demon. Suppose his stamina had to go somewhere. Emily was too afraid to ignore him, but her blue eyes darted from him to Yumi up front. He grinned and continued to tease her. It's not like she had a boyfriend, right? Not one like him, at least. She was silenced by that argument, but he thought her retreat into the back of her chair was charming, because it pushed her pelvic forward.
Jarow was tall, and had some shoulders on him. Living the way he did, he didn't carry much weight anywhere else. Hard to get all your meals in when you have to get your cigarettes and vodka, too. He cut the corner of his mouth with the blade of his tongue when he thought about it, and reached inside his large black jacket to fish out a packet, beat it twice against the meat of his thumb to evict a filter out, half-way. "You're funny, Em." he said with a voice that dragged over his vocal chords, soft and compromising, like rocks crushing velvet. She was confused. It was just a figure of speech, damn it. Yeah, she was dim, but maybe he liked that in a lady who'd just be a couple of gaping holes when he was done.
And as a lad who would do as he pleased, unless there were orders from higher up the food chain in his criminal cosm, he wasn't the best attendee at class. Good thing he barely went. Seemed lately, though, that when he did, Yumi, the new and admittedly easy-on-the eye asian teacher, was on his case. When they first met, she gave him a hard look for being late, and then asked him about it. He'd been so surprised, usually enjoying any and all leeway in class on account of his lethal extracurricular activities. He wasn't some highly appointed Yakuza prince or someone worth their weight in the Xuy triad group - for a white boy that wasn't really a choice. But they didn't mind hiring him for the grunt work. The cartel and the men under the Don, too. Russians and Italians, nobody minded the extra muscle. His agency, if you'd call it that, was well familiar with his lack of scruples, and rewarded him accordingly. They didn't mind his youth, as long as he put it to good use.
That air and aura of violence around the otherwise pretty boy made him king here, among the lambs in these corridors. There had been new teachers before who got the hint, when a murder-eyed rascal, long and dark, scampered into their classes. Most of the time they'd been warned too. Faculty knew the Iken boy. That's why Jarow was so surprised, unbecomingly so, when Yumi insisted he listened to her prattle on about her numbers. But he usually dismissed it, eventually. He'd been insulted worse in the dead of night, when he'd come to enforce debts.
In fact, that's what he was doing now. Late to class as always, he was seated half on his desk, and trying to look down Emily's top while getting her attention. The girl was pretty, with freckles, and she wore the same perfume as one of the new hookers in the Lantern Houses he got play in, when he'd done a good job. Some of those girls said he fucked like a demon. Suppose his stamina had to go somewhere. Emily was too afraid to ignore him, but her blue eyes darted from him to Yumi up front. He grinned and continued to tease her. It's not like she had a boyfriend, right? Not one like him, at least. She was silenced by that argument, but he thought her retreat into the back of her chair was charming, because it pushed her pelvic forward.
Jarow was tall, and had some shoulders on him. Living the way he did, he didn't carry much weight anywhere else. Hard to get all your meals in when you have to get your cigarettes and vodka, too. He cut the corner of his mouth with the blade of his tongue when he thought about it, and reached inside his large black jacket to fish out a packet, beat it twice against the meat of his thumb to evict a filter out, half-way. "You're funny, Em." he said with a voice that dragged over his vocal chords, soft and compromising, like rocks crushing velvet. She was confused. It was just a figure of speech, damn it. Yeah, she was dim, but maybe he liked that in a lady who'd just be a couple of gaping holes when he was done.