Exactly what it sounds like, set shortly after Jack moves in with Tyler, before Fight Club has come into existance.
Disclaimer: Why would I be writing here if I owned these characters? Chuck Palahniuk rocks.
A/N: This was inspired by a friend's inability to sing the Christmas tune of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" because she hated the song so much.
I set my work stuff down.
It was Christmas Eve, late Christmas Eve.
I realized I didn't even know if Tyler got off Christmas. I hoped he did. After all, I had prepared him a nice little gift for letting me stay in the shitty house. I had to be sort of grateful.
I wandered upstairs to take a nap. Insomnia is evil. So are rotten old mattresses.
I was tired enough to sleep on the mattress, so I was going to nap. I didn't even bother taking off my clothes. There would have been no place for me to wash them besides. There wasn't even much of a shower.
Sometimes, I did miss my nice, neat flaming shit.
Thought of this nature usually led to thought of support groups, of Marla. I wondered what she was up to tonight. Probably a support group. I didn't even know what night it was. I could have gone to check. But I didn't. I didn't count days in day names anymore. I just kept a tally of Saturdays and days until Saturday, when Tyler and I would fight whoever decided to join us that evening. This was the way my life went.
I slept like a baby.
When I awoke, my watch told me it was 12:01, one minute past that magic time when Santa brings everyone what they want. I didn't believe in Santa. No one past the age of ten really does. And even if I did, I don't know what I want. I am Jack's sob story. Tyler, deliver me from sob stories.
I wandered downstairs to get something to drink.
In what was once the living room, I stopped. Tyler was there. And not only Tyler but a jolly man in a red suit. And theywere kissing. And not only kissing, but actually making out with each other.
And for some reason,my first reactionwas a wave of jealousy, followed by a hard dick. This was actually kind of erotic to watch.
Then Tyler turnedto me. "You want to try?" He laughes.
Then incredulity came. Iwent back upstairs.
Somebody wake me up tomorrow.