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- "I do not pay more attention to my cats then to you!"
- "You aren't even aware of your own habits!"
-
- God I was tired of this argument we'd been having in for the last
- three weeks. Now sitting inside Harry's Bar, I had had enough.
-
- "Look I can't talk about this one more time. I'm out of here. I'll
- see you in the morning."
- "Where are you going to go? To a hotel? That would be sweet!"
-
- I left the bar without a backwards glance. My boyfriend could be
- such a bitch! He stared after me as I walked out, I'm sure he thought I
- would walk back to our appartment. Neither one of us could have known
- what would happen.
-
- It was uncomfortably cold out as I walked along the dimly lit
- street. I was pissed and not a little buzzed. Damn him, his
- life revolves around himself. If I'm not paying attention to
- him something is wrong with me. I stomped on ignoring
- the bums and the rude cat calls I got from the seventeen
- year olds lurking outdoors for the first times in their
- lives.
-
- I was beginning to feel the cold. Shit.
-
- A gray Cadillac Seville pulled up biside me. I walked
- quicker. The driver sounded the horn. It was a slightly
- gentile sound, even for 11:00 at night.
-
- "Hey, Kat, wait up!"
- Jesus even the weirdos know my name!
- "Kat, stop, don't you recognize me?"
- I looked closer. I did recognize him. He was a client
- that came into the realestate company I worked at as a
- secretary. We had spoken a few times and he seemed alright.
-
- "Brad, hi how are you?" I couldn't force any interest into
- my voice.
-
- "Great, look what are you doing out here?"
- Twenty questions, just what I needed.
-
- "I'm walking, Brad."
- "Well get in the car for godsake. I'll give you a ride
- home. Don't worry, we'll go straight to your house."
- That was all I needed.
- "Alright thanks." I said it with less gratitude than
- eunuch invited to his first bachelor party.
- "Just a little down tonight?"
- By his tone of voice I couldn't tell if he was being
- facetious or what.
- "Look you don't want to go home right now do you?"
- This guy was bright.
- "I know of a party going on close by, casual people, you
- know, comfortable. What do you say we stop by for a while."
- I looked at Brad more closely. He was forty if a day.
- But he was the well-kept forty of a former athlete who went to
- the gym four days a week to convince himself that he wasn't
- loosing it.
- "Sure, why not."
-
-
- We drove past what I considered close by. Finally we
- pulled up to a two and half story house set far back from the
- road. The out side of the house was lit with soft red and
- blue malibu lights.
-
- There was the sound of jazz music dominated by soulful
- saxophones in the night air.
-
- "This is it," Brad said unnecessarily.
-
- I was still in a bad mood.
-
-
- We went up to the door. Brad opened it, apparently it was not the
- type of party that you knocked at.
-
- We went in.
-
- The room was typical party. A light layer of smoke (this
- was the nineties after all) and people crowded around each
- other talking at once without listening at all. Brad
- introduced me around then slipped away. I wondered about that,
- but not too strenuously after my third glass of champagne.
-
-
- I milled around talking for an hour or so, then it began to
- occur to me that the faces were somewhat fluid. I mean they
- were familiar, but not entirely so. The people I had spoken
- to seemed to disappear for long periods of time no worse for
- wear. Brad never rejoined me and I began to get miffed.
-
- I noticed a girl Brad had introduced me to at the beginning
- of the evening sitting alone on a leather couch. She seemed
- quite contented to be there, with a vague smile at the cornors
- of her soft mouth.
-
- "Eva, have you seen Brad?" I was done with this party and
- wanted to say a curt goodby to him.
- "Yes--don't you know where he is?"
- Her smile was soft, almost fearful as she looked up at me.
- "No, I haven't seen him since I got here. I don't know
- where he could be.
- Her smile became stronger. Her attitude seemed to shift.
- "Have you ever been to one of John Barclays' parties before?"
- "No, I've never been in this part of town before."
- It could have been my imagination, but it seemed to me
- that her smile became a little bit stronger. I sat down on the
- couch.
-
- I'm sure it wasn't her doing, but the leather couch
- seemed to fold our bodies closer together. Her hand fluttered
- around her hair and came to rest casually, on my thigh. I
- ignored it.
- "I'm sure Brad's up in one of the rooms. Do you want me
- to show you?"
- It must have been my imagination, but I could have swore
- I heard a challenge in her voice. I nodded my head.
- Eva pushed herself off the couch, her hand still upon my
- thigh. Her hand slid up, accidentally, and she gave no notice
- that she brushed me.
-
- It made me aware that I was damp there. Eva took two
- steps and glanced over her shoulder, with the most natural air
- she stuck the tip of her finger in her mouth and sucked on it.
- I drew my breath but followed her.
- I followed Eva into a hallway with closed doors. The
- carpet was the mundane variety, but the sounds coming from
- behind the closed doors were not. A high-pitched female
- scream that could have been pleasure or perhaps not, echoed in
- the hallway. This time, Eva ignored the obvious.
- I began to feel a little bit nervous, but it was a
- pleasant sensation, contrasted as it was with my day-to-day
- life. I was sure, in my naivete that I would be able to back
- out of whatever was in front of me. I was getting wetter.
-
- Eva and I approached a stairway. She moved up gracefully
- as if in her own home. I began to notice the quality of the
- carpetting and the furnishings, and I clutched my fluted
- champagne glass, the sixth of the evening, closer to my body.
- We came to a landing larger than most rooms. It was
- exquisite. It was a soft ivory complemented by a blue and
- ivory silk wallpaper. There was a couch of matching blue silk
- nestled in the landing and Eva indicated with a dismissive
- air that I should wait there.
- She was challenging me! I knew that she was manipulating
- me, but my ego still had to respond.
- "I'll follow you up, thanks."
- Eva allowed herself the smile of a slave who's become a
- master, to rest on her lips.
-
- (To be continued...if there is sufficient e-mail interest...)
- ---
- She said,"Oh no, William and Mary's won't do, and I'm never
- going back to my old school." -steely dan The little Kat
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