TheJunkiesFaust #14(FTDParish)

Slowly people started falling out and going back to the bars or their "surfing" friends on the couches.

I ordered another drink. Their best vodka on ice and put another $5 in the tip jar. The drinks were free, but I always tip good. What comes around, goes around.

I found Dirt and Maya sharing an overstuffed chair as an exotic, Persian looking fella dressed like a pirate sat on a footstool rigging up two blasts.......Step right up. No waiting.

While I watched, a small, very dark woman with seemingly black eyes, seductively floated up to me, staring up at me, using the back of her fingers to lightly caress my neck, shoulders and chest. She looked at me without any emotion showing on her beautiful, nubian face.

Her hips began to sway as she held my gaze prisoner with her fathomless eyes. As she raised her hand to my jawline to caress me again and I noticed, out of my peripheal vision, a small tatoo, similar to Maya's, on the inside of her wrist. I snatched her arm and twisted it to better show the tatoo. I raised an eyebrow inquiringly. She didn't fight me, didn't try to jerk away or hide it. She just held my gaze steadily and delved into my soul with those dark, dark eyes.

Before I knew she'd moved, she had disengaged her arm from mine and had me in an iron grip of hert own. I felt small and foolish....insignificant suddenly. She squeezed pretty hard once, but I just returned her steely gaze. She turned and strode purposefully toward a door in the wall I hadn't noticed before, hauling me with her. I followed willingly.

At the door, a very large Oriental man with tatoos covering his face, stepped aside and opened the door for my mysterious guide and myself without a word and without asking to see any wrists.

We went up a stairway parallel to the one we had come down earlier, stopping though at a landing and another door long before reaching ground level. She turned and looked at me, opened the door and entered, leaving me to follow of my own accord....or not.........I did.

The room was decorated with a mixture of luxurious antiques and state of the art electronics and gleaming, polished, stainless steel. The two decorative timelines seemingly divergent but curiously balanced and somewhat comforting.