exploredating

 She was standing by the dance floor drinking a bottle of coke and smoking a cigarette. Every now and again her eyes would sweep over the crowd of heaving bodies. I watched her for a while. Her eyes showing flickers of recognition, an ear, a certain hair style, a waving arm. Fading back into obscurity as her friends failed to materialise.

I stepped down from the balcony and said hi to the girl. I asked her if she had a lighter. She took out one of her cigarettes and lit it and handed it to me. Her hand brushed mine and the connection was formed. We stood by the dance floor talking. She was on a school trip to Prague but it could have been any club in any city. The scars on her wrists told me she was trying to escape. Her body moved in jerky movements. Later I would find out she had an accident with a boy and broke her neck. She was in love with all the boys that night but didn’t want to fuck them.  I was not the only one watching her that night. Two guys were standing by the bar, they had a video camera.

We talked for an hour or so not running out of anything to say. One of the boys with the camera came over and tried to film us talking. She ever so politely told him to fuck off. It was my first glimpse of her temper and I wanted to see more. I went to the bar to buy her a drink. Vodka and coke. Short sharp shocks of vodka watered down with about a centimetre of coke. The camera guys were still watching. We let them buy us drinks and adjourned to the dance floor. One of the guys was English the other Slovak with beautiful eyes and long dark curly hair. Strange looking but attractive in a weird way.

Trackback URI | Comments RSS