is monsters. Tits out, wet-mouthed, back. Shouting and screaming just to prove exist.
Becky's at the bar the usual mix Of decadent fabrics and lighting. Everybody here has got a second name. Blowing more breeze Than the at the weather vane.
Industry slimeballs, big-deals. The new band with the retro feel, It's the wrap for their video. danced in it. The director, Law, Head to toe in velour, Is holding court about the of image While the sycophants and grimace. fidgets, tells herself, 'Must being so cynical, Everybody is a human, these pitiful posturing pop stars and idiots.' She herself to look again - is hideous.
So while Marshall Law is wanking on about his She smiles at the guy opposite, eyes, dark shirt. He his eyebrows in the direction of Marshall. 'My Becky,' she says, yours?'
She was like nothing he'd seen before. Strong body, soft edges, with so raw In the of her iris. He his name, 'Harry'. And never in his had he felt so happy. got talking, Free bar. Exhausting He drank she was so absorbing He out the party. The floor spun, he stared at her face and felt sure, Something was here.
He was nervous, His eyes kept doing of the room. He drank as fast as could serve him, Then this dude over, Sticks out a hand, And looks at her Like he's just found in quicksand. He gives this guy a wrap, they shake Sweaty passed between palms, No fuss. bash, yes, bosh. He at her guiltily, She waved it off, a shotter then, right? I care.'
'Becky, all I wanted was a place of my own.' His eyes, and trusting, He's at her, desperate for something to click. He is opening up. is it. 'A real place, the whole bit, a speakeasy, right? and lights That off of the glasses No hype, and no arseholes. Instead of rotting our out In old boozers We can be men, listening to music, Real music. Played with heart by bands, Not just posers looking like Giving to mic stands. And be in a waistcoat, dead grand. Place. Or, at least, the plan.'
She was listening, not listening. Kept getting by the lights flickering. He looks an outline that needs filling in. He leans in close, starts
'The is, and it's weird, I never so able, To talk this to anybody, ever, Recently Becky, been really feeling the pressure. I tell you how good it is To get off my chest.'
holding tight to her glass. Good coke, fast. She his face as he talks. Little bump on her Expert. snort. Sucking on a cigarette, feeling bored.
It's true if you it. The is the world But all how you see it. One man's flash of lightning through the air Is passing glare, hardly there. It's true if you it. The is the world But all how you see it. One man's flash of ripping through the air Is passing glare, hardly there.
'If I'm being honest, it is, It's a trap, I trying to be flash I just need to the cash for the dream. I hardly it myself Look, it ain't But I set myself a task, Well, ain't no going back. And I am there, I am, nearly, anyway, The is, I had to push all of my friends away. I can't nobody Knowing I'm up to I keep it very but the thing is I would to, for one day, You know, live any other guy. I have a girlfriend, you see I don't like to lie. It's safer all That I just keep my down. And, yeah, the is booming, Yeah, the is really booming. But my family think I work in So, I get up every And I put a shirt and on And I get on a train, I go up town. all professional users. I sell in the boardrooms and not the To, like, CEOs and these day Scrooges Who get their secretaries to me coffee, so stupid. Meant to be times, right, a recession? But these guys are buying than ever, I reckon And I...
He's got eyes, about his issues, though. The party pushes on, her getting vicious, Show nothing, smiling.
She the eye of her mates, dancing by the bar in a state. Nod for me' They understand, over, Put their around her shoulders - 'Becky, bored, let's go'. His slows to a stop, He seems to his composure, She at him 'Yeah, was getting to know ya.'
No, not that, don't leave. Please. make her go, we've just got started.
Their teeth are bare, feet are planted smirking at him like he's dirt, And now his is with the fury of Finding and This girl. He feels weak with confusion, had he said? How had he talked? He watches them to the doors His roars.
In the back of the cab, the girls sit there The driver them smoke out of the window So shivering. They pass a of wine back and forth Let it clash against teeth. The cab moves through the streets. was that guy you was with?' Becky her head softly, 'Him? I don't know, alright, But I tell he was one of them "save me" types, And I be dealing with that. Not tonight.'