is monsters. Tits out, wet-mouthed, back. Shouting and just to prove they exist.
Becky's at the bar with the mix Of decadent and desolate lighting. Everybody here has got a hyphenated name. Blowing more breeze Than the wind at the vane.
Industry slimeballs, big-deals. The cool new 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 science of the sycophants giggle and grimace. Becky fidgets, herself, 'Must being so cynical, Everybody is a human, Even these posturing pop stars and idiots.' She tells to look again - is hideous.
So while Marshall Law is on about his artwork 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 that he'd before. body, soft edges, with something so raw In the of her iris. He his name, 'Harry'. And in his life had he felt so happy. got talking, Free bar. Exhausting He drank until she was so He out the party. The floor spun, he stared at her and felt sure, Something was happening here.
He was nervous, His eyes kept doing of the room. He drank as fast as they serve him, this dude comes over, Sticks out a hand, And Harry at her he's just found himself in quicksand. He gives this guy a wrap, shake hands cash passed between palms, No fuss. bash, yes, bosh. He at her guiltily, She waved it off, 'You a then, right? I care.'
'Becky, all I wanted was a place of my own.' His eyes, and trusting, He's staring at her, desperate for to click. He is up. This is it. 'A real classy place, the bit, a speakeasy, right? Chandeliers and shine off of the glasses No hype, and no arseholes. Instead of our guts out In shitty old We can be grown men, to music, Real music. with heart by real bands, Not just posers like they're blowjobs 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 like an outline needs filling in. He in close, starts whispering:
'The thing is, and weird, I never so able, To talk like to anybody, ever, Recently Becky, I've been feeling the pressure. I can't tell you how it is To get off my chest.'
Becky's tight to her glass. coke, brain fast. She his face as he talks. Little on her fingertips Expert. snort. on a cigarette, feeling vaguely bored.
It's true if you it. The world is the But all how you see it. One man's flash of lightning ripping the air Is another's passing glare, there. 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 another's passing glare, there.
'If I'm honest, well it is, It's a trap, I ain't trying to be I just need to the cash for the dream. I hardly it myself Look, it ain't But once I set a task, Well, there 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 have Knowing I'm up to I keep it very but the thing is I love to, for one day, You know, like any other guy. I can't a girlfriend, you see 'Cause I like to lie. It's safer all That I keep my head down. And, yeah, the is booming, Yeah, the is really booming. But my family think I work in So, I get up morning And I put a shirt and on And I get on a train, I go up town. all professional users. I in the boardrooms and not the boozers To, like, CEOs and these day Scrooges Who get secretaries to bring me coffee, so stupid. Meant to be times, right, a recession? But these guys are buying than ever, I reckon And I...
got nice eyes, Shame his issues, though. The party on, her cynicism's getting vicious, Show nothing, smiling.
She the eye of her mates, They're by the bar in a state. Nod for me' They understand, over, Put their around her shoulders - 'Becky, bored, let's go'. His mouth to a stop, He to lose his composure, She at him 'Yeah, was getting to know ya.'
No, not like that, leave. Please. Don't make her go, just got started.
Their teeth are bare, feet are planted Their smirking at him he's dirt, And now his is Damp with the of Finding and miracle girl. He feels weak confusion, like 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 lets smoke out of the window So shivering. They pass a bottle of back and forth Let it against their teeth. The cab moves fast the streets. 'Who was guy you was with?' shakes her head softly, 'Him? I don't know, alright, But I could tell he was one of "save me" types, And I couldn't be dealing that. Not tonight.'