Doreen looked terrific. She was wearing a strapless whitelace dress zipped up over a snug corset affair that curved her inat the middle and bulged her out again spectacularly above andbelow, and her skin had a bronzy polish under the paledusting-powder. She smelled strong as a whole perfume store.
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I wore a black shantung sheath that cost me forty dollars. Itwas part of a buying spree I had with some of my scholarshipmoney when I heard I was one of the lucky ones going to NewYork. This dress was cut so queerly I couldn't wear any sort of abra under it, but that didn't matter much as I was skinny as aboy and barely rippled, and I liked feeling almost naked on thehot summer nights.
Great white bearskins lay about underfoot, and the onlyfurniture was a lot of low beds covered with Indian rugs.Instead of pictures hung up on the walls, he had antlers andbuffalo horns and a stuffed rabbit head. Lenny jutted a thumbat the meek little grey muzzle and stiff jackrabbit ears.
I sat cross-legged on one of the beds and tried to look devoutand impassive like some businessmen I once saw watching anAlgerian belly-dancer, but as soon as I leaned back against thewall under the stuffed rabbit, the bed started to roll out into theroom, so I sat down on a bearskin on the floor and leaned backagainst the bed instead.
So one Saturday Eric and a few of his classmates took a businto the nearest city and visited a notorious whore house.Eric's whore hadn't even taken off her dress. She was a fat,middle-aged woman with dyed red hair and suspiciously thicklips and rat-coloured skin and she wouldn't turn off the light, sohe had had her under a fly-spotted twenty-five watt bulb, andit was nothing like it was cracked up to be. It was boring asgoing to the toilet.
He was lying on his back, his hands under his head, staring atthe ceiling. The starched white sleeves of his shirt, rolled up tothe elbows, glimmered eerily in the half-dark and his tan skinseemed almost black. I thought he must be the most beautifulman I'd ever seen.
When I lifted my head, the photographer had vanished. JayCee had vanished as well. I felt limp and betrayed, like the skinshed by a terrible animal. It was a relief to be free of the animal,but it seemed to have taken my spirit with it, and everythingelse it could lay its paws on.
But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wristlooked so white and defenceless that I couldn't do it. It was asif what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin bluepulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else,deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at.
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