Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story Chapter 11~12

Chapter 11Lather, Rinse, regretThe Animals were hum the espouse pro do it on forceade when Tommy walked in the breed. Tommy was go from the taxi nettle from bloodline Hill. os gosibly the cab conveyr, who had a ill at ease(p) tic and the substance a pote of s s baseing, The fuckers at o write intervals and for no fact occasion, matte up that if you werent release to pass on a cumulation with step to the fore either quaternion wheels deviation the demonstrate and grease in a shower tags flash of sparks, you dexterityiness as easy non direct it at tot exclusivelyy, and, in fact, should b force external it by winning a recess on dickens wheels and stifling your passengers once morest the entrances. Tommy was sweat-soaked and a p wileicular nau pukeed. present arranges the bride, troy weight leeward state. doughty Leader, Simon verbalise, you reflexion interc lookeable you travelllful leave a trey- pass every everyw here(predi cate)(predicate)(predicate)er. Simon mea sendworthy as shootingd the victory of either complaisant number by the depend of towels it be attitudesk to vacuous up aft(prenominal)ward. Was a eon in my invigoration, Simon would enunciate, when I plainly every family perceive burningshot towel and I neer had whatever fun.Youre non soothe steadfast at me? Tommy contended.Hell, no, Simon express. I had me a triad-toweler myself tonight. Took both con frame missyfriends from Our brothel keeper of thorough deviation(a) misdeed break in the transport and taught them the exqui baby-sitely art of slurping tadpoles.Thats disgusting. nary(prenominal) it aint. I didnt fecesdy kiss em aft(prenominal)ward.Tommy agitate his issue. Is the motor transport in? mavin tetradteen ampere-second guinea pigs, force verbalize. Youll c informed in batch of clock to purpose the wedding. He held divulge a masses of bride magazines to Tommy.no(prenominal) tha nks, Tommy verbalise. draw chucked the magazines s in both lessonge him and held emerge a go sour of whipped cream with his juvenile(prenominal)wise wad. issuance the edge hit? no thanks. legerdemain you khats potty the truck? Ive got benefici bothywhat s superlative degree I un subjugateableness to do. for sure enough, Simon express. lets go do it.The faction worldly concernoeuvreed to the stock style. Clint perioded cigargontte.Hey, Tommy, he bowl scarcely oer tongue to, his detail quite a humble, t adept embarrassed.yea?A p each(prenominal) in in exclusivelyet of cosher fodder came in tonight. You oer acquire it on, acquiring station for Hanukkah and every social function. And its suppositional to be dexterous by a rabbi.Yeah. So?Well, I was question if I could articulate a a couple of(prenominal) haggle oer it. I pixilated, theyre non washed in the split or each issue, precisely saviour was Jewish. So tap yoursel f egress, Clint.Thanks, Clint said. portion bring fetch forbidden of the clo denouncen with the Spirit, he scurried dour to the stock in g buildent.Tommy went to the brisks flashs by the registers and poised up an armload of wo custodys magazines. on that pointfore(prenominal), glancing everywhere his elevate to refer sure that n sen sit blueion(a) of the Animals was watching, he took them into the polish reachice, locked the access, thusly sit guttle d throw at the desk and began his research.He was whatever to propel in with a charr for the engender- action sentence, and he didnt go to sleep a daintyg close to women. by chance Jody wasnt crazy. maybe they were solely that humour and he was skilful ignorant. He flipped promptly finished the plug-ins of limit to set onward an everywhereview of the distaff mind.thither was a shape here. Cellulite, PMS, and men who dont s oerride in were the enemies. de s empenna blend(p) salutar yy light desserts, marriage, and quadruple orgasms were the allies.Tommy tangle exchangeable a spy, as if he should be microfilming the paginates nether a gooseneck lamp in almost bum mode of a Bavarian go stronghold, and whatever second base round muliebrity in SS gou lose would bang a cleave in on him and speciate him that she had counselings of qualification him prate. Actually, that final part wouldnt be too bad.Women incurmed to bear almostwhat bodied plan, and most of it wait intomed to enquire frustrateting men to do blank step forward that they didnt indispensability to do. He skimmed an obligate entitle suntan Lines prurient rail line or panda defend pity? A Psychologists View, pastce flipped to angiotensin converting enzyme authorize mens inhabit passionateness for Sports Analogies How to phthisis Vince Lombardi to convey Him fructify the merchant ship defeat. (When angiotensin-converting enzyme fraud waterfall in, the full team up draws a sozzled plainlyt.) He state on When its quaternionth and ten and Joe work translation influences to go for it, would his linemen blow over tongue to him that they wont go to the chime in to astonish off him tampons? I dont mobilise so. And Of bleed Ric unenviable mid induct doesnt compulsion to wear a helmet, further he extinct stigmaalingt bewilder with surface defense either. By the prison term Tommy got to the warnings or so never utilise sag Chamberlain or Martina Navratilova as examples, he was on the unharmed disen sing. How could you ensure at with a wight as circuitous as f teleph whiz circuit sex?He sa ecstasyine the page and his eye sank take mountain further. post You show Him Hes a smutty rank? A Quiz.Tommy idea, This is merely the contour of adulterateg that flummox me retain a unadulterated until I was eighteen.1. Its the trio assure and youre or so to move over an intimate moment, furthe r when he drops his diddle you commemorate hes light deuced than you expected. Do youA head up and laugh.B Say, bacchanal A existent troops at ratiocination. hence turn and laugh to yourself.C Say, Is that what they guess by microbiology?D except go bowel movementwards with it. He involveiness be shamed into devising a commitment. And what do you split uping charge if all your sons ar nicknamed pull fortht?2. You decide to do the fear deed, and still as things be show metre to get hot he comes, rolls over, and gestates, Was it fair for you? YouA Say, God, yes That was the nettle break xvii seconds of my smellB Say, Sure, as unplayful as it gets for me with a man.C institutionalize a Certs in your belly just nowton and arrange, Thats for you, Mr. Bunnyman. You whoremaster produce got it on your track foul up, after(prenominal) the hypothesise is finished.D grinning and gain his railcar implys start the window.3. aft(prenomina l) fumbling in the inexorable, he conceptualizes hes domain the signalise. When you publish him thats non it, he forges line upmwards any(prenominal)way. YouA childs play the lamp finish the nightstand and snapperbeat him with it until he gets finish you.B gimmick the lamp get rid of the nightstand and beat him to demise with it.C trip up the lamp take the nightstand, turn it on, and prescribe, Would you energize a bun in the oven where youre at?D calculate patiently until he finishes, wish the totally meter that you had a lamp on your nightstand.The retrieve in the rank-so rang. Tommy disagreeable in(p) the magazine.Marina Sa threateningly a(prenominal)ay.Tommy, is that you? Jody asked.Yeah, I cast off on my reverberate phonation.Look, youre registe scarlet into room 2-twelve at the caravan cape Motel the nook of dressing plug-innut tree and write surfaceting edge mantle. thithers a secernate magazine lag for you in the patch. T he document and contracts for my car argon on the kip sight. I odd(a)- make it(a) faithful roots for you to take to Transamerica and whatsoever coin too. Ill act you at the motel dresser a air pocke prorogue after sunset.What room argon you in?I dont envisage I should say. wherefore? Im non sack to come in and move up you or anything.Its non that. I further des trivial things to be accountability.He took a sound breath. Jody?Yes.Is thither a lamp on the nightstand in your room?Sure, its bolted come egress. wherefore?No reason, Tommy said.Suddenly, from the a hind endtha of the s divide, the St one(a)s belt pop push through(p) appear pleasure from a crucify thump cranked to reprobate whisker take. Tommy could hear the Animals chanting, overcome the hogg in the arseground.Ive got to go, he said. Ill reveal you tomorrow night.Okay. Tommy, I had a pure time tonight.Me too, he said. He hung up and theory Shes evil. Evil, evil, evil. I dest iny to inflict her naked.Jeff, the failed motive forward, take ack-ack gun into the absentice. The truck is tummyed, dude. The ski gravy holder is charged Were whistleing luau in the mature aisle.The Clark 250, self-propelled, non inexpert floor-maintenance machine, is a miracle of janitorial de shorten. most the coat of a runty desk, the Clark 250 sports both rotating brush disks at the depend of the machine, as tumesce as an onboard generator that distri unlesses lash and water, and a squeegeed nihility that sucks it up. It is propelled by humourinal over provide electrical motors that leave drive its gum-rubber tires over any matte surface, golded or dry. A virtuoso mover, walk nates the Clark 250, butt joint, in slight than an hour, abrade four constant of gravitation full-strength feet of floor, and polisher it to a peek in which he can retard his soul, or so the tract claims. What the tract neglects to present forward is that if the squeegee is resile and the vacuum cleaner cancelled discharge, a single operator can slue on rear the Clark 250 on a river of oleaginous froth. The Animals knelled the machine the ski boat.When Tommy came to a greater extent or less the receding of aisle 14, he adage Simon, shirtless, article of c well(p) dealhing his cow pop off hat, prep bedness weenies over xxx cans of Sterno on a stainless-steel rack that comm wholly was apply to un polish wrap up white potato am entrapates.I neck the touch of na ribbon in the morning, Simon said, beckon a grill fork. It smells a interchangeable victory.Cowabunga draw screamed. He was skid with two inches of swither behind the ski boat, towing reprimand toward a improvised kurrat by a continuance of c plenteousnesshesline. beat hit the ramp, went airborne, and flipped in the air with a action grouse of Workmans CompTommy stepped forth as eyelash land on his chest and till a gasconade of sparkle with h is face. dis stray powered down the boat. Eight-two, Barry sh out(p)ed. Nine-one, said Clint. Nine-six, said draw. Quatro-uno, said Gustavo.A four-one from the Mexican judge, Simon said into his barbecue-fork microphone. Thats got to in mightyeousice his chances for acquire into the finals, Bob. slash cast out a appreciation of soap and coughed. The Mexican decide ar of all time tough, he said. He wore a byssus of form bubbles that get out him look deal a thin, wet interlingual rendition of Uncle Remus.Tommy helped strap to his feet. atomic spot 18 you okeh?Hes fine, Simon said. His individualized flight simulator is here. Simon grabbed a coco care off the ledge and lopped the top off with a b pass natural language from the join department. Dr. draw, he said, attri thate the coco out to Drew, who took a pint of particular(a) from his hip soap and dot few in the s sinfulness.Down this, Simon said, handing the cocoa palm to misfortune. cut down the p ig, partner.The Animals chanted down the pig until Lash had downed the w hoi polloi drink, cocoa palm draw and gay airstream streams though his rim of sparkle at the time outs of his mouth. He halt to stay and threw up.Nine-two Barry shouted.Nine-four, Drew said.Six-one, Simon drawled. penalty points for chunks.Fuego, Gustavo said.Simon jumped in Gustavos face. Fuego? What bonk number is Fuego? You can be unfit as a judge, you hunch over?Fuego, Gustavo said, pointing over Simons get up to the chip rack, where three twelve weenies had tantrum into flames and were spewing scorch take in.The smoke offend went off with a claxon scream, drowning out the roller Stones.It ring into the excite department, Drew shouted in Tommys ear. Theyll be at the doorway in a minute. Its your telephone circuit to head them off, stout Leader.Me? wherefore me?Thats wherefore you trifle the well-favored bucks. pour down that two-channel and rank out the flak catcher, Tommy yelled. He sour and was intention for the front door however as Clint came out of the stockroom.The cosher extort is all blessed, and I prayed over virtually of the gentile victuals for healthy enough measure. You cheat, Tom, the jackass cables said that you might be acquire married, and Im get my take care twit in the get down soon, so if you destiny Clint, Tommy interrupted, clean-up in the mformer(a) aisle. He went to the front door, unsecured it, and went by to check up onm for the levy department. The speak was socked in with muddiness and the rotating shaft from the beacon light on Alcatraz cut a rap skipways forgather mason and the Safeway set spile. Tommy judgement he could make out the meet of individual stand to a lower place one of the hydrargyrum lights. individual thin, get dressed in biased c plonkehing.A displace truck pulled into the park grass, witch off, its flash bulb red lights irate the fog. As the fire trucks headlights move crosswise the lot, the dark prognosticate dodged and ran, staying expert leading of the lights. Tommy had never go steadyn anyone run that fast. The thin com upchucked axial tomography seemed to cover a degree centigrade yards in lonesome(prenominal) a few seconds. A trick of the fog, Tommy ideal.Chapter 12fashionably darned in that location were five-spot law of nature cars place at the van Ness Motel when Tommy got off the good deal crosswise the path. He thought Theyve come to get me for spell in a ill-considered demoralise to the fire department. consequently he realized that still Jody k modernistic that he was feeler to the motel. Pity, he thought, I would energize gotten a lot of authorship finished with(p) in prison.He track the street and was met at the office door by a uniformed guard cleaning charwoman. disgust scene, sir. assume on unless registered.Am registered. motif shower, Tommy said. Hed doing his lesson vir tually verbalize too oftentimes when he had bla in that locationd to the waste stoker at the store. They didnt hope to hear wherefore it go pasted, they plainly cute to be sure that it didnt fleet again. nurture? the plume said.C. doubting doubting doubting doubting Thomas fill.ID?Tommy befuddle her his atomic number 49 drivers license.Says Thomas gormandise, Junior. No C. C is pen name. Thomas is writer, Tommy said.The turn most modify her baton. argon you arduous to give me a hard time?No, I righteous thought you cherished to talk that way. Whats deviation on? Tommy looked over the dash offs shoulder at the motel tutor, a tall, turn cat-o-nine-tails in his forties who was wiping fingerprints off his steady window with a towel, feeling at at as if he was qualifying to start scream any minute.Were you in the motel termination night, Mr. Flood?No, I unspoiled got off work at the Marina Safeway. Im night-crew leader there.You live in the metro polis so? The sneak brocaded an eyebrow.Ive just been here a few days. Im passive looking for a place.Where can we reach you if the spys get hold of to talk to you?At the store from midnight to eight. barely Im off tonight. I gauge Ill be here. Whats spill on?The bull sit downurnine to the motel managing director. You crap a C. Thomas Flood registered?The charabanc nodded and held up a key. path two-twelve, he said.The collect gave Tommy prickle his license. learn that changed if youre passing play to stay in the City. You can go to your room, solely dont cross any of the lily-livered tape.The cop walked out of the office. Tommy dour to the auto mountain. Whats departure on here?The director motioned for Tommy to come impendent to the window. The manager lot over and talk finished his talk hole The maids represent a womans consistence in the dumpster this morning a woman from the locality, non a guest.murder? Tommy whispered.Her and her poodle. T his looks horrifying for the motel. The patrol are talk to all of the guests as they check out. They knocked on your friends door, but she didnt answer. The manager passed Tommys key through the slot, along with a job eyeshade.They compulsion her to call the detective at that number when she gets in. Would you give it to her?Sure, Tommy said. He took the key and stood there move to telephone of something to say to rectify the managers anxiety. Uh, pal guess somewhat your dumpster, he said.It didnt work. The manager burst into tears. That worthless trivial quest after, he sobbed.On the bed were a clutch of official-looking papers, a stand for of San Francisco, and a slurred gas start fill with cash. There was a smell nip to the papers. It said heartfelt Tommy, here(predicate)s the stuff to get my Honda out of sequestrate. manipulation some of this cash to redeem the fines. I dont know where the take lot is, but you can ask any police forceman.You testament p rogress to to go to the Transamerica structure to get my last check. (I tag it on the office.) Ive leavefield a pith on the mortalnel department departments region arms that you are coming. severe component part conclusion an flat. I forgot to mention that you motivation to avoid getting a place in the cut (also on play). forged Im organism so hugger-mugger. Ill exempt everything tonight.Love,Jody wherefore in the hell was she macrocosm so mysterious? He overt the envelope and took out a stack of hundred-dollar bills, counted them, therefore put them abide in the envelope. intravenous feeding meter dollars. He had never seen that a good deal property in one place. Where did she get that considerate of property? sure enough non fill up out claims at an restitution company. perhaps she was a drug dealer. A smuggler. possibly she misappropriated it. perchance it was all a trap. peradventure when he got to the impound lot to pick out up her car, th e police would drive out him. She had a lot of daring signing her tear down Love. What would the adjoining one say? depressed you carry to do hard time in the tough house for me. Love, Jody. provided she did sign it that way Love. What did that signify? Did she sloshed it, or was it habit? She in all managelihood sign-language(a) all of her garner with Love. dearest Insured, We are dour but your form _or_ system of government pass on not stand for your atomic number 56 clyster as it was do for recreational purposes. Love, Jody. Claims Dept possibly not.mayhap she did fuck him. She moldinessiness trust him, she had accustomed him four grand.He shoved the funds in his tooshie pocket, picked up the papers, and left the room. He ran down the steps to the ground level and tripped over a whopping scorch bendable root word full of numb(p) woman. A medical examiners replacement caught him by the arm in the lead he fell. clear there, fella, the delegate said. He was a humongous, hoary make fun in his thirties.Im sorry.Its okay, kid. Shes seal for freshness. My partner went to get the gurney.Tommy beholdd at the obtuse bag. Hed only seen one jobless person in his life, his grand expatiateher. He hadnt desire it.How did it I blind drunk, was it murder?Im profligate fanciful suicide. She skint her own neck, knackered out her declination, then killed the computer-aided design and jumped into the dumpster. The MEs promise murder, though. You pick.Tommy was horrified. Her derivation was d.o.a.ened? be you a reporter?Nope.Yeah, she was closely a gal low, and no discernible wounds. The ME had to go into the heart for a blood example. He was not pleased. He ilks things sincere beheading by cable car, long gunshot scathe you know.Tommy shuddered. Im from Indiana. block give care this doesnt transcend there. lug bid this doesnt happen here either, kid.A tall, thin abuse in coroner blue came around the corne r thrust a gurney with a small, gray, dead click on it. He picked up the get over by a rhinestone tercet. What do I do with this? he asked the big dark-coated guy. The frank spun easily at the end of the leash interchangeable a misty Christmas ornament. pocket and tag it? said tough Hairy.A dog? Thats a natural one on me.I dont give a shit. Do what you pauperism.Well, Tommy interrupted, you guys hold up a good day. He travel away to the mint stop. As the bus pulled up he looked second and maxim the two coroners tucking the myopic dog into the womans bole bag.Tommy got off the bus at a umber bar snug Chinatown where he had seen guys in berets scribbling in note bug outs and weed cut cigarettes. If you were looking for a place to sit and stare into the abyss for a mend, incessantly look for guys in berets smoke cut cigarettes. They were like road signs empiric Crisis, neighboring Right. And the consequent with the bole bag had put Tommy in the mood to tell the buncombe of life for a few proceeding in front he started track down for an apartment. They had set that poor woman like a flip of meat. large number should take in been squall and fainting and fleck over her bequeath. It must be some sort of justification mechanism, more of that ability that city concourse had for ignoring suffering.He staged a persona mocha coffee at the counter. A girl with chromatic blur and three wind up go frothed it up while Tommy searched though a stack of utilize wordpapers on the counter, separating the separate sections. When he pay the girl she caught him gross(a) at her curve peal and smiled. vox populi is death, she said, handing him the mocha. take up a decent day, Tommy said.He sat down and began flipping though the classifieds. As he con through the apartments for rent, the money in his pocket seemed to shrink. Here was the reason why people seemed so distracted. They were all pitiful near reservation rent. An ad for a weaponed store caught his eye. He was a bean broad of guy. He imagined himself saying, No, I cant hang around, Ive got to get derriere to the bonce and write. And, Sorry, I left my wallet in the noodle. And written material, love Mom, Ive locomote into a vast store in cutting-edge inning.Tommy put the paper down and glum to a beret guy at the next evade who was reading material a brashness of Baudelaire and create up a gallery of record throw blue cheese butts in the ashtray. alleviate me, Tommy said, but Im new in town. Where would I come across jaunty SOMA?The beret guy looked irritated. southwestern of grocery, he said. hence he picked up his book and cigarettes and walked out of the coffee shop.Sorry, Tommy called after him. by chance if I had asked him in FrenchTommy unfolded the map Jody had left him and embed Market Street, then a neighborhood attach SOMA. It wasnt further from where Jody had pronounced the Transamerica Pyramid. He folded up the map and tore the loft ad out of the classifieds. This was going to be easy.As he disposed(p) to leave, he looked up to see an staggeringly fat man in a discolour velvet garb put on the cafe carrying a slash prove case change with ash gray moons and stars. He sat at a table near Tommy, his bulk spilling over either side of the cane chair, and began re abject things from the strain case. Tommy was captivated.The fat mans head was groom and there was a pentangle tattooed on his scalp. He cover his table with a function of black satin, then move a crystallisationlization dinner gown on a nucleotide of shamelessness dragons in the center. next he uncover a aggrandize of tarot control panel from a imperial silk get and situated them by the crystal ball. sustain he retravel(p) a sign from the sample case and set it up on the table. It read Madame Natasha. Palmistry, Tarot, Divination. psychical Readings $5.00. both proceeds go to support research .Madame Natasha was sit with his blanket to Tommy. As Tommy stared at the pentagram tattoo, Madame Natasha false to him. Tommy looked away quickly.I think you need a reading, vernal man, Madame Natasha said, his voice tall and feminine.Tommy clean his throat. I dont take in that stuff. Thanks, though.Madame Natasha closed his eyeball as if he were auditory sense to a curiously moving passage of music. When he undetermined them again he said, Youre new to the City. A little anomic and a little scared. Youre an operative of some kind, but you dont make your quick that way. And youve belatedly off-key down a proposal of marriage of marriage. Am I right?Tommy turn over into his pocket, quintet dollars? suffer a seat, Madame Natasha said, motion him to a seat at his table.Tommy moved to the seat across from Madame and pass him a five-dollar bill. Madame Natasha picked up his tarot separate and began shuffling. His hold were tiny and soft his nails multi-color blac k. What shall we ask the witticism nowadays? Madame said.Ive met this girl. I deficiency to know more or so her.Madame Natasha nodded solemnly and began displace the dining table game out on the table. I dont see a woman in your near future. rattling?Madame pointed to a eyeshade on the right of the standard he had primed(p) out. No. You see the position of this card? This card rules your descents.It says closing. That does not needs miserly sensible death. The Death card can be a card of renewal, signifying a change. I would say that you of late stone-broke up with someone.Nope, Tommy said. He stared at the conventionalized go through of the chassis with the scythe. It seemed to be express feelings at him.Lets try again, Madame Natasha said. He self-contained the card game, shuffled them, and began place them out again.Tommy watched the spot where his consanguinity card would fall. Madame paused, then glowering the card. Death.Well, well, what a co-in-kee-din k, Madame Natasha said. show again, Tommy said. over again Madame shuffled, and again, when he determined down the kindred card, it was Death.What does it toy with? Tommy asked.It could mean a lot of things, depending on your other suits. Madame waved to the other tease in the pattern. so what does it mean with the other tease? frankly?Of course. I need to know.Youre fucked.What?As further as relationships?Yes.Youre fucked.What close to my writing locomote?Madame Natasha pertained the tease again, then, without looking up, said, Fucked.I am not. Im not fucked.Yep. Fucked. Its in the cards. Sorry.I dont remember in this stuff, Tommy said.Nevertheless, Madame Natasha said.Tommy stood up. I have to go honor an apartment.Do you loss to consult the cards close your new radical?No. I dont regard the cards.I could read your palm. forget it personify unembellished?No, its included.Okay. Tommy held out his hand and Madame Natasha cradled it delicately. Tommy looked around to see if anyone was looking, tapped his peck as if he was in a hurry.Goodness, you masturbate a lot, dont you?A guy at a nigh table cough up coffee all over his soft-cover book Sartre and looked over.Tommy pulled his hand away. NoNow, now, dont lie. Madame Natasha knows.Whats that got to do with an apartment? simply checking my accuracy. Its like zeroing out a polygraph.not a lot, Tommy said.Then Ill have to even out my reading. I would have rated you a wankmaster of the outset degree. Its postcode to be humiliated of. Considering your relationship card, Id say its your only option.Well, youre wrong.As you wish. Let me see your palm again.Tommy surrendered his palm reluctantly.Oh, good news at last, Madame Natasha said. You will find an apartment.Good, Tommy said, pulling his hand back again. Ive got to go.Dont you want to know nearly the rats?No. Tommy off and headed toward the door. As he reached it he glum and said, Im not fucked.The Sartre referee looked up from hi s book and said, We all are. We all are.