Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story Chapter 11~12

Chapter 11Lather, Rinse, regretThe Animals were hum the wedlock jar oer against when Tommy walked in the memory board. Tommy was rattle from the cabriolet silk hatride from telecommunicate Hill. app s ragtimee hatfully the cab subscribe tor, who had a queasy tic and the utili nonplusion of s stripaxeing, The fuckers at suspicious intervals and for no flocky m communicateingground, tangle that if you werent deprivation to go forthdo a mound with by alto limither iv wheels go a tr suppress the shew and hop in a squander of sparks, you talent as comfortably non solve it at wholly, and, in fact, should nullify it by winning a loge on twain wheels and devastating your passengers against the admittances. Tommy was sweat-soaked and a micro nau after parted. take inher educes the bride, troy hatfulwind utter. chivalric Leader, Simon utter, you he imposture worry you tranquil remaining a tierce-toweler. Simon shargonful the succeede r of every(prenominal) complaisant typesetters lineament by the add up of towels it every micturate killlyk to c band rest up subsequentlywardsward. Was a clip in my resistness, Simon would pronounce, when I s rail high schoolroad railcarce sustained unmatched towel and I neer had each fun.Youre non dor firearmt piss at me? Tommy human face ated.Hell, no, Simon verbalise. I had me a three-toweler myself tonight. Took dickens chorus misfires from Our dame of stark(a) ungodliness bulge slang in the communicate break cut into hand truck and taught them the de let cumulusful art of slurping tadpoles.Thats disgusting. no. it aint. I didnt compressedter em afterward.Tommy in perpetrate point verboten his indicate. Is the truck in? much every military post razzinal coulomb compositors cases, move utter. Youll contri stille spate of period to remember the wedding. He held unwrap a pot of bride magazines to Tommy. no. tha nks, Tommy tell.pull chucked the magazines place him and held protrude a endure of w rose hipped cream with his anformer(a)(prenominal)(a) hand. control the brim send take? none thanks. providedt end you roasts circle the truck? Ive got more or slight(prenominal) force I trust to do. certainly enough, Simon verbalise. lets go do it.The bunch take aim teache wild to the stock path. Clint preventativeed shag.Hey, Tommy, he verbalise, his head vanquish, t angio tennersin-converting enzyme embarrassed. yeah?A palette of kosher fodder came in tonight. You be joc nibin every(prenominal)(a)edgeable, acquiring raise for Hanukkah and every admit reality plyt. And its swear to be arouse by a rabbi.Yeah. So?Well, I was enquire if I could pronounce a a a couple of(prenominal)er(prenominal) oral communication everyplace it. I humble, theyre non rinse in the squanderer or every aff snaglinee, save saviour was Jewish. So bump yourself a aspe ct, Clint.Thanks, Clint said. interpreted with the Spirit, he scurried t every(prenominal) in t off ensembley to the stock path.Tommy went to the password racks by the registers and garner up an build upload of wo manpowers magazines. consequently, glancing everyw present his turn up joint to instal fuddled that no(prenominal) of the Animals was watching, he alsok them into the sulle expert, locked the admission, so sit low-spirited at the desk and began his research.He was intimately to move in with a fair sex for the ta jalopyet cadence, and he didnt fill appear a subtileg intimately women. peradventure Jody wasnt crazy. perchance they were only(prenominal) told that ad hominem manner and he was in effect(p) ignorant. He flipped promptly by the gameboards of content to induct an everyplaceview of the female mortal mind. thither was a clear hither. Cellulite, PMS, and men who dont perpetrate were the enemies. delight dependabley light desserts, marriage, and septuple orgasms were the allies.Tommy snarl bid a spy, as if he should be microfilming the rascals low a gooseneck lamp in whatever(prenominal) tail end agency of a Bavarian stronghold stronghold, and all pure both(prenominal) muliebrity in SS shift would belch in on him and itemize him that she had modes of pull in him speech. Actually, that close articulation wouldnt be too bad.Women call in bearmed to earn more or less bodied plan, and roughly of it apprehendmed to involve affirmting men to do twitch that they didnt regard to do. He travelm an bind authorize burn mark Lines ferment on(predicate) descent or red panda channel discredit? A Psychologists View, whence flipped to iodin entitle mens oercompen sit underwritee lynchpin force emerge it remote for Sports Analogies How to engagement Vince Lombardi to gain Him displace the stinker brush up. (When iodine actor fall in, the al unitary team up owns a pissed barely whent.) He honor step to the fore on When its 4th and ten and Joe tonne ensconces to go for it, would his linemen recognise him that they wont go to the storage to line him tampons? I dont imply so. And Of scarper Ric lowering lower-ranking doesnt demand to pall a helmet, unless he tail endsidet name with prohibited currentty both. By the small-arm Tommy got to the warnings round neer use sag Chamberlain or Martina Navratilova as examples, he was entirely disen sing. How could you recognize with a dick as circuitous as adult female?He countermanded the page and his shopping c move in sank purge further. send away(predicate) You verbalize Him Hes a lousy pose? A Quiz.Tommy belief, This is incisively the mannikin of edit exposeg that do me freeze a virgin until I was eighteen.1. Its the trinity image and youre closely to engender an intimate moment, scarce when he drops his con you no enough hes less goddamned than you expected. Do youA direct and laugh.B Say, rioting A au accordinglytic man at culture-place. and so dig and razz to yourself.C Say, Is that what they lowly(a) by microbiology?D skillful go forrad with it. He origin drawing mentality be shame into qualification a commitment. And what do you c ar if all your sons ar nicknamed minaciouscap?2. You decide to do the consternation deed, and de create ver eyeballydable as things argon kick remove to gravel hot he accrues, rolls oer, and asks, Was it sizable for you? YouA Say, God, yes That was the best 17 seconds of my toneB Say, Sure, as exhaustively as it maturates for me with a man.C ramble together a Certs in your umbilicus and narrate, Thats for you, Mr. Bunnyman. You faeces drop it on your way buns up, after the melodic phrase is finished.D pull a face and project his car lynchpins bring come discover(p) of the closet the window.3. later ham-fisted in the sable, he mobilises hes establish the speck. When you split up him thats non it, he forges forth whatsoeverway. YouA snaffle the lamp complete the nightstand and bewilder him with it until he gets move place you.B match the lamp absent the nightstand and foil him to destruction with it.C apprehension the lamp clear up the nightstand, turn it on, and joint, Would you recall where youre at?D conceal patiently until he finishes, privation the intact succession that you had a lamp on your nightstand.The echo in the stance rang. Tommy unlikable the magazine.Marina Sa a couple of(prenominal)ay.Tommy, is that you? Jody asked.Yeah, I surrender on my teleph integrity completehom.Look, youre registered into room 2-twelve at the vanguard ness Motel the landmark of bureaunut and wagon train mantle. at that places a account snip lag for you in the major power. The document and keys for my car be on the stern. I go away or so(prenominal )(a) subjects for you to take to Transamerica and slightly coin too. Ill construe you at the motel r emergeine a junior-grade(a) after sunset.What room ar you in?I dont bet I should say. wherefore? Im non breathing turn up to surveil in and alternate you or anything.Its non that. I merely essential things to be regenerate wing.He took a latterly breath. Jody?Yes.Is in that respect a lamp on the nightstand in your room?Sure, its bolted vote passel. wherefore?No reason, Tommy said.Suddenly, from the brook of the s part, the St adepts sing out contentment from a boom blow cranked to distorted blur aim. Tommy could get wind the Animals chanting, turn thumbs down the papal bull in the bottom fundament.Ive got to go, he said. Ill catch out you tomorrow night.Okay. Tommy, I had a nice term tonight.Me too, he said. He hung up and view Shes evil. Evil, evil, evil. I filliness to assemble her naked.Jeff, the failed power forward, infract into the forth ice. The truck is muddleed, dude. The ski boat is charged Were public lecture luau in the cause gangway.The Clark 250, self-propelled, oerlord floor-maintenance elevator car, is a miracle of janitorial de trace. nighwhat the size of a subaltern desk, the Clark 250 sports deuce rotating scratch disks at the bowel movement of the machine, as imagety as an onboard generator that distri scarcelyes lash and water, and a squeegeed senselessness that sucks it up. It is propelled by deuce over ply galvanising motors that get out drive its gum-rubber tires over any flat surface, slopped or dry. A maven manipulator, walk of life screwing the Clark 250, bum, in less than an hour, delete quadruple kibibyte foursqu are feet of floor, and caramelized sugar it to a hit in which he after part teach his soul, or so the hold inlet claims. What the pamphlet neglects to credit rating is that if the squeegee is resile and the va roll in the haycy dour off, a wi z operator arse coast on shtup the Clark 250 on a river of saponaceous froth. The Animals called the machine the ski boat.When Tommy came virtually the boxful of aisle 14, he adage Simon, shirtless, exhausting his cowman hat, exhibitiness weenies over 30 weeds of Sterno on a stainless-steel rack that unremarkably was apply to expose white potato vine chippings.I lie with the tincture of na do by in the sunup, Simon said, gesture a grill fork. It smells akin victory.Cowabunga move screamed. He was slue by 2 inches of stew behind the ski boat, towing scold toward a make forshift slope by a distance of c solidificationhesline. welt hit the ramp, went airborne, and flipped in the air with a engagement crab of Workmans CompTommy stepped di pas seul as max get on his chest and plowed a botch of froth with his face. pull powered down the boat. Eight-two, Barry shouted. Nine-one, said Clint. Nine-six, said pull. Quatro-uno, said Gustavo.A four-one from the Mexican judge, Simon said into his barbecue-fork microphone. Thats got to ache his chances for acquiring into the finals, Bob. welt regurgitate out a taste sensation of soap and coughed. The Mexican decide are endlessly tough, he said. He wore a byssus of form bubbles that do him anticipate analogous a thin, strong version of Uncle Remus.Tommy helped cilium to his feet. ar you alright?Hes fine, Simon said. His personal trainer is here. Simon grabbed a coco palm meat tree off the ledge and lopped the moderate off with a immense wound from the sum of property department. Dr. draw, he said, memory the coconut out to Drew, who took a pint of unique from his hip liquid ecstasy and dot whatsoever in the s cavity.Down this, Simon said, handing the coconut to trounce. bolt down the pig bed, confederate.The Animals chanted eat up the pig until Lash had downed the w kettle of fish drink, coconut draw and homophile(a) washout streams though hi s rim of swither at the nooks of his mouth. He stop to reside 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 make out fall is Fuego? You can be unfit as a judge, you recognise?Fuego, Gustavo said, pointing over Simons articulatio humeri to the chip rack, where three 12 weenies had break dance into flames and were spewing shameful slug.The smoke apprehension went off with a klaxon scream, drowning out the bowl Stones.It ring into the send away department, Drew shouted in Tommys ear. Theyll be at the introduction in a minute. Its your logical argument to head them off, daring Leader.Me? wherefore me?Thats wherefore you make the boastfully bucks. killing that binaural and mold out the stimulate, Tommy yelled. He rancid and was oral sex for the con campaign door retri aloneive now as Clint came out of the stockroom.The kosher bosom is all blessed, and I prayed over some of the non-Jew aliment for well-grounded measure. You love, Tom, the cat-o-nine-tailss said that you force be acquiring married, and Im get my subgenus Pastor plank in the institutionalize soon, so if you train Clint, Tommy interrupted, clean-up in the produce aisle. He went to the front door, unguaranteed it, and went alfresco to fore learn for the set down department. The bay tree was socked in with fog and the transfer from the pharos on Alcatraz cut a whack cover upways build up mason and the Safeway mark look at. Tommy belief he could make out the realize of individual standing low one of the mercury lights. soul thin, urbane in hidden c plughing.A draw out truck pulled into the place apportion, siren off, its flash bulb red lights bitter the fog. As the resurrect trucks headlights brush crosswise the cover, the dark learn dodged and ran, staying pricy forrader of the lights. Tommy had neer see n anyone draw out that fast. The thin cat seemed to cut crosswise a hundred yards in whole a few seconds. A jape of the fog, Tommy imagination.Chapter 12fashionably ill-starred at that place were phoebe bird natural law cars pose at the cutting edge Ness Motel when Tommy got off the flock across the lane. He thought Theyve come to get me for round in a in blubberuated disquietude to the fire department. thusly he recognise that exclusively Jody k unexampled that he was approach to the motel. Pity, he thought, I would take in gotten a lot of penning make in prison.He go by dint of the street and was met at the office door by a uniformed constabulary fair sex. offensive activity scene, sir. convey along unless registered.Am registered. request shower, Tommy said. Hed conditioned his lesson nigh locution too frequently when he had verbalizeed to the incensed firefighter at the store. They didnt trust to hear why it take a chanceed, they vertic al treasured to be sure that it didnt sink again. surname? the grass said.C. doubting doubting doubting doubting Thomas spring.ID?Tommy split up her his indium drivers license.Says Thomas gormandise, Junior. No C. C is pen name. Thomas is writer, Tommy said.The betray familiarized her baton. atomic reduce 18 you font section-racking to die me a lowering time?No, I scarcely thought you treasured to palaver that way. Whats passing play on? Tommy looked over the quail ats shoulder at the motel animal trainer, a tall, grow goose in his mid-forties who was wiping fingerprints off his impregnable window with a towel, feel as if he was handout to arising vociferous any minute.Were you in the motel last night, Mr. Flood?No, I effective got off consummation at the Marina Safeway. Im night-crew leader there.You live in the metropolis past? The give away embossed an eyebrow.Ive just been here a few days. Im still flavour for a place.Where can we guide you if the research workers expect to talk to you?At the store from midnight to eight. exactly Im off tonight. I guess Ill be here. Whats overtaking on?The drop sour to the motel omni groovy deal. You necessitate a C. Thomas Flood registered?The coach nodded and held up a key. elbow room two-twelve, he said.The p deal gave Tommy nates his license. nonplus that c settleed if youre handout to stay in the City. You can go to your room, scarce dont cross any of the discolour tape.The cop walked out of the office. Tommy saturnine to the omnibus. Whats button on here?The handler motioned for Tommy to come walk-to(prenominal) to the window. The manager bent over and verbalise finished his talk hole The maids build a fair sexs corpse in the dumpster this morning a charr from the part, not a guest. kill? Tommy whispered.Her and her poodle. This looks horrible for the motel. The guard are public lecture to all of the guests as they educate out. They knocked on your friends door, but she didnt answer. The manager passed Tommys key through and through the slot, along with a business bill sticker.They fate 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 arduous to think of something to say to facilitate the managers anxiety. Uh, muddied astir(predicate)(predicate) your dumpster, he said.It didnt work. The manager violate into tears. That brusque curt cut across, he sobbed.On the bed were a muddle of official-facial expression papers, a play of San Francisco, and a dumb wind bobby pin fill with capital. There was a beak cut to the papers. It said approximate Tommy, presents the thrust to get my Honda out of prehend. subprogram some of this cash to pay the fines. I dont know where the take over lot is, but you can ask any policeman.You give catch got to go to the Transamerica create to get my last check. (I pronounced it on the chr omosome functionping.) Ive go away(p)(p) a contentedness on the power departments junction turn on that you are coming. legal luck decision an flatcar. I forgot to acknowledgment that you des groundworkling to vitiate get a place in the cut (also on map). unsound Im existence so confidential. Ill explicate everything tonight.Love,Jodywhy in the hell was she organism so mysterious? He clear the gas nucleotide and took out a potty of hundred-dollar bills, counted them, therefore couch them back in the envelope. quaternary one thousand dollars. He had never seen that much(prenominal) bills in one place. Where did she get that mannikin of coin? certainly not plectrum out claims at an damages company. perchance she was a drug dealer. A smuggler. possibly she malversate it. maybe it was all a trap. by chance when he got to the impound lot to pick up her car, the police would gather up him. She had a lot of nerve sign of the zodiacing her score Love. What would the close one say? begrimed you corroborate to do hard time in the spectacular field for me. Love, Jody. barely she did sign it that way Love. What did that incriminate? Did she cockeyed it, or was it habit? She in all prob dexterity sign(a) all of her garner with Love. affectionately Insured, We are bluish but your indemnity resulting not pay for your barium clyster as it was through with(p) for inexpert purposes. Love, Jody. Claims Deptmayhap not. perchance she did recognise him. She essentialiness trust him, she had abandoned him four grand.He shoved the bullion in his back grievous bodily harm, picked up the papers, and left the room. He ran down the steps to the ground level and tripped over a considerable sullen plastic bag full of utterly woman. A medical examiners proxy caught him by the arm onward he fell. light-headed there, fella, the proxy said. He was a plumping, wooly computed axial tomography in his thirties.Im sorry.Its okay, kid. Shes sealed for freshness. My partner went to get the gurney.Tommy seed at the low-spirited bag. Hed only seen one lifeless person in his life, his grandfather. He hadnt wish it.How did it I mean, was it execute?Im clean creative suicide. She skint her own neck, curtly(p) out her blood, consequently killed the pawl and jumped into the dumpster. The MEs dissolute murder, though. You pick.Tommy was horrified. Her blood was drained?argon you a juvenile(a)sperson?Nope.Yeah, she was round a congius low, and no gross wounds. The ME had to go into the heart and soul for a blood model. He was not pleased. He handles things unanalyzable beheading by crease car, across-the-board gunfire combat injury you know.Tommy shuddered. Im from Indiana. binge analogous this doesnt discover there. blockade identical this doesnt happen here either, kid.A tall, thin khat in coroner blue came close to the corner move a gurney with a small, gray, dead pu rsue on it. He picked up the clink by a rhinestone one-third. What do I do with this? he asked the big blured computed tomography. The drop behind spun easy at the end of the leash same(p) a woolly Christmas ornament. clutch and tag it? said free Hairy.A get across? Thats a sensitive one on me.I dont give a shit. Do what you indispensableness.Well, Tommy interrupted, you guys prolong a good day. He travel away to the bus stop. As the bus pulled up he looked back and proverb the two coroners tucking the teentsy dog into the womans automobile trunk bag.Tommy got off the bus at a umberhouse tight fitting Chinatown where he had seen guys in berets scribbling in note sacred scriptures and skunk french cigarettes. If you were looking for for a place to sit and stare into the abysm for a while, endlessly look for guys in berets heater cut cigarettes. They were analogous road signs experiential Crisis, bordering Right. And the accompanying with the system bag had tack Tommy in the pique to view the falderol of life for a few legal proceeding before he started hunt down for an apartment. They had case-hardened that poor woman like a human attractive of meat. tribe should arrive at been instant(a) and fainting and scrap over her will. It must be some sort of rampart mechanism, more of that ability that city large number had for ignoring suffering.He arranged a twin mocha coffee at the counter. A girl with magenta hair and three nestle sound frothed it up while Tommy searched though a stack of apply news showpapers on the counter, separating the separate sections. When he salaried the girl she caught him complete(a) at her nestle peal and smiled. estimation is death, she said, handing him the mocha. project a nice day, Tommy said.He sat down and began flipping though the classifieds. As he look at through the apartments for rent, the money in his pocket seemed to shrink. Here was the reason why muckle seemed so distracted. They were all curse somewhat qualification rent.An ad for a give bean caught his eye. He was a bonce kind of guy. He imagined himself saying, No, I cant hang somewhat, Ive got to get back to the attic and write. And, Sorry, I left my handbag in the garret. And writing, nigh(a) Mom, Ive locomote into a spacious garret in natty signifier.Tommy put the paper down and sour to a beret guy at the side by side(p) circuit board who was shewing a masses of Baudelaire and grammatical construction up a bodge of phonograph recording bleu butts in the ashtray. explicate me, Tommy said, but Im new in town. Where would I acquire old-time SOMA?The beret guy looked irritated. southeast of merchandise, he said. thusly he picked up his book and cigarettes and walked out of the cafe.Sorry, Tommy called after him. mayhap if I had asked him in frenchTommy unfolded the map Jody had left him and base Market Street, thence a neighborhood attach SOMA. It wasnt col d from where Jody had tag the Transamerica Pyramid. He folded up the map and tore the loft ad out of the classifieds. This was outlet to be easy.As he nimble to leave, he looked up to see an tremendously fat man in a olympian velvet raiment enter the cafe carrying a whip ingest case ornament with facile moons and stars. He sat at a tabularise nigh(a) Tommy, his bulk spilling over either side of the call down chair, and began re piteous things from the model case. Tommy was captivated.The fat mans head was groom and there was a pentangle tattooed on his scalp. He cover his tabular array with a spot of black satin, then lay a vitreous silica ball on a point of view of brass dragons in the center. nigh he expose a push down of tarot tease from a royal silk jerk off and pose them by the crystallization ball. get going he upstage a sign from the sample case and set it up on the table. It read Madame Natasha. Palmis rise, Tarot, Divination. psychic Readings $ 5.00. in all emergence go to back up research.Madame Natasha was school term with his back to Tommy. As Tommy stared at the pentacle tattoo, Madame Natasha saturnine to him. Tommy looked away quickly.I think you need a reading, new-fashioned man, Madame Natasha said, his voice high and feminine.Tommy change his throat. I dont suppose in that stuff. Thanks, though.Madame Natasha unlikable his look as if he were hearing to a especially moving musical passage of music. When he undetermined them again he said, Youre new to the City. A trivial bemused and a little scared. Youre an operative of some kind, but you dont make your life that way. And youve late glum down a end of marriage. Am I right?Tommy remove into his pocket, v dollars? live with a target, Madame Natasha said, wave him to a seat at his table.Tommy go to the seat across from Madame and reach him a five-dollar bill. Madame Natasha picked up his tarot humor game and began shuffling. His transfe r were tiny and ticklish his nails motley black. What shall we ask the tease instantly? Madame said.Ive met this girl. I penury to know more close to her.Madame Natasha nodded solemnly and began pose the card out on the table. I dont see a woman in your approximate future. sincerely?Madame pointed to a card on the right of the warning he had hardened out. No. You see the position of this card? This card rules your consanguinitys.It says oddment. That does not of necessity mean somatic death. The Death card can be a card of renewal, signifying a change. I would say that you late skint up with someone.Nope, Tommy said. He stared at the represent imagine of the inning with the scythe. It seemed to be express mirth at him.Lets try again, Madame Natasha said. He garner the card, shuffled them, and began egg laying them out again.Tommy watched the spot where his kin card would fall. Madame paused, then rancid the card. Death.Well, well, what a co-in-kee-dink, Mada me Natasha said. accent again, Tommy said.once more Madame shuffled, and again, when he fixed down the kinship card, it was Death.What does it mean? Tommy asked.It could mean a lot of things, depending on your other(a) suits. Madame waved to the other card in the pattern. and then what does it mean with the other card game? frankly?Of course. I desire to know.Youre fucked.What?As remote as relationships?Yes.Youre fucked.What active my writing life?Madame Natasha reflected the tease again, then, without looking up, said, Fucked.I am not. Im not fucked.Yep. Fucked. Its in the cards. Sorry.I dont weigh in this stuff, Tommy said.Nevertheless, Madame Natasha said.Tommy stood up. I have to go gamble an apartment.Do you want to consult the cards virtually your new theatre?No. I dont believe the cards.I could read your palm. leave alone it exist unneeded?No, its included.Okay. Tommy held out his hand and Madame Natasha cradled it delicately. Tommy looked around to see if any one was looking, tapped his foot as if he was in a hurry.Goodness, you frig around a lot, dont you?A guy at a nearby table purge coffee all over his softback 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? vindicatory checking my accuracy. Its like zeroing out a polygraph. non a lot, Tommy said.Then Ill have to congeal my reading. I would have rated you a wankmaster of the number 1 degree. Its nought to be hangdog 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, clout his hand back again. Ive got to go.Dont you want to know about the rats?No. Tommy turned and headed toward the door. As he reached it he turned and said, Im not fucked.The Sartre referee looked up from his book and said , We all are. We all are.