she gave her the first one. “That way, it works quicker.” Jenny the junkie
now seemed like Jenny the genius.
The pills were already working.
Ahh…the faux feeling that
everything was right with the world.
Don’t let the adrenaline win,
Jordy .
By the time the black truck pulled
up, she was perfectly calm. She knew she was going to see him again, and be
fucked up again , but she couldn’t deal with this completely sober. This
was too much.
She slipped inside and barely
greeted the driver. She gave him a brief smile and let her imagination go as
they pulled out of the parking lot.
Chapter 4
They pulled into an industrial
parking lot. They rolled past the security gate first and then through back,
and to the very edge of the park, she sees the letters. K.I.T.
She smiles excited, his studio!
K.I.T. stood for Keep it Tite.
She smiles again, the Xanax still
hitting heavy, but this time she looked right at the driver and gave him a full
smile.
He smiled back and eased to a stop.
Ok, Jordy, calm, cool and
collected .
She asked the drivers’ name as they
were buzzed in.
“Jessie”
“Nice to meet you,” she smiled at
him. “I am…”
“Jordy,” he answered. “I know,” he
smiled at her.
He knows who I am ?
They entered a long corridor that
ended at an abandoned receptionist’s desk.
The whole place seemed empty.
There were long luxurious black
couches everywhere, it looked clean and almost like a gym atmosphere.
Lots of furniture, not much on the
walls.
She looked around for what seemed
like forever, taking it all in. Jessie gestured her into another set of rooms
and she heard his voice.
Her stomach started to flutter, he
was talking, and she could hear the music at the same time.
This was too much.
She was so happy for those Xanax.
She would be hitting Jenny up
again, soon, for more.
Damn, she is really beautiful. He
was looking at her through the security camera, long black hair in a pony tail,
uh, that skirt. He was smirking.
Mouse pusher, he thought to
himself, let’s see how she acts sober.
“Hey.” he said, a little too
serious for how she was feeling
“Hey,” she said, smiling like an
idiot, she was sure.
She turned to Jessie and said,
“Thanks for the ride, Jessie, sorry about the P.M. Dawn.” Jessie winked at her
and they smiled at each other for a brief second.
She turned her eyes to him and his
mouth was open slightly, but he recovered quickly and whispered what Jordy was
sure was a smart ass comment to one of the guys at the sound board.
“So, we are going to listen to a
track, okay? Then I will be done here and we can eat?”
It was more of a question
than an order this time.
There were only four people in the
studio. Tite, herself and Jessie, and a guy Tite introduced as his
manager.
“Jeff, this is Jordy,” Titan
declared boldly.
Jeff barely looked up and under his
breath muttered, “Sup.”
He was concentrating intensely on
what he was doing. There was a loud burst of static and a zip and there it was.
Him and a beat.
She sat next to Jessie and
listened as the first two or three minutes of the song played, she had never
heard it and knew it was new.
“Good shit.” Jessie said.
Jordy chimed in, “I have heard
everything of his and I am telling you…”
The music stopped abruptly, but
Jordy, not realizing it, finished her sentence in same loud voice.
“This guy is a fucking genius!”
To her complete horror, all eyes
were on her, especially Tite's, and then there was a sudden burst of laughter
from both Jessie and Jeff. Jordy was glad to be sitting down because she knew
would have fainted if she had been standing.
She wanted to run but had nowhere
to go, so she decided to give herself three more seconds of embarrassment and
then she would brave a look at him.
One, the guys were still laughing.
Two, why couldn’t she have just
said yes?
Three.
He wasn’t laughing at all. He was
staring at her hard.