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All he did was put an
outline of his hand on the table, I’d swear he hasn’t put his hand down there
again to match it up, he’s just been going off with that gun, and there it is.
    It looks as if the whole world is draining into his arm.
    “Wow,” Cherry whispers and takes several pictures.
    She sits down in a daze and no one can quite express the
profundity, the beauty of what has taken place. A zenith has been reached. They
had all been shooting toward this moment faster and faster, for more and more
waking hours at a time until time itself seemed not to matter, until there was
only On and Off, Enough and Needing More, Snorting or Copping and this had been
the goal all along and none of them had known it until now, with a single
consciousness, they share it, revel in it.
    “This means something,” Two Step says and they all
get the reference and laugh and it was the perfect way to break that moment; it
was like an orgasm, a long orgasm after a much longer and slower buildup and it
had to end, if an orgasm went on and on forever it would drive you mad and they
knew this, sensed it without the need to speak it and wasn’t it always better
to end a moment with laughter than sorrow?
    Soup passes the mirror around again and they talk about Close
Encounters of the Third Kind and has anyone ever been to Devil’s Tower and
then if anyone ever seen an alien, or a UFO.
    “No but I saw a vampire once,” Tattoo Nik says. “Walking up
Crenshaw at about four in the morning I was on my home after scoring, you know,
enough to get me through the next couple days or whatever, and it was still a
few hours before dawn, this was in the winter months. December, I believe, and
I happened to look down an alley as I walked by it, no reason for it, I hadn’t
really looked down any other alley, it was just a simple, random thing, and at
the end of the alley I thought at first it was a couple, making out or
whatever, so I stopped, you know, just to see if she was gonna go down on the
guy right? I figure it’s four in the morning the girl’s gotta be a pro, in that
part a town? Come on. So I kind of hid behind the wall and leaned over and when
I really started watching, I could see that wasn’t what it was. First off the
guy must have been a good six inches taller than her, and built, too. I could
tell that from where I was, that he was just a big dude, and he was trying to
push her away, right? He had his arms on her shoulders and was trying to push
her away and at the same time pull away from her. For a second he did, he
jerked his head back and I saw this splash come out of his neck and the girl
just slammed him back against the wall and leaned in, pushed his head back so
far I thought his neck was gonna snap. He just, the life, you know? Went out of
him. He stopped fighting her, and when she was done, he just kind of fell
over.”
    “What’d you do?” Cherry asked.
    “Are you kidding me? I ran the fuck home and smoked up!”
    “Speaking of which, guys...”Soup said.
    “You’re fucking kidding me, man!” Two Step said, and stepped
forward to look at the mirror. “God damn!”
    “You got any more, Nik?” Soup asked. “We got money, right
guys? Do you--”
    “I told you on the phone,” Tattoo Nik said. “You guys bought
me out, and Gomez is on the re-up. I thought you were gonna try and score more
before you came over.”
    “Man you never told us that shit!” Two Step said, glaring
down at Soup, who was turning a little red in the face.
    “There’s no way we did all that,” Jim said. But he knew it
to be true, the burning in his nose, and the hot marble feeling in his eyes.
They’d been here for hours. His stomach was tight and shrunken, how long since
he’d eaten anything? His jaw was a long, slow ache from grinding his teeth.
    Gotta cut that shit out, Jim thought. End up like Soup.
    Jim also knew it was his turn to go out and score, and he
could tell by the way Soup and Two Step kept looking at him out of the