Opening Night at Club Yaso-Inaba.

[fridgeninja]

Souji leaned on the balcony overlooking the nightclub, listening to the rhythmic bass thrum of the music, as deep and regular as the sound of a train. When he looked under the edge of his glasses, he could see the dry-ice fog swirling on the dance floor, but all the patrons of the club had a pair of their own, handed out by the mascot-suited bouncer at the door, so everything was okay. Even if the strobing lights sometimes made their eyes look yellow, he knew everything was going smoothly -- the DJ kept looking up from his booth to flash a smile and a thumbs-up, as if he could hear Souji's thoughts beamed directly into his headphones.

The waitress was busy, consulting her big black album of drink recipes to advise the patrons on what to order, and behind her the bartender continuously mixed and re-mixed drink ingredients, producing a multicolored array of cocktails, each in their own specially shaped glass.

Souji looked down, realizing that he was turning a chopstick in his hand, marked red on one end. He gave it a smile.

He was King of the Club... and it was good to be the King.

Comments

sorry sorry im so late all the time ever... orz

[lamentoso]

"Yeah right!" she laughed, maybe a little too loudly -- which is what made her cheeks darken a little as she realized it. "Good one... I bet this place is definitely run by some old man desperate to re-live his youth, or even some guy going through a mid-life crisis," she snickered to herself, obviously picturing a pretty entertaining scene for herself.

"Anyway, you lead the way! Sounds like you know where you're going..."

never a problem!

[fridgeninja]

Souji snuck them downstairs, enjoying the girls' ongoing monologue, and the excessive subterfuge. They'd almost made it when a tall, black-haired waiter, about Souji's age, caught his arm.

"Hey, boss. We're running low on olives. Any suggestions?"

Souji straightened, gave his instructions, and then turned back to his current partner in crime with a smile and a shrug.

[lamentoso]

Wait a second that guy... said the b word, didn't he. With a bit of a quiet, "Urk -- " Sayaka looked from the employee back to Souji, with a look that almost screamed 'open mouth, insert foot.' "Ah... I... " she looked around, rubbing the back of her neck nervously, trying to form the apporpriate words to take back what she had just said somehow...

[fridgeninja]

"I guess I've been caught," Souji said easily.