ABUSED: (continued):

She set me up, she really did, but still Droogie trusted me enough to do this, I was truly a heffer to the slaughter. It's like for some goddamn reason we instantly made a connection since day one and I must have been something even deeper than sexual attraction; I took it more as s spiritual friendship...yes, she was clever enough as I was because we had exactly the same nature, deep down we were freaking creatures of the night and we would show just how evil we could get.

The mystery fellows hidden in the cages revealed themselves as soon as the curtains dropped as the diva cried,

 "There you are, Cupid and Prankster. Fetch me some droogs and fine young devotchkas so we can have a go at naughty naughty and niceyness tonight!"

And so the first victims of the evening were a voluptuous brunette and a this sort of bulky, tall, Brooklyn style black dude. They were  randomly chosen for everyone else´s amusement.

The game was simple but it got more twisted throughout the evening; each rabbit drew two different ideas,  sometimes they were pretty much OK, others...not so much.

"So what will it be tonight, Donna and Glizten?" said Droogie hoping her guests would walk away with a huge surprise. Fortunately, it was just KISS THE GIRL.

"NICE! Very, very nice, Old St. Nick will sure be pleased! Now let´s welcome another happy couple, and to give you a little bit of holiday cheer I have prepared some mistletoe! Who will it be this time? I have a strong feeling..."

Everyone went nuts over who would be next, Edith and I just turned around and felt incredibly amused at how the crowd was literally glued to Droogie´s charms; some adored her, some would rather see her rot in Hell but sure no one had an indifferent...except for me, and that was to be my big mistake because I looked too damn obvious.

So I was ´taken by the force´ by the henchmen and so was another guest, who happened to be a guy. He was blonde, well-built , probably in his twenties, nothing out of the ordinary, but I think I looked better.

"My, my, my, we certainly have two young desirable smart brattys, naughty, naughty rabbits, what have you done this time?" she said.  Somehow I wasn´t scared to death because being on stage made feel so incredibly confident, so powerful, so on top of the world.

She pretended she didn´t know me, " And who might you be?"

And obviously I mentioned my name. "And what about you, my dear, are you feeling lucky tonight? Do you think I can join you and make a terrible trio?" she turned to the blonde dude. "What say you Donna and Glitzen? Hmm, let´s see what surprises we have in store for you two..."

God, they drew the words KISS THE BOY.

"No, no, no, Charlie boy, not me, it´s actually between you two!"

The crowd roared but at the same time the girls cried out loud. Charlie hesitated and wanted to step away, but I didn´t because I understood well it was just a game, so college-like. I couldn´t see Edith though, but if she would have been heavily opposed I would have definitely heard her voice, but then again it was too loud.

So I walked to the side of the stage and everyone was actually cheering for me.

"Oh, Droogie´s getting rather sad because there´s not any lubbilubbing in the air.." she frowned.


There was no turning back this time. "Oh, what the Hell, anything for you, darling!" I shouted. And so I did it, I finally kissed Charlie knowing it was just for pure good, clean fun, but what was rather unexpected for me is that he was enjoying and he became more engaged. Did he use his tongue, yes he did, but I couldn´t let him win. That moment lasted roughly about two minutes but it felt like an eternity, for Charlie boy felt so damn comfortable around me, I do believe he was straight but I´m not sure if he would have done it with any other dude.


"NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY, EXCELLENT! REAL HORRORSHOW THERE, LADS! Let´s have a round of applause." cried Droogie.

ABUSED (continued):


"Just give in, just give in..." I tried to make those words stick as though they were part of a spell. Maybe if I repeated them that many times they would let me adapt to the surroundings and hopefully get through the night. 


But the lights went dim, a uncomfortable silence filled the room but I paid special attention to some strategically placed cages, hoping to see if some hot girls would come out of them.


A handsome cloud of smoke invaded the stage and two tall half-naked men with silver body paint slowly emerged; each wore a rabbit´s head with notoriously tall ears. Hmm, this part didn´t surprise me in the least, but what actually did was that they also had the infinity symbol in their foreheads...just like the mysterious creature that Caroline spewed out of her mouth.

"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house. Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse,

my stockings were hung in the chimney without care,

hoping naughty St. Nick would be there...

Now Crasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and  Big Big Vixen!

On, Comet! On, Cupid! on, on Donna and Glitzen!

Get down on the floor! to the top of the wall!

Now dance away! Dance away! Dance away all!

His eyes-how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!

His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,

And the fur on his back was as white as the snow.

When I tried to kiss-a-kiss-a-kiss him I thought he was a gonner,

he was SO hot, hot, hot, but um, go easy on the eyeliner, sugar!

Droogie tampered that beloved poem at the same time that she treated her dancers like fake reindeer and grabbed a sort of glamorized whip. She was literally dressed to kill; a sort of Clockwork Orange inspired, black leather outfit with a set of ridiculously tall stilettos, her makeup was simple but her eyelashes were intentionally larger...and she still managed to dance and prance around all night. Now that I realized she was shorter than I recall, it seemed even more obvious as she stood beside her partners.


They progressively removed their rabbit´s heads and they had even more makeup than Droogie herself, which reminded me by the way of that Annie Lennox video from the 90s , No More I Love Yous.


The rabbit models didn´t speak a single word, yet they held picket signs with apparently naughty and nice words on them. 


Droogie paused for a moment and proposed a game, "so, how NAUGHTY or how NICE have you been this year, my little droogs? Let´s find out, shall we?!"


And this is where things got a little bit out of hand I´m a tad embarrassed to write them...


(continued):

ABUSED (continued):

How wrong was she. The place I´ll have to say was for one night absolute royalty. Droogie had been throwing these parties since 2008 when she was just starting in the music business. What was so different about her? Simple, she just adored theatricality and applied it  in her everyday life, at least that´s what I heard from Stefan, who used and old college friend. He gave me a very warm greeting, but, um, I think he secretly had the hots for me and now it seemed irrelevant.

"Hi, Adrian! I can´t believe I´d found you here, it´s SO amazing!" he said. The guy inevitably had damn good taste from head to toe, clean-cut and sophisticated, nothing like when I met him the first time because he wasn´t an absolute hell of a mess.

"I´m glad you came a long way, " I answered politely. At the same time I held Edith´s hand very tightly as a sign of affection. "This is my girl, by the way, Edith."

"You look so adorable!" said Stefan. "He hasn´t driven you mad yet?"

Edith gave a smart answer, "No, actually that´s my job, dealing with crazy people like him all the time."

"Excellent! So you know, I´m currently working for Hell´s Closet, which is a very ambitious collective that designs for Droogie and it´s like we have to be creative 48/7. That means we have to stretch each day as much as possible!"

"Totally," said George, another one of Droogie´s collaborators, some dude named George. "That woman changes her look SO fast that we had to apply The Red Queen Effect."

"Come again?" I asked.

"If you want to get anywhere else you have to run twice as fast! And by the way it´s the ONLY way to survive in this business."

"I wasn´t familiar with that term, but I think you might be quoting something that the Red Queen said to Alice,"  I said.

"Obviously," said Stefan. "So, I heard about your new show, it was really something."

"I tried SOMETHING new and unusual this time," I said.

"Well, whatever´s in the artwork it sure has Droogie head over heels. It´s like she told me she keeps staring at  it all the time and she gets these amazing ideas, it´s like a talisman for endless inspiration or something."

"You don´t believe in black magic or any of those things, do you?" said George playfully.

"Yes, I do. In fact, there are ghosts where I live and they talk to me all the time, they call them gallerists."

Suddenly, they laughed in unison.

"And that´s why I´m moving on to Chelsea earlier next year. " I said.

"That´s amazing!, " cried Stefan. "I have a friend over there who´s a photographer, hope you bump into him sometime."

I felt sort of uncomfortable with that last comment so I attempted to cleverly change the subject, "So, what´s Droogie gonna present this time?"

"Oh, you´ll see, like I said we´ve been working very hard on the concepts for her new tour next year, it´s sort of like dada, minimalist, in fact this is more like a runway show, performance kinda thing."

"We´re actually looking forward to beat what Terrence Koh does. Our girl is so full of suprises...she´s a dream come true, a goddess, if you will, " said George so mesmerized.

"I have a strong feeling of what she will ´surprise´us with, and I´m no psychic," I said.

The intuition was invading me like a nasty virus. Now I was beginning to understand why the whole thing about the blue dog, as my girl explained earlier.

(continued):

ABUSED

"Come, come now, my little droogies, let's make this night a real horrorshow! No glum faces or I'll for sure shive you to bits!"

Those words came from the woman of the hour herself, Ms. Droogie.

Thus my mesmerizing, unforgettable evening began this way.

I didn't frequent the parties at SoHo very much, in fact I heard some very tall tales about the rich and famous and now thanks to the magic tricks I came up with. It turns out that it was a small world after all and I met some old I faces back from college.

What really attracted me was the personal invitation that Droogie handed out had high design from top to bottom.Her image was that of a bleeding eye with too much eyeliner, which explains why she became obsessed with one of my paintings with the similar theme. As I opened to my surprise the hour in which she was set to appear at the SoHo Grand Hotel was 11 0´clock, stating,

" all hallows rise at 11, don´t be late."

At this point the coincidences between started to become more evident, so I decided to picture my visions like this huge wave and I was just standing in the way waiting to be invaded by them, "just give in, give in..."

ARE YOU READY?

"Yeah, sure, I´m ready, girl. I´ve always been ready," I answered back to Edith. She was a dream come true; she wore the classic little black dress which revealed her well chiseled shoulders. She knew very well I liked to see that , so it meant that it would keep me on a leash for the rest of the evening.

(continued):