The party was at Mondo’s house, as it always was, almost every weekend, and especially holidays. But it wasn’t like I went there all the time, every once in a while sufficed. And of course you were always there when I was, most of the time anyway, and when you weren’t it just wasn’t the same. I kind of felt it was the same with you.
Vodka and orange juice in one hand I asked you how you were enjoying the party.
“Typical Mondo party.” You said.
“Yeah, that about sums it up, don’t it,” I stated as a fact. The typical Mondo party consisting of the usual keg of beer or two, the occasional joint being passed around, Lacey and I politely refusing as usual as well, the rare line of coke being snorted off the mirror in the bedroom or the crack being smoked in the basement by toothless addicts, but we stayed away from all of that shit, us and a few others as well. And of course the ever present blue clouds of cigarette smoke hanging thick in the air.
“Alright everybody, Donny’s gonna headbang for us!” cried Mondo over the cacophony of multiple conversations. Mondo slipped the disc of 1,000 Homo DJ’s in and the cover of Black Sabbaths
Supernaut
started up.
“That’s my que, enjoy the show!” I called to Lacey as I went to the middle of the livingroom where the usual guests who had seen me headbang knew to clear away a rough circle.
“If I don’t join you!” she called after, which sent my mind running with scenarios.
The music started up and so did I, turning my whole body into a writhing machine of hair whipping around and gesticulating hands. Going through the motions as the song went through its own transitions. Several minutes later the song ended and so did I, the few others who had joined me stopping as well, a different few from the ones who had started with me, not having the stamina to keep up with the frantic pace the song set. But of course, I had the stamina.
Hair a tangled mess and my second vodka and orange juice in hand I chatted it up with fellows I knew always keeping an eye on where Lacey was, and she on me. Our secret relationship, unknown even to us, had been going on for quite some time, for several months as a matter of fact. Every once in awhile Mondo would approach me with the well used line of, ‘So when you and Lacey going to hit off?’ and I would wonder what he was talking about, even though subconsciously I must have known, deep down I must have known.
Mondo wanting more headbanging put on Nine Inch Nails ‘Broken’, and played it from the beginning. Once I heard
Pinion
I knew what was up and went to the familiar place in the center of the living room and the familiar rough circle was made,
Pinion
finished and went directly into
Wish
and so did I, thrashing and contorting my body to the industrial rhythm as Trent Reznor screamed out his emotional pain.
Wish
bled into
Last
and I followed thrusting my body in an innuendo, I caught Lacey watching and smiled and she mirrored it, nodding her head to the beat of the music that I was doing a self-controlled moshing to.
Last
ended and so did I. Another vodka and orange juice in hand and I was thoroughly buzzed with a good jag going.
A fight broke out on the porch where the kegs were kept and a guy was clotheslined off the porch and into the bushes below. As a result of this a small fight broke out in the street of which Mondo was a part and some party crashers were sent packing.
Later a wet tee-shirt contest was held and several girls submitted to the depravity of having beer poured over their shirts making them transparent and their breasts revealed.
“I suppose guys like you enjoy this sort of thing?” Lacey asked appearing at my elbow.
“Me? No. But it’s interesting enough to keep my attention. It doesn’t really do anything for me, how about you?” I asked as I took a drink from my vodka and orange juice.
“Me? God, no.” and she laughed and I laughed with her.
Mondo must have needed another fix of headbanging because another Nine Inch Nails went into the disc player, The