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Uva Bath. Look at the card, dude. I don't like the magazine. My agent told them no nude stuff, just like Speedos and stuff like that. I don't do any nude stuff. But I don't see him and I turn back to Trent and ask, "Yeah? What else have you been doing?

Going to Nautilus, getting smashed, going to this Uva place But, hey, don't tell anyone I've been there, okay? Lunch," he jokes, leaving. Daniel comes back with the punch and it's very red and very strong and I cough a little as I take a swallow. From where I'm standing, I can see Blair's father, who's this movie producer and he's sitting in a corner of the den talking with this young actor I think I went to school with.

Blair's father's boyfriend is also at the party. His name's Jared and he's really young and blond and tan and has blue eyes and incredibly straight white teeth and he's talking to the three boys from U. I can also see Blair's mother, who is sitting by the bar, drinking a vodka gimlet, her hands shaking as she brings the drink to her mouth.

Blair's friend Alana comes into the den and hugs me and I introduce her to Daniel. You should have some," I tell her. It makes her mother so nervous. She gets totally bombed anyway, but having him around makes it worse. Alana looks down and then back at me and says, "You look kind of pale, Clay.

You should go to the beach or something. Suddenly the three boys from U. Alana rolls her eyes up and looks pained. Oh God, I better go help Blair. Mummy's going behind the bar. Nice to meet you, Daniel. Alana walks over to Blair and her mother by the bar. Later that night, when the two of us are sitting at the end of the darkened bar at the Polo Lounge, not a whole lot is said.

There's a long pause that kind of freaks me out and Daniel finishes his drink and fingers the sunglasses he's still wearing and says, "I don't know. Just back. She tries to smile when she asks me what I want for Christmas. I'm surprised at how much effort it takes to raise my head up and look at her.

There's a pause and then I ask her, "What do you want? I just want to have a nice Christmas. She touches her hair, bleached, blondish, again.

She doesn't say anything else, until she's finished her third glass of wine and poured her fourth. She takes a swallow of wine. I'm with Trent in a yellow train that sits on Sunset. Trent's smoking and drinking a Pepsi and I stare out the window and into the headlights of passing cars. We're waiting for Julian, who's supposed to be bringing Trent a gram. Julian is fifteen minutes late and Trent is nervous and impatient and when I tell him that he should deal with Rip, like I do, instead of Julian, he just shrugs.

We finally leave and he says that we might be able to find Julian in the arcade in Westwood. But we don't find Julian at the arcade in Westwood, so Trent suggests that we go to Fatburger and eat something. He says he's hungry, that he hasn't eaten anything in a long time, mentions something about fasting. We order and take the food to one of the booths. But I'm not too hungry and Trent notices that there's no chili on my Fatburger.

You can't eat a Fatburger without chili. Been up in fucking New Hampshire too long," he mutters. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts are on the jukebox singing "Crimson and Clover. Crimson and clo-oh-ver Trent tells me that we'll leave soon, a couple of minutes maybe. The music from the dance floor seems too loud and I tense up every time the music stops and another song comes on.

I lean back against the brick wall and notice that there are two boys embracing in a darkened corner. Trent senses I'm tense and says, "What do you want me to do? You wanna lude, is that it? I don't say anything, just keep staring at the Pez dispenser and then he puts it away and cranes his neck.

I look at Trent and tell him again that I have to leave. Trent says, "Oh shit, find Blair, let's go, let's leave. I spot Daniel, who's talking to this really pretty tan girl who's wearing a Heaven cut-off T-shirt and a black-and-white miniskirt and I whisper to him that we're leaving and he gives me this look and says, "Don't give me any shit.

He kisses the girl on the cheek and follows us toward the door, where Blair's standing, talking to some guy from U. We walk out into the hot night and Blair asks, "Well, did we have a good time? We say goodbye and make sure Daniel can get into his car. Trent says that maybe one of us should drive Daniel home but then agrees that it would be too much of a hassle to drive him home and then drive him back tomorrow.

And I drive Blair back to her house in Beverly Hills and she fingers the Cliff Notes but doesn't say anything except when she tries to rub the stamp off her hand and she says, "Fuck it. I wish they didn't have to stamp my hand in black. It never comes off. I tell her I'm sorry and turn off Hollywood Boulevard because it's too brightly lit and take Sunset and then drive onto her street and then to her driveway.

We kiss and she notices that I've been gripping the steering wheel too hard and she looks at my fists and says, "Your hands are red," then gets out of the car.

We have been in Beverly Hills shopping most of the late morning and early afternoon. My mother and my two sisters and me. My mother has spent most of this time probably at Neiman-Marcus, and my sisters have gone to Jerry Magnin and have used our father's charge account to buy him and me something and then to MGA and Camp Beverly Hills and Privilege to buy themselves something.

I sit at the bar at La Scala Boutique for most of this time, bored out of my mind, smoking, drinking red wine. Finally, my mother drives up in her Mercedes and parks the car in front of La Scala and waits for me.

I get up and leave some money on the counter and get in the car and lean my head up against the headrest. One year above her. A truck with video games strapped in the back passes by and my sisters are driven into some sort of frenzy. I think she's thirteen, maybe. I shake my head. No way," one of them yells.

He always locks his door. I still don't say anything. Why do you lock your door, Clay? That's why. When we get home, my younger sister finally tells me, out by the pool, "That's bullshit. I can get my own cocaine. I'll sit in his office in Westwood with the shades drawn and my sunglasses on, smoking a cigarette, sometimes cloves, just to irritate him, sometimes crying.

Sometimes I'll yell at him and he'll yell back. I tell him that I have these bizarre sexual fantasies and his interest will increase noticeably. I'll start to laugh for no reason and then feel sick. I lie to him sometimes. He'll tell me about his mistress and the repairs being done on the house in Tahoe and I'll shut my eyes and light another cigarette, gritting my teeth. Sometimes I just get up and leave. They had called me and asked me to go to a movie with them, but I'd taken some Valium and had fallen asleep earlier that afternoon, and I couldn't get ready in time to meet them at the movie.

So I told them I'd meet them at Du-par's. I'm sitting at a booth near a large window, and I ask the waitress for a cup of coffee, but she doesn't bring me anything, and she's already started to wipe the table next to mine and taken another table's order. But it's just as well that she doesn't bring me anything since my hands are shaking pretty badly.

I light a cigarette and notice the big Christmas display above the main counter. A plastic, neon-lit Santa Claus is holding a three-foot-long Styrofoam candy cane and there are all these large green and red boxes leaning against it and I wonder if there's anything in the boxes. Eyes suddenly focus in on the eyes of a small, dark, intense-looking guy wearing a Universal Studios T-shirt sitting two booths across from me.

He's staring at me and I look down and take a drag, a deep one, off the cigarette. The man keeps staring at me and all I can think is either he doesn't see me or I'm not here. I don't know why I think that. People are afraid to merge. Wonder if he's for sale. Blair suddenly kisses me on the cheek and sits down along with Alana and Kim.

Blair tells me that Muriel was hospitalized for anorexia today. So they took her to Cedars-Sinai which is not exactly the closest hospital to U. Kim is wearing pink sunglasses and she also lights one and then Alana asks for one. You've totally got to," Kim says. Weren't you going with Cliff? I glance over at Blair. You fucked. You didn't 'go-out,' " Alana says. Alana looks at Blair and then at Kim and then at me and says, "No.

I didn't. Who told you that? I realize for an instant that I might have slept with Didi Hellman. I also realize that I might have slept with Warren also. I don't say anything. They probably already know. She lives in Calabasas for God's sakes," Alana moans. Blair thinks about it for a moment and then says slowly, evenly, "If Cliff slept with Didi, then he must have slept with I open my menu and pretend to read it, wondering if I slept with Raoul.

Name seems familiar. She was always getting into these disgusting threesomes. They were ridiculous," Blair says, closing her menu. I haven't slept with Raoul. He's really cute. He's like the best-looking black-guy I think I've ever seen," Blair says. Alana and Kim nod in agreement. I close my menu. Bi," Blair says, and then, not too sure, "I think. The three of them stop talking and then Kim says, "I had no idea Cliff slept with Raoul. Blair looks at me and I try to smile and then the waitress comes and takes our order.

As I predicted, Kim's party is tonight. I follow Trent to the party. Trent's wearing a tie when he comes to my house and he tells me to wear one and so I put a red one on. When we stop at Santo Pietro's to get something to eat before the party, Trent catches his reflection in one of the windows and grimaces and takes his tie off and tells me to take mine off, which is just as well since no one at the party is wearing one.

At the house in Holmby Hills I talk to a lot of people who tell me about shopping for suits at Fred Segal and buying tickets for concerts and I hear Trent telling everyone about how much fun he's having at the fraternity he joined at U. I also talk to Pierce, some friend from high school, and apologize for not calling him when I got in and he tells me that it doesn't matter and that I look pale and that someone stole the new BMW his father bought him as a graduation present.

Julian is at the party and he doesn't look as fucked up as Alana said: still tan, hair still blond and short, maybe a little too thin, but otherwise looks good. Julian tells Trent that he's sorry he missed him at Carney's the other night and that he's been really busy and I'm standing next to Trent, who has just finished his third gin and tonic, and hear him say, "That's just really fucking irresponsible of you," and I turn away, wondering if I should ask Julian what he wanted when he called and left the message, but when our eyes meet and we're about to say hello, he looks away and walks into the living room.

It's a scarf. I thank her and tell her that it's really nice. She tells me to put it on and see if it fits and I tell her that scarves usually fit all people. But she insists and I put the scarf on and she smiles and murmurs "Perfect" and goes back to the bar to get a drink. I stand alone with the scarf wrapped around my neck in the corner of the living room and then spot Rip, my dealer, and am totally relieved.

Rip's wearing this thick, bulky white outfit he probably bought at Parachute, and an expensive black fedora, and Trent asks Rip, as he makes his way toward me, if he's been going parachuting. Get it? Rip just stares at Trent until Trent stops giggling. Julian comes back into the room and I'm about to go over and say hello, but Rip grabs the scarf around my neck and pulls me into an empty room.

I notice that there's no furniture in the room and begin to wonder why; then Rip hits me lightly on the shoulder and laughs. I don't know But I've been looking for you. What can I do for you, dude? He takes two small folded envelopes out of his pocket. Write some music. We'll make millions. I don't say anything, just stare at the half gram he's poured onto a small hand mirror. With a razor he cuts the pile into four big lines and then he hands me a rolled up twenty and I lean down and do a line.

I suppose so. Real cute. Guess Blair still likes you," Rip smiles. I smile and shrug again. How about a gram? I give him two fifties and a twenty and he hands me the twenty back and says, "Christmas present, okay? Don't be a bum. It comes out wrong. Things aren't that different there. A month, right? Four weeks. Think about it. I might go back when I run out. Only problem is, I don't think it's ever gonna run out," he laughs.

It's fantastic. You gotta stop by. What do you think? I can't understand why since Rip doesn't look anything like David Bowie, he's not lefthanded and doesn't live in the Colony. I got Temple of Doom bootleg. Cost me four hundred dollars. You should come over, dude. I'm not sure if I have this girl's number and just as I'm about to ask her for it, Alana walks up to me and tells me that Rip has been bothering her and is there anything I can do about it? I tell her I don't think so. He whispers something into her ear and they both laugh and nod their heads.

There's also this old guy with longish gray hair and a Giorgio Armani sweater and moccasins on who wanders past Alana and me and he begins to talk to Rip. One of the boys from U. He notices me looking at him when he does this and he smiles and I smile back and Alana keeps going on and on and luckily someone turns the volume up and Prince starts to scream.

Alana leaves once a song she wants to dance to comes on, and this guy from U. I tell him sure and he goes to the bar and I look for a bathroom to do another line. I have to go through Kim's room to get to it, since the lock on the one downstairs is broken, and as I get to her door, Trent comes out and closes it. I follow Trent downstairs and out of the house and over to his car.

I open the door and get into the BMW. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a small vial. I don't tell him I already have some and he takes out a gold spoon and presses the spoon into the powder and then holds it up to his nose and does this four times. He then pushes the same tape that is on at the party into the car's stereo and hands me the vial and the spoon. I do four hits also and my eyes water and I swallow. It's different coke than Rip's and I wonder if he got it from Julian.

It's not as good. Palm Springs. Sure," I tell him. You know who he is? Our eyes meet and she smiles and makes a face. I smile back, don't make a face. Griffin notices this and says loudly, over the din of the music, "You're the guy who's going out with Blair, right? We don't say anything for a long time. The coke is wearing off and I'm starting to get a little drunk. Griffin takes a deep breath and says, "Hey, you wanna go to my house? Parents are in Rome for Christmas.

Griffin stands by his bedroom window, looking out into the backyard, at the pool, only wearing a pair of jockey shorts and I'm sitting on the floor, my back leaning against his bed, bored, sober, smoking a cigarette. Griffin looks at me and slowly, clumsily, pulls off his underwear and I notice that he doesn't have a tan line and I begin to wonder why and almost laugh. I wake up sometime before dawn. My mouth is really dry and it hurts to unstick my tongue from the roof of my mouth.

I close my eyes tightly and try to go back to sleep, but the digital clock on the nightstand says that it's four-thirty and I only now fully realize where I am. I look over at Griffin, lying on the other side of the big double bed. I don't want to wake Griffin up, so I get out of the bed as carefully as possible and walk into the bathroom and close the door. I take a piss and then stare at myself, nude, in the mirror for a moment, and then lean against the sink and turn on the faucet and splash cold water on my face.

Then I look at myself in the mirror again, this time longer. I go back into the bedroom and put my underwear on, making sure they're not Griffin's, then I look around the room and panic, because I can't find my clothes. Then I remember that it started in the living room last night, and I quietly walk down the stairs of the huge, empty mansion and into the living room. I find my clothes and dress quickly.

As I'm pulling my pants up, this black maid, wearing a blue robe, hair in curlers, passes by the door and glances at me for a moment, casually, as if finding some young guy, eighteen or whatever, pulling up his pants in the middle of the living room at five in the morning was not weird. She leaves and I have trouble finding the front door. After I do find it and leave the house, I tell myself that it really wasn't that bad last night. And I get into the car and open the glove compartment and cut a line, just to make it home.

Then I drive past the gates of the house and onto Sunset. I turn the radio up, loud. The streets are totally empty and I drive fast. I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard that I don't remember seeing and I look up at it. All it says is "Disappear Here" and even though it's probably an ad for some resort, it still freaks me out a little and I step on the gas really hard and the car screeches as I leave the light.

I put my sunglasses on even though it's still pretty dark outside and I keep looking into the rearview mirror, getting this strange feeling that someone's following me. I come to another red light and that's when I realize that I forgot the scarf Blair gave me; left it at Griffin's. My house lies on Mulholland and as I press the gate opener, I look out over the Valley and watch the beginning of another day, my fifth day back, and then I pull into the circular driveway and park my car next to my mother's, which is parked next to a Ferrari that I don't recognize.

I sit there and listen to the last lines of some song and then get out of the car and walk to the front door and find my key and open it. I walk upstairs to my bedroom and lock the door and light a cigarette and turn the television on and turn the sound off and then I walk into the closet and find the bottle of Valium that I hid beneath some cashmere sweaters. After looking at the small yellow pill with the hole in the middle of it, I decide that I really don't need it and I put it away.

The alarm goes off at eleven. A song called "Artificial Insemination" is playing on the radio and I wait until it's over to open my eyes and get up. Sun is flooding the room through the venetian blinds and when I look in the mirror it gives the impression that I have this wild, cracked grin. I walk into the closet and look at my face and body in the mirror; flex my muscles a couple of times, wonder if I should get a haircut, decide I do need a tan.

Turn away and open the envelope, also hid beneath the sweaters. I cut myself two lines of the coke I bought from Rip last night and do them and feel better. I'm still wearing my jockey shorts as I walk downstairs. Even though it's eleven, I don't think anyone is up yet and I notice that my mother's door is closed, probably locked.

I walk outside and dive into the pool and do twenty quick laps and then get out, towel myself dry as I walk into the kitchen. Take an orange from the refrigerator and peel it as I walk upstairs. I eat the orange before I get into the shower and realize that I don't have time for the weights. Then I go into my room and turn on MTV really loud and cut myself another line and then drive to meet my father for lunch.

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