I walked up to the end of the laneway. On either side were high red brick walls with blue-star vines hanging over the tops. A narrow strip of well-cut lawngrass travelled up on one side of the lane, and a two-paver wide footpath travelled up along the other side.
It was a little cloudy overhead. And pretty cold.
I was wearing a long sleeved two-ply cashmere v-neck pullover with a white t-shirt beneath it. And dark blue skin-tight compression leggings and flashy purpley-iridescent Mizuno runners. Looks counted on this escapade and certainly as far as a fit body went - I had one. Faces, of course, are often just a matter of personal taste and even caprice sometimes, too. On the other hand, I wouldn't trade my own looks with any film star you know; not even...
Of course there are private films too these days. Private films still made in Hollywood or at least by highly competent professional directors who work on mainstream movies too that you probably have seen. Actors in those films are dramatically good looking -- much better looking than the ordinary mainstream film star; mainly because looks are going to matter more than being able to deliver lines convincingly, in this instance. Well okay, I still wouldn't trade my face with any of these dudes' faces.
Dick size? Nope -- wouldn't trade here either.
Paycheck then... Not that either. I made my first million at twenty-seven.
You know there are people like me. You know it. Okay I can't really sing but then I've never used Proactiv either. I'm talented and I make my money very privately. Katy Perry makes hers in the public spotlight. Madonna too. In some fields I'm just as much a superstar though. I have a legal, legitimate profession. And a very very very high intelligence. If you want to know what I do, put it this way everybody wants to be able to do what I do and you see them every night commentating on television and pretending. But I do the actual thing. And big.
I'm a guy. Obviously. Of course it's not so obvious anymore with all the androgynous style and cross-over attitudes and ambiguous people walking about everywhere. Not to mention the closet gays that absolutely abound. Even now. Still.
Who knows what goes on in the world of ordinary people. Or why. ...In their minds. Not me, that's for sure.
Anyway, where were we?
There was a plain wooden door in the center of an old red brick two-level townhouse towards the end of the laneway. I had a key to it in my hand. The gusting wind outside was really pretty cold and I really wanted to get inside quickly. No hanging about on the outside contemplating the insanity within.
Once I was inside it was easy to appreciate the nice warm air in there.
It was pretty empty of a place: quite a large front room, sprung beechwood floor -- expensive(!) - one floor-to-ceiling highly-polished mirror, a London-style radiator with a couple of fluffy new towels draped over it, a chrome standing fan with a shiny chrome wire guard-cover, a silver tray on the floor with a glass carafe of ice water. Over on the only window-sill were a dozen bamboo steamer baskets; hot, causing an area of the window pane next to them to fog up just a little, though still quite obviously.
There was a bottle of Sauternes wine on the beechwood floor beneath the window-sill and two tulip glasses close by next to it.
The only other things in the room were two large hip-high Bowers & Wilkins speakers, a little ways out from, but still near enough to, opposing corners of the room.
There was one rear door at the back wall.