Mik sat at the end of the bar stirring the ice in his empty vodka gimlet, an old fashioned drink but after all he was an old fashioned kind of guy. He rose a finger to the bartender to signal that he wanted another. The bartender himself was handsome like Mik. They were both young and far too good looking to be sitting at a local bar alone on a Thursday night. Mik watched the patrons come and go for over four hours and still had not found any hopeful target or targets.
He was sipping on his drink when a group of young girls walked in. There was no way they were 21 he thought to himself. The leader of the group looked to be about 18 or 19 tops, she was wearing knee high boots with stockings, a mini skirt and a see through shirt that revealed a camisole and no bra under it. She was of Indian heritage, maybe. it was hard to tell in such low light. She gathered her party into a 'U' shaped booth and after everyone was situated she flagged the bar girl over to take their order. "Her." Mik thought to himself, the little Indian princess.
Mik was formulating a plan in his head when he felt a cool draft from the door slowly winding its way up his spine. He casually looked over his shoulder and there she stood, a girl. She had dark brown hair that fell just below her shoulders, he could smell her lavender shampoo from his bar stool. She had on a red dress and red lips to match. She wore no stockings on her legs, leaving only bare skin beneath that dress. She had a messenger bag slung over her shoulder and wrist full of bangles hanging off each arm. Just then she raised her hand to wave. The Indian princess jumped to greet the girl at the door.
"Oh, my, freaking, god. You look so hot in that" the Indian princess said to the girl. Mik silently agreed with her.
"Yeah, well I feel a bit bare in it." Said the girl rubbing her shoulder to her cheek.
The Indian princess brushed the girls hair off of her shoulder and ran her hand down the girls arm, her elbow, her bangles and then took her hand and led her to their table. It was too loud to hear the rest of their conversation so Mik turned his back to them and stared at the top shelf booze sitting behind the bar.
Mik hated to change plans when he had his mind made up about a target but there was something about the girl. He would not be going home with the Indian princess tonight. Mik had been too long on this planet to believe in love at first sight, let alone love at all, but he was intrigued by the girl in the red dress and could not let her get away.
Reworking the plan in his head he heard a faint whisper in his ear.
"Guess who?"
That was dumb Mik thought, he knew right away who it was. When you hear someones voice over a thousand years you have a tendency to never forget it.
"Buy me a drink?" she said as she pull out the stool next to him.
"Dear, sister. When did you get here?" He asked not really caring about the answer.
He took his eyes off the girl and stared into the beautiful face of Salas his sister, for a lack of a better term.
Mik rose his finger again to get Salas a drink however he need not work so hard, Salas was so beautiful the bartender was already there.
Salas smiled "working tonight dear brother?"
"What do you want Salas?" Mik said annoyed.
"What?" She didn't look at him "What if I was just in the neighborhood and wanted to pop in for a drink and maybe a quickie."
Mik didn't move.
"So who's your target?" she asked as she looked around the bar.
"Salas" He said to her.
"Yes" she said drawn out as she turned towards him.
"You" he started softly "are the temptress of greed and if you don't mind me saying, and i know you don't, could walk out of here with any man, woman or both if you wanted. What do you need me for?"
She ran her fingers over his biceps. "I'm lonely. I've missed you." She said sadly.
At the same time Mik felt another hand on his opposite arm. He turned away from his sister to see the girl. There she was wedging her way to the bar with a $20 in her hand hoping to buy some drinks.
She looked directly at Mik who could only look back.
"Excuse me" she said politely "we seem to have lost our waitress so I've been assigned to go on a reconnaissance mission. Um, do you mind if I sneak in here?"
Mik shifted closer to Salas who said, "Mik you're not evening listing."
It was true he wasn't listening to her, he was using all of his senses to take in the girl who got an armful of beers, dropped off the $20 and walked carefully back to the table.
"Oh, for the love of God Mik" Salas tugged on his arm. "You are Lust...'The Shit' of all of us sins. All I want to do is have a bit of fun with you tonight. Like old times. I have been working so hard..." she droned on.
"Keep your voice down." He commanded her.
"Anyone!" she smiled. "You pick" she begged. "That young one in the red? You keep looking at her."
"No!" Mik said surprised at himself.
Mik could see the shock in her face, the great Lust refusing a sin.
"No sister, you pick. You're my guest." Mik said turning his body to face her.
"Hum" she pondered as she tapped her lips "What am I in the mood for? Young, old, male, female, blond, brunette, white, mixed..." she went on for a few minutes as she scoured the bar. "Her" She said "in the blue top with the glasses. I have a thing for smart looking people" she said to no one in particular. Mik turned this head to see who his sister was talking about.
"You see her?" she asked.
"Yeah, I got it." Mik said as he slammed the rest of his drink and stood to lure the woman in blue.
He had to walk past the girls table to get to the women and as he did he caught a glimpse of her looking at him, looking at her. He felt something form in the pit of his existence...guilt?
****
"Hi" Mik said to the woman in blue.
There was no denying it Mik was good at what he was created to do. He didn't even have to try that hard.
The body he was using these days belonged to a 23 year old grad student at NYU. He had light brown tussled hair, his eyes were a shade of light green framed by a pair of black glasses that were just for show. He was thin but muscular and dressed in chinos and a vintage Ramones tee. His right arm was inked with symbols that he was unfamiliar with, but he thought they looked cool anyways. He always wore a tattered leather wrist strap that had embossed a pair of angle wings, a gift given to him by a very young Queen Victoria. Whenever he touched it he thought; what a stupid girl she thought I was an angel.
"Hi" said the woman in blue.
"My friend and I" He pointed to Salas sitting at the other end of the bar "would like to buy you a drink."
"A drink?" She asked.
Mik could tell that she was drunk by the way she couldn't focus on his face. Too easy he thought to himself.
"Here" he extended his hand and she took it. He turned to take the woman back to Salas when he noticed that several young men had joined the girls party. One of the boys troubled him in particular. The boy was cute Mik thought. If Mik himself wasn't so infatuated with the girl he might have thought they made a handsome couple.
Mik grab ed the woman's hand and lead her past the girls table and to Salas.
"Salas this is..." Mik paused and looked at the woman in blue.
"Amber" the woman replied.
"Amber this is Salas" Mik said not thinking anything was awkward about the introduction.
"Change of plans" Mik said to them.
"Amber?" Mik said as she looked into his eyes "we'll be going to your place for a drink. Sound good." it was not a question.
Mik looked over Amber's shoulder he saw the girl in red get up from the table with one of the boys she was with.
"I'm going to run to the bathroom first" Mik said.
Salas stared at him out of the corner of her eye.
Mik followed the girl and the boy to the back of the bar. The bar was crowded tonight so it was not hard to blend into the crowd and follow them. The boy led the girl past the bathroom to what looked like a storage closet with a desk shoved in the corner. Mik watched as the girl lifted herself on to the desk the boy closed the door but not all of way so Mik was still able to see. Mik leaned against the wall. The girl leaned back on to the desk and braced herself with her hands as the boy stood by her legs.The girl, as she should be, looked worried, like someone was watching. The boy kissed her on the lips and put his hands on her bare legs. He moved his hands up her legs and pulled off her panties. They were black and not much to them. The boy went to his knees and started kissing her inner thighs. The girl tilted her head back her eyes were closed and her lips were ever so parted. Mik imagined that she was moaning but it was too loud in the bar to tell for sure.
The boy flipped up her dress and started to lick her bare cunt. It was clear to Mik that the boy had no idea what he was doing. Mik leaned back against wall and imagined that he was the one with the girl. Mik's eyes were closed only for a moment when he felt a hand cradle his hard cock. Mik gasped and thought how did the girl get to him without him noticing.
"Enjoying the show?" Mik felt sick to his stomach as he heard Salas' voice.
"You coming?" She said as she pulled him close and kissed him on the lips.
Mik looked back at the door before he followed Salas out of the bar.
****
Turned out Amber's house was only a 5 minute cab ride from the bar where they had all met. Amber let them in and gave them a short tour and offered them a drink. Box wine was the only thing she had. How unfortunate thought Mik as he waved the glass away that Amber had poured for him.
"Do...do you do this often?" Amber questioned Salas.
"Only once about every 100 or so years" Salas said as she dumped the whole glass of wine down her throat. "So lets move this party to the bedroom." She said as she looked at Mik.