This is Part 2 of the story, please read part 1 to make sense of it!
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I met Nicole for lunch a few days later. We met at a little café near her work, on her lunch break. She was dressed fairly conservatively but still stylish; she worked for a museum in their PR department as their graphic artist so she had to walk a fine line between bohemian and business. She seemed happy to see me, though a little nervous.
"That was quite a night we had," she said after we hugged.
"Yes it was." I grinned.
She then proceeded to have a very mature talk with me, which impressed me and frankly made me even more aware of how mixed my feelings were. She mentioned the drug, and the feelings, and how the two sometimes mix and create a false intimacy. We barely knew each other, really, beyond the parties and the raves. She felt both turned on and embarrassed by how free she was with her desires that night. I felt both rejected and relieved. I did not want a relationship with anyone, really, but I could not deny the fact that she had been on my mind. Was I in love with her? Was she dumping me already? Thankfully she created a very sensible plan to meet again the following weekend, giving us both a time to sort through our potentially drug-induced feelings without chucking the relationship baby with the bath water of insanely hot sex.
We hugged and parted.
I also had an idea, a different idea.
She had mentioned the freedom from her inhibitions during the rave, and during sex. I liked the sound of that. Was my mix, with its added ingredients, not only generated sexy feelings but also removed inhibitions? As a good scientist, I needed more data. Data I was convinced I could find at another rave, that Wednesday night.
Wednesday was not the usual day for dancing in my circle of friends, which is why I was fairly certain that I would meet no one there that I knew. I wanted to observe that night, not participate. The location was also a little further off on the East Side, the music a little darker. I dressed appropriately, with more black and silver than the usual day-glo range my crowd tended towards.
I had also mixed my new Ecstasy concoction in a water bottle with a spray nozzle. It was fairly common for people to bring those in order to spray themselves, and each other, when they needed to cool down. The spray would deliver a lower dose, but what I hope would still be an active one.
I have to say at this point that one of the reason I wanted to try it out on a far-off Wednesday location is that I was pretty sure that what I was about to do was pretty shitty. I was not proud of potentially spiking people, but at the same time my curiosity would not be sated. I had to see what would happen.
That Wednesday night I found myself in the large basement of an old industrial building, with several low-ceilinged rooms making up the underground dance club. The rooms would alternate between lounge areas and dance rooms, each of them with a different DJ. The lights were low, the crowd was young and mostly Goth, the music industrial. I drifted towards the softer of the dance rooms, where the music was more trance-like.
A good dozen people were in there, dancing in the small room. In the corner the DJ was set up on a folding table. A stack of speakers filled the space behind him. A few lights were splashing up at the ceiling, casting red and orange shadows. A string of Christmas lights was wrapped around a support beam in the middle of the room.
I notice one girl immediately. She was dressed in a school-girl outfit, with a short pleaded skirt held up by suspenders, with knee high socks and Doc Martens on her feet. She wore a mostly open shirt as a top, letting her purple bra exposed as well as quite a bit of cleavage. She was in her early twenties at most, blonde, lithe, dancing with her eyes partially closed. She danced with a hint of self-consciousness, knowing full well the effect her outfit had on the men around her. Three guys were around her, dancing and glancing at her. Couples and singles moved around the rest of the space, oblivious.
I danced into the mix, bottle in hand. I smiled at her, catching her attention. I motioned to the bottle in my hand, a question on my face. She smiled and nodded yes. She threw her head back, chest out, and let me spray her. She obviously enjoyed the cooling mist, and so did the guys eyeing her white shirt as it became wet and transparent. I aimed at her face and opened mouth, making sure she swallowed a mouthful of the water. Satisfied, I slinked away.
In my defense I stayed to make sure that she was going to be all right. I did not want to make a rape drug, or leave her so freaked out that she would injure herself. I did want to see what would happen when someone, a pretty girl, was allowed to drop her inhibitions.
I leaned against the wall, keeping her in my sight.