"I'm in the mood for something different today, Honey." Shanna didn't worry about being overheard as she approached the slim young woman with the buzz-cut bleach-blonde hair and the tribal tats. The music in the club was so loud that any potential narc would have to get right up next to them to hear, and Honey's private booth gave her a good view of anyone approaching.
Honey eyed Shanna as the strobing lights of the club flashed off of her piercings (six in each ear, two lip, one nose, one belly, and one on her clit that Shanna had no intentions of ever letting Honey see.) Honey's eyes traveled down her belly shirt, over her mini-skirt, and down to her Doc Martins. "No small talk? No 'Hi, Honey, how's tricks?' No 'Check it out, I just got my hair dyed, does purple look good on me?' It hurts, Shanna. It hurts deep."
Shanna gave her a peck on the cheek as she sat down at the table. "Aw, you know I loves ya." It was true, to the extent that a girl could love her dealer. Shanna didn't use the hard stuff, so she didn't have to go to any of the creepy connections. Honey was social, reliable, and pretty cool; even if Shanna did sometimes feel like she was getting sized up a little, Honey never tried to make a "drugs for sex" deal. She knew Shanna didn't swing that way.
Honey tried to keep her mock-glare up, but it collapsed into a wry grin after a moment. "Alright, you're off the hook. This time. So what does 'different' mean? You're an E-girl, usually. So different means a little Nexus, or maybe some Hippieflip? Help me out here."
Shanna shrugged. "I dunno. I just want to feel something new, you know? Coming in here every weekend, dropping E every Friday and Saturday night, it's starting to get dull. I want a new thrill, that's all. Something I've never felt before."
Honey got a wicked grin on her face. "Now that, I can handle." She pulled out a small bottle of purple pills, and shook one out. It was tiny in her hand. "Latest thing from a friend of mine in the pharmaceutical industry. They call it 'Yes'. It makes you feel good all over, baby."
Shanna looked down at the pill. "For how long?"
"One pill? A few hours. You want?"
Shanna nodded. "How much?"
"Twenty bucks." Money changed hands, and Shanna popped the pill into her mouth. She crushed it between her teeth. It tasted like black liquorice.
"You're a living doll," she said, getting up and giving Honey another peck on the cheek. "I'm gonna go see how it feels on the dance floor." She waved, turned, and gave Honey a nice look at her buns as she headed back to the main action.
'Yes' worked fast, Shanna thought. She was already feeling a pleasant tingle all through her body as she danced. More than just pleasant. It felt like being cocooned in pleasure. Like sinking into warm water, right up to her hair. She could just imagine her hair, floating around her head like a halo, and it felt good. The drug made it hard to think, but that just seemed even cooler. Like she could just feel the music, feel the warmth, and let go of everything. The room was getting darker; Shanna could feel her iris contract, actually feel it as her pupils just became tiny little pinpoints in the center of her eyes. This was awesome. Dark, warm, and happy all over.
A man came up to her and looked her in the eyes. "You want to dance?" he said.
That sounded great. Shanna nodded, her head just bobbing loosely on the end of her neck. She moved in closer to the guy, and the two of them just grooved to the music. "You can move in even closer," he said, and that sounded just great to Shanna. Everything seemed to be just perfect right now. She pressed her body against his, and the two of them ground against each other until the song ended.
"Come on," he said. "Let me buy you a drink." That sounded great. Honey hadn't said anything about how the drug interacted with alcohol, or whether it was safe, but this guy was offering her a drink, and it seemed like such a good idea once he'd mentioned it. The two of them headed over to the bar, and when he handed her a glass, Shanna downed it without even thinking. Because thinking felt too hard.
"Let's go outside for a bit of fresh air," he said. That sounded great. Shanna just let him lead her along, out the back entrance of the club and into the alley. For a moment, the thought flitted into her head that she should find out this guy's name, but another warm, wet current of 'Yes' sluiced the thought right out of her brain. It probably wasn't important. Shanna felt like she could just drift on 'Yes' forever, and anything she did would be great.
The guy led her to a few of his friends, over in the corner of a dimly-lit parking lot . "Check out her eyes," he said to them. Then, to her, he said, "Show them your eyes." That sounded great. Shanna walked over to each of them in turn, showing them how her pupils were just dots. It was hard to make out their faces in the semi-darkness, and the way her pupils had contracted made it even harder to see, but she didn't care about who they were. She didn't really care about anything. She was floating right now on easy pleasure, and whatever happened, happened.