Strange Things

[Akari Miyakawa]

The door rang again through which entered a parka of average height.  She stalked past the men and offered a ‘Hey Sergei,’ to the surrounding airspace.  The jacket was peeled off to reveal a woman in a tank top and painted-on jeans with holes in strategic places.  She rounded the counter and threw the coat somewhere unseen, muttering about the cold.  The tank top also lost out to the divorce and it too was flung downward into the great unknown.  She bent out of sight and retrieved a bottle of soda, parked her ass in the tall chair and propped her boots up on the counter.  A long pull on the orange drink seemed to satisfy the need for a sugary fix and the woman’s gaze fell upon the men in the room.  Openly.  Topless.  Her mouth curled into a smile.  No bra.  “Well hell-oh.”  Another pull from her bottle.  “You two have an appointment?”  She was here to have the rest of a back tat filled in.  Hopefully...if Sergei didn’t get something easy in.  Gotta pay the bills and all.  Her long lashes seemed to brush her cheeks as she flipped open the appointment book and looked down at the day.  Lips made a suggestive sound.  “No, you do not.”  A cat-like smile.  “What’ll it be then, lovelies?  Couple art?”  They did not look like they were together, but it was always fun to throw that out there.

Ana Barič

NPC