This time she connected, her teeth sinking into his cheek. BeePorn His stomach jumped up. He decided she must be on something. She was still dancing in place, her shoulders and hips twitching, as if she couldn’t stop. He groaned, and then someone was banging on the door again, and he said “Fuck off!” and then groaned again. That was faster than he could have hoped for. They’d stopped dancing but he couldn’t get away from the music. She nodded. He saw what they were all hunched over at the table, that red, bleeding mass… You want to relax?”
“Yeah,” said Andrew, letting himself be led. “Come on,” said Ruby. “I was just looking.” She had a faraway look. He saw Hannah dancing with a group of rivetheads who looked like their only agenda was injuring themselves. “Who says I’m done?”
“I do,” Ruby said. “You don’t remember how it used to be.”
“How did it used to be?”
“Better.”
She rolled her eyes, drank the rest of her glass in one go, and left.