Now I'll Tell You Everything by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Author:Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: GR, fiction
ISBN: 9781442461611
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

16

FOREVER

We left our cars with the valet, and Pamela announced the Sullivans at the door. The doorman, also bouncer, looked us over, checked off the name, and we were escorted inside to an ultratech room of lights and sounds and furniture that resembled seats inside a spacecraft. There were headsets lying about.

Pamela apologized to the maître d’ for having added two more guests to our party but said she hoped he could accommodate us, and he icily pushed two tables together.

According to the menu, we were in the Voyage Room, and by manipulating the controls at the end of our table, something like those on old jukeboxes, we could select our particular spaceship and individual route, which sometimes had us hooking up with one at a neighboring table. A rather sophisticated icebreaker.

“What are we supposed to do with these?” Liz asked, picking up one of the headsets, and in answer to her own question, she put it on her head. We watched as her face became more intent, obviously following recorded directions, and she motioned to the screen at the end of the packed room, where it appeared we were all in space heading toward a distant planet. Three men at a corner table were looking our way, and suddenly another spaceship appeared on the screen at the end of the room. Liz yanked off the helmet, and her face got that old familiar Elizabeth blush that made us laugh, and the men also.

I was handed the drink list, and when I saw the twenty-dollar service charge per person at the bottom of the paper, I almost choked. The drinks themselves were beyond pricey. You could buy two six-packs of Bud for what one glass of wine cost here.

“What are we going to do?” I whispered to Stacy, one finger sliding down unobtrusively to the cover charge.

“Charge it to the guys’ credit cards. Serves ’em right for trying to upset us,” she said. “Wild night, my foot!”

“Amen!” I said. “Champagne, anyone?”

We each ordered a glass of wine. The room was so noisy, we almost had to shout to be heard.

“What did you have to do to get us in, Pamela?” Claire asked her.

“Nothing. It’s a guy from my theater arts school,” Pamela yelled back. “I spent a weekend helping him film a vignette. He owes me one.”

Gwen was looking at a descriptive card about the club that read: By invitation, guests are welcome to explore the Temptation and Source Rooms, by taking the hidden stairway beyond the purple curtain. “What the heck kind of club is this?” she asked.

“Don’t worry. It’s mostly ‘sophisticated suggestiveness,’  ” Pamela said. “After Antony got hired here, he came back and gave a lecture on ‘The Atmosphere of Desire.’  ”

“On what?” yelled Yolanda from her end of the table.

“Sex,” Liz yelled back.

I could hear my cell phone chime, but just barely. “It’s Patrick!” I told the others, reading his text. “Says they’re on their way back, had a ‘spectacular’ evening, and wants to know if I’m home.”

The girls all hooted.

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