Friday evening caught me grievously involved in a
mosh pit that could be crudely described as one trillion pairs of male sneakers vying to reduce my 90 dollar heels into a gory pulp. Never mind the flesh on my toes.
Let's start from the beginning.
xgir's band,
Pale Pretense, was performing in a rock gig showcasing a couple of local rock bands. It was held in Planet Paradigm, a nightclub that boasted of inferior alcohol and furniture that was very much under delusions of zen grandeur.
"This is my first rock-gig-thing, and I'll have you know that I am only here because of YOU," I reminded her for the sixth time, wondering if I should be expelled for having less than 17 body piercings and therefore not fulfilling the basic code of attire.
"Could your skirt get any shorter?" She retorted, gesturing at the strip of black PVC wrapped around my hips. I debated confessing that it was part of an old Tifa costume which I never got to completing, mainly because procuring a tasteful substitute for Z-cup bosoms was no easy task.
(Yes, Tifa used to be my favourite FFVII character.)
(Yes, Reno/Tifa used to be my favourite FFVII pairing. Pre-Frank V. I have no excuse for this fandom outrage and am deserving of SPOONGUARD savagery.)
"By the way," one of
xgir's guitarists warned, "It's going to be kind of...noisy. You may not like it."
I fixated him with a shrewd eye. "Noisy, you say."
Moments later, I found myself slumped in a tall white seat with one finger grimly lodged in my left eardrum .
"This," I announced to the wall, "is
screamo."
The wall did not reply. Perhaps it couldn't hear me.
"I mean, if I wanted to listen to screamo," I continued earnestly, "I could listen to Linkin Park. Or my mother after discovering my latest bank statement."
"I need a martini," I declared, after being emphatically ignored for the second time. "And maybe, Wall, you could try talking back to me so I don't look like so much of a fucking idiot."
I took out my wallet and realised that my last ten dollar bill had gone to paying for the gig ticket.
I was contemplating the suicide of everybody in this room but myself when a flash of blond glided past my table.
I jumped to my feet maniacally and pointed towards its general direction.
"OHMYGODBLONDEBOYALERT!!!
BLONDE BOY ALERT!!!" Fearing that
xgir was unaware of the amazingly rape-worthy entity before us, I grabbed her violently by the shoulders and flung her into a pile of steel chairs. "See!? YOU SEE!?"
"Yes, I noticed." She hardly seemed amused by my barbaric display of enthusiasm.
"He's so cute!!" I gushed.
"Uh huh."
"And BLONDE!"
"It's
dyed."
"And he looks like such a punkrocker-wannabe! I love it!"
"...Okay."
It took me five minutes to regain my composure. "Sorry," I muttered. "I haven't had sex for 32 days."
This was when Faux-blondie and his band took to the stage and yelled, "That's right folks, come on up to the front of the stage!", whereupon I thrust
xgir a look that read
You Are So Coming With Me."Good, now we can see the cute guy up close." I beamed, priding myself on managing to find a spot that was right in the front-center of the crowd.
Suddenly, the lead vocalist called out , "Come on, people, you call this a
mosh pit?"
These words of imminent doom had barely registered in my head before the band erupted into their first song, and I was punched squarely in the head. Subsequently, a random elbow had connected viciously with my stomach and my feet were brutalised beyond compare. In the corner of my eye, a boy had fallen over and was promptly trampled upon by eight others. The last I ever glimpsed of him was a solitary arm grasping wretchedly amidst the bloodthirsty air...
I was going to die in a mosh pit, and there would be nothing left of my shoes when they find my corpse.
There was only one thing to do.
I was going to have to fight back.
"Argugugguhghhhhffff!!" I uttered valiantly, arms and legs flailing, and was instantly rewarded with ten pairs of feet on my left toe and a fist to the neck.
I was
seriously going to die.
The next instant, however,
xgir had successfully managed to disentangle our battered selves from the general crowd and drag us a reasonable three feet away.
"THAT WAS A FUCKING TRAIN WRECK!" I howled, after regaining some feeling in my toes. They were certainly not good feelings.
"That," she eyed me pointedly, "was a mosh pit. And thanks to you, I just lost five minutes of my life."
The ghastly abuse she sustained in the mosh pit, nevertheless, did not stop her and her band from delivering a fantastic performance afterwards. And
of course I was listening to their songs instead of stealing furtive looks at Faux-blondie behind me and trying to make my back profile look as irresistible as possible.
"You can stop arranging your hair, he left his seat ages ago." Startled, I turned around to face
xgir's boyfriend. "And AREN'T YOU SUPPOSED TO BE ATTACHED?!" He chastised.
"Why can't he just, well, trip and fall onto my vagina?" I wailed, turning a deaf ear at his last sentence.
He cordially pretended to not have heard me as well.
xgir was belting out the chorus of
Alice, oblivious to his budding trauma.
"Well, for all you know he might be sleeping with someone else tonight," He finally said, motioning to a fellow male drummer.
I faced him with a depraved leer. "You know, I don't mind sandwiches."
I was distinctly sure he moved his seat a good couple of inches away from mine after that.
To cut a long story short,
1. Faux-blondie, like all other infatuations of mine, hardly acknowledged my existence.
2. I doubt ever meeting
xgir's boyfriend again.
3. My unsatiated vagina sentenced me to a restless night of foot-nursing and missing Phi quite severely indeed.
Postscript:

And to think I never found out his name.