Nancy’s brow furrowed as she leaned forward in her chair to see what her brother was doing.
“Who the hell does he think he’s talking to?” she whispered as she saw him grinning and moving his lips in conversation with the empty air.
After about a minute of this imaginary conversation, he put his arms around two imaginary waists.
“Invisible women, apparently,” Nancy whispered. “Two, at least.”
Still with his arms around those invisible waists, he began walking towards the door.
“Alright, that’s it,” she said, and rose from her chair.
She ran after him, bumping into Chad on the way.
“Sorry,” she said to him, then continued running. “Eddie!”
Going through the doorway with the three invisible, singing women, Eddie didn’t hear his sister at all.
“Eddie!” she called out again, following him outside.
“Eddie?” Chad said, then looked around for him at the bar. “Hey, where’d he go?”
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Nancy saw Eddie get into his car after opening and closing the passenger and back doors for the three beauties that only he saw.
“Eddie!” she shouted, running to her car. She still wasn’t heard by him.
Chad, at the opened door, saw Nancy get into her car. Both cars drove off.
I guess Eddie got lucky while I was in the bathroom, Chad thought. Who was that other chick? A jealous ex-girlfriend, or something? He went back inside.
Nancy’s car followed Eddie’s from far enough away that she figured he and ‘the women’ wouldn’t notice her, but not so far back that she’d lose him.
She was torn about how she should deal with her brother’s predicament. Should she stop him as soon as possible to prevent another killing, or would a blunt intervention provoke a sudden killing? Also, it might have helped her investigation to observe what exactly was happening right up to and just before the killing, she hoped just in time to prevent it from happening.
Eddie parked his car near an apartment building about ten minutes away from the bar. She parked a block away from where he was and watched him. He got out, opened and closed the doors for his invisible lovers, and walked with them, his arms around two of them, into the building.
She ran over there as fast as she could. When she went through the front door, she saw the elevator door close with him in it. She watched it go up to the top floor before getting in.
Is he going up on the roof? she wondered as her elevator moved–far too slowly–up after his. Are those demons, or whatever the fuck they are, going to make him jump off?
The elevator was only at the third of ten floors now.
“Come on!” she growled in clenched teeth. “Hurry up!”
Meanwhile, Eddie reached the top floor, and he was being led by ‘the women’ to a door at the end of the hall leading up to the roof.
Only he saw something completely different.
“Wow,” he said. “This is a really nice apartment you girls have.”
“Thanks,” the blonde said to him.
The living room was adorned with luxurious furniture of leather and antique wood. The light purple wallpaper had flower motifs on it. Baroque and Rococo paintings hung on the walls.
“Wait ’til you see the bedroom,” the redhead said.
Their singing continued as they approached the bedroom door. The brunette opened it, and Eddie saw a golden flight of stairs leading up to another door.
“Stairs?” he asked as he and the women began their ascent.
“Yes,” the redhead said. “Our place of lovemaking is so heavenly, you have to go up to get to it.”
“Well, I guess that makes sense,” he said as they got half-way up.
The women’s singing continued to intoxicate him and drown out Nancy’s yelling as she ran down the hall to reach the door to the roof.
When Eddie reached the roof, the blonde had opened a shining silver door showing him a bedroom so decadent in its opulence, it was as if the three women were empresses: black satin sheets on the bed with matching bed curtains, a dark purple rug blanketing the entire bedroom floor, a dresser with a golden-bordered mirror, and paintings of erotic art, all over the pink walls, that only Sade wouldn’t have blushed at.
“Whoa!” he sighed.
They led him to the bed with lewd grins and more of their hypnotic three-part vocal harmonies as they sang in a language he’d never heard in his life. Only it wasn’t a bed they were leading him to.
It was the edge of the roof.
Where they’d have him fall was onto a flagpole, the top of which had been broken, leaving a sharp, jagged edge to cut all the way through his torso.
“Are you ready for the penetration of a lifetime?” the brunette asked him.
“Oh, yeah!” he grunted as he stepped closer to the ‘bed.’
“I guess we’d better get undressed,” the blonde said.
Eddie saw all three women drop their dresses, revealing lace bras and panties of–appropriately–black for the brunette, red for the redhead, and golden for the blonde.
Grinning and sighing with delight at what he saw, Eddie unzipped his pants as he reached the side of the ‘bed.’ His feet were now a few inches from the edge of the roof.
Panting Nancy finished getting up the stairs, and threw the door open with a loud slam against the outer wall…though the women’s singing still drowned out all other noise for him. She needed a few seconds to catch her breath; she staggered closer to him. Then she winced when she saw her brother pull out his erection from his pants.
His grin grew wider as he saw the three beauties remove their bras, panties, and high heels to be gloriously nude before him.
“What flawless bodies you three women have,” he sighed as he ogled them.
Three women, eh? Nancy thought, almost beside him now and keeping her eyes looking high enough not to have to see his dick.
“Go sit on the bed, honey,” the redhead said.
“And savour the coming penetration,” the blonde said with a lewd giggle.
Nancy saw him about to sit on…nothing.
“Eddie, no!” she screamed, reaching for his arm.
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