The girls charged downstairs, loud footfalls “like a herd of animals!” shouted Mrs. Payne. Their eyes shone bright with the giddy flame of anticipation. For more than a year, they’d spun records on stereos, every groove and skip a poem they knew by heart.
The purchase of every new album by X was marked like a special occasion. Holed up in one another’s bedrooms, they pored over the rich liner notes, inspired by clever, sophisticated verses written in Exene’s own beautiful scrawl.
That night, for the first time, they would see them! Exene and the others on stage, all of them breathing and exhaling one another’s air in the same room!
Ryan wore straight, platinum tresses, green eyes shrouded seductively by long bangs. Lia twisted blue-black cotton candy into a French roll and fixed it with
