Chapter Ten
Nocturne in Black and Blue
They played to a nice crowd at the Waterfront, and shut the music down at two. Everyone was tired - Myoko especially. Amy took her home well before the set finished, and didn’t come back. She was mad at Johnny. He’d made her wear a crotch rope under her skirt and he’d made it really tight. That kind of s**t turned her on. She hated it. Willis wasn’t sure what she hated more, the manipulation, the discomfort, or the ensuing arousal.
What he did know was that the long, back and forth discussion with her had exhausted both of them, emotionally. Added to the day’s events, it was adding up to be simply too much. He went to the bar, where Michelle Gates was pulling duty in one of her numberless part time jobs.
Michelle came out of the back room with a
