I can hear the music.
I can hear the beat.
I can hear the pure sound.
Luka was assaulted by lights and colors when she entered the club. Not just from the dance floor but from the people. The people in line and exiting the club were not nearly as crazy looking as the ones inside.
With her hood up and covering her eyes, Luka made her way to the bar. She loved appearing mysterious to people. Even though she wasn't. When she looked in the mirror when she had her hood up she loved the way the shadows covered eyes making them look big and exotic.
Luka remembered the time when her mom was.. normal.
*FLASHBACK*
"Mommy, help me. I was burning. B-burning!"
Luka laid huddled under the cover with her head resting on her knees and her cheeks wet with tears. She had had another nightmare.
"Luka, sweetie, tell mommy what it was about. You'll feel better if you talk about it. "
Luka's mom rubbed her back and hugged her. It was the middle of the night and this was the third time in a row that Luka had woken up in the middle of the night from these nightmares. They were terrible.
"I-I was in my bed. Here. Like I am now. In the dream I woke up and I smelled smoke. There was so much noise. I couldn't hear anything. I-I smelled smoke and I jumped up and opened my door and there were flames everywhere. Everywhere. I saw you and daddy sitting in the living room on the gray couch. You were happy and laughing..."
Luka trailed off and shook her, attempting to wipe the mental image from her mind. No more.
"Go on, Luka, dear. Tell mommy. It will make you feel better. I promise. Trust mommy. " Luka's mom hugged Luka and looked at her with her wide brown eyes. Waiting, expecting, her to continue.
With a shaky voice Luka started again.
" Y-you guys were happy and laughing but you were burning. You guys were covered in flames. I screamed for you guys to run. I couldn't go in to the fire and you guys could not hear me. "
Luka stopped and laid down and pulled the covers over her head. Her mom pulled the covers off of her head and smiled at her.
"Luka, if you ever feel like you are burning, If the world is in flames, just remember that your eyes are blue. Like the sea. Your eyes, which are the color of water, can extinguish the fire." Her mom pointed at Luka's eyes.
"Daddy gave you those, right? You have the same eyes." Her mom smiled a warm smile.
At that moment Luka's dad pushed open Luka's door and smiled at her. His blue eyes shining in the dark.
"Always remember that, Luka. No matter how heated life gets just know that you can extinguish the flames. "
"Goodnight, Luka."
"Goodnight, Mommy and Daddy"
*END OF FLASHBACK*
Luka looked to her left and saw the bartender serving drink to the many customers. She watched as he bickered with a few about whether or not the person in question was too drunk for another drink.
Beside the bar there was a group of girls talking to him. The music was so loud that she could not hear what was being said, anyways.
She continued to watch as the bartender, who was in his late twenties, shook his head at one girl and nodded to another one. After a few seconds he handed a drink to the girl he had nodded at while the other one sulked with the rest of her friends.
Luka grinned and pushed her way through the crowd of dancing and chatting people towards the bar. She walked up and waited behind the girls, all dressed in black or gray, until they finally moved.
She looked at the bartender. He had long-ish black hair that was tied in a short pony tail. He wore an outfit, that looked like something out of the 1930's, with a white dress shirt and black slacks with a pair of brown suspenders and a tan fedora. Legend was that he dated several models, even though he was so old looking.
That is why everyone trusted his judgement when it came to looks because even though he did not have much he had a charisma that seemed to attract models and the like.
Luka smiled at him and waved. She kept her hood low but pulled it up so that the bartender could see her eyes. Everyone liked her hair and eyes. The bartender got one look at her eyes and he held four of his fingers up.
Great. Four out of five. Four Bloody Mary's here I come.
The deal was that the bartender would look at you and if he shook his head then you got nothing. If he just nodded then you got one drink. If he held up a number, out of five, then that was how many drinks you got. Lets just say that a three was probably what probably what your typical high school cheerleaders or lolita's would get.
Luka grinned and sat down on one of the vacant splatter painted stools. They were splattered with glow in the dark paint so that they glowed. Pretty cool, huh?
The bartender looked at her.
"Bloody Mary."
He shook his head. He could not hear her.
"BLOODY MARY!"
That seemed to have done the trick because he nodded and started choosing different bottles.
Luka hunched over a little and pulled her hood down. She listened to the music and closed her eyes. Enjoying the greatness of all the sounds. She listened to one song, which sounded like Hunter Moore, and was immediately excited when it changed.
This was always her reaction. Luka felt like getting up and dancing around to hearts content. She felt like singing at the top of her lungs.
But that would ruin her image.
She was trying to look mysterious. Secretive. Sly, devious. Mystical, even.
Ever since Luka stopped going to school Luka had always tried to put up an image.
If they know you, they know your weakness.
That was what she thought.
" IS THIS THE REAL LIFE?
IS THIS JUST FANTASY?
CAUGHT IN A LANDSLIDE
NO ESCAPE FROM REALITY."
Once Luka had grabbed her drink from the bartender she swiveled around in her stool and looked to the source of the noise.
"Eh?!"
Luka was taken aback when she saw a girl dancing and singing on top of a box speaker. Some people were laughing and cheering while some where making booing sounds.
The girl, who was singing along to Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, had long green hair that was in two high pigtails and swirled around her.
She was dancing around like a madman.
The bodyguard's had started to reach up at her but she just kicked away their hand with her black thigh high boots.
She was laughing and...
Having a great time.
Something in Luka was upset about that.
Why can a girl, who is so obviously obnoxious, have a good time while everyone is probably thinking that she is stupid?
Luka set her drink down and got up from her stool. She had had enough of this craziness.
She made her way through the laughing crowd and halted in her tracks when she realized that, while the music and laughing was still going, everyone was looking at her.
She looked up to the speaker and saw the girl, who had outstanding green eyes that could have rivaled her own, was pointing at her and gesturing to the speaker in the other corner of the room.
Luka smiled and took a step towards the girl when she stopped.
What am I doing? Luka thought to herself.
She quickly spun on her heel and shoved through the people to the door.
Leon raised an eyebrow as she left but said nothing.
Luka ran down the ally and back on to the street. She assumed that it was about two in the morning so she decided to take a detour on her way home.
Luka wandered in ally's all while humming to herself.
Now that she was alone Luka could show herself.
Even though it was freezing, Luka would have rather been in the smelly and graffiti covered ally's then at home watching re-runs and not being able to sleep. Probably because she slept on the cold floor. The only reason that she did not have hypothermia was because Luka would occasionally do jumping jacks or sprinted up and down the stairs so that she could stay warm.
Luka stopped in her tracks when she saw something from up ahead. Two figures.
Luka waited for the two figures to show themselves.
As they got closer she could see that they were two teenagers that looked about fourteen. One was a girl and one was a boy. They both had blonde hair and electric blue eyes.
While Luka's eyes looked the ocean these kids eyes looked like someone took diamonds and put them in their eyes. Pretty but in a daifferent sort of way from Luka's.
It was obvious that they had just come form Club Truce because of what they were wearing. They were also holding hands. They looked like siblings or maybe they were a couple...?
The girl was wearing a yellow dress shirt and a black tail coat. She had on black skinny jeans and had on yellow sneakers. She also had a joker mask pulled up and over so that it covered one eye. The other eye had a black star with golden glitter painted underneath.
The boy was wearing something similar. Except the exact opposite. He had on a black dress shirt and a yellow tail coat. He had on black slacks, the same as the girl, but was wearing, which probably started out as white, sneakers which had been coated in glue then in golden glitter. He also wore the exact same Joker mask except his covered the left eye while hers covered the right eye. Under his right eye had a golden diamond that was outlined in black.
Then they burst into song.
" Hello! My name's Len" The boy sang and pointed at himself.
" Hello? My name's Rin" The girl sang in a higher octave and pointed at herself.
" My name means Left." The boy sang and pointed at himself, again.
" My name means Right" The girl sang and pointed at herself, again.
With their hands still intertwined they threw there other hands up and black and yellow confetti was thrown at Luka.
" WE ARE GOING TO LIGHT UP YOUR NIGHT!"
They finished their song (or rhyme?) while yelling and grinned stupidly while staring at her.
Luka had confetti all over her and she just stared.
What the hell?