"Putting me in ecstasy, ooh! Transmitting on my frequency! Whoa
whoa, she's cosmic! Yeah, give it to me. Uh-huh." Hiroshi Karigari
was dancing. More accurately, he was getting funky. At least, that's
what Mari had called it when she had handed him the CD on Thursday. He
had some idea that the band would be able to achieve an extreme groove,
but he had no idea that the beat would be so infectious as to render
him in such a state of boogie.
"This could be a close encounter, I should take care not to
flounder!" To be sure, Hiroshi wasn't completely foreign to this type
of music, though he had come to scoff at it for being overly simple.
But this band was different. They had... he didn't exactly know what
they had, but it was contagious, and now he had it. Or, at least, he
hoped he had it. He was going to need it if he ever planned on taking
Mari to a nightclub.
"Sends me into hyperspace, when I see her pretty face!" Hiroshi
played his phantom bass with reckless abandon. The funkadelic
mothership was calling him, and he was picking up the phone.
"Hiroshi, there's..." Marie stood in front of the open door,
studying her brother's arrhythmic convulsions. "Are you okay?"
Hiroshi's universe crumbled around him, and he froze, one hand
pointing at nothing in particular, the other to his ear. The lopsided
grin on his face remained, even as his eyes filled and his cheeks
reddened. He could feel himself turning, slowly and irrevocably, to
granite.
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B O K U N O M A R I E
Together Ace
A story of Dangerous Love, Doubles Tennis and Groovy Funk
Episode One Premieres Monday, October 18th
Boku No Marie: Together Ace (c) 1999 Matthew Johnston
All Rights Reserved
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~matt2518/
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