Testing time

[melodymagic]

Melody had called Maddy the next morning, after meeting Theresa in the coffee shop, and asked her if she was working that day. She really wanted to try the potion, and it had a half life of thirty six hours before it started losing its potency. She'd been checking the colour and giving the bottle the shake it needed every so often to prevent the ingredients from separating.

When Maddy said she was working the late shift Melody was glad, and asked her to meet her for an early lunch, as Melody was working that afternoon and evening at a function in the Skylark. She hurried along the sidewalk, turning into the plaza and glancing up at the clock displayed in the centre of the outdoor dining area. She was a little late and she scanned the area, looking for Maddy. A series of small cafes and restaurants clustered around the area, making the most of the lunchtime trade from the businesses located all around.

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“I’m here, I’m here, I’m here!” gushed Maddy. She skittered between a couple of slow pedestrians, sloshing Coke from an open can. “Sorry, I was dying of thirst. My throat was like… caaaacccchhhh.” She arrived at the patio table they’d agreed upon, the one with a red canvas umbrella, and dropped into a chair. The legs scraped on the concrete. The day was hot already; the Joan Jett logo on her t-shirt clung to her chest. In addition, she wore a pair of ripped jean cut-offs, chunky boots, and Wayfarer sunglasses.

She sipped from her can.

“So what are we doing?”

Re: Testing time

[melodymagic]

The sea was crashing all around them and Melody hung onto the grouper, breathing as the water cascaded over them.

And then she realised it was really cold water, and not the warmth she'd been feeling before, and that her tongue was somehow tangling with something... someone... else's ... tongue!

Her eyes flew open and she stepped back, eyes widening for a moment as she looked at the grouper who was now no longer looking so fishy and she thought for a long moment as to where the fish concept had come from but quickly dropped that thought and instead recognised Brian.

And the water dripping down his face was what she could feel running down her cheeks. "What the hell?" she exclaimed, looking at Brian, then down at herself, then at Maddy, standing beside them with the glass in her hand, giving her up as the perpetrator of the dousing.

Why did she douse them?

"Maddy, what was... " And as she spoke she could feel the tingle in her lips and her fingers, and other parts and she looked at Brian, and for the first time in her entire life she didn't feel the embarrassing colour rising in her neck, to turn her face beetroot red.

Instead she blinked, and gave Brian a grin. "Sorry about that," she told him, "seems something I drank agreed with me a little more than I expected!" Even as she was saying it she felt a thrill run through her, adrenalin that had been released by the potion, and probably the kiss and dousing, but most of all she could remember all the good things, and she gave Maddy wink.

Re: Testing time

[melodymagic]

"It isn't made for its taste," Melody pointed out, grinning, as she took the vial back and retrieved the stopper from where it had landed on the table. As she slipped it back into her back she looked at Maddy.

"Hey, he might have brought us lunch!" she suggested, indicating the paper bag Brian had collected and reached out to grab it. "Something special for us?" she added.

Re: Testing time

[melodymagic]

Melody grinned when Maddy started laughing and commented on seeing Brian naked. Melody could remember wondering, after the Christmas Eve do where she'd first met Brian, about just that, but was puzzled by how things had gone at the New Years gig at The Dive. She still didn't know what happened to her between those two meetings, but she shook her head, briefly and listened to Maddy's convoluted explanation.

"That almost makes sense, except the whole thing about this Valerie and her figuring out who she is bit," Melody said, eyeing Maddy sideways a little as she thought. Her head angled a little and lowered, eyes fixed on Maddy as jumbled pieces started to fall into some sort of place in her head. "Hang on, wait... are you saying she hit on you? His bandmate?" she hissed, leaning forward a little.