I walked into the bar on Main St. in Santa Monica.
I was hoping that Galina was going to be there, but I had a strong feeling that she wasn't going to show.
I'd already blown it.
Last weekend, I'd asked Anita to come home with me, at five in the fucking morning, and that feeble attempt had failed outright. Of course, the Serbs are a very pride-filled people (and who can blame them) and a tight knit group, besides.
That meant that I was fucked.
I was completely fucked.
Because, of course, everyone would hear that I had asked Anita to come home with me (and furthermore that it had failed) and that would be the end of me on two counts.
Because, if she'd said yes, and I'd fucked her really well, then that would work in my favor even though I had decided on her rather than another girl.
But no...it was the worst of both worlds.
Nice one!
So, when I walked past the velvet rope at Hidden and checked out the situation, I was not surprised to find my worst fears confirmed...none of the Serbian girls I was attracted to were present. For the FOURTH NITE IN A ROW.
My luck in this country had gone downhill ever since I got back from Buenos Aires, and dramatically so.
I got laid, but good, in Buenos Aires, and I was really feeling the withdrawal of it. It was very fucked up situation.
So I talked to Decky the DJ for a while--which was fun--and waited for Gogi and friends to show up.
Meanwhile, there was a large party of foreigners, in the cabana next to us, celebrating someone's birthday. Definitely some hotties in there, too, I noticed. The party looked like they represented about 10 different countries.
I decided to go to the bathroom, and, along the way, check out the local talent.
I got to the bathroom and two Iranian chicks were there (but very Americanized), waiting for the ladies room, and they were gossiping about one of their friends (and, as usual, talking about what a slut she was).
I made some small talk but I wasn't really interested. Although, I did notice that the one closest to me was very attractive.
It's just that she seemed apathetic, in the worst way, in that typical LA actress way. She was wearing a black and white houndstooth blouse and a black miniskirt, and some high heeled pumps.
She was very hot, but she just didn't seem to possess much in the way of anything inside her brain, and that was putting it in the best light.
The men's door opened and I offered if they wanted to go in before me and they declined.
"You're such a sweetheart!" the one further away from me exclaimed.
I took a piss, finished, and went back to my cabana and talked to a few Serbs, but none of the chicks had shown up, still.
I was drinking with Gogi and Techa (a new friend who is a director) and that was cool but I was really digging the idea of getting laid which I usually don't give a shit about, but tonight for some reason I really
did care. I was lonely as fuck, lately, and it was really bothering me these past few days.
Anyway, time passed and that girl in the checkered blouse--from the bathrooms--was in the cabana next to ours, as chance would have it, and she kept peering thru the little cut out window in the wall and flirting with me.
But being the apathetic asshole that *I* am, I mostly ignored it.
Then, me and Techa went out to the front patio area for a cigarette and she peered out from the entrance to the club, and saw me, and I caught a look of recognition that she had thought I had left and just realized that I was still there.
In short, I realized, with certainty, that the chick liked me.
But like a complete and utter asshole that I am, I STILL didn't go talk to her and I let her go back inside the club and I continued talking to Techa who I really enjoy talking to, but still a man should have priorties, goddamnit.
So we finished our cigarettes and went back in there, and NOW she was dancing with some frat-looking dude and I got what I deserved for waiting like a complete fucking moron and watched some other moron with his priorities intact get what I wanted.
But that's what this world comes down to, doesn't it? You have to be on top of your shit at any given moment, or the woman of your dreams ends up marrying some dipshit actor because of timing and placement. It boggles the mind, man. It boggles the fucking mind.
Motherfucker, I thought to myself, when will I learn? WHEN?
So, again, I went behind our little velvet rope and hung out with the DJ and Gogi and Techa and it was a very odd mixture of emotions.
Gogi was leaving for Serbia soon, to go back home for good, and I wanted to pretend that it didn't bother me, that I would be fine, but it DID bother me and PLUS I wasn't getting any action with Galina whom I was hoping would be there tonight, and there was no fucking way in hell she was going to show, and just out of sheer stupidity and anger I made up my mind right then and there to give up on her.
I knew it was cutting off my nose to spite my face, but I didn't care. Fuck her, I thought. I'm done with this shit. I'm just going to find a stupid little blonde LA girl, like everyone else does, have some good sex and call it a day. I made up my mind right then and there that I was giving up on love. I simply did not care anymore.
So, finally I notice the checkered blouse chick come back into the cabana after dancing with that random frat dude and she sat down by herself....
TO BE CONTINUED...