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Joy, Dara - High EnergyHigh Energy
Dara Joy
CONTENTS
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter One
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"Men? Boil them in oil!"
"You don't mean that."
"Cut off their—"
"Zanita!"
Zanita grinned at her friend Mills. "—lying tongues."
"Uh-huh."
"I was going to say lying tongues."
"Sure."
"Okay, so I wasn't. Anyhow, I am through, through, through!"
Mills sighed dramatically. "Haven't I heard this before?"
"I mean it this time, Mills." Zanita slammed her palms down on the kitchen table
for emphasis. "I have had it!"
"Really. Was it any good?" Mills tried to hide her smile in her coffee cup.
"Will you be serious? I'm trying to have a discussion here."
Mills sat back in her chair. "Is that what this is? And here I thought you came
all the way over here for a good old rant-and-rave session."
Zanita threw up her hands in disgust. "That too!" She looked dismally down into
her mug. "It certainly wasn't for your coffee."
"Watch it. Everyone loves my coffee. Just because you happen to prefer brew a
spoon can stand up in doesn't make you a reliable critic. And we are getting off
the subject—something you are remarkably good at, Zanita."
"Well, what did you expect?"
Mills raised an eyebrow. "Lucidity? Rationality? Perhaps a modicum of
believability?"
"All right." Zanita looked her square in the eye. "It wasn't."
"What wasn't?"
Zanita slumped in her chair. "It wasn't any good."
Mills peered at her friend as if she had just come off Mars. Since people often
wore that expression around her, Zanita chose to ignore it.
"You didn't!"
"I did." She exhaled. "I don't want to talk about it."
"Then why did you bring it up?" Mills gave her a smug look.
"Okay, okay." Her friend knew her too well. No big surprise. "It was just so…
blah."
Mills blinked several times. "Blah?"
"You're looking at me like that again."
"Like what?"
"Like I come from the mysterious face of Mars."
"Sorry." Mills leaned forward in her chair. "But we are talking about Rick,
aren't we? Your current paramour?"
"My last, late paramour." Zanita ran a hand distractedly through her short black
curls. "And why are you so shocked?"
Mills leveled her a look. "I shall count the reasons." She ticked her fingers
off one by one. "First, as I recall, wasn't it you who said you would never get
involved with anyone again after Steve left you with nothing to remember him by
except a mountain of debt?"
Zanita closely examined the flowers on the wallpaper to her left. "I guess that
was me," she mumbled.
"And wasn't it you who waited two years before going out again with anyone
else?"
Zanita peered at the intricate pattern on the tile floor. "I guess that was me
also."
Mills nodded to emphasize Zanita's admission. "And wasn't it you who's been
dating Rick for three months, telling the poor guy, who happens to be crazy
about you, that you want nothing more from him than a platonic friendship?"
Zanita drummed her fingers on the tabletop. "So what's your point?"
Mills zoomed in. "What made you suddenly sleep with the guy?" she bellowed. "And
it's a little hard for me to believe a man like Rick would be 'blah' in bed."
Zanita hiked her shoulders. "I don't know why. Maybe I was curious."
"Curious? What kind of a reason is that?"
"I don't know!"
"I can understand passion, or a mad, wild fling, or even good old-fashioned
horniness, but curiosity?"
"Get off my case, will you?"
Mills felt instantly contrite. "I'm sorry, Zani, it was just so unlike you. You
weren't turned on in the least?"
Zanita grimaced. "No. And despite what you believe, 'blah' describes the
experience perfectly. It was all over very quickly."
Mills lowered her voice to what she deemed a serious tone. "Did you… ?"
"No." Zanita ran her index finger around the rim of her cup; she was about to
make a terrible confession. "Mills, I've—I've never."
Mills eyebrows shot up. "Not ever?"
Zanita sunk further into her chair. "Nope."
"Not even with Steve?"
She sighed. "Not even with Steve."
Both women were silent for a few moments, the absolute seriousness of the
subject demanding the proper respect.
Zanita took a gulp of coffee. "Do you think it's me? I don't think it's me."
Mills was outraged. "Of course it isn't you!"
The two friends sat in silence pondering the dilemma.
Finally, Zanita broke the silence. "Well, what is it, then?"
As was Mills' habit when she was deep in thought, she took a large sip of
coffee, then slowly lowered her mug to the table. Zanita knew she wouldn't speak
until the sound of the cup hitting the table had faded away. At that precise
moment, Zanita could count on Mills having an inspiration.
Here it comes, she thought; the woman's a genius.
Mills looked straight at her and pronounced, "It wasn't right."
Zanita's violet eyes blinked twice. "That's it? It wasn't right?" She dropped
her head to the table. "Jeez, Mills, give me a break."
"Think about it."
"No." Came the muffled reply from the tabletop.
"Think about it. With Steve, subconsciously you never really trusted him—for
good reason, I might add—so you couldn't… let your guard down, so to speak.
There was always something missing. As for Rick—"
Zanita lifted her head slightly from the table. "Please, no more psychobabble, I
beg you."
Mills continued unperturbed. "With Rick, there was nothing. No passion. No lust.
Ergo no fulfillment."
Zanita sat back up. "You really think so?"
"Yes. Zanita, I've known you practically all my life. When you're in doubt about
something, you always hold back. You withdraw into yourself."
"I do?" She thought about it a moment. "You're right. I do. I never realized
that before."
"On the other hand, when you feel strongly about something, you jump right into
it, head first, no holds barred."
Zanita's tone became distinctly cool. "Are you saying I leap before I look?"
"Drop the affronted act. Face it, girlfriend, you are not by nature a person who
is concerned about the end justifying the means."
"Meaning?"
Mills stretched her arms out. "Meaning, you act first, then live with the
consequences later."
"So, Dr. Ruth, what does this all have to do with my problem?"
"Everything. When you meet a man who makes you leap before you look, you will be
just fine."
"Well, I have nothing to worry about, do I?" she asked sarcastically. "We both
know there isn't a man in
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