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Chapter 35
The place had filled up with people from one hour to the next, all I did was talk to the occasional nice person "and stoned" enough to stop beside me and philosophize about the shape of the smoke coming out of his mouth. I wasn't even drinking. Vicenzo wandered around the house in his energetic way, giving attention to each of his guests, making jokes, singing and everything else. I was shaking my head subtly to the rhythm of Nirvana's My Girl (Where Did You Sleep Last Night), which was blaring through the speaker. Vicenzo was really lucky that the building was practically uninhabited, otherwise his parties would certainly have been forbidden by angry neighbors. The figure of my colleague appeared in front of me, he smiled and stroked my waist, leaning me against the wall.
"Something tells me you're looking for company," he spoke into my ear, causing me to shiver slightly.
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