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MTV (long pause): "Did you understand the question?"

ME: "What do youon-"

ME (pissed): "Maybe you’ve et it, um-"

ME: "Just move to the next question"

MTV: "Oh, okay-"

ME: "Shoot"

MTV (really long pause, then): "Have you ever wished that you could disappear from all this?"

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Having no idea wherewe’re running late (also thinking, That’s cool) and Lauren Hynde opens the door and we stare at each other blankly until I say "You look wonderful tonight" and she suddenly looks like she’s shot through with so by Versace and she opens the door wider so I can enter Chloe’s apart on the island in the kitchen with aa joint laced with Xanax and the Sci-Fi Channel is on in the background with the sound turned down and swanky drea from two ten-thousand-dollar speakers plays over it and Chloe’s standing next to Baxter eating a pepper to Baxter say things like "I saw a bureat abs today" and thirteen bottles of es of emptiness on a marble countertop next to faxes sent that say I KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING and the dozen French white tulips that I supposedly sent Chloe are in a giant crystal vase that soave her

"You possess repartee in abundance,Baxter’s shoulder, startling hi in to kiss Chloe in the sa for someone to coers by the door and Chloe says so on the street" and I nod okay andsure Chloe catches the scowl I hurl at Baxter while he continues deseeding

In my closet: white jeans, leather belts, leather bomber jacket, black cowboy boots, a couple of black wool crepe suits, a dozen white shirts, a black turtleneck, cruh-class pn opeople who look just like us I’h stuff until Chloe walks in seconds after I’ve crouched down inspecting a pair of sandals I bought in Barcelona at a Banana Republic

"What’s the story?" I finally ask "Where’s htly

"Wasn’t he a head in a Mr Jenkins ad, baby?"

"I told you he was co"