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the skeleton key | chapter four: smoke and mirrors

My eyes never left him as Marcy and I were seated right there before the edge of the stage. He towered before us with his guitar pressed up against his body and the light directed onto the crown of his head. I could scarcely take my eyes off the roots of his gray streak in all their pure whiteness: something told me that he had had a head of thick, full curly black hair when he was younger, and there was a big part of me that wanted to see him at that age. In fact, the more that he went on with it, the more that I wanted to see him with such long beautiful black curls.

I had my eyes on Alex the whole entire time but I also paid close attention to the bassist, Stu Hamm, with his long blond curls and starry tattoos all around his arms and hands. I couldn’t afford to look away from either of them; where I had been drawn in from the back of the room to the front of the stage, I soon found myself leaning forward as if to give them my full attention.

I thought about making a batch of cupcakes covered in stars like Stu’s tattoos as well as black and white ones like Alex’s hair. I then thought about adding a little bit of alcohol to those cupcakes as well, some wine with Alex’s cakes and some scotch with Stu’s starry-eyed cakes.

A couple of booze hounds and maybe a little romp in the hay and I could have them both around my little finger at the same time.

I then fluttered my eyelashes at that. It had been so long since I had thought anything like that, and I thought they had gone away a long time ago. The way I wanted anyone all to myself and the way that I often had difficulty in really bringing it into words, and yet when I watched those two men, I couldn’t resist the feeling. I wanted Alex especially, and I wanted him all to myself as well.

And in fact, once I thought it, the more I kept on thinking about it. I wanted Alex so much right then, such that it made my face grow warm from the mere sensation.

I leaned back in the chair and rested my hand on my knee. My chest rose and fell as if I had just run a marathon prior to then. All the while, I paid very little attention to the voices behind me.

When Alex switched guitars and Stu plugged in a new bass, I turned to find Marcy mingling with a guy. A heavier gentleman with long jet-black hair down past his shoulders and a face as round as the full moon, and he looked about as soft and round as a big teddy bear.

“Hi,�� he greeted her.

“Hi,” Marcy returned the favor, complete with a little grin towards him. My heart fluttered at the sight of them there, and I had a feeling that I was going to have to bake them something as well soon enough. It was a fleeting feeling, but something that hit me once I thought it, however.

“I’m Eric,” he told her with a slight shake to his head: his black hair seemed to have an extra sheen to it when he did that.

“I’m Marcy. Everyone calls me Marcy Playground.”

“Marcy Playground. Sounds like hell of a good time.” For a second, I thought he flashed her a wink, but then again, it may have just been my own imagination. But Marcy inched closer to him as if to flirt with him some more, and I knew for a fact that I was going to have to make them something at some point. It was going to be my year of baking, without question, but now I had a bit of a direction.

I returned my attention to the stage, right as Alex lifted his head and showed off the center of his throat to all of us. He ran his fingers through his hair once more, that time to hold his hair back off the nape of his neck for a moment though it wasn’t very warm in there; and it was right then I caught the sight of his ears, little elf ears in junction with his soft round handsome face. Between his gorgeous neck and the way his shirt hugged his body, I could picture myself kissing him and loving every inch of his body. I wanted him so badly that I knew in my heart it was going to drive me crazy if I didn’t act on it all.

Those two men jammed for what felt like a few minutes, but when I glanced to the back of the room in search of the clock, I was stunned to find that it had been three hours. Indeed, when I returned my attention to Alex, he nudged his coarse black hair back and I spotted a sheen of moisture plastered on the side of his neck. Not a bead of sweat to be found, but I could tell that he had been at work all night long. If anything, Stu Hamm was the one who give up the sweat.

There was something so visceral about the whole show that I couldn’t help but let my mind wander.

They received a standing ovation as well; I glanced behind me to find Marcy and Eric with their hands over their heads as if they had just walked into a party. It was a party, perhaps more so than the Metal Allegiance show the night before.

When Alex and Stu ducked back behind the stage, I turned to Marcy who was being led by Eric towards the side of the room right behind us.

“Come on, Al!” she called after me over the wall of noise around us,

I followed them towards the edge of the room and a hallway which led to the backstage area. I was greeted by a loud whirring in my ears, which was then followed by the combination of wine and cleaners, and I knew that were looking at a nice little room behind the main stage.

Eric nudged a long black velvet curtain out of our way, and we were met with a cozy, warmly lit room with a pair of tables, a big comfy looking black suede couch, and Alex with a glass of wine in one hand and a dazed look on his face. He ran his fingers through his hair, and I was met with a white flash that were the roots of his gray streak. He showed us a little smile, followed by a nod of his head.

I ducked over to him to which he treated me to another glass of red wine.

“Thank you,” I said to him, to which he coaxed me over to the far side of the couch. “Where’d you put the rugelach?”

“They’re in a safe place,” he assured me as we sat down in unison. I peered back over my shoulder to find Marcy and Eric chatting it up about something; Stu was nowhere to be seen.

“Stu went out a little bit ago,” Alex explained with a gesture to the other side of the room. “He really wants to meet you.”

“Well, I really want to meet him,” I retorted to him, and he cracked me a smile at that. He sipped on his wine all while he kept his gaze locked onto me. Those eyes were so deep and hypnotic that I couldn’t bear to look away from him. He then showed me his tongue and his lips resembled to the ripest of fruit off the vine. I could see it on his face, the fact that he had been loosened up a great deal and he needed to relax for the rest of the night.

“Penny for your thoughts?” I asked him in a low voice. He licked his lips again, that time at a slower, more deliberate pace. How I wished to know what was going through his mind as he held the glass of wine close to his lips once again as if to take a sip.

“Nah, just thinking about what Queen records I want to play for you,” he quipped, to which I giggled at that.

“Some Queen and some Cure, too?” I asked him.

“The Cure! Man, I haven’t heard anything from them in eons, it feels like. Maybe that’s why you’re so warm—it’s all from the nostalgia.”

“When you’re baking, you’re going to develop a sense of nostalgia,” I explained to him as I sipped on the wine.

“I… absolutely love your warmth,” he said in a low enough voice so I could hear him over the two of them chattering behind us like a couple of birds. “You’re very warm, like how a baker should be.” He flexed his fingers at my chest as if he wanted to grasp at my breasts, but he never did touch me with his fingertips. I could feel it in him, the way that he could feel about these sorts of things. We had just met but the feeling could not have been more obvious to me.

“I’m that way because it’s how I bring it all out of my heart,” I explained to him. “Sometimes there are feelings that I can’t explain with either art or anything else.”

He cocked his head to the side at the sound of that.

“You’re the second girl I’ve met with a skeleton in your closet,” he told me.

“The second? Who’s the first?” I showed him an unsure grin.

He then pursed his lips, and his face fell at that. I leaned in closer to him, such that I could smell the wine on his lips. Where he had that spark of excitement in his eyes, it went away about as quickly as it came about. His eyes pointed off to the side and I couldn’t help but inch closer to him, and more so as he held the wine glass down to his lap once again.

“There is seriously something that’s hurting you right now,” I remarked.

“I’m dry as a bone,” he whispered to me with a slight turn of his head towards me.

“What do you mean, dry as a bone?” I chuckled at that.

“Dry… as a bone… I’m feeling thirsty.” He showed me his tongue like the venomous snake that lingered in the back of his mind. The smell of the grapes as well as his cologne was intoxicating; the way that he nudged a lock of hair behind my ear and moved his chest out towards me. I knew what he was thinking right then.

“Do you feel my love,” he whispered to me.

“Always,” I whispered back to him. He held closer to my face as if he was about to kiss me, but he never did.

“The blood runs cold through your heart and into the void within,” I breathed out to him, and he pursed his lips together again. He wanted to do it.

And in fact, I wanted him to do it.

“You’re desperate,” I said. “Something inside of you aches and it’s just making you so desperate.”

Alex ran his fingers through his coarse black hair and gazed back into my face. He shifted his weight and clutched at the belt loops of his jeans as if he was trying to test the fitting of them, even as he stayed seated in the spot next to me. Marcy burst out laughing at something, which in turn left me startled. I returned my attention to Alex right as he downed some more of his wine. He then set the glass down on the little coffee table before us.

“I need to go,” he confessed.

“Wait, where are you going?” I demanded.

“I have to get a move-on up to Seattle,” he quipped. “I have to get moving and I have to get an early start.”

“Alex, wait—” I sputtered out to him. He pursed his lips and held still before me with his shoulders hunched up a bit as if he had just had his feathers ruffled. I held onto his one shoulder by the crest to him steady. “Please. Tell me. Tell me what it is that’s haunting you so much and so deeply.”

“I’m getting older and it feels like the days keep going by so quickly,” he stammered out. “You know how when you’re a kid and it feels like everything is so slow and big. I miss that so much. I’m in my mid-fifties now and it feels like time just keeps on slipping away through my fingers.”

I never let go of his shoulder, and I knew he was in need of some kind of release. Even though he was in the heart of his fifth decade of life, he never struck me as being that old. If anything, something about his eyes and the way his skin seemed so clear and smooth as if he had just washed it struck me as ancient. He was as old as time itself.

“To think that you think you’re so old,” I chuckled, and he slumped his shoulders, and he rested his free hand in his lap.

“It’s funny because… now that I talk about it aloud I actually don’t feel that old,” he confessed in a single breath. “Maybe that’s what happens when time flies by.” He lowered his gaze down to the floor below us.

“Tell me what it is that you want,” I whispered to him. He turned his attention to me again, that time with a hooded look to his eyes.

“I need you to come with me,” he beseeched to me. “Not want, but need. I want and need you to come with me. Come with us. Come with us all along the West Coast here.”

“Alex, I have to think about it first,” I told him.

“Give it time but also don’t,” he advised me. “Unless you want me to rap for you reasons why you should come along.”

“A rock n roll guy who knows how to rap?” I laughed.

“Yeah! And…” He cleared his throat. “I can be very convincing, too. If you don’t take it, I could find a way inside of you.”

I sipped on my glass of wine, and all the while I kept my gaze fixed on him.

“Come with us,” he begged to me again. “Come with me on my tour.”

“Is there a catch?” I asked him.

He opened his mouth to say something when he was interrupted by Eric and Marcy right behind us. I was definitely going to have to think about, though, especially since it came about on such short notice. I truly loved Alex’s love of classic rock and old hip hop music when I thought about it. If I said yes, I was looking at an adventure that could change my life for the better.

I also wondered about Jerry and if he had any plans as well.

One thing was for certain and that was the fact that I had to be a nomad. I had a feeling I was going to have to go places anyway.

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The Best Rolex Watches For Men

At some point in his life every man with an interest in watches will want to buy a Rolex. The famed Swiss firm founded in 1905 simply makes the most impressive timepieces on the planet. Acquiring one may be an expensive investment at first, but properly maintained it’s something you’ll have for life; a future heirloom, or, should you decide to sell in a few years , even a source of profit. Rolex resides in a very exclusive bracket that other brands have done their best to imitate with little success, and with a century and more under their belt the desirability of their watches has never been stronger. It has even made them quite hard to come by in certain places.

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These days the appeal of the Rolex has truly gone global while the brand has proved itself immune to fads and trends. That has also spawned a whole market for watches that merely look like Rolexes, but they’re strictly the province of second-raters and almost-rans. A genuine Rolex is and always has been a major measure of success both for the men who choose to wear them and those who will merely cast covetous glances at them. The question for most men with any interest in watches is not in fact whether they can afford a Rolex but when. At age 20 you may set yourself a goal to be wearing one by age 30. And should you manage to achieve it before then the accomplishment will be all the sweeter.

As Rolex, founded in 1905, steams into its second century with no sign of relinquishing its status or standards, it consistently wins awards as the most reputable company in the world. Privately held, independently owned and immensely profitable, Rolex does not need to make any concessions to the market.

“In the watchmaking world, 110 years isn’t all that long,” notes Paul Altieri,  founder of online luxury watch retailer Bob’s Watches as well as one of the world’s top Rolex collectors. “And there are other prestigious and expensive brands like Patek Philippe. But Rolex is the all-round coolest and most iconic. From Sir Edmund Hillary to James Bond, Paul Newman and Steve McQueen, there’s never been any question about which watch these men would wear. It’s Rolex or nothing.” 

“Rolex watches have a rugged masculinity to them, and they’re extremely capable tools as well,” Altieri adds. “There’s really no other watch that measures up. And there are Rolex models to suit every lifestyle and sensibility, from sport watches to dress watches, all of them beautifully made and the very best of their kind. Rolexes are never mass produced, but rather made carefully, and painstakingly, by hand. In fact, It takes about a year to make each watch. And it shows.”

You don’t have to be interested in Rolex’s rich history to benefit from it. As German watch expert Gilbert Brunner, author of The Watch Book: Rolex, notes, “Innovative dynamism, precision, longevity, reliability, recognizability and exemplary preservation of value are only a few of the factors that motivate hundreds of thousands of people to buy wristwatches bearing the Rolex insignia every year.”

Among other things, Rolex invented the first truly watertight wristwatch and the dual time zone watch, both key features on Rolex models today. Though they have an innate elegance, Rolex’s roots are in sports watches, and the fact that they can perform to exacting standards when called upon to do so is what gives them depth and value beyond mere good looks. Here are the 10 best Rolex watches you can buy, the ethos behind their designs and why they’re well worth the investment:

The Submariner

Famous fans: Robert Redford, Steve McQueen, Sean Connery The most classic and covetable sports watch of all time, the Rolex Submariner is a true icon. Generally considered the world’s best diving watch, it’s a symbol of success, good taste, fine craftsmanship, rugged elegance and a love of the sea. The first Submariner debuted in 1954 and was worn by Sean Connery as 007 in the first four James Bond films, forever cementing its reputation and desirability. It was also adopted by Britain’s Royal Navy. Paul Altieri calls it simply “the most beautiful watch ever made, the one all others are measured against.” Starting at $6,395.00 at BobsWatches.com

The Sea-Dweller

Famous fans: David Beckham, Sylvester Stallone, Tom Hanks A version of the Submariner for serious professional divers – or just those who want something more exclusive on their wrist. An even more hardcore diving watch, the Sea-Dweller is rated to a depth of 4,000 ft. The Sea-Dweller was introduced in 1967, nearly 14 years after the Submariner, and featured a patented gas escape valve allowing it to be used on missions made possible by advances in diving technology. For men of action and those who don’t care that hardly anyone will realize it’s more expensive and exclusive than the Submariner. Starting at $9,750.00 at Amazon.com

The Explorer

Famous fans: Matt Damon, John Hamm, Sid Mashburn The Explorer was born after Sir Edmund Hillary conquered Mt. Everest in 1953 wearing a Rolex Oyster that proved capable of keeping time under the extreme conditions found at high altitudes. One of the most subtle models Rolex makes, it’s a quieter statement than the Submariner and considerably less expensive, though still emanating the exclusivity of a Rolex. It speaks softly but with the same aristocratic overtones. Mens’ style guru Sid Mashburn calls it the perfect watch because it looks good with a suit or jeans and a polo shirt, and doesn’t draw an undue amount of attention.

From $5,050.00 at Walmart.com

The Explorer II

Famous fans: Prince Harry, Tom Hardy, Jason Statham A bolder version of the original Explorer for those who aren’t interested in a diving watch or want to emphasize other capabilities. It has a built-in compass function that makes it unique in the watch world. The current model is a tribute to the 1971 original made famous by association with Steve McQueen. The signature orange hand was initially designed so that cave explorers and polar adventurers could tell at a glance whether it was night or day. The Explorer II has a somewhat more modern appearance than the Submariner but with equally sporty associations and is less commonly seen. Few will realize it actually costs more.

$6,995.00 at BobsWatches.com

The GMT-Master

Famous fans: Adam Levine, Hunter S. Thompson, Hugh Laurie

Originally created for Pan-Am pilots making the world’s first commercial transatlantic flights in the 1950s, its popularity later spread to include the likes of Pablo Picasso and even Fidel Castro. Rolex invented dual time zone timekeeping with this watch and its blue and red “Pepsi” bezel – recently reissued – has become almost as famous as the Submariner’s classic black, though the GMT is also available in plain black for those who favor a more subtle approach. Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert Jr. famously wore a GMT into space and the model has just as much of an exclusive aura as the Submariner.

$10,950.00 at Amazon.com

The Daytona

Famous fans: Paul Newman, John Mayer, Ed Sheeran One of the most exclusive and coveted Rolex models, made for race car drivers who can keep track of their speed with its tachymeter scale used to calculate miles per hour. Vintage examples, especially the rare variant made famous by Paul Newman, can fetch upwards of $1 million at auction. The earliest Daytona models appeared in 1963, named after the famed Florida racetrack where many speed records were set and where Rolex was, and still is, the official timekeeper. There is a waiting list to buy a brand new one and boutiques can rarely keep them in stock for very long. Expect to pay twice as much for a Daytona as you would for a Submariner.

From $11,295.00 at BobWatches.com

The Milgauss

Famous fans: Daniel Craig, Orlando Bloom, Eric Clapton A Rolex with a scientific function, the Milgauss was designed as an antimagnetic watch for those working in high-tech environments where strong electromagnetic fields rendered traditional timepieces useless. Its unique coloring with highlights in orange and green appeal to some and turn off others, but it definitely stands out. Rolex stopped making it in 1988 but revived it in 2007 restoring it to cult status. It adds a layer of interest in that it’s instantly recognizable as a Rolex but many people don’t know what it is because it’s not extremely popular. And no, you don’t need to be a scientist to wear one; just ask Daniel Craig.

$7,298.00 at Walmart.com

The Yacht-Master

Famous fans: Brad Pitt, Mark Wahlberg, Bruce Willis Another Rolex innovation designed to help sailors time the crucial start of regattas, the Yacht-Master has earned growing cachet for those looking to go beyond the Submariner’s ubiquity. It’s nautical-inspired looks signal money and class, but not in an especially ostentatious way. One of the newest Rolex models, the Yacht-Master first came out in 1992, so it doesn’t have the same history as many of the brand’s other iconic watches, but it’s more modern for that. Rolex developed a unique combination of a stainless steel case and a rotatable platinum bezel for this watch. The Yacht–Master II variant was introduced in 2007.

$6,358.00 at Walmart.com

The Datejust

Famous fans: Bono, Andy Warhol, Tom Cruise The most affordable Rolex model is the dressiest in that it eschews the oversized looks of the brand’s sports models. Perhaps an even more widely recognized symbol of wealth and elegance than the Submariner everywhere in the world, in gold it makes a much bolder statement than stainless steel, while two-tone models have their own unique appeal. Rolex originally created this model in 1945 for its 40th anniversary and it’s considered a true icon of the 20th century, widely imitated and copied. A version of the watch is known as the President after being favored by the likes of Eisenhower and Roosevelt.

$4,795.00 at BobsWatches.com

The Sky-Dweller

Famous fans: Jay-Z, Conor MacGregor, Roger Federer One of the newest Rolex models as well as one of the most complicated, the Sky-Dweller is also the most expensive watch on the list. Somewhat ostentatious when worn with casual clothing, it’s popular with rappers and sports stars. Introduced in 2012, it doesn’t do it for Rolex history buffs but gives off a more contemporary vibe. Rolex filed 14 separate patents for the watch and it’s particularly exclusive in rose gold. Wearing one says you’re a winner and world traveler who usually flies on a private jet and has a world-class watch collection. $33,995.00 at Jomashop.com

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