Disco inferno
In 1980, sixteen-year-old Jennifer Gibbons wrote Discomania in the bedroom she shared with her twin sister June-Alison. Rejected by publishers for being “too violent, too sexual, and too futuristic” and long thought lost, the manuscript had in fact been preserved by June-Alison and has now been published by Strange Attractor Press.
“Are you going to the disco tonight, or the movie house?”
“To the disco?” I replyed.
“Yeah because she’s the disco queen of the 1980’s, and she’s got the fever man.”
“Oscar calm up and go get a shower you look awful.” My mother said truthfully. “And throw that bedraggled jean jacket of your’s away”.
“Don’t worry now ladie’s – I’m no skunk.” He smiled wryly as he dispeared behind the door.
“What time are you going?” My mother had almost completed ironing my dress and my hair was still in tangle’s.
“Oh around eight, Seth, Veronica and the other’s are coming to callon me AND I guess I’ll be back around midnight.”
“And no later.” Said my mother and I felt a little bit like cinderella, as she handed me my dress.
We were in the disco club and Seth, Dalton, Rocky, Veronica, Season and I danced madly for an hour.
The only thing I could see was Tee-shirt’s, tight fitting pant’s in shiny material, flimsy see through blouse’s and a whole bunch of crazy dancing teen – ager’s, getting sexually aroused as the sgtentor ian sterophonic music filled through their system’s.
It was hot and I saw Seth was pouring with sweat. I was too, and we entewined erocticly beneath the flashing light’s.
“Come on y’all let’s do the hustle, and shake our bootie’s down to the ground.” The d.J was screaming out over the music, and everbody was summarly dancing faster.
I found myself crazily in a differnt world as Seth grabbed hold of me swinging me around untill we were ingulfed totally by a bunch of scrimmageing, squirming snake’s. Dalton beside us was hurling himself around at any boy and kissing them desirably untill they erocticly kissed him back.
They were all gay’s and they were haveing the time of their live’s.
Touching, hugging and doing the freak. My ear’s burned with music as well as the heat. “Let’s sing Let’s shout shake your body down to the ground ooh, shake your body down to the ground.” Michale Jackson’s voice rang out, and he had the power to send the room into shooting hysteric’s, as teen-ager’s everywhere threw up there arm’s and shook there bodie’s down to the ground.
I looked around and kid’s had thrown themselve’s onto the floor. They were sound’s of sadism groaning as they tore at each other’s clothe’s half stripping themselve’s so they could do everything they were susposed to be doing in bed.
The music changed tempo, and suddenly nobody was dancing. Instead their was hysterical mouth contact as drug pusher’s of every kind fought to push pill’s into frantic, desperate mouth’s. They kissed amorously as the light’s blacked out.
They came back on flashing crazily, as pill’s and caspual’s scatterd to the floor. Then there were kid’s roaming the floor like a heap of desperate ant’s as they fought preciously to get the pill’s into their mouth’s. Music filled my ear’s, Seth was no where to be seen and Veronica and Rocky were still doing the hustle.
I twirled around, my feet still swaying to the beat. and saw Seth trying to break Dalton and another boy away from each other’s. They were screaming at each other’s and I knew they were haveing a fight. Seth was about to give up, when the boy summarely pushed him to the floor, he pushed Dalton aside and then they were like two fighting cock’s again. It raced through my mind that he must have got jealouse when he saw Dalton kissing with another boy. After all they were gay.
Jennifer and June-Alison Gibbons were known in the media as “The Silent Twins”. They communicated primarily with each other, and at 19 years old were sentenced to indefinite detention under the Mental Health Act, following a crime spree of arson, petty theft and vandalism.
Seth picked himself up from the floor. The music seamed louder and I herd myself, through the music calling his name. He waved to me, then we found ourselve’s back together, scuttleling through the crowd and heading for the entrance of the disco.
We sat sublunary on the sidewalk for a moment as we got our breath’s back, it was dark and the star’s were shining stupendously.
Then Seth looked at me, his brown eye’s were huge with disbeleive. “Hey, Olivia – your right – cause our freind Dalton is really gay heck I don’t beleive it – he was in there actually trying to tear the pant’s of this other guy and then when he could’nt get them of he turned on him like a scurrilous monkey and lashed him in the eye’s.”
I nodded my head, my mind reaming back into the disco inferno. “I guess he just love’s boy’s better than he love’s girl’s.”
“Yeah – but whatta bout me – where do I stand when he start’s trying to tear the pant’s of me – and Rocky?”
“On your own two feet, beside’s you and Rocky are much stronger than him.” I shrugged my shoulder’s and began to enjoy the cool evening air.
“Aw hell, that ain’t fair I’m gonna have to kick him out the gang, I mean how can I stick it when Dalton’s gonna be stareing at me all over, like I’m some eroctic sex symbol.”
I looked up at the moon for a while. Then I looked back at Seth’s slightly growing, angry face. He had finally woken up. “Seth, what does it matter.” I explained. “I’m a girl, and I’m in love with you and as long as you don’t make any surreptitious advance’s to him, everthing’s going to be okay – and beside’s it won’t be fair eiether if you push him out the gang.”
“And why not?” Seth asked propping up his knee’s, and summarly putting his forehead on them.
“Because, he’s our freind Seth, and after all he’s only human.”
I managed to reason with him in the end, and it meant that Dalton could stay in with the gang. Beside’s Dalton I found really is a nice curly headed, brown haired kid, and what does it matter I thought as I opened up my dairy, if he is a gay.
It did’nt really matter to us, but it did matter to Season because a few day’s after she found out that her boyfriend was a definate homosexual she tried unsuccessfully to commit suicide.
It was while we were in school, Seth, Rocky, Veronica, Dalton and I that Season went of her nut and summarly threw herself through her bedroom window.
I had’nt wonderd why she was’nt in school that day, neither had the other’s. Because we all decided it was the disco. After all it di go on untill two in the morning. Then we all went to call on her after school and that’s when we found out. Her mother opened the door and we could all tell that she had been crying.
“Hi can we talk with Season awhile?” I asked trying not to sound too happy.
“Season is’nt feeling to well. She’s just tried to commit suicide.” Her voice was slow and weak and I felt mine was going to do the same.
“Commited suicide.” Said Dalton. “Hey that’s dumb.”
Rocky elbowed him in the rib’s and told him to be quiet, or he would be trying to do the same too.
