<div class="floatleft">(http://i50.tinypic.com/xang9.jpg)</div><br/><div style="text-align: left;"><strong>Name:</strong> Cori Adams<br/><strong>Title:</strong> Fucking Skills<br/><strong>Location:</strong> Seattle City Park<br/><strong>Tags:</strong> <em>Taras, Allison, Adriano, Natalie </em><br/><hr/><br/>The elbow was starting to feel better. One sharp pinch in her joint made every fragment of nerves down her arm calm. She exhaled slowly <strong>"Ohhh yeah."</strong> For hours, that right hand had felt like it was burried in acid, just screaming with pain, and fighting itself against going numb. She wished it could just go numb, and that click in her elbow that Clap had moved made the numbness conquer. Add that together with the morphine and Cori suddenly felt like she was on top of the world.<br/><br/>The situation progressed some as Clap started to apply the bandage, a cool piano lick was in the center of her thoughts. She had heard it a million times in many different situations. It was that feeling of passive comfort. The pain was gone, she wanted to kiss the doctor. He had closed the surgical incision quickly, and there was a bandage around her elbow in only a moment after she had been fixed.<br/><br/>The song continued to play in her head. She tapped the doctor on the shoulder with her right hand. She couldn't feel him at all. <strong>"Thanks Clap. How long till the morphine's gone?"</strong> Clap laughed, and he told her it would wear off in about two hours.<strong> "But all of the pain should be gone."</strong> She stood up from the car and gave a Natalie a long unnatural look, as if to say <em>'stop looking at me.'</em> Cori felt weak, and she wasn't familiar with the feeling of nearly being killed. She was too nervous around this girl right now to treat her naturally. <br/><br/>She reached for Allison again, and gave her a full hug. She was sure she to hide her eyes from Natalie during the embrace.<strong> "I'm almost out of cigarettes."</strong> She said quietly after she hugged the winner of the race. Cori was holding up a quarter of a cigarette in her left hand, it was smoking on it's own. She didn't seem to care at all.<br/><br/>Turning herself out, opening to the rest of the group, she leaned against the car she had just been worked on inside of. <strong>"Other than that,"</strong> she was talking to Allison who had wanted to put Natalie and Adriano in charge of her. <strong>"I'm ok, you guys. I'm not gonna drive, but I'm not going to abandon you guys, not tonight. Not after what you have all done for me. We're supposed to meet Kwan in Chinatown, well that's only 10 minutes down Aurora. We can get there even faster if we draw the lights."</strong> A smile formed on her face.<strong> "Put the two European kids to meet the Asian."</strong>The morphine was making her speak slowly. She sounded drunk, but Cori was  formulating a decent idea. The European kids were Allison and Adriano. <strong>"The rest of us stay outside, hide our cars. Keep eyes on the windows. Keep eyes on the backdoor. Tell them I'm dead."</strong></div>