It only lasted a month before Mary received a new call from Nancy
to assist her again. No special preparations or so, she was told;
actually Nancy hated rehearsing and she often got in conflict with
the managers because of her reluctance to prepare her "Smoking
Breaks". Not even this time did she accomodate to their rehearsal
plans. The reason why she could go on like this time after time was
of course that her show was so popular the way it was. She was always
praised the day after a show by the same managers that got so
frustrated by this woman's ideas before the show.
Mary didn't even meet her idol until after the make-up, just
outside the studio where Nancy was standing, waiting for her time
to enter. Needless to say, she was smoking. Nancy was so excited
about tonight's show, she said she had got fifteen minutes to
spend instead of five so she had invited two special guests.
However, she refused to reveal more details, and it was anyway
hard to have a conversation, before she was in the middle of a
smoker's coughing fit. Time after time, she started to hack with a
deep, raspy sound.
- Oh, this smoker's cough has been worse than ever today. Normally,
I don't cough this much, you know, Nancy sighed.
- It's got to stop any minute now, Mary smiled and pattered her
idol on the back.
- Yeah. Well, on the other hand (new sequence of hacks) ... if
it won't, I'll cough of there, it's not more complicated than that.
She got some more hacks, inhaled deeply and coughed hardly,
three times. Just as she crushed her cigarette out, they were told to get in.
Both Nancy and Mary lit a cigarette each and opened the door to get in.
- Hi all, Nancy shouted eagerly and the audience clapped their hands. - Tonight, she went on but was interrupted by some coughings. - Tonight, she started again, dragged on her cigarette and inhaled deeply. - "... You'll meet two girls that will give you an unforgettable smoke show!" Nancy got a new coughing fit and while she inhaled deeply to cough, Mary got a idea and for the first time ever tried a French inhale. She didn't know from where she got the idea to try it in the middle of the cameras, the live audience and everything, but Nancy first thought it was her coughing fit that made lots of people in the audience stand up and whistle. But, she got the feeling it was something else and gave Mary a quick glance. Mary gave her an explaining, and somewhat teasing smile. "What an assistant", Nancy thought to herself, "don't know what she did but what a girl, helping me out like that!"
She show had to go on, despite Nancy's urge to cough. "Ladies and
gentlemen, please welcome... the Nostril Sisters!", she shouted before
dragging on her cigarette. Mary noticed that it was the end of the
cigarette - she was such a fast smoker!
Two tall, dark-skinned young women entered the stage. They had black,
straight and long hair, and Mary directly saw that they were twins. She
also directly understood their nickname - both had gigantic hook noses;
they were unusually long, and the "hooks" were - almost enormous.
Nancy lit a new cigarette and put her arms around the two bikini-dressed
beauties. She looked so small between the tall young women. They were
older than Mary, she guessed they were around 28-30 years. Already when
they had entered the stage, they had been smoking cigarettes, and they
kept smoking as Nancy introduced them.
- "Now, tell us a little about yourselves", Nancy said and coughed deeply
right out, since her arms were around the tall bodies.
- "Well", the one to the left said, "we started smoking when we
were 11, basically because some girls in school were teasing us because
of our noses", she explained and laughed. Mary lit herself a new
cigarette just as the one to the right continued; - "So we started to
smoke to... well to be hotter than those other girls, simply."
- "Did it work, then?", Nancy asked and dragged on her cigarette.
- "Oh yes", one of the twins replied. - "And, a few years later,
we started to develop some short smoke shows, and we were so glad that
you invited us to perform here. It's our first TV job, you know!"
Mary had noticed how Nancy had been fighting with herself to avoid
having to cough while the dark woman was talking.
- "Well, please go on!", Nancy managed to say, almost without
any voice at all. She then turned around and sat down in the back
part of the stage, with Mary and got an intense coughing fit.
The twins started their show by triple-dragging to finish their
first cigarettes, and Nancy was still fighting against her cough.
Mary smiled at her, and just as Nancy had managed to stop coughing
for a while Mary put her own cigarette between Nancy's lips and let
her drag on it before putting it between her own lips. Again,
some whistlings were heard from the audience and some hand-clappings.
The beautiful twins thought it was because of their ten seconds long
introduction after dragging. They had started to let the smoke slowly,
slowly flow from their lungs, so it took almost ten seconds before
they had stopped exhaling. Before lighting new cigarettes, one of them
nose exhaled the remaining smoke in the other one's wide-open mouth.
Everyone could notice how extremely long their nostrils were.
After lots of variations of nose exhales and French inhales, including nose exhaling in each other's faces, they started to French inhale from the other one's cigarette. One of them let the smoke flow from her mouth into the other one's nostrils, and after a while they let the smoke flow between their nostrils instead. One of them dragged and inhaled, then lay down on the floor on her back, and the other one bent down so that their nostrils were over each other, with a few centimetres between. They let the smoke pass from the one laying on her back over to the other one, only through the nostrils. Almost no smoke were lost during the transfer.
Nancy smoked and smoked all the time, and Mary too, but soon Nancy got
a new coughing fit at the same time as the twins' show was over. The whole
audience were standing up, clapping their hands and whistling. Nancy was about
to finish the show but had to cough first. Like if she tried to get rid of
her cough by coughing the hardest she could, she cupper her hand over her
mouth and coughed so she almost whooped. Mary smiled at her, massaged Nancy's
chest with her hand and, at the same time, blew smoke over it and
the sound from the audience increased dramatically.
Nancy took place between the twins again after giving them one quick kiss
each on their nose tips, but from more than one place in the audience they
could hear people calling for Mary to step forward too. Mary almost
blushed under the make-up, but then took a drag on her cigarette
and put her arm around the twin on Nancy's right side. There was no end
on the applause.
- Thank you so much, Nancy shouted before thanking the twins who left
the stage, still smoking. Mary sat down in the back part again while
Nancy thanked again and finished the show with some words about the plans
for the next one. She managed to do it without coughing, but
when she left the stage it had started again.
Outside the studio, Nancy embraced Mary hardly and almost lifted her up
from the floor. The effort gave her some more coughing before she
could talk.
- Where on earth do you get everything fromm, she laughed.
The twins had been waiting for them to come out from the studio, and Mary
looked upon all the other three women as her idols and almost goddesses.
They went out for a drink afterwards and Mary took the opportunity to
learn to know the dark sisters. They smoked and smoked together, Nancy
coughed and coughed and the twins coughed a little every now and then, too,
the later in the evening, the more. Mary was so fascinated by their
French inhales and nose exhales that they were constantly doing without
thinking of it. It seemed like their large, dark nostrils were
almost made for just transporting smoke. She wanted so much to ask
if they could teach her that nostril-to-nostril trick but Nancy
got a terrible coughing fit and Mary started to massage her over her
back.
- You're a great pair, one of the twins said just as Nancy coughed
so she almost turned inside-out.
- Yeah, you were great tonight!, Nancy said when she was
able to speak again. Listen Mary, if I go on coughing like this
tomorrow, I have to find someone to replace me. We're going to
record the next show already tomorrow, you see. Live audience
and everything. Do you think...
Mary didn't believe her ears.
- You're clever enough to dream up some good ideas, it's only
five minutes. I'll give you a call tomorrow morning when I know
how I feel.