beautiful children 3

By now, it's obvious that Beautiful Children won't make complete sense and will always be slightly confusing and seemingly incoherent until the end.  By now, Bing Biederboxx has lost his virginity to the stripper Cheri Blossom.  The normally "unromantic act of sex with a stripper" is made romantic for Bing, by his observation of Cheri, and he wants to know about how she got to this point.  Cheri explains how she got this way, to Bing:  "I was molested as an infant.  I was born into poverty and know nothing better.  I am a rebellious socialite sewing my wild oats.  A bored middleclass girl looking for kicks.  I am that misunderstood whore looking for love that you are always hearing about.  All my feelings of personal worth have been sublimated into my sexual identity...fated to selfdestruct.  I do this for kicks.  For money.  To meet sensitive hunks like you.  Why do you ask?  What's it to you?  You cannot have me.  You cannot learn my secrets..." (151).  Cherri's pain to nurture seems like an impossible task.  It makes a person understand that someones past affects their future to a very great extent.  Bing is being developed as a sensitive man, but this is contradicted by how he wants to experiment his possibly fatal tattoo idea on runaways.  I'm not sure if Bing is a manipulative character with malicious intentions, or an actual good guy.  

Meanwhile, Kenny and Newell are starting to realize how inexperienced they are, and their night of fun is starting to take a turn for the worse.  Kenny sees two homeless people, who he realizes he used to go to school with, and right then we are introduced to the final character that will be developed into the story of Newell's disappearance.  Newell is tricked by the seemingly very rough and hopeless people, and realizes the scheming gutter punk has robbed him.  Newell's regret and feeling of fear is triggered by this event, "Every answer was not any sort of answer.  Every path led down into a black hole.  Dull noise lulled throug his ears.  His mind raced and raced and ran in place.  And now Newell glanced over his shoulder, struggling for an escape hatch, some direction, a conclusion that did not end up being the obvious one, a result that left him anywhere but this pace" (178).  These boys are only teenagers, and the sketchy nature of Las Vegas will leave unexperienced people to shreds.  This description including "black hole" is very revealing of how their experience will end up.  There's no turning back now, and without his money and cell phone these boys are headed to danger more rapidly than before.