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Post by Johnny Silver on Jun 27, 2020 5:45:59 GMT -5
"Hey Johnny, make sure to be there by Six they say"
Flick, plink, catch... Tails.
"You'll get along great with her I promise, it's exactly what you need."
Flick, plink, catch... Tails. laugh.
"my luck all over."
Johnny liked to think he was a patient man, but there was something about having sat around at a bar's reserved table waiting for... He paused, glanced at his watch, grimaced, Two hours, five minutes and twenty three seconds now. It had been obvious he'd been stood up for a while now, but Johnny had sat around partly out of some ridiculous benefit of the doubt, and partly because damn it he had nowhere better to be tonight.
once again he took a sip of his scotch and flicked his lucky coin into the air. Flick, plink, caught it and smirked. tails. Again. "Alright." He told the inanimate bit of metal, so innocent there between his finger and thumb. "I call tails this time. I loose, I give her another ten minutes, I win I get to finally go home and read." Flick, plink. HEADS. Johnny genuinely couldn't remember ever winning a coin flip. And maybe he should take the damn hint, but he found something reassuring in the universe being so open in its determination to screw him.
Stupid blind dates. Stupid friends promising him he'd have fun tonight. Stupid Johnny for listening at this point. And for talking to a coin, that there was probably a bad sign too. He sighed, slid the coin into the breast pocket of his suit jacket and headed to the bar, figuring at this point he was best off ordering something just so he didn't starve.
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Post by Angel Camello on Jun 27, 2020 7:18:10 GMT -5
Angel walked up to the bar and tried to get the attention of the bartender who just seemed to be a little distracted talking to one of the other girls. She let out a sigh "could this night get any worse" she thinks to herself and shakes her head as she waits tapping her finger. Her eyes shining a Hazel green with blue rims as her long black hair fell into her eyes.
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Post by Johnny Silver on Jun 27, 2020 8:14:55 GMT -5
When Johnny reached the bar, he too saw the bar tender being less then prompt about it all and just settled in to wait, vaguely wishing he'd brought his glass with him as an attempted distraction. As he stood there, the waitress who had originally shown him to a 'table for two' passed by and gave him a slightly pitying smile.
"Your company not showing up?" She asked, her voice obviously sympathetic. Probably sees this kinda thing a lot, Johnny thought with a little frustration.
He didn't let any of that show though, and just nodded. "sure does look that way. Happens to the best of us though right? I'm fairly sure I'll live." That made the waitress smile a bit more natural that he didn't seem phased as she moved on to get the tray she carried to the right table.
Feeling cheered up enough by the sympathy, Johnny leaned against the bar, trying to look past the pretty lady between him and the bartender in the hope at somepoint the guy would remember he was working.
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Post by Angel Camello on Jun 27, 2020 17:36:42 GMT -5
Angel watched the guy that came to her side and then looked at the bartender "At this rate your better at a self served bar then this place he's to wrapped up in the pretty little thing that's technically not into him" she says to the guy as her eyes went from the bartender back to the guy next to her and she licked her lips subconsciously. "I've been sitting here for about 5 minutes and at this rate I am tempted to hop the bar and serve drinks to myself" she says with a smile at the thought and her eyes sparked by some of the bar lights. Her long framed her caramel tan face and she leaned up against the bar a bit. She wore a white tank top with a black necklace that had a small A pendent on it.
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Post by Johnny Silver on Jun 27, 2020 17:55:38 GMT -5
Johnny chuckled at the ladies summery and gave a weary nod. "ain't that the truth. I'd say go ahead if it wouldn't get you thrown out before we'd get anywhere." He paused, "or at least anywhere we'd like." Part of him considered going over to say something, but he doubted an argument would do much good when the goal was to have the punk 'less' distracted not more.
Johnny swept a hand through his hair to brush it back out of his eyes and sighed good-naturedly. "If I knew another place nearby that didn't think 'atmosphere' meant 'blaring techno until 3am' this'd be the time to leave..." The entire night here had been a bust after all, hell the last five seconds of conversation with this lady had already become the highlight purely because he'd reason to actually talk to someone. "What a night."
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Post by Angel Camello on Jun 27, 2020 19:25:55 GMT -5
"You can say that again so when he comes around what are you drinking?" Angel says her head over her shoulder and looking at him with her bright hazel eyes with blue rims. She ran a hand through her hair and looked at the drinks on the shelf then to the bartender who was at the other end "I can get your drink if I do end up getting the drinks." she says smiling.
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Post by Johnny Silver on Jun 28, 2020 6:11:32 GMT -5
Well THAT was a twist Johnny hadn't seen coming, but he wasn't dumb enough to look such a gift horse in the mouth. "Ah, Scotch, but only if you're sure." He grinned in appreciation, "So, thanks, I'm Johnny by the by." he added, giving the lady his full attention for the first time. Not only was she beautiful but she held herself with enough ease that it was obvious she knew it. Alright. Suddenly Johnny was ok with not being at home with just the animals for company.
"I've a table booked and going to waste if you've got nowhere better to be?" Johnny added casually, figuring company would be far better off with somewhere comfortable to sit.
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Post by Angel Camello on Jun 28, 2020 6:52:18 GMT -5
Angel looked at him and licked her lips. "Angel Camello but you can call me Angel." She says with a smile "I am sure your not the only wanting a drink remember and I am not really in the mood to wait on a sleezy bartender that wont do his job" she says confidently as she gets up and runs a hand through her hair. She then looked at the bartender and smiled "Mind watching my purse?" she asked looking back at Johnny and smiling.
Before he could answer she moved away whispering something as she slipped behind the counter unnoticed by the bartender and came to him she smiled and her eyes held a hidden flirt. "I say we take the bottle to your table and enjoy what do you think" she says as she looks at him grabbing the scotch and two glasses "Want Ice?" she asked her hair falling into her eyes making her look like a hot bartender.
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Post by Johnny Silver on Jun 28, 2020 9:11:14 GMT -5
"Funny, that was my first guess on what to call you." Johnny said smoothly, nodding in agreement as he glanced to read the room. "it was NOT this busy when I came in, whole damn place ran into gridlock." vaguely he wondered if he could get away with just flicking something small like a peanut at the dunce's head. but that would only make things worse. "But of course, the floor is yours." he agreed, raising an intrigued eyebrow to see where Angel was going with this.
Watching her waltz behind the bar like it was the most causal thing in the world got Johnny to whistle in low appreciation. "I'd say that sounds perfect in fact." in the back of his mind, Johnny ran quick calculations on how much that bottle would cost, if some member of staff or another made a fuss he was confident he'd be able to just hand over enough to shut them up. Not that it looked like any of them had noticed or cared. "Please." Johnny nodded to the offer of ice, waiting easily for her to be ready and re-emerge from behind the bar he smiled at her and offered his arm. It was barely any distance to the table, but the man knew how to be polite. "Shall we then Angel?"
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Post by Angel Camello on Jun 28, 2020 9:41:23 GMT -5
Angel filled with the cups with ice and came back around smiling her eyes shining a bit "Lead the way" she says handing over the bottle and grabbing her purse as well as the cups. "By 9 this place gets packed on a Friday night. I guess to many people try to forget their problems" she says as they walked to his seat
As they sat down she admired how handsome he was and licked her lips subconsciously "So tell me Johnny what are you doing here tonight?" she asked looking at him and pouring their drinks. Her hair falling into her eyes as she looks from him to the cups. She slid his cup to him and smiled softly
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Post by Johnny Silver on Jun 28, 2020 11:06:39 GMT -5
Johnny nodded at that as they walked, "It's funny, I've always found drinking makes problems worse not easier but everyone acts like there's a trick to it i'm missing." Or maybe the 'forget' bit was all that mattered. There was something sad in the thought most people had just given up like that. "Is it Friday? I've never been keen on crowds." That was the problem with his work having such odd days on and off, he usually had no idea what day it was unless he bothered to check.
Pulling a chair out for Angel before he sat himself, Johnny leaned back in his chair and smiled, his eyes flicking to the way she licked her lips and lingering there a moment. "Ah that, co-worker INSISTED i agree to a blind date with her best friend. Swearing up and down we'd get along great..." Johnny shrugged with playful dramatics, "but that was meant to be a while ago now and it looks like she found something better to do." He picked his glass up and his smile grew in warmth, "but hey. If she hadn't, i wouldn't be sitting opposite you now, so i'm long past complaining." He raised his glass in a toast. "to everything happening for a reason."
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Post by Angel Camello on Jun 28, 2020 14:35:48 GMT -5
Angel sighed "Well I am glad I could make up for it handsome" She says with a little flirt in her tone "Well you weren't the only one with a bad day, my day consisted of my boss hitting on me then when I wouldn't give him what he wanted he fired me without a clean your office so I ended up loosing a prized painting and a bonsai tree I was working on." Angel says looking down "Then to make it a bit worse I went home and my roommate is bumping uglies on the counter top with her scumbag boyfriend that has tried to get me in a threesome with him since the day we met" She says with a shiver and a hard drink "then on the way her a guy that was tweaked out of his mind thought I was a dealer of some sort and tried to pay me in condoms and not to mention the bartender" she says "The only good thing of all of this is us meeting so Cheers to rough days and a better night."
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Post by Johnny Silver on Jun 28, 2020 15:09:58 GMT -5
Johnny went from sympathetic, to stunned, and settled very quickly on outraged by every word Angel told him. "that... ALL of that is utterly unacceptable!" he said firmly, already wracking his brain trying to think up ways to help. Not that the second two were more then casual bullshit she'd be better off as soon as she was able to put behind her. "This entire town's rotting to the core if it can get away with dropping all this on you." He picked up the bottle and refilled her glass for her. "I honestly don't think I've ever met someone as in need of another glass as you before. And please, forget anything I was saying about my day it's sunshine and rainbows by comparison.
It occurred to him then that there WAS a thing he could do to help... but it'd depend on a whole host of things working out. "where did you work? I wanna know exactly where to never spend another damned nickel after treating you like that!"
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Post by Angel Camello on Jun 29, 2020 3:09:20 GMT -5
Angel looked at him pouring her another cup "Actually yours sounds worse then mine and I was a Lawyers assistant as I finished my course to being a Lawyer. I have it lined up for next month to join one of the top firms so this was just a temp job to get a few dollars in my wallet." She explained "My boss didn't know that come next month I am going to be his boss so I get to fire him next month" she says looking at him "You know what they say Karma bites back" she says with a wink and a smile as she lifted her glass to her lips taking a sip.
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Post by Johnny Silver on Jun 29, 2020 8:00:52 GMT -5
Of all the things he expected, Lawyer wasn't one of them. She didn't seem the type to want to be stuck in a courtroom with paperwork. "That's impressive, I know just enough to know it's a hell of a hard job to do, and ESPECAILLY to become the boss so quickly. So congratulations!" Johnny said. "Does that mean you'll be able to get your stuff back then or? because if the little jerk gets rid of them he's gonna be REALLY scared when you walk back in. Though his face probably isn't worth your belongings."
A thought occurred to him and Johnny chuckled softly. "And i'll take it back about not giving the place business if you're in charge. Though i'm not planning on needing a lawyer any time soon, knowing my luck i'm sure something'll ruin that sooner rather then later."
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Miss you all!