Bump in the Night
By K.B. Krissy
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A man-eating vixen is brought back to life from the eighties. Lanetta Bushar appears to be a beautiful, young woman looking for love. Yet, a few random people have noticed some of her mysterious ways. It seems that Lanetta's just having fun, meeting high-profile men at the bar of Chil Lacz, a happening night
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Bump in the Night - K.B. Krissy
Bump
in the
Night
K.B. KRISSY
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Bump in the Night
Copyright © 2020 by K.B. Krissy
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Twenty-five-year-old, Bobby Goodman, worked as a bartender at the most happening spot downtown in the city of St. Louis. ChilLacx was a trendy lounge, equipped with a grand pianist and a sweet-sounding vocalist, who sang the blues. Three chandeliers hung from the ceiling and gave the entire place a dim, amber glow. Luke, the piano man, played a gentle melody that streamed above veneer chatter and the sporadic clinging of plates from the cook in the back.
Only a few regulars sat comfortably sparse around the oak wood bar counter that Friday evening. Behind the counter, Bobby prepared mister funny man Al and the vocalist Patricia, their usual double shots of aged-old Macallan on the rocks. Although Al couldn’t carry a note, he was still great entertainment. Every day on Bobby's shift, Al would come in and visit, just to get away from his nagging wife for a while, he’d say. He sat there making small talk with Patricia while holding onto an old-fashioned St. Louis Post.
Bobby sat his metal shot jigger down on the counter of his lower workstation and stepped over to the dry counter. He grabbed a napkin and a straw, then he placed them down in front of Al and Patricia. Then he reached over and grabbed their drinks, mixed with Dr. Pepper. He gently sat them down on top of each of their napkins.
Thanks, kid,
Al said.
Yeah, ba—bay,
Patricia also chimed in gratitude. Dis’a hold me ova ‘til my shift.
Yep, yep!
Bobby perked. My pleasure!
He then reached down, opened the steamy dishwasher underneath the counter, and retrieved several of the steam-dried glasses.
Two seats down from them, sat long blond-haired Lanetta, who wore a red dress that remained short and to the point. Next to her sat Dennis, an impressionable twenty-two year old, who’d become a good friend to Bobby. He was a cheap-suit-wearing, closeted bi-sexual with a corporate job in finance. However, on this particular evening, he was canoodling with Lanetta right in front of him and treating her, as if they were actually dating.
Bobby’s thin mustache and shaped eyebrows remained expressionless on his tan face. He knew he couldn’t say anything in the moment. Staying focused and levelheaded was crucial to being a bartender. He couldn’t show any sign of being a clingy gay man. After all, it was a secret that him and Dennis had, at one time, been ‘hooking up’.
Yet and still, Bobby hadn’t actually agreed to sharing him with Lanetta, of all people. Dennis was his booty call and if he hooked up with her, than that meant they were officially over. Meanwhile, Dennis reached up and stroked a lock of Lanetta’s long curls while gazing into her eyes. I’ma go to the men’s room right quick, sugar,
he said, beaming at her.
Lanetta nodded her head and smiled back at him.
B-R-B,
Dennis said, glancing over at Bobby.
Bobby lightly nodded, acknowledging his friend from behind the bar counter.
Get her another drink, will ya, Bobby-boy?
Dennis asked, easing off the tall stool.
She’s already had too much!
Bobby joked, as he wiped down the clean glass.
That’s how it works, son!
Al interjected, looking up at Bobby. You get ‘em drunk, then they have no choice, but to stick with you for the night,
he cackled.
Patricia snickered right along with him.
You know me best, Al!
Dennis said, pointing at him, as he ambled across the polished, wooden floor into the swinging doors of the gentleman’s room.
Ha. Ha. Bobby the bartender!
Lanetta jeered, as her ruby earrings dangled from her earlobe beside her long curls. I don’t even want another drink, anyway. Just a Coke.
Bobby cut his curt Asian eyes at her while he wiped down a clean glass. If you sittin’ at my bar, then you’re drinkin’,
he retorted, ambling over to the shelves. I don’t do kids’ drinks,
he said, turning his head to look at her. He then turned back around, reached up, and sat the glass atop of the pyramid of clean glasses below the stacked shelves of liquor.
Instead of saying anything else to Bobby, she began scanning the bar for someone else to spark her interests. That was when she started staring at Carl, sitting across from her. He was the freshly barbered and casually dressed business owner, working on his third drink since three o’ clock on a Friday. Carl was what they called a seasonal regular because his manufacturing company picked up a lot more during the winter. From prior conversations, Bobby learned that Carl was Black and part-Kickapoo from the local tribe in the city. He had a nice physique, a laid back demeanor, and a charming appeal about him.
So, Lanetta comfortably sat there and googled at him. In Bobby’s opinion, he was one of the cutest guys at the bar, but he was also married. She was only able to get away with gazing at him because she too, was very attractive. So, Carl instantly gave her the eyes right back, as Bobby watched them in the dim lighting. She puckered her lips and blew him a