"What can I get y.... Oh, you, err, you just threw up a bit."
The blonde girl on the other side of the bar wiped her mouth with the back of her hand and tottered on her heels as if she was going to fall into the mess she had made on the floor. She didn't though. She rallied and brought her wide-swinging attention back to me.
"Oops!" She said cheerfully. "Can I have five vodka, lemonade and lime and..." I cut her short.
"Sorry my dear, I think you've probably had a bit much already." I waved my arm to get the attention of one of the door staff. "You should head home now. Is there someone to take you?"
The skinny blonde, still swaying on her heels but totally unperturbed by events, curtsied in mock deference.
"As you wish, Master." And off she stumbled to her friends, shadowed by Fay and Ronnie, the two door staff that would make sure the group left in good order. I turned my attention to the vomit on the floor, grabbing a mop and bucket from a cupboard behind the bar.
I was nearly done when Wednesday Adams appeared at my side, holding a tray cluttered with dirty glasses. She bumped me with her hip, putting me off balance as I leant over the mop; though the impact didn't even cause a single glass to wobble, such was her bar keeping prowess.
"Nice." She said with a grimace, looking down at the hardwood floor I was in the process of cleaning. "Bulimia-Barbie made a real mess for you there, Ken." She laughed. "We should start charging people a deposit on entry to cover damages to the Dream House".
I leant on my mop and levelled a blank stare at her. Wednesday Adams wasn't actually called 'Wednesday Adams'. She had, for some godforsaken reason been christened 'Winnifred Allan', but her gothy style and sardonic humour had guaranteed that from the moment she was able to pick her own wardrobe, she had been nicknamed after the daughter in the Adams Family. It was a name she revelled in.
For that matter, I wasn't called Ken. Everyone knew me by my actual name of Matt but, since I once turned up for work in a slightly flamboyant shirt (and had a very 'Barbie-esque' girlfriend at the time, Wednesday had called me Ken. It was not a name I enjoyed.
"Are you going to help, Dita von Dick-Tease? Or are you just going to wave your butt at me?" I shot back to her. Wednesday always wore the same outfit to work; black converse low-tops, black leggings or skinny jeans and a black, scoop-neck top that showed her cleavage whenever she bent over to get ice from the machine. It would be fair to say that I had a bit of a crush on her.
Wednesday answered by twisting herself so she could stick her ass out at me while also sticking out her tongue.
"Fuck off, Ken. I've got my own things to do. If you want to get skinny blonde bitches drunk enough that they might sleep with you, don't expect me to help clear up the mess when they inevitably poison themselves instead."
With that, she disappeared round the other end of the bar to continue an unremarkable Tuesday night, working in a bar in the centre of Newcastle. I got back to mopping up Barbie's last meal.
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At closing time that night, the bar manager disappeared and left me and Wednesday to shut up shop for the night. This was not an unusual event - I had lost count of the number of times I had been the last one out of the trendy bar.
Wednesday and I had kept up our banter for the entire shift, giving no quarter and expecting none in return. The staff were a good bunch and we all got on well, with jokes and banter flying in all directions, but I most enjoyed my time sparring with Wednesday.
Once it was just the two of us, however, she seemed to be really quiet, like she was about to say something but couldn't make an opening.
"Ken, I want to tell you something." She eventually said, once all the jobs were done. I grabbed two bottles of lager from the fridge, pulled out a chair and sat at a small table, offering the other chair and the other beer to my tongue-tied colleague.
"I'm all ears, my Queen of the Damned", I said taking a swig of my drink.
Wednesday slumped into the chair like her bones were made of rubber, then immediately sat forward like her muscles were all tensed simultaneously, then flopped her elbows onto the table in a despairing motion. Each movement, powered by a different emotion.
"Oh spit it out Winnie." I demanded. "I can see it's killing you."
"I..." She stopped again. "I... I have an OnlyFans." She finally, regretfully, agonisingly said. I didn't have to ask what OnlyFans was.
Well this was some interesting news. My mind immediately raced to the Always Sunny meme; 'Oh, my God, that's disgusting! Naked pics online? Where? Where did he post those?' But I kept my interest veiled and responded with the coolest "Ok..." I have ever pulled off in my life.
"It's not a big thing" she continued "and I have only been doing it for about a month, but I have started getting some subscribers and the extra money is really nice."
So... was she trying to get me to subscribe? I tried another 'Ok..." and she carried on talking.
"So I normally do content on my own."
Content meant getting naked and stuff, didn't it? I wondered.
"And I make it with Guy."
Dickhead Guy, her kind-of-boyfriend. Their relationship had never been clear to me.
"And I call myself Wednesday Adams, so I have a gimmick where I do content every Tuesday night, so it is ready for my subs to watch on Wednesday."
"Ok..." I offered again.
"And Guy and I had a fight today and I'm not sure if we're still together and I have just started to get some really loyal people that always tip well on a Wednesday..."
"Ok..." I said, proving my conversational mastery.
"And I wanted to ask a massive, massive, totally weird favour. And... Oh, my God..." she trailed off, putting her head in her hands.
She rallied herself. "I want you to do something with me on cam tonight. Like make some content."
"Ok... wait, no. Not ok. What do you mean, make some content? You want me to do a sex show on the internet?!?!"
"No! Well, yes! But it's kinda... uurgh." She slumped further into her despair.
After a very long pause in which neither of us spoke, she finally said in a small and timid voice "I just need you to cum on me. Yo-you don't need to really be on camera at all. Just get yourself off and... when you're ready.... Cum on me. It's a whole, thing... boys love it."