Chapter 04: Finding Sky Blue and Cloud
"You son of a bitch, I ought to kick your ass up and down the parking lot," I shouted at Mike as he climbed out of his car that next morning at work. He immediately ducked back into the car until he saw it was me. "Yeah, you know you deserved it."
"Whoa, whoa, what is going on? What did I do?" he asked.
"You know what you did, you fucking asshole."
"No, I'm serious, I have no idea why you're so pissed."
"Try the Carousel, the twins... you got any idea now?"
"Oh that, hell man I didn't know you cared, dammit that was the first and only time you've been to a strip club."
"I went back last night, Star told me the girls were gonna get hired until you called up and fucked up their deal," I said.
"Well damn, they fucked with me outside the..."
"Stop right there Mike, did you forget, I was there. You were the one fucking with them, you were the one out of line, soliciting them as if they were common street whores."
"Shit man they're just strippers."
"Cut the shit Mike or I'm gonna put my boot up your ass."
"Okay, okay, I'm sorry, but what can I do now?"
"You can call your friend at the club and get those girls their job back."
"Look, I really just barely know the guy..."
"We're gonna march into your office together and I'm gonna watch you call him up."
"Okay, just settle down."
"Well, let's go."
I followed him as he walked into the building, said good morning to our receptionist and headed straight to his office. I immediately sat down in one of his chairs and stared expectantly at him.
He reluctantly picked up the phone and dialed. I watched as he fidgeted around waiting for an answer. "Hey Jerry, is Charlie in?
"Oh really, yeah, I'd like to talk to him.
"Hi Charlie... yeah, it's going fine. Yeah... Hey, look the reason I'm calling is the twins I talked to you yesterday about.
"Yes, well look Charlie, I think perhaps I may have been a little out of...," he paused a moment when I jumped up out of my chair and leaned over his desk.
"To be honest Charlie, I was way out of line there, and the girls, they were fine. Yes, it was all my fault.
"I'd appreciate it if you would give them another chance.
"You will? Great and I'm sorry to screw things up for you.
"Okay, well I'll buy if you have Jerry put a little booze in the drinks.
"Yeah, I'll see you then. Bye-bye."
He hung up the phone and looked at me, "Happy now?"
"Yeah, just don't fuck with them anymore," I said walking out his door. Heading back to my desk I made plans to head back to the Carousel again that night, hoping I might run into the twins.
Mike stayed out of my hair the rest of the day and I was able to get quite a bit of work done, so much that I was able to actually leave work a little early. I stopped by my apartment, took a quick shower, got dressed and headed out.