"Dammit is it hot out here," I would think to myself, but I have to pay for my tuition somehow. "Going to that fucking University sure isn't cheap."
I was on my summer break from college trying to earn enough, doing odd jobs, for another semester. I didn't do any skilled work, nobody would hire me for anything like that. I only contracted small jobs of cutting grass and taking care of flower gardens for customers. It wasn't a great job. but hey, "you got to do, what you got to do."
"I'm getting awful thirsty," I'd mumble to myself, "maybe, after I finish up this yard, head over to that club that just opened up, downtown. I can get a drink there and maybe, meet some hot chick that will let me let me do some pelvic thrust on her."
After every blade was cut in the lawn I started up my old clunker and headed over to the club. The ride over there was hot, too. I switched on the radio to get my mind off the heat.
"Oh mother fuck it, won't anything work for me," as I fiddled with the selector knob on the radio. "Everybody I know has a CD player in their car with a set of the latest tunes," I disgustingly thought. All I would get from the thing was static. Finally, when I was just 30 seconds away from getting to the place I got a station to come in.
The place was in a new building. It was in an old abandoned house. "Ha, owners must be too cheap to pay for a new building, I thought. There was a big burly bouncer outside of the door ready to check me in.
I walked up to the velvet rope in front of the door.
"Let me see your ID, buddy," the bouncer spoke out.
"Oh, sure, here it is," I said handing him my opened wallet.
The bouncer get a serious look on his face. He grabbed my hand. Took a marker, and placed a large red X on the back of it. "This ID says you're underage. This mark is so that nobody sells your any booze," he blurted out.
He opened the door and a kind of musty smell my nostrils. I stepped inside not knowing what to make of it.
The place was awful dimly lit, I expected that. There was a dance floor in the center and a bar and some pinball machines lined up against one wall. I could make out some people dancing on the dance floor, which was lit up by some strobe lighting. There were a few tables and chairs lined up against the wall opposite the bar.
I was awful thirsty so the first thing I immediately figured was, "get a table, get something to drink, and get the hell out of here."
I grabbed the first available table. "Damn, it's the last time I'm never coming in here," I thought to myself. Then something nicer happened.
In the dim lighting from the dance floor, I could make out a young girl coming toward me. She sat down at the same table as me, in a soft voice, said. "I see you're underage too."
I could make out as she came into focus that she was slim, had straight brunette hair, and was rather pretty. She wasn't that big on top but, I didn't care. She seemed like a nice girl.
"Hi, my name's Suzette," she said extending her hand.
"My name is Brad," I answered back.
"You've been working?" She asked.
"Yeah, trying to earn enough for another semester at Brighton University," I answered.
"Doing what?"
"Oh, just odd jobs. Lawn cutting and gardening, mostly."
"Oooo, nice."
A waitress came up with a pad and pencil.
"What'll you kids have?" She asked.
"I'll just have a Sprite," I answered.
"I diet coke for me, please," Suzette chimed in.