It was one of those humid August nights, no breeze and the heaviness of the air clinging to your skin, making your skin tacky to the touch. These really are the dog days of summer Lynn was thinking to herself as she entered the small bar looking for her best friend.
She found Jaye waiting for her in a back booth near one of the only windows in the bar. Jaye looked as hot and miserable as she herself was feeling. Her long reddish brown hair, wavy from the oppressive heat.
"You look as bad as I feel." Lynn remarked as she sat down across from her friend. She noticed how puffy Jaye's eyes were and knew she had been crying.
"We bitch all winter about the cold, begging for summer to get here, then we bitch when it gets this fucking hot outside, we just can't win." Jaye remarked as Lynn sat in the booth opposite her.
"Well, I still hate Michigan winters, no matter how hot the summer gets, and so do you. So stop complaining and tell me what that prick has done to you now?" Lynn asked her very quietly.
Lynn didn't understand Jason at all and she still didn't know why her friend has dated him for over two years. The relationship was never going to go anywhere. He made that clear when he co-purchased the house on the lake with his mother! He was 36 years old with a 16 year old son and he bought a house with his mother!
"Jaye, he's not worth it, why do you stay with him? You let him treat you so shabbily it drives me nuts! Your to strong of a woman to let someone like him make you so miserable."
Lynn just didn't understand her friend at all when it came to Jason. Actually she did, but she could never tell Jaye that it was just the fact that she couldn't't't stand to be without a man in her life, if even for a week.
Jason was good looking she had to admit that. He was also the best looking man Jaye had ever dated, she had to admit that as well. Most of the men in Jaye's life had not been much to look at, and none of them treated her decently at all. They were either drunks, didn't work and let her support them and one ended up being a drug addict.
Jaye was not a beautiful woman but she wasn't ugly either, just average in looks. She had shoulder length wavy reddish brown hair, pretty brown eyes, very tiny and petite. She stood about 5' 4" and weighed about 105 lbs, the complete opposite of Lynn. "Damn it girl your cute and you can do much better than Jason." Lynn reached across the booth and took her friends hands. "I know it and you do to if you would just admit it."
Jaye looked at her dearest friend and wished anything that she could be like Lynn. If she knew how much she envied her she would never believe her. Lynn stood 5' 7", hazel eyes, dirty dishwater blond hair that hung almost to her waist. She just had it frosted with highlights and it looked great on her. Even though she weighed 202lbs, men still hit on her all the time at work.
They both worked the same shift at a large truck stop on the far side of town. Both of them worked on the fuel desk on the second shift. For the most part it was a very busy, but fun job that they both enjoyed.
When she and Lynn had first became friends Lynn told her that if she ever caught her dating a trucker she wouldn't be her friend anymore. She pounded it into her head night after night, that they were only looking for a quick fuck and would tell you anything you wanted to hear just to get in our pants.
Jaye smiled at her friend remembering when she lit into this one guy who kept hitting on her for weeks. Lynn had enough of listening to the line he kept feeding her night after night.
She came down to her end of the desk and looked the guy right in the eyes and told him, "tell her your married asshole, at least be a man about it and tell her!" Lynn didn't budge, nor did she give a inch until the guy fessed up and told her he was indeed married.
As soon as the guy left Lynn turned to her telling her that most of the men who came in there were married, or had girlfriends. "Don't kid yourself into thinking that your special, because they've probably got one little gal in each truck stop along the way that they are messing around with as well." "Kid with them all you want, tease them even, but don't ever let them think that they have even the slightest chance of bedding you," she had told her.
Jaye was just about to say something when this nice looking young man came over to their table offering to buy them both a drink. They politely refused but the guy just wouldn't take no for an answer calling the waitress over and ordering them a drink.
Neither one of them were in the mood to put up with a guy who had already had to much to drink. He plopped down in the booth next to Lynn. "Ladies, please accept the drinks as I'm celebrating and wanted to celebrate with someone."
"Just what are you celebrating," Jaye asked him? "My upcoming divorce," he said. He reached into his back pocket and pulled out his divorce summons, tossing it in the middle of the table. "Just got served today, just before I went to work," he said on a sad note.
"Look hon we are real sorry to hear about it and we really do wish you well, but were not in the mood for company." Lynn told him with authority but caring in her voice. "We are just in here for a little girl talk, no men allowed tonight if you get my drift," she told him.
"Oh, well then I'll just leave you to it then," he stood up, bowed to them, picked up his divorce summons and walked up to the bar.
"Poor guy, he does look really sad about it. I wonder how come his wife is divorcing him? Lynn are you listening to me?"
"I've heard every word you said Jaye, but I really don't care about the kid and his marriage problems. I'm still waiting to hear what Jason has done this time to upset you?" She sat waiting to hear what her friend had to say not saying another word to her.
"He told me that he, his mother, brother, and his son were going on a cruise over the Christmas holiday." Jaye never looked up at Lynn as she was telling her the news.
"And were you invited on this cruise?" Lynn already knew what the answer was but waited for her friend to confirm it.
"No...He said his mom was paying for the cruise as part of their Christmas gifts this year. He said she wanted it to be a family holiday."
"So he's going off on a cruise with his mother leaving you home alone for the holiday's?" Lynn replied with a rather ominous tone in her voice. "I knew it, any 36 year old man who lives with his mommy, buys a damn house with his mother who is now going on a cruise with his mother, IS FUCKING HER! "
"No he's not and you know that. I'm just not included is all, I'm never included for that matter," she finally admitted.
Before Lynn could say anything the young guy was back again. "Are you guys done doing the girl talk thingy," he asked them?
"No...I told you we don't want any company, what part of get the fuck out of here didn't you understand?"
Lynn's eyes were shooting sparks now, and Jaye knew her friend could be deadly to a man who got her sparks flying. She had seen her put to many men in their places who thought they could intimidate her because she was a woman. Boy were they wrong, she usually ended up intimidating them in the end. One thing about Lynn, she didn't back down from any man nor would she let one try to act roughshod over her either.
