Chapter Eight
The trio walked into the
bar and Carrie was right, the only one who turned heads was Carrie, because she
was one of the three youngest girls in the place.
“Hey sexy mama, how you like your pick ups?”
A younger guy asked her sliding his arm around her shoulders. Lance was about to protest when Carrie just
laughed,
“Patty, it’s a wonder with lines like that, that
you don’t have a girl.” She teased,
“Too much, huh?” He laughed,
“A little babe, all though, Bertha might
like it.” She nodded
to the big bartender who looked more like a wrestler
than a woman,
“Hey I like my women a little on the trashy side,
but not garbage man style.” He teased making Carrie laugh and shake her head,
“So, where’s Miss Lee? I know she’s here somewhere.” Carrie glanced around,
“I don’t know, last time I
saw her she was heading towards the bathroom.”
He shrugged,
Carrie rolled her eyes, “Some brother you are, some hick could be macking all
over her.”
“Eh, she’s Jeff’s problem tonight. I took the night off, especially if she’s
here.” He laughed and looked over her
shoulder at the guys, “Hey, I’m Patty.”
He said waving his beer at them gently.
“I’m JC.”
“I’m Lance.”
The boys replied,
“And they’re Nsync.” Carrie teased finishing for them.
“We’re not all here, so we’re really not.” Lance laughed,
“I see.”
Patty replied and nodded to the bar, “The bar’s over there, they
basically carry domestic, don’t order drafts.
Stick with Coors and Bud and you’ll be alright. I’ve got to go, catch me later, kay babe?” He said
planting a kiss on Carrie’s cheek before waving to the guys.
“Bye Patty.” Carrie waved and the boys turned to
her,
“He seemed familiar.” Lance said,
“He’s in Tripmic.” Carrie explained and pulled them over to the
bar.
“Ahh, so that’s how Lisa
knows the band so well.” JC mentioned,
Carrie gave him a strange look, “Uh yeah, she grew
up with all of them.”
“I found Lisa.” Lance said nodding to the dance
floor. The three turned to see Lisa
dancing to a country song with an elderly man and laughing her head off.
“Oh dear lord, it’s going to be one of those
nights.” Carrie laughed shaking her
head,
“Excuse me?”
JC smirked, “Lee hardly looks like the type to be trouble.”
“You obviously don’t know her very well.” Carrie
grinned, “She can be a handful when she wants to be.”
“I just don’t believe it.” JC shook his head,
“Are you in for a surprise.
Don’t be shocked if she ends up dancing on the bar, and the sad thing is, I’ll
probably be up there with her.”
JC
watched Lisa dance her way over to where the guys of Tripmic
were sitting. She dance with one of them
as they sat there, finally she got them to get up and dance with her. JC narrowed on Jeff and watched him. He wasn’t sure what his relationship with
Lisa was. From what he saw, it looked like they were together, they were
obviously close. The one thing he was
sure of was that Jeff had a temper, especially after his display last night.
Lisa walked away from the
Tripmic guys over to the bar to get a new beer. JC walked over there to see if he could talk
to her.
“So what’s good here?” He asked her and she looked up at him,
blushing,
“Oh I-, anything’s good.” She shrugged,
“Really?
Patty said not to order drafts.”
“Well, yeah, everyone knows that.” She said looking around nervously,
“LEE! Get
over here!” Jeff yelled out and she
looked over her shoulder,
“What do you want?”
She yelled back and Jeff gave her an angry stare,
“I want you to get your ass over here, that’s what
I fucking want.” He retorted and she
sighed sadly,
“I’m coming, calm down.” She said and walked away from JC and the bar.
Jeff
pointed to the table and Lisa promptly sat down where he sat down next to her
and another Tripmic guy sat on the other side. Jeff gave JC an angry glance before waving
over a waitress to get the table drinks.
JC sat back, contemplating the situation. Lisa looked like a scared mouse next to that
brute. He easily outweighed her by at
least 200 pounds. JC didn’t like the
interactions he had seen between them, but he had no basis to do anything about
it.
The
next time the crew saw Lisa she had been on the dance floor and walked over to
the railing next to where they were standing, “Hey!” She screamed up to them as Sam tried to pull
her back onto the dance floor, “Are you coming on the dance floor or not?” She laughed and let Sam pull her back to the
dance floor where other people where dancing around. In the short while they had been there, a
crowd had begun to gather. Most of them
appeared to be locals or fans of Tripmic. No one had even noticed JC or Lance were there. Lisa was
dancing around like she didn’t have a care in the world, singing along to the
songs as Sam twirled her about.
Suddenly
Lisa broke away from Sam and ran over to them.
She grabbed Carrie’s arm, “Come on you guys, they’re gonna
be playing my song next!” She said
excitably and dragged Carrie with her back to the dance floor. Lance and JC followed to see what was going
to happen. Garth
Brook’s. ‘Ain’t going down till the sun comes up’. Blasted through the stereo system and
everyone began a fast paced line dance to it.
Carrie and Lisa fell right into step with everyone else,
dancing in what was a whirl of faces and limbs.
The girls added their own things to the dance while they kept in time.
For the rest of the night, Lisa barely
spent time in once place. She spent most of her time with the Tripmic boys at their table or dancing with them. She come over to
Carrie, JC and Lance a few times but only to say hi or grab Carrie to
dance. Carrie teased her all night long
about being a social butterfly, to which Lisa would just shrug and wink before
flitting off to another place in the bar.
Carrie was right, Lisa did end up dancing on the bar at the end of the
night along with Carrie. They had the whole bar going with their dance. Finally at the end of the song, Jeff went
over and told Lisa to get off the bar.
She protested and he just picked her up, tossing her over his
shoulder. Lisa screamed and kicked to be
let go, but he held her tight and carried her out of the bar. The rest of Tripmic
followed them out of the bar. Carrie
shook her head as she hopped down and found the guys.
“Dude, I’m so ready to go home.” She said wiping her face, “Are you guys
ready?”
“Do we need to get Lee?” JC asked worriedly looking
at the door.
“Oh hell no, that girl is too drunk for me to deal
with.” She said and caught herself from
falling, “Because I’m too drunk as well.”
She laughed, “She’ll show up tomorrow sometime. The boys have her, she’s fine.” Carrie waved off and began to walk out of the
bar.
Carrie and Lance got into
the cab that was waiting to take them back to the hotel. JC looked out in the parking lot, he saw Jeff
fighting to get Lisa in the back of his car.
Each of them were yelling and screaming at each other. The other guys from Tripmic
were no where to be found.
JC poked his head into the cab, “Uh Carrie, I
really think we need to get Lisa.”
“I told you she’s fine.” She said with a roll of her eyes and told the
cab driver where to go. JC started to
protest but Carrie had slumped against Lance fast asleep. He sighed and got into the cab. He gave one last look to Lisa as they drove
away from the bar.