Chapter 23: Death Without Turning a Blind Eye
The new weekend is coming in May, the traffic of the Beast House has stabilized, and the men's group has been recruiting, adding a lot of newcomers.
Martin didn't join because he won.
For dancers and the like, he has no psychological barriers, but the effort is proportional to the gain.
A hundred dollars for a dance music? It's not enough to tip a night as a bartender.
On Saturday night, Martin waited for someone he wanted to meet.
Kelly Gray admires a section of Tarzan of the Apes on the side of the circular stage, drops a bunch of tips, and finds the bar.
Martin was bartending and took the time to wave at her and continue his work.
Sending the two female customers away and tossing the tips into the cardboard box at his feet, Martin gave Bruce a look and walked over.
Kelly Gray, with her short hair dyed flaxen and her trendy dress making her look a few years younger, was sitting in a high chair with her fingers tapping her fingers at the bar and looking at Martin.
She had just watched a dancer show and felt that Martin Davis was better suited to the ring stage.
"You're a bartender?" Kelly Gray wondered.
Martin smiled: "Manager and bartender, there have been a lot of customers lately, and I can't be busy." ”
Kelly Gray said: "It's good, I found the atmosphere in Los Angeles. ”
"That's what we like, and that's what we're fighting for, isn't it?" Martin put himself on the same side as the other in his words. He had already prepared: "Have a drink? ”
Kelly Gray said: "I have a very mouthy taste. ”
Martin cleaned his hands and fetched a new shaker: "A cocktail you can't drink in Atlanta." ”
He added ice, lemon juice, Aperol, Avanna, and finally bourbon, shook the flask quickly and vigorously for ten seconds, took out the iced wine glass, poured the liquor, and folded a delicate paper airplane on the rim of the glass as a decoration.
A bright orange liquor that resembles a work of art.
Martin made a gesture of please: "Paper airplanes, please taste." ”
Kelly Gray took it and tasted it slowly, and after a while said, "I'm sure, I've never drunk it." ”
Martin asked, "You've had a lot of cocktails. ”
"I spent a few years in Los Angeles and met a good friend who was an alcoholic." Kelly Gray said casually, "I've tasted a lot of wine with her. ”
She raised her glass to Martin slightly: "Very special wine, I like it." ”
Martin replied: "It's an honor. ”
A middle-aged woman who was still charming suddenly came next to her, and she looked at Martin slightly: "It's you?" ”
Martin felt familiar to the other party, but he couldn't remember it for a while.
The middle-aged woman said, "I'm Susan, and I've paid for you!" She asked, "Didn't you come to apply for a dancer job that day?" How do you start a bartender? You still owe me two knees! ”
Martin replied, "I'm sorry, ma'am, I failed to apply for a dancer job and had to be a bartender." ”
Susan was so angry that she slapped the bar: "The boss is blind, his eyes are on the soles of his feet!" You are in such good condition...... You come with me, go to a $100 private room, and I'll get you a night. ”
Martin remained polite: "All I can say is sorry, if I leave my post without permission, I will be fired." ”
Susan eventually regretted leaving.
Martin turned around and found that Kelly Gray couldn't help but laugh, shrugged her shoulders, and said, "No way, every night there are female customers who misunderstand, and there are female customers who have fantasies about me." ”
Kelly Gray asked, "Pull you to be a dancer?" ”
"yes." Martin's face was full of helplessness: "The natural conditions are too good, it is easy for people to misunderstand, and if you look good, you want to be a dancer?" Prejudice hurts. ”
Kelly Gray has been in a good mood these days, and this will be in a better mood, raising her eyebrows: "You are really good-looking, if you are on stage, I may invite you to the private room." ”
Martin deliberately joked: "I won't get free." ”
Kelly Gray took another sip of her orange bright cocktail and looked around: "Your club is good." ”
Martin told the truth: "I'm just a manager, and the boss has someone else. ”
Kelly Gray suddenly asked, "You don't have any male customers here, do you?" How did you meet Andrew? ”
She looked directly at Martin, who calmly said, "I'm still an actor." ”
Kelly Gray laughed: "You have so many identities. ”
"Poor ghost, multiple occupations and multiple incomes." Martin wouldn't be stupid enough to lie about this kind of thing: "I'm a member of the Marietta Community Theatre Company, I've been running the crew since I was sixteen, and I was involved in the filming of a plantation scene a while ago, and Andrew was the casting assistant, and I happened to be selected to play a corpse, and I was more speculative with him, and after a while, Andrew mentioned the matter of the women's club, and asked us to pay more attention to it, and call him at any time if there is a situation." ”
Kelly Gray learned from Ella and said that "this is my package for investment. ”
"You invested?" Martin asked, "Can I tell the truth, Ms. Gray?" ”
"Please."
"This drama sucks." In the role of bartender and actor, in order to make an impression, at the right time, Martin has to show personality, and Martin knows this: "Let the two main characters have sex in front of two corpses, one of which has to stare at them with wide eyes. ”
He recalled: "What did the director say? Yes, highlight the strong contrast between death and surname love, and increase sensory stimulation. ”
Kelly Gray laughed again: "If you guessed correctly, you are the corpse?" ”
Martin righteously said: "The most handsome and aggrieved corpse ever." Others were holding beautiful women, and I was lying on the ground and not blinking. ”
Kelly Gray was in a good mood and even joked: "You can't arrange for a supporting actress to go to the corpse." ”
Martin appropriately enlarged the scale: "Actually, I don't mind, zombie vs. beauty, very funny." ”
"You guy." Kelly Gray laughed again: "It's been a long time since anyone talked to me like this. ”
She pulled out $10 and put it on the bar: "Paper airplanes, please, I'll pay the tip." ”
Martin was right: "This glass of wine is worth $10." ”
Kelly Gray added: "There's also the chat part. ”
The two chatted for a while, and Kelly Gray turned to the topic: "Tomorrow you contact my assistant and go see the lawyer." On Monday, the Women's Association convened a press conference, of which the House of the Beast Club was a part, and you filed a lawsuit against the Methodist Society on behalf of the House of the Beast. ”
Martin had already earned Vincent's consent and said, "No problem. ”
Kelly Gray stood up: "The club is doing well, women enjoying the services of men, this is an equal advancement. ”
Leaving the club and getting into the back seat of the BMW, she took out her mobile phone and dialed a Los Angeles number: "Good evening, Luise, drunkard, it's me, Kelly." Today I found a cocktail that I've never seen before, called Paper Airplane, which you haven't heard of either? Aren't you going to come to Atlanta with the crew in a while? I'll take you to taste. ”
Behind the club bar, civilized people are finally relieved from their busyness.
He approached Martin: "Man, no wonder Hart wants to call you Daddy. ”
Martin hurriedly denied: "Don't slander people, I only have a daughter, not a son." ”
"If I have a daughter, you stay near her." Bruce is accustomed to leaning back and making a civilized gesture: "I'm going to blow your head off." ”
Martin shook his head: "Don't worry, your daughter is safe." He nodded at Bruce's bald head in the air: "You can't give birth to a beautiful daughter." ”
On Sunday morning, Martin represented the club to meet with a lawyer from the Women's Association, and on Monday he went to attend a press conference of the Women's Association.