Part 1 - Chance Meeting
I hate Los Angeles. Too many people, too many cars, too much.... Los Angeles. And there I was stuck in that lousy place for at least another week to testify in a divorce trial when all I wanted was to get back to Flagstaff.
It wasn't all bad. The attorney had put me up in a decent hotel not far from the courthouse and was paying all my expenses. And if his client won there would be a pretty decent bonus. But still, it was a Wednesday night, and I was alone in a city I hated, sitting in an empty small bar not far from my hotel watching the Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks, again. So needless to say, I wasn't giving off "happy vibes" as they would say in Los Angeles.
The only consolation was the eye candy of a bartender. She was young and vivacious with a great figure. Fit and toned with a narrow waist, ample hips with a shapely ass to match, killer legs and very nice rack that, like a lot of female bartenders do, she had dressed to show off.
Like I said, I was the only one in the bar, so she was chatting me up while she did busy work. She was clearly bored and happy to have someone to talk to.
"What's the matter fella? Rough day at the office?" she said with a pouty face, leaning onto the bar in front of me, giving me a bird's eye view of her cleavage. She was really turning it on, probably hoping for a big fat tip.
I shrugged and sipped my scotch. "Eh, yeah. But I've had worse. At least no one is shooting at me."
Her eyebrows raised "Cop? Military?"
I laughed around another sip of scotch "Ex-cop, now I'm a private investigator and part time bail enforcement agent."
She looked confused "A bail what...?"
"Bounty Hunter."
Her face lit up "Seriously? Like Dog the Bounty Hunter? I LOVE that show!"
God she was so young, and I hated that show but said "Yeah, something like that."
She leaned in even closer, and I swear I could see the top edges of her nipples, and whispered "Is that why you look so glum? Did the bad guy get away? Why don't you tell me AAAALLL about it. You know," and she struck a melodramatic pose " 'The kindness of Strangers'". Now it was time for me to be confused, which she saw "You know, like Blanche DuBois in a Streetcar Named Desire!" And she smiled brightly.
"Ahhh, let me guess, you're an actress."
She smiled, a little shyly this time, and said "Well, I'm trying to be. But right now, I'm a..."
"Bartender?" I finished for her.
"Yeah, but the pay isn't lousy, and the owner treats me decent, so it's not all bad. So... " and here she broke into a pretty decent classic gangster moll voice and pose "... whadaya say Sam Spade, give with the details."
I had lost interest in the game on the TV, so I told her what little I could about the investigation, a pretty typical illicit affair with some embezzlement thrown in, the trial and being stuck in Los Angeles.
She listened intently, perching her chin on her fist, still giving me a show of her girls. When I finished, she said "Gee that sucks." Then she thought for a minute and said "Hey, you know what always perks me up on a night like you're having? A Screaming Orgasm." My eyes widened and my eyebrows climbed up my face. She giggled in a very sexy way and said, "It's a drink, give it a try!" and she turned around to get what she needed, bending and going up on her toes in ways that showed all of her assets.
Now before I go on, I need to explain that I'm no dirty old man. Yeah, this girl was young, maybe to some folks a little too young for an older man to be ogling. But I put her at around 24, 25 and hell I had just turned 40, so no harm in looking when she was putting it on display. But as far as I was concerned that was it. I didn't need any complications and certainly not one as complicated as a 20-something wanna be actress, even for a fling.