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“John who?” I ask her and she shrugged.

“You wouldn’t know him.” She replied and I laughed.

“Well how would you know, maybe I do?” I tell her and she shook her head no a little.

“You don’t.” She replies.

“Well how do you know I don’t- I know a lot of people.” I insist.

“Cause I know you don’t.” She says and I make a face at her. “Elle, look first of all he's older, like a lot older-“ She starts to say and I cut her off.

“Well how do you know him then?” I ask and she shrugged.

“He comes into the club all the time, he buys me drinks.” She tells me and I make a face.

“Sounds like a real prince charming Lia.” I say trying not to smile and she frowns.

“See this is why I didn’t want to tell you.” She says and I bite my lip a little anxiously.

“I'm sorry Lia I'm just trying to understand.” I tell her and she sighed a little as she stood back up and went back over to the mirror. “So you told Bob this?” I ask her a little confused… I mean some creepy old guy is coming in and buying Lia drinks and asking her out it didn’t seem like Bob to just not do anything about it…

“No I didn’t tell him anything- and you better not either.” She tells me roughly and I nodded. There was no way I was gonna tell Bob any of this, the way he is with his temper…

“So who is this guy exactly?” I ask her and she kinda smiled.

“Well his names John.” She says and I nodded. “And he's real nice, and he's a bit older.” She tells me and I nod once more.

“Well how much older like 20?” I ask trying to get a visual and she laughed.

“No like a lot older.” She tells me and I frown.

“Like 100?” I ask and she laughed.

“Yeah Elle I'm dating a hundred year old man, he's out there right now, you didn’t see him? The guy with the oxygen tank by the front of the bar!” She teases me and I frowned a little.

“Li! Come on, I don’t know! You said a lot older.” I whined a little and she laughed once more.

“Yeah but not like a hundred! Fuck Elle he's like thirty something.” She tells me and I get this horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach. A thirty something year old man named John?…

“Well, wait, what does he do?” I ask her nervously and she shrugged.

“I don’t really know.” She replies and I frowned.

“How could you not know!” I exclaim and she shrugged once more.

“I don’t really know that much about him.” She tells me and I shake my head a little confused.

“You said you're dating him!” I cry out and she nods.

“Well we only went out a few times and we didn’t really talk if you know what I mean.” She tells me and I frowned.

“Fuck Lia, you know I just don’t understand anything you're doing lately.” I tell her and she kinda made a face.

“Understand like what?” She says and I sighed a little.

“Well, what exactly did you tell Bob?” I asked her. “That you're just fucking some guy from the bar?” I demand.

“No I didn’t tell him that! I just told him that Crystal and I aren’t really working out you know?” She tells me and I frown. “I'm serious Elle, all I told him was I seeing somebody else but I didn’t say who or anything.” She adds and I shook my head a little disappointedly at her.

“Yeah but you don’t know anything about this fucking guy! You just went and hooked up with him!” I say a little outraged.

“Jeez Elle I thought if any one would understand it would be you.” She tells me and I bit my lip a little looking at her… I mean I knew I was being totally hypocritical. But I couldn’t shake this bad feeling…

“So you don’t know what he does?” I asked her once more and she shook her head no.

“No but I think he's in the coast guard or he was-” She starts to say and I guess I went a little pale.

“Aw fuck Lia.” I mumbled.

“Elle why are you getting so worked up?” She asks and I just kinda looked at her.

“Cause!” I cry out a little loudly and she just shushed me slightly as a few girls came walking in.

“Elle look I gotta go.” She says and I just looked at her. “My sets about to start really, we’ll talk later.” She says throwing her bag back in her locker.

“Yeah but Li- this John guy-“ I try to argue.

“What about him Elle? What's the problem?” She says a little annoyed.

“The problem? The problem is it sounds like your fucking my guidance consular!” I tell her and she laughed.

“Elle come on!” She shrieked a little.

“I'm serious Li- His names John Samuel, mid 30’s, blue eyes, brown hair, fucking coast guard tattoo and another one like a panther or some shit higher up on his arm right?” I ask her and her face dropped a little and it was silent for a moment.

“Aw Elle that’s just too funny.” She kinda laughed as she fluffed her hair up once more in the mirror.

“Lia it’s NOT funny!” I exclaimed.

“Look Elle I really doubt it’s the same guy okay?” She says and I shook my head no. I mean Lia must've been fucking high or something cause it was just too much of a coincidence… How many John Samuels are there in the tri state area? “But you know what? he should be out there, why don’t you go take a look and see for yourself hmm?” She tells me like nothing…

“Wait, he's out there now?!” I gasp a little as a wave of panic passes over me.

“Well yeah, he's supposed to be, we’re going out later.” She tells me.

“Fuck Lia! Gerard's out there!” I cry out and she shrugs.

“Look don’t go fucking pointing him out to Gerard or nothing.” Lia tells me and I just stared at her. “I mean Brians fucking out there, I don’t need him going back and telling Crystal shit.” She says and I just looked at her in disbelief.

“Lia I get you don’t wanna be with Crystal anymore, but why go behind her back like that?” I ask her as we walked back towards the bar and she laughed a little.

“That’s real funny coming from you!” She tells me and I ignored her.

“Seriously Li” I tell her and she sighed a little.

“Cause if I break up with Crystal where will I go?” She says shrugging and I didn’t quite know what to say to that… I mean she had a point… She was living with Crystal. She didn’t have her car anymore and even if she did she didn’t have a license. And its not like Lia has thousands of friends just lining up to help her out… I mean she gets bitchy and she's hard to deal with sometimes… If you didn’t really love her, she's hard to put up with…Fuck I never realized that Lia didn’t have much of anything anymore since her parents threw her out. Not like me…

Damn I must be like the most ungrateful bitch in the world…I never realized how much I actually have… How lucky I am to have some one like Gerard care so much for me… He keeps asking me to stay with him and I keep throwing it back at him. What kinda person am I?

“You could stay with me Lia!” I cried out as she climbed up on stage.

“Yeah I know, but I don’t wanna.” She tells me and she sorta smiled as she turned her back to me. Fuck… Well I guess Lia was living her life the way she wanted… I mean if this is what makes her happy who am I to judge?

I made my way back around the bar where Gerard was now sitting with Brian. You think after everything Gerard would’ve been keeping a close eye on me right? But no… I mean he is just a guy. And I don’t know if he's ever been to a strip club before… I mean he was talking to Brian but he kinda had one eye on the chick on the stage…Usually that’s the eye he keeps on me.

“You miss me?” I lean over and whisper in his ear and he kinda jumped a little.

“Elle!” He gasped like he was, I don’t know, surprised to see me. Like I kinda caught him or something I don’t know…

“Its all right Gerard just…just don’t, please don’t say anything okay?” I tell him. I mean I’d rather he say nothing then feed me some kinda bullshit excuse like he wasn’t really looking when I knew he was, and he knew I caught him… I guess he agreed with my logic cause he just stayed silent as I turned my attention to Brian…“Look uh Brian, I wanted to ask you if you know a guy who comes in here named John?” I say and Gerard kinda made a face.

“Oh you mean the guy Lia's “dating”. “ Brian kinda smirked as he air-quoted ‘dating’.

“You know about that?” I gasped a little surprised. I mean Lia made it sound like it was a secret.

“Uh yeah, everybody knows about it.” He tells me a little disgusted.

“Look I'm not gonna make excuses for her.” I tell him and he shrugged.

“I don’t really care Elle. I mean Crystals my cousin and all. But the last time I told her anything, she told me to mind my fucking business okay?” He says and I bit my lip a little… Damn Crystal and Lia are so much alike… Brian told Crystal to break up with Lia and that’s why Crystals not… Cause she apparently doesn’t like to be told what to do anymore then Lia does…

“Aw Brian I…” I stammered a little and he shrugged once more.

“Aw don’t worry about it Elle, they’ll sort it out somehow…you know Crystals got a new job?” Brian tells me and I smiled a little. I glanced over at Gerard who seemed to be kinda watching the stage still out of the corner of his eye… I elbowed him roughly. “You wanna go wait in the car or what?” I teasingly threaten him and he smiled. “Eyes down Gerard.” I add and he laughed.

“So what kinda job did she get?” Gerard asks Brian and I was genuinely shocked that he was even following the conversation…

“It’s a like a paralegal.” Brian tells us and I nodded approvingly.

“So what are you doing here then?” I ask him a little confused. “I mean you're not just here watching Lia still are you?” I ask and he shook his head no. “Aw don’t tell me you like this place so much you're here on your own free will?” I tease him and he laughs.

“Actually I'm working too.” He says and I just looked at him like he had to be kidding. “I'm not kidding!” He tells me.

“So you're like the bouncer?” I ask and he shrugged.

“Something like that.” He says and Gerard laughs.

“Get paid to sit around here all day? Now that’s a job.” Gerard laughs and I elbow him once again.

“You want me to have him throw you out of here or what?” I tease him laughing myself as he wrapped his arms around me from behind. He buried his face in my neck and kissed me and I giggled. “Gerard stop.” I whined and Brian just kinda smiled at us. “So this John Samuel guy?” I say to Brian once more and Gerard pulled back from me quickly.

“Elle you really don’t think its-“ Gerard starts to say and I shrugged. I mean I kinda did…

“Is he here?” I ask Brian and Brian kinda scanned his eyes around the room.

“I don’t see him. But he's a real creep Elle, I don’t see why you’d wanna get any where near him.“ He tells me and I shrug…

“I just wanna see who he is that’s all.” I say weakly as I reached over took Gerard's hand in mine, interlocking my fingers with his…Brian just kinda smirked as he looked past us once again. He then leant over and sorta pointed over to far end of the stage where was Lia was standing. Well she was kinda bent over talking to someone but I couldn’t really see who…

“Ah, you wanna see him Elle.” Brian tells me…”There he is. That’s John.”