Dangerous Entanglement

EPISODE 004

/Kelvin’s POV/

The sun was setting and had retained a perfect sitting position which was facing brightly at my window, the beams creped in into my eyes disturbing my lovely siesta, my eyes twitched and I was forced to flutter them open making them immediately falling on the wall clock which at first I couldn’t make out until my blurry view cleared.

I shot up to my feet and immediately rushed to get dressed as I was already late in setting things up at the bar, maybe the cleaner and the waitress would have concluded and started their job but I knew I needed to be there for things to run perfectly, after minimizing my dressing time to 10mins, I decided to at least make my bed before I exited the house since usually I used to come back home extremely tired, so tired that I just collapsed to the bed right away and that means; regardless of the bed’s condition.

After taking off the sheets I figured something fell and I immediately bend to pick it up, it was a fluffy thing I used to see my sister put on her hair…it was a hairband no matter and I was certain it belonged to Hanna because apart from her no other woman has been in my room.

“I guess have gotten my own souvenir” I smirked as I thought to myself.

I quickly finished up putting the room in the place and I rushed out of the building, stepping out of the building, I decided to take a cab to work, the bar is just at the end of Brixell but considering the time, I didn’t want to be a bad example to the workers I’m managing.

While in the cab, I felt a discomfort in the back pocket of my pants and as I bent over to check what it was, it turned out to be the hairband from moments ago, and all through the 10min ride, I had the hairband making me play scenes from last night in my head. It all happened spontaneously, I wasn’t expecting it, nor was I prepared though I won’t deny I had my eyes on her all through the night.

On getting to the club, I was amazed by how everything has been put in order, it means that they can do without me, even the DJ has started to play some cool music to lighten up the mood in the house, it’s a Thursday, so we don’t really expect early arrivals as we do get during the weekends.

“Hey Kelv, you are unusually late today” Loren greeted from my position in the bar, he was setting the cups when I got there.

“Yeah, I kinda had a long night which affected my morning and I couldn’t get to sleep when I normally do and as such couldn’t wake up and leisurely prepare as usual”. I stated as I grabbed a stool to sit in front of the bar counter.

“I see…” Loren responded rolling his eyes with a suspicious smirk on his face.

“Would you like a drink?” He immediately asked following the smirk.

“Yeah, ice on the rock” I replied enthusiastically. He turned and grabbed a bottle from the upper shelf and as he turned back and bent to pick a cup from the compartment below the bar counter, I noticed the funny way he was looking at me with a very sheepish smile on his face.

“So, how did it go with the boss lady yesterday, if I’m to assume, I guess she’s the reason for you coming late today” he still got the sheepish smile on him as he handed me the glass of drink.

“I’m not going to say anything to all this your allegations, rather I’m going to let your curiosity kill you just as it does the cat” now I was the one wearing the smile as I took a sip of my drink.

“Well curiosity can’t kill me, because right there in your hand is a hairband” he came closer to me

“where did you get a hairband from?” he questioned me flattery.

“Okay, okay, okay, you got me, but I don't kiss and tell” I protested trying not to choke on the drink as I couldn’t hold my excitement.

“Ahan!! So you mean to say, it all went down yesterday” Loren had a lot of excitement on his face as if he was the one who got laid.

“Can we please not talk about this” my timid nature was coming into play again.

“Okay boss, but honestly, I’m happy for you.”

“Happy because I got laid, are you serious right now Loren?”

“Come on man, have known you for like ten months now and I have never seen you do more than look at a lady with desire, you never make a move” I was looking at him with my mouth wide agape out of surprise.

“And I hope you get to have more of that subsequently”. He added and followed up with a wink.

“Hey, where’s the tux I left at the hanger yesterday night?” I questioned as my eyes fell on the empty hanger making me have a quick flash memory of what should be hanging there.

“I don’t know, maybe you should ask Jane, I heard she came in first today” he replied.

“Hello, Kelv” I quickly turned to see who it was. It was Barbara, the blond girl who has always been finding ways for me to go under her pants, but aside from the fact that I was not good with ladies, I never found interest in her, she just didn’t meet my specification both her physical appearance and character-wise.

“What’s up Barb?” I try as much as possible not to give her any impression to want to stay for chit-chat, but yet, it didn’t stop her from trying to flirt with me as usual.

“You’re unusually late today boss” so much flirts in her voice as she says that, and as usual she finds a way for her hands to lay on my shoulder and begin to rub through my upper body.

“Yeah, just a rough day, I think I might be sick” and just after saying that I realized I just made a mistake as that gives her more reasons to cling to me. But how was I supposed to know that was a wrong move, I don’t know my way around ladies.

“Oh sorry…” she cling more towards my body and my irritation was becoming unbearable, Loren on the other hand was already unable to hold on to his laughter.

“Barb, I’m okay now, please just go ahead with your day's job” quickly cut her short and removed her hands from my body.

“But I was just trying to show some concern” she protested in her defense.

“Thank you for the concern, please tell old Jane to come to see me when you get to the back”. I mentioned a bit angrily as I gestured her towards the door leading to the back area of the clubhouse.

She left and just as she disappeared through the door, Loren burst out a loud hypocritical laugh. Although I have tried to have a very good and unofficial relationship with all the staff in the club, I find it hard to do the same with barb, mostly due to her behavior.

“I hope you understand this babe wants you in her pants right” Loren had stated still laughing with his hand cupping at his mouth.

“Yeah, but I can’t even imagine myself doing that” I declared sipping the last drops of drink from my glass.

“Mr. Kelvin, Barbara said you asked to see me” old Jane came out with her hands under her apron, she’s the eldest in the club and has no enthusiasm for any unofficial relationship.

“Yeah, please I left a tux on the hanger yesterday before leaving” I mentioned pointing towards the hanger and trying to make sure I don’t have any aggressive tone from speaking to Barb.

“Oh yeah, I took it to the boss's office, it is right there on the hanger,” she said coldly.

“Okay, that’s very sweet of you” I didn’t go to check what she had said, I just sat there and searched up Hannah Hills on i********:, yeah I found the one I was looking for after scrolling through a long list. And I will say, it didn’t come to much of a surprise to me that she had not more than ten pictures on her page, she doesn’t comment on posts, nor does she even care to like.

On like other ladies have checked out like that, where I get to feed my eyes with very nice pictures of them at the beach getting a tan, a night with their girls or pictures of them and numerous guys they’ve dated.

I decided to drop her a message on her DM, and face my job for the evening as the barman. While I walked to the door exiting to the back, I thought of calling Dexter as I haven’t heard from him, but I waved off the thought as that wasn’t the first time he left for days.

All through the night, I was distracted by the constant look at the door and also looking into my phone to see if she has replied to my DM which for that night ended in disappointment.

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