Just Another Night
By CB Celwriter
For Kevin
“So that’s one large hamburger, black olive, both cheese pizza and half an
order of onion rings? Okay, that should be ready in half an hour.
Yes, thank you. Bye.” Chelsea hung up the phone just in time to pick up
the next call. After taking the order, she signaled to Jenna to take over
for a few minutes, then hurried to the bathroom, dodging the customers in the
lounge. Two women in their late twenties got up from the bar, leaving
their money their and impeding on Chelsea’s progress to the restroom.
“The order’s under Lukey tonight.” Said the slightly taller of the two.
She had shorted, highlighted brown hair and her ears were double pierced with a
loop in the lower holes, and deep blue gems in the second piercings. She
wore a short sleeve tee and semi-tight blue jeans. The other looked
similar except blond with a blue tee instead of red. This second one
peeked in the restroom then turned back laughing as if she had mistaken it for
the door to the take out window. Chelsea waited for them to reach the take
out window, then hurried into the restroom. While washing her hands,
Chelsea heard a commotion out in the hall. She quickly shook off as much
water as she could and peeked out the door to the right.
“All of it,” said the brunet Chelsea had seen before. She had a gun
pointed at Joey the bartender and her back to Chelsea. “And don’t even
think of pushing the button to call the police.” Chelsea almost gasped
and turned to the left where the blond had a gun pointed to the people at the
take out window and another one in her other hand pointed through the hall to
the dining room area. Her back faced Chelsea as well, and she was slowly
walking backward to join her brunette accomplice. Joey counted out the
money into the brunettes hand, looking carefully for a chance to do something.
Chelsea looked around and saw a row of ketchup bottles on a stand to her right
and quietly picked two up. She tripped the blond as she continued walking
backward, and hit the other over the head w/ the ketchup bottle. Shots
rang out from one of the guns and Chelsea quickly got the fallen blond over the
head with the second bottle. Although they were both merely dazed,
customers had disarmed the blond and Joey got the gun and money away from the
brunette. Chelsea saw red on his shirt and at first thought ketchup had
splattered onto his arm, but soon realized that a bullet had hit him in the arm.
Jenna was already on the phone with the police and Joey put compression on his
arm to slow the bleeding until someone arrived.
Chelsea swallowed, slowly realizing what had happened, then quickly ran back
into the bathroom.
the end
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