I walked up to the Bar, leading Jade by the hand, making eye contact with the sexy little bar maid I knew rather too well. As soon as she saw me she smiled and asked how I was to which I replied “Very well thank you. You look amazing.” Yes, I was a very big flirt.
“Why thank you” she replied in a very middle class accent. “And who is this beautiful young lady?” she continued, her eyes fixated on Jade.
“This is Jade” I replied “And Jade, this is Sophia. Although most of us call her Splits”
“Now don’t start that one Dan” Sophia demanded
“Why do they call you Splits?” Jade asked with curiosity.
“It’s a long story” Sophia began.
“No its not” I interrupted “Basically, Sophia here decided to do the Splits one evening as a bit of a party trick. Unfortunately her tights were not quite ready for the stunt and ripped at the crutch leaving her a little exposed”
Jade laughed enthusiastically “Is this true?” directing her question at Sophia
“Yes, unfortunately. And this on here just loves to tell everyone. Anyway! Moving swiftly on. What can I get you this fine evening?”
“Good question. I think we’ll start with a couple of Peronei’s and a bottle of Vodka for the lovely Lady. And of course, whatever you’re drinking.”
“Can I have some lemonade to mix it with though please?” Jade asked politely
“Of course” Sophia replied whilst pulling a bottle of Grey Goose from the top shelf. “I wasn’t going to let you drink the whole thing neat.” She continued with a chuckle.
She poured our drinks and looked across at Jade “Just give me a wave when you fancy another one and I’ll bring it over.”
As we walked to a cosy table in the corner Jade whispered in my ear “Don’t we have to pay for these?”
“No” I Laughed “Me and Banksy have a tab in most bars in London. They just take it off our credit card at the end of the night”.
“Oh, right” Jade replied with a slightly concerned look upon her face. “Can I give you some money then?”
“Don’t be silly” I replied. And with that we placed our coats on one of the armchairs and sat down at the table, me in the corner with Jade sat to my right push up against me.
She placed her glass on the table, as I did with my and Lee’s bottles, and threaded her left arm left arm through the gap between my right and torso resting her head on my shoulder as she did.
“You cold sweetheart?” I asked sympathetically.
She nodded. “A little” came her quiet reply.
I removed my right arm from her grasp and placed in arm her instead, rubbing her arm to try and inject a little warmth and comfort into her. After a couple of minute of this I heard Lee’s voice bellow the words “You haven’t bored her to sleep already have you mate?” with a snigger at the end of his sentence.
Jades head rose from my shoulder “No” she retorted “I just needed a cuddle.” A smile appeared on her face as she said it, diverted her eyes from Lee’s to mine.
“Well, cheers guys” Banksy declared raising his bottle in our direction.
We both obliged lifting our drinks meeting with a clunk in the middle. “What are we drinking too?” Asked Jade enthusiastically.
“To get drunk.” I replied.
And with that we all echoed “Cheers.”
Bansky sat down and we began talking, moving from one topic to another, again being mindful to keep the conversation away from anything likely to upset Jade. We polished off a fair few rounds of drinks in the first couple of hours, Jade chugging triple measures like they were orange squash. It got to half past ten and we moved from the larger to the hard stuff, ordering bottles of whiskey and tequila.
Sophia came a joined us for a bit as we cracked open the tequila, Jade gave me a concerned look as I passed her some table salt and a wedge of lime. “Lick the salt, drink the shot, and suck the lime.” I instructed. “On three.” “One, two, three”.
And with that everyone followed as I had instructed Jade until we were all sat with a lime in our mouths ready to cry from the sourness. Jade was the first one to spit her lime out. She looked directly at me and in a loud firm voice demanded “Don’t ever make me do that again. That was revolting!”
I pulled my lime from my mouth, smiled at her and said “But we have a whole bottle and it isn’t going to drink itself now is it.”
“Yh well I think ill stick to the vodka is that’s alright with you.”
“Nope. Its Not.” I answered with a smile. “Our lovely bar maid her is already pouring you another one.”
“But Dan Dan.” She replied.
“Uh Uh” I interrupted. “If I’m playing for it, you’re drinking it”
“Alright but I need to go to the ladies room first. Walk me please, im not sure how well I can stand” She giggled.
I slid out of the boot style sofa with her. Put my arm around her and guided her to the ladies loos.
“Just through their Jade” I said, pointing at the Ladies toilet. “I’m going to go as well but I’ll wait for you here” glancing over at a bench as I did.
“OK, thank you hun” Jade replied. And with a kiss on the cheek she disappeared through the oak door.
I quickly went for a piss making sure to get minimal splash back. Washed my hand thoroughly before exiting the toilet and perching on the edge of the bench I had previously noted to Jade. After what seemed like a lifetime Jade emerged from the door. Tipsily staggered over to the bench, were a stood and put my arm around her once more.
As we made it back to our table Banksy was getting a tad touchy feely with Sophia. “Not again you too” I said rather loudly.
“Well” Sophia began “From the amount of time you too love birds were away we thought we were missing out of the action.”
Jade turned a little red before rather sternly replying “There was a queue!”
“I’m sure there was” replied Lee wittily “I’d queue up for you any day” And with that we all let at agreeing laugh.
Jade was no bright red. “Daniel” she said playfully “Tell them…”
“Pay no notice, their only teasing.” I encouraged her as I guided us both back into the booth.
The debris of empty glasses and bottles piled up on our table as the banter and drinking continued through the night. It got to quarter to one in the morning and the bar manager called for last calls. I caught the now tipsy Sophia’s eye and asked her for a bottle of water for Jade.
I passed Jade the bottle of water as Sophia handed it to me. “Drink this sweetheart” I spoke softly “You’ll thank me for it in the morning”.
With that she slowly began to sip the water until it was all gone whilst Banksy, being the alcoholic that he is, finished up the dregs from the bottles on our table. As the clock hit 1 I took Jade by the hand, helped her up from the table and placed her cardigan around her shoulders, followed by my coat.
“No Dan Dan. You’ll get cold”.
“I couldn’t care less if I get cold. As long as you don’t.” I replied
She smiled her beautiful smile at me and with that we said goodbye to Sophia and the other bar staff. We headed for the revolving doors and as we exited the bitter cold hit us. Jade was struggling to walk at this point, a mixture between her choice in footwear, the drink and the uneven paving. I made my way in front of her and squatted slightly and demanded “Hop on.”
She jumped slightly and I caught her legs with my arms, hoisting her onto my back. It felt so good having her clung to me, her arms wrapped around my chest and her warm crutch nestled agasint me back. Banksy looked over at us both and shook his head muttering “Get a room.”
Jade instantly replied “You’re just jealous.” Poking her tongue out as he did. Which was not met by a reply as we all knew she was right.
We walked the few minutes to the station where the warm heating inside was a big relief. I plonked Jade down as softly as I could manage on a seat whilst Banksy joined the queue of drunkards for the late night Burger King. I sat down next to her and she once again nestled her head on my chest, her arms this time tucked up to keep her warm. I put my arm around her, stroking her with my thumb and kissed the top of her head, trying my best to keep her as warm as possible.
The train pulled into the station after about a 10 minute wait and at the exact same time Lee emerged from the sea of people holding a squashed burger and chips. We all made it through the turnstiles quickly and found a bank of 6 seats layed out in the same fashion as the ones me and Jade had sat at on the way up.
Jade sat next to the window with me to her left and Lee sat opposite her with a small table between them. As soon as we we seated Jade once again cuddled up to me and we resumed our position from on the platform. The train began to fill up and soon enough another 2 people had joined our bank of 6. One being a rather posh man with grey hair and a long army jacket in his early 40s. The other, as far as we could make out, his pull for the night. A rather large blonde who was bulging out of her dress and carrying what looked like enough BK to feed an army.
The posh man sat to my left and the lass, opposite him, leaving a single seat between her and Banksy. As Lee finished his last chips the girl looked over at him and asked. “Can I av that table please mate. Now you’ve finished an all?”
Lee looked at me with a rather worrying look on his face before answering. “Now normally im a bit of an arsehole. But seeing as you asked so nicely. How can I refuse?” And with that they swapped seats.
The train set off shortly after. By this time Jade was nodding in and out of sleep squeezing my quite tightly. As we watched this girl demolish her BK me and Lee began to exchange texts.
Lee began with “I’m fearful of my life watching her eat that thing.”
“I know. She’ll get done for GBH the way she’s attacking that thing.”
“Lol!!! Does she realise shes got more of that burger in her cleavage than in her stomach.”
This continued for the whole 40 minutes until we reached Pitsea station where got off the train. We walked through the turnstiles and entered the first taxi in the rank. We gave the driver Jade’s and Banksys post codes and he set of for Jades house.
As we pulled up at Jades house I helped her out of the car and walked her too the door as the taxi departed for Lees house. I helped her up the front step and she open the door before shouting. “Sam. You In?”
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