Anton ordered the LIT and Wilson ordered a fashionable beer.
Wilson started on his beer as soon as the bartender slid it across the bar.
Anton looked skeptically at his LIT.
Wilson laughed. “What?”
“Hotel bars, never quite trust them.”
“It’s an LIT. What could go wrong?”
“Yeah, and I bet the bartender has never heard of Long Island.”
“Dude, why’d you—”
Wilson looked away, jaw agape.
“What?”
“It’s her, dude,” Wilson whispered.
“Her who? And why are we whispering?”
“Debbie.”
“Debbie who?”
“Debbie … dangerpants.”
“What the hell? You’re not serious about this are you?”
“Isn’t she exactly what I described to you?”
Anton surreptitiously looked at the woman. “No.”
“Oh, come on.”
“You said she had raven hair.”
“Well, ok, I got that detail wrong.”
“This woman is a natural redhead. Also, you said she was just a little shorter than you.”
“Dude! She’s totally almost my height.”
“‘Dude,’ our bartender fits that description better.”
The bartender—a man with stylishly miss-managed hair and more than a few day’s stubble—glared at Anton.
“Oh, crap. She needs help.”
The woman left her drink on the bar and walked to the entrance, phone in hand.
“She’s calling someone and doesn’t want to be rude. If not being ‘That American’ means she needs help, you should help me first.”
“No, no, no, dude,” Wilson whispered. “She’s doing spy stuff.”
“How the hell do you figure?”
Wilson didn’t answer. He walked to the wall and put his back to it.
Anton watched him stare around the bar and guessed Wilson had an eye out for anyone trying to harm his favorite ‘spy.”
Anton stood up and walked to the bathroom. After he zipped up, he heard shouting in the other bathroom. A woman shouted “Oh, come on, Melody. You know dad always said I’d get the car!”
He couldn’t hear the responses. “Must be talking on her cell,” he muttered.
Anton walked out of the bathroom. The woman Wilson focused his creepy attentions on no longer stood in the entrance.
Wilson nursed his beer, looking straight ahead at bottles of liquor.
‘Debbie’ stepped out of the bathroom.
Anton sat next to Wilson.
“You want to talk about it?”
“Debbie’s real. I swear.”
Anton sighed.
#96
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