Secrets and Things (MxM)

Chapter 6 - Have we met before?

I was about to interrupt him but he doesn't let me, instead he just covered my mouth.

"FURTHERMORE, we have the chance to see some big shots around here. Celebrities and shit. Maybe even make friends with them."

I quietly mumbled, "you're a big shot yourself and I needed to get drunk if I were to get through tonight..." in which I got a confused "what?" out of the other man. I exhaled and simply said,

"Nothing. Look I couldn't care less about celebrities. Also, you're like a social butterfly. You have one friend in like every building in the entire city area. How many more do you need? Don't answer that. Right now I'm just pissed because I know I'm going to have one hell of a hangover on the first day of work and we all know that's not going to go down well. I just want to go home and crash on my very soft bed but I can't even do that because you're my ride. And I know you did that intentionally so I couldn't leave ten minutes in."

After finishing, I looked away from him, crossed my arms across my chest and pouted. It was probably in an exaggerated fashion to emulate a child for a larger effect. I heard very heavy breathing out before Aiden said what I wanted to hear all night... well semi of what I wanted to hear.

"Look go to the bar and have one last drink. After you finish, we'll go and I'll drop you home. Sound good?"

I looked back at him with a dubiously and asked, "Shouldn't you be telling me to sober up or have a cup of water, not telling me to make my hangover worse?"

He plainly replied with, "No, because I'm a bad friend and your selfish ass is making me leave my friends early. I'm also losing the opportunity to meet some celebrities and maybe even losing the chance of getting laid."

"You knew this was going to happen if you brought me here. Also the latter sounds like a you problem."

I get a pissed look in return. He gestured me to shoo by waving his hands towards the direction of the bar.

"Yeah yeah now shut up and go."

I gave a light shrug and got out of the booth, not bothering bidding Aiden's friends goodbye. Thank fuck I sat on the edge or else I had to do the awkward climbing over strangers performance. As I headed towards the bar, I began reappreciating the interior of the bar (I checked it out when entering but forgot what I said about it). It kind of had a mature vibe to it which was surprising because they had neon signs of different designs such as flowers and quotes. Neon signs aren't usually a sign of maturity. The bar and tables, including booth tables, were lined underneath with LED strip lights which gave a scifi-like glow and softened the environment a bit. The place itself was relatively dark in comparison to other places but there was still enough light to see. Majority of the place was lit up by modern, hanging chandeliers which was probably what contributed to the mature vibe the most. The bar area and the game area where the pool tables and arcade machines were located are the only places where they had bright LED ceiling lights. I wanna play games now... but at home... where there is no people. If it was any other day and it was just Aiden plus me, I would've appreciated the bar a lot more.

As I approached the bar, I spotted an empty seat and targeted it immediately. I practically ran to the seat and fortunately claim it. Mission accomplished. It put a smile on my face and I called out to the bartender in the cheeriest voice tonight had ever seen. He came to tend to me with the customer-only smile of his. How off-putting. You should be smile more genuinely when serving me because... I'm me. Wait since when did getting drunk feed my ego?

"Hello sir. What can I get you?"

Oh shit I didn't think of that before coming here. I don't want to make him wait. I don't want to be hated. He's so judging me. Oh no I'm being all insecure again. Wait did he call me sir? I'M NOT THAT OLD YOU OLD MAN. Pretentious ass place.