1 Just Another Evening (1/2)

”Should I just become a Lesbian? Should I!?” yelled Fei Bing Bing[1] as she drunkenly downed her glass of Baiju. Or more like the Baiju downed her, as half of it dribbled down her chin and poured into the cleavage of her skimpy red dress.

”F*ck!” she exclaimed, ”I'm all wet now!!!” ugly tears fell from her eyes causing her mascara to smear and streak her cheeks like tires burning up a highway. One of her false eyelashes precariously sat on her left eye, about to fall off, looking like a black caterpillar clinging for life. ”Screw men! I'm done with all men!! I quit trying anymore, only woman are good. Screw men! Screw him!!!” she yelled one final time before collapsing in a drunken stupor onto the bar counter.

Mao Lu's[2] eyebrows twitched. Had the argument been so bad this time that she had to drink herself stupid? He sighed, why were all his friends such dramatic messes.

The worst part was that she had to be a dramatic mess at his workplace.

What had started as a normal evening shift at the club Roaring Tiger, had turned into Mao Lu making shot after shot, and daiquiri after daiquiri for Fei Bing Bing.

The moment he'd started at 8pm she'd marched in, making a beeline for him, shouting ”Zhao De Tong[3] is a bastard!!!!!” Then she ordered relentlessly and refused to listen to Mao Lu when he'd told her to stop. Sadly she was a paying customer and with his manager being nearby he couldn't just refuse to serve her.

Mao Lu sighed to himself yet again. He was lucky that she'd finished drinking quickly. At 9pm the club had only been open for an hour, the evening was still early and there were only a few customers dotted here and there. It wouldn't get really busy until probably around 11 or 12pm.

”Damn, what happened to Bing Bing this time?” asked Fang Kai[4]. Fang Kai was a lanky tall guy, he had a rather ordinary face but he made up for it with his eccentric green dyed hair and excessive piercings. He, just like Mao Lu, was a part timer working the evening shifts at Roaring Tiger.

”Apparently Zhao De Tong and her had a fight.”

”Again!” Fang Kai couldn't hide the exasperation in his voice. Practically every shift for the last few months, he'd seen Fei Bing Bing come in and cry about Zhao De Tong fighting with her.

”It's not surprising, this always happens” Mao Lu replied casually. He'd known Fei Bing Bing as well as her on and off again boyfriend, Zhao De Tong, since they were babies. They had been an infamous trio in school. He still remembered when Bing Bing and De Tong started going out at the start of senior year in High school, they'd already been a mess when they were friends and it only got worse after they started dating.

Mao Lu couldn't help but sigh as he took out his phone and dialed Zhao De Tong.

”She's here again.”

”What happened this time? She seems more upset than usual, she even drank herself unconscious.”

”She did?”

”She did.”

”...”

”So what happened this time?”

”... I asked her to marry me.”

”What!” Mao Lu nearly dropped his phone. Was De Tong being serious? Was this really coming from the guy that had cheated on her numerous times over the past few years and refused to talk about children or being serious.

”I realised the other day that next year I'd be turning 25. I went to visit my mother and I saw some real grey hairs on her, and that's when it hit me. That I can't keep fooling around like I am now y'know. I have a good woman who loves me and is good to me. If I keep treating her like this she'll leave me one day. I need to get my life together and be better, it's not like I'm a kid anymore...so I proposed.”

”And…” Mao Lu scrunched his brows together.

”And what?”