The Broken Pieces novel Chapter 23

I sighed as we came to the bar.

"Emily! Camara!" We heard a familiar voice call out to us.

Then suddenly on the other side of the bar was Parker. Sitting down at one of the bar's hideous, neon orange chairs, he called us over with a wave of his hand.

Camara grabbed my hand and lead me through the crowd and towards Parker.

"There you guy are! Sit, sit." Parker smiled, pointing towards two chairs next to him, "Hey, I'd like to introduce you to someone." Parker said as Camara and sat down on the chairs.

Parker scoots his chair back a bit to reveal a blonde woman sitting next towards him. As if the woman tried to hide her aging, the apparent wrinkles on her face were pulled back and horribly straightened out against her face. It was almost as if she was wearing a Halloween mask.

"Ladies, meet my old good friend, Mrs. Shabamm. Mrs. Shabamm, meet the ladies, Emily Rose and Camara." Parker introduces us and the lady next to him huskily giggles.

"Please, call me, Selma."

"Yes. Well, Selma's husband, owns this lovely bar-," Parker begins to say but 'Selma' interrupted him.

"Ex-husband, we're getting a divorce." Her plastic face stretched into a smile and I almost jumped in horror.

She leaned into Parker and he sent a quick wink before continuing.

"As I was saying he owns this lovely bar and I'm planning on buying it from him." Parker finished and Selma, with an irritated look on her face, cleared her throat

Parker looked towards her and back at us, changing his sentence. "Well, we are planning on buying from him."

"Parker's gonna help me get this club..." Selma said excitedly before pausing, "well... for a price." She finished and it was Parker's turn to send her a irritated glare.

"For what price?" I asked and Selma's cheeks blushed red.

"Bartender!" She called before fanning herself. "Is it hot? A-am I the only one who's hot? Oh, Bartender. Rounds over here! I'm hot, I'mma go find out who turned up the thermostat!" That's the last thing she said before hoping out of her chair and disappearing into the crowd of people.

Camara gave me lol before shaking her head. "Fucking crazy people."

I laughed as the bartender came over towards us and placed the drinks in front of us.

"To new fucking beginnings!" Camara laughed as she grabbed her drink and lifted it up.

I smiled and cheers with her.

As Camara and I downed our drinks, Parker just shook his head and laughed.

If I were paying attention, I would've noticed that under Parker's breath, the words, "to the past ," escaped before he downed his drink, too.

I looked around the club and suddenly the man with the emerald eyes was gone.

My attention went back on my friend and I nodded. "Fine."

She smiled and we both got down from the table and made our way towards the large, neon sign with the words, 'RESTROOMS' onto it.

As we walked into the woman's restrooms, a loud, chattering noise filled our ears as we went in and saw millions of girls in there. Some sitting on the floor, some on the counters. Others gathered around the mirrors fixing their makeup.

"Oh my god! Move! Get your asses of the floor. This is a restroom," Camara scolded angrily. "My friend needs to pee."

I laughed under my breath as Camara began to shoo the girls out of the restroom.

I went into one of the stalls and sat on the toilet, taking a deep breath as noise sounded around me.

Seeing that man brought me all kinds of creeps.

I just need to calm down and try to relax myself. I thought.

I rubbed my hands onto my arms, a couple of times before standing up and exiting the stall.

"Hey Camara, I thin-," I began to say but I stopped realizing that I was in an empty restroom.