Les Be Honest by Robinson Sarah

Author:Robinson, Sarah [Robinson, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9798223035695
Goodreads: 177460374
Publisher: Books by Sarah Robinson
Published: 2024-02-13T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

I have a girlfriend.

In fact, I’ve actually had a girlfriend for over two weeks now, and that sentence still sounded crazy to me every time it rolled through my head. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to be with Tyler—I absolutely did—but I hadn’t expected a serious commitment in the relationship department anytime soon. Not with how hard I was focusing on bringing the business to a place where it would be ready to open.

The burst pipe had set us back, which was actually quite devastating. I’d been hoping we’d be able to coincide our opening with DC Pride Weekend, but with the additional repairs and construction time, we were not going to make that deadline. Instead, we were looking at squeaking out an opening by the end of June instead, possibly early July.

Not the end of the world, and Isa still had me running ragged with marketing and PR work around Pride Month to get people in the area aware of the upcoming opening. DC Pride, Arlington Pride, Alexandria Pride, Prince William County Pride…everywhere around here had their own celebration, and I was there with flyers and a team of friends making sure everyone knew that our bar was coming.

The Dirty Derby was no longer the name, however. Sad face.

Tyler had been pushing hard for a name that better represented what we wanted to do with this space, embracing queerness and acceptance of all people—and then she also added that it should make a nod to me. Well, that was hard to argue, because anything named after me was destined for good luck.

And so KiKi: Cuts & Cocktails was born.

Ki standing in for my last name, Kiani, and kiki being a slang phrase that meant casually kicking it back—so it worked on multiple levels. I already had a cocktail menu that was ready to slay with drink names like Amaretto Aftercare, Hard (Seltzer) Limits, and Tequila Therapy.

“I don’t think this plug is working,” Isa said to me as she gently put the neon sign she had been holding back down on the ground. She gestured to an outlet by the front window of the bar with the sign’s electrical cord trailing from it. “I can’t get it to light up the sign.”

I walked over and tried unplugging it and plugging it back in myself as if my singular touch would yield different results. “Yeah, this one must be broken.”

“I mean, I just told you that, Yas,” Isa replied, shaking her head as she headed over to the long bar across the back wall—thankfully, construction was complete on that entire section, and we’d already begun racking bottles up on the shelves. “I’m taking an interior decorator break since…you know, I’m not an interior decorator.”

Making a mental note to call an electrician about that outlet, I followed Isa over to the bar. “I really appreciate all your help getting things set up. We have a long way to go, but the end of the month is going to be here sooner than we realize.

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