Sparkle: The Queerest Book You'll Ever Love by Rob Rosen

Author:Rob Rosen [Rosen, Rob]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Fierce Publishing
Published: 2011-06-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

An Addition to the Family

Well, that was exciting, huh? I bet you’ve never witnessed the birth of a legend before. Am I right? Too bad it wasn’t yours truly. I mean, I’m sure I could’ve been a star. I had what it takes, after all: the looks, the talent… the, uh… the… oh, okay, maybe I didn’t exactly have those things, but I did have one thing… moxie! Oh well, I guess sometimes looks and talent do count for something. Of course, even though we didn’t become the grand divas that we expected we’d become, our lives did indeed change as a result of those few weeks.

I never did see Allen again. Fuck it, though. I say goodbye to bad rubbish. (I say goodbye, but I’m thinking, come back rich lawyer-man, come back.) But guess who I did start dating almost immediately after that glorious night? (Tick-tock… are you thinking?) It was Chester, the bartender!

Yup, right after the show, as the six of us were heading out of the bar, Chester came running up behind us and asked if we minded a tag-a-long to our little troupe. “Hell no,” I answered for everyone. I mean, it’s not every day that a tragic drag queen gets hit on by an adorable bartender. (You know, who am I kidding? I bet that happens all the time.) And, lucky for me, Sharon went right home and volunteered to open up the shop in the morning, so I could sleep in a little. Bless her heart.

And we weren’t out of surprises just yet, either. Lo and behold, there outside The Stud, waiting for us with open doors, was a jet-black stretch limousine that Larry had hired for us as a thank you for risking your reputations present. Of course, I had none to uphold and Sparkle’s reputation couldn’t have gotten any lower on the rating scale, short of digging up Harvey Milk and shooting him all over again. (Sorry for the un-P.C. and downright gross analogy.)

“Well, Chester, it looks like there’s room for you, after all,” I said as we piled on in. I, for one, was way glad that we’d gotten out of our drag clothes before leaving the club. And thank goodness the inside of the limo was on the dim side, because I was certain that I still had traces of mascara around my eyes. And the glitter was murder to get off. That, however, as it turned out, was what our quirky friend, Chester, was after. You’ve heard of drama queens and opera queens, well, Chester was a new breed of queen: the drag queen queen. See, he loved drag queens. Well, lust really, but same difference.

And, apparently, my drag charms must have had their effect, because Chester was all over me like white on rice. (Oh yeah, there are rice queens, too.) Honestly, I didn’t know whether to be delighted or insulted. After all, I’d never been chased after for the woman inside of me before. Then again, I’d never been chased after period, so live and let live, I figured, and I let Chester fawn.

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