Grannie Panties Are UnderRated by Gayle Erickson

Author:Gayle Erickson [Erickson, Gayle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780998995915
Publisher: Mile High Publishing House
Published: 2017-07-28T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

fun.: “Some Nights”

April 28, 1994

8:50 p.m.

What the fuck? Am I seriously being fired from another job?

“I think better you go,” Mae-san was staid, speaking calmly and without emotion.

Did she mean Elle should leave for that night only, or something more permanent? Elle looked intently at Mae-san, searching for clues, but the madam sat expressionless and quiet.

It had been a bad call to come to work so fucked up. If she weren’t so high, she might be able to better read the subtext. As it was, Elle had done a few lines with Tak and members of the Japanese rock band Sugar Puss before work, and she was having a hard time focusing on the situation at hand.

Perhaps sensing Elle’s confusion, Mae-san made her intentions clear. She placed a stack of yen on the table and stood to leave. “Here your final pay. You go now.”

High or not, this wasn’t difficult to interpret. She was being fired.

Elle was ashamed. For twenty-four years she had been the model of responsibility, a consummate pleaser intent on proving her worth to classmates, teachers, employers—everyone, really. And now she was being fired for the second time in six months? Unbelievable. Elle’s humility quickly turned to anger. How dare she fire me?

Elle was good at her job. She had made Mae-san tons of money. And how did the madam even know about the cocaine? She had been very discreet.

It must have been Sato, the lawyer Elle had met a few evenings ago and sold a few grams to. He wasn’t a regular. Maybe he had hoped to score brownie points with Mae-san by selling her out.

What a jack-ass.

Elle should have known better than to trust someone she didn’t know. Still, it’s not like she had been dealing that much coke at the Big YAC. Elle had been careful, bringing in just enough for a few lines to help her get through the night. If customers wanted to partake with her, what was the big deal? Mae-san should thank her. Everyone could drink so much more when high.

Whatever.

Elle was sick of the job, anyway. And Tak would be pleased, he had wanted her to quit for some time now.

Elle considered the money on the table. From what she could tell by the stacks of yen notes, it was the equivalent of at least $2,000, maybe more. Should she take it? Elle wasn’t sure. This was all such bullshit.

What would be better? To take the money, or to leave it on the table and storm out, indignant? Elle decided to take the money. She had earned it.

As Elle stood and reached for the yen, she became light-headed. She teetered in her high heels and needed to hold onto the table for balance. Funny, she didn’t think she was that high. Elle searched for the right words to say. Before she could think of anything, Mae-san held her arm out in the direction of the door, inviting—no, commanding—her to leave.

Elle was again humbled. She dropped her shoulders, her bravado weakened by the realization she had disappointed Mae-san.

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