Love, Loss, Longing (DLP Anthology Book 3) by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Dark Lord Publishing
Published: 2014-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

NAKED PEOPLE

C.M. Carter

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”

~Mark Twain

John stared at the flashing lights above him, his eyes adjusting to the sudden removal of his blindfold. He recognized Kanye West’s voice echoing from the other side of an impressive set of thick double doors. In a state of alcohol-induced euphoria, he couldn’t prevent a brief, hollow laugh escaping his lips.

“A strip club?” he asked unnecessarily. It was obvious where his friends had brought him. The building loomed large and mischievous, and he felt like a child unwilling to displease his father, who had just given him ice cream to spite his mother. Except, in this case, his mother was his fiancée, which made for a very strange line of thinking.

Not for the first time that night, John decided he was too drunk for this.

“It’s not just a strip club,” David spoke up, an evil grin on his face. “It’s the strip club, John...”

Running a hand through his blonde hair in distress, John tried to reason with his friends. “You guys know I’m not supposed to be here,” he whined. “I told you not to take me here, and now Dacey’s gonna—”

“Dacey’s gonna,” Will mocked, his imitation of John’s cultured Southern accent purposely two octaves too high. John was reminded of snot-nosed pre-pubescent Will from their childhood, before he had moved west and conquered the world of road construction. Now, he had biceps the size of coconuts and a tan like a Navajo chieftain.

“We know, John!” David added, his frustration apparent in the way he hid his face behind his fingers. “God knows we’ve heard enough about your fiancée for one night.”

John admitted to himself that he might have gone a bit overboard with his twenty minute rant about Dacey’s ex-boyfriend, Darren, but he couldn’t help but be slightly jealous. In addition to dating her two years longer than John had, Darren had not taken John and Dacey’s impending nuptials as John intended. Of course, venting to his friends had not gone as intended either.

“But he keeps calling her all the time—”

“And you keep talking about it all the time! Stop it!” Will insisted, interrupting John before he could build up a head of steam again. The athlete of their group, Will’s voice was commanding in an ‘I was my high school football captain’ kind of way. “What’s the point of a bachelor party if you’re so worried about screwing up you can’t even enjoy it!”

John wasn’t surprised to see David was taking Will’s side. “Why do you think we blindfolded you anyway?” he asked rhetorically. “We knew you wouldn’t have the balls to come out here otherwise.”

His two friends were being dicks about the whole thing, but John knew how important it was to them that he live out one more night of debauchery by their side. After all, they had been to this club years ago on his eighteenth birthday—the first occasion on which all three of them had been above the age requirement to get in.

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