Chapter 2 - Guy's Night Out
La Vie en Rein, was an underground wine lounge in NYC's Gramercy neighborhood. It had no more than 6 medieval style enclosed booth areas that were paired with tables sized just large enough to have a few glasses of of wine & a dozen oysters or cavier with someone you want to be close to. In the back there was an open area by the bar for people to dance, talk and meet up. Off the side there was a contemporary designed game room with a pool table and XBox Kinect area. It was the perfect place for couples & singles alike to co-mingle and have some fun.
Jean-Paul, Kyle and Remy were standing in the corner sampling their glasses of Petros Pomerol. "Remy, I can't believe you spent over 1 thousand dollars on a bottle of wine. But I gotta admit that this does taste delicious." Kyle commented taking another sip.
"Agreed on both counts! Logan is missing out. How did you find out about this place?" Jean-Paul asked curiously.
"I saw it in a magazine. It's better than Harry's Hideaway eh?" Remy answered casually.
"Bobby sure is enjoying himself. I've never seen him dance like that!" Jean-Paul laughed gesturing towards Bobby attempting to win a dance battle on the XBox Kinect against a girl in the bar. Even though he appeared to be winning it looked somewhat comical since the girl chose a Hawaiian techno song to compete against him on. "No one should have to see anyone dance like that." Kyle then excused himself to see if the bar had anything more filling than oysters before the kitchen closed.
"So, I hate to pry-"Jean-Paul began after Kyle left. Remy interrupted him saying, "Then don't mon ami."
"I just wanted to say that I heard Rogue & Magneto broke up so I wanted to know how you were doing," Jean-Paul let his voice trail off not knowing what else to say.
"Anna & I stopped dating long before he came around. He wasn't the reason why we called it quits. Seriously, we're just friends now." Remy said dryly.
"Fair enough, mon ami. So, as much as I love your company, are you going to hang with Kyle & I all night?" Jean-Paul taunted.
"Nope, I'm waiting for her." Remy said and gesturing towards a woman who just walked into the open area and waved him over. She was an attractive, lithe olive-skinned woman with bright green eyes and long dark brown hair. Compared to other more dressed up women in the lounge she was far more casual and appeared to come from the kitchen area wearing a simple but close fitting black dress paired with flat black boots that clung to the curves of her 5'5 frame.
"Excuse-moi, Jean-Paul." Jean-Paul shook his head in disbelief as he watched Remy go towards the mysterious woman.
"Well that was unexpected." He said and Logan snorted next to him startling him. "Just be happy you weren't interrupting something important earlier," he said downing the rest of his shot of Glendronach. "So, you want more of that expensive wine? The Cajun didn't close his tab."
"It's over a thousand a bottle." Jean-Paul exclaimed as Kyle approached them holding only a bowl of vegetable chips complaining that the kitchen had closed for the night.
"Don't worry, he can cover it," Logan said guided the guys towards the bar as Remy slipped his arm around the mysterious lady's waist and disappeared into the kitchen.