With a smile on her face and a drink in her hand Emily turned away from Coleman and headed over to a couple of guy's playing a game of pool, she knew immediately which one was the pool shark because he had that "I've got you right where I want you" kind of smirk on his face.
From the looks of things the other player, a young blonde man who looked to be maybe in his early twenties, had no idea what was going on, he had broken the balls and had been able to sink three solids from it but after that he struck out and was waiting for his opponent to take his shot, he wasn't to worried though cause he'd watched him play a game earlier with one of his friends and the man sucked royally and that's why when the guy wanted to bet a hundred bucks on the game this oblivious young man had taken him up on it. Emily almost felt sorry for him,
Lord who am I kidding if the guy was stupid enough not to realize when he's being punked why the hell should I care? That's right I shouldn't!
So she stood there watching along with the blonde guy as the pool shark cleaned up the table in about ten minutes flat and earned himself a cool hundred bucks. 'This guy's good' Emily thought to herself ' Oh this is gonna be sooooo much fun.'
After the game was over and poor little blonde guy paid up, Emily went up to the shark and introduced herself, "Wow that was pretty impressive do you give lessons?"
He had been busy chalking up his que before she came up to him and when the guy turned around he had that same arrogant smirk on his face as when she had first spotted him she was smiling up at him when she said " Hey my name's Emily" and held out her hand he took it and raised it to his lips kissing her hand and said "Well it's nice to meet you Emily I'm Rafe and I'd be glad to give you some lessons" after he said that he gave Em a wink.
She felt a shiver run down her spine as she started having second thoughts about her idea of getting some kind of stupid victory over a stupid stranger especially this one, she was starting to get a really creepy vibe from him.
Oh come on Emily you set out to forget about everything and everyone and just to be reckless for once in your life there is no way your gonna turn back now.
After that mental kick in the butt she started batting her eyelashes and pretended not to know what he'd meant by his comment, "Great then you get those little balls set up and I'll go pick out one of those stick things."
Rafe let out a chuckle and said, "Whatever you say honey" and he started racking up the balls, Once Emily came back over Rafe started showing her a few basics on where to place your hands and how best to angle your shot and of course he couldn't do that without putting his hands all over her which had Em thinking to herself 'Oh I want to hit some balls alright but not the ones on the table. If only he knew that I could beat him with my eyes closed ...' she let that thought wonder she didn't want this creep to know that she was playin' him just yet.
Ater another twenty minutes of this manhandling lesson Emily was ready to set this guy straight by this time they had gathered an audience which she thought would make the game a bit more interesting and she decided to set out her bait reaching into her purse she pulled out a wad of money and laid it on the table looking up at Rafe through her lashes she said, "Well I came out tonight looking for an adventure so, I think I'm ready for a real game of pool with bets and all."
Rafe seeing that she'd laid out about five hundred bucks certainly wasn't going to argue with her if she wanted to bet they would bet, it would be some more easy money for him. "Alright Missy if that's what you want I'm up for it " and he started to rack up the balls.Tthey played there first game where Emily purposely let him have at it, she only took a couple shots and never sunk a ball when the game was over she breathlessly looked over at Rafe and said well that was fun wanna go double or nothin?"
He just looked at her and said "Honey wouldn't you rather go upstairs? I guarentee that would be alot more fun."
"Oh please just one more game after that maybe we'll go upstairs. So how about it double or nothin?"
Rafe wasn't about to turn down a thousand bucks, " Yeah sure double or nothin." Once the balls were racked up again Emily announced that she wanted to break so she did and after that Rafe started to see that he had been duped ,it took her about the same amount of time that it had taken him to beat the other guy, to clean up the table of all the solid balls and then sink the eight, once she was done she turned around to the sound of laughter coming from the audience that they had gathered and looked at her opponent. His face was getting red.
"Hah looks to me like the shark doesn't like getting beat at his own game does he, Rafe?" His face got even redder at that comment if that was possible.
'Oh Holy CRAP, I know that little princess did not just humiliate Rafein front of an entire audience of people that guy has been known to hit first and ask questions later on top of which he's so mentally unstable that he even freaks me out! Oh God please don't let him kill her in my bar, Morgan will make sure I can never have children if something happens to her here.
As Coleman continued lamenting his position in the whole mess, Emily was on a roll andcompletely oblivious to the fact that the man she'dplayed hated it when any one got the best of him and he was already plotting his revenge in that very twisted mind of his.
Ok I love to play pool but I really don't know a whole lot about so if I got anything wrong I'm sorry please don't pick at it.( and yes I know there has never been any mention of Em knowing how to play pool let alone be awesome at it but hey I figure with Jason for a brother how could she have not picked up a few things Right?)anyway this was another building chapter sohopefully it wasn't too boring!
Be kind please review it's what makes me want to write more!
Hugs,
Bethany
