5… A Bar Just Ain't My Place
I looked away from her, wishing I'd never see anyone in those kind of clothes ever again, but conversation seemed inescapable. "Hey, sugar, who's your friend?" Lilith opened her mouth to speak, but instead looked at me. "We don't even know your name." I looked at Lilith and then at the bartender. I walked over to the bar and shook her hand. "You must be Moxxi? I'm Alice T, the scientist." She looked at me. I really wished that she had some real clothes on, like, a real shirt and pants. "Moxxi is my name. So, sugar, a drink?" I looked at her. "No thanks, I don't drink." She looked at Lilith. "Oh, alright. What about you, Lil?" Lilith walked to the bar. "Sure, just something small though." Moxxi turned around to get the drink from behind her.
"So, Alice, what kind of 'scientist'?" She asked. I laughed. "I test on myself, of course." She gave the glass to Lilith, and the redhead listened intently to the conversation. Moxxi put her elbow on the counter, and rested her cheek on it. "Test how?" I looked at Lilith, and she shrugged, but the smile on her face cautioned me to be careful how I answered. Great, I was talking to a classic inappropriate- whenever- possible innuendo bar lady. Just fantastic. "Um, I take my own blood and stuff like that, and compare it to someone else's." She smiled. "Sounds like fun. Who do you compare to?". Oh. Crap. "Um, my family, I guess." That's not really the answer. I use people with my same blood type, but I didn't want her to know that. My blood isn't exactly rare. And if she had the same type… well, lets just say this conversation would have gone downhill very, very fast. "Well, I guess you probably want to move on, sugar. See you later." She stood and went over to another person who needed a drink.
I was ecstatic to be out of that bar. It smelled like alcohol (of course) and I was very ready to leave. I never wanted to go in there again. I know that if Moxxi weren't a crazy lady, with the best fake voice ever, she wouldn't have been so bad. I'm sure she wasn't using her real voice. She seemed nice, but the look was just terrible for me. Talk about skin. I did like the hat though.
