Chapter 27 So a Viper walks into a bar
Randy took a seat at the deserted bar in need of a drink, his friends had come with him but as soon as they saw the sign saying 'strippers' they ditched him. Not that Randy could blame them, he wasn't really good company these days. Lately Randy had been feeling lonely and it was eating at him piece by piece. He was just over it, over the one night stands and over the 'game' He knew that he was at that time in his life when getting to know a woman wasn't so scary, maybe it was he needed to stop his lonelyness, he had avoided trying all these years due to fear and insecureties but now he was ready for it, well he felt ready, he wouldn't know until he tried. Randy just wasn't sure how to proceed from here, he thought he knew but as it turned out, he didn't. He took a seat at the bar and waited for a bar maid. There were two of them down the line, whispering excitedly and staring at him, he was used to that by now, they didn't make any move to come and take his order, he found that a little rude. Light sounds of some band he hadn't heard of pumped through the stereo system, finally a bar maid came his way. He reconized her instantly, three years ago he took her out, Raven hadn't really changed much, her black and silver strands were a bit longer and her skin was more inked, but that was about it. She gave him a smile, her silver eyes practically dancing. For the first time in a while he was actually struggling to keep his eyes off her chest, that was harder than usual given how she was dressed, a tight bikini shirt, short shorts and a checkered apron, it didn't help that she was insanely beautiful.
"What can I get you sunshine?"
"Beer please"
Raven gave another winning smile, "Any one in particular or should I just surprise you?"
"Uh surprise me"
Raven walked to the fridge and pulled out the first beer her slender fingers wrapped around, "There you go sunshine"
Randy took a long drink, "Thank you"
She gave him a look, one that he wasn't so used too, he was used to being reconized. Her eyes lit up when she made the connection. "Randy Orton! I thought you looked familiar"
"Should I be hurt that you didn't reconize me straight away Raven?" Randy asked, that sly Viper smirk on his lips.
Raven waved it aside, "Nah, take it as a compliment, you've changed and grown. Take it as a good thing"
"I will, never thought about it like that"
Her friends ushered her over, still whispering and staring at Randy. Raven kept the eye roll to herself, barely. "Excuse me Randy"
She went over to her friends, Christy and Cherry, it was a mere coincidence that they shared names with former Divas, Raven liked to point this out as much as humanly possible, it didn't help that Cherry looked like the former Diva Cherry,
"What are you doing?" Christy looked at her, shooting glances between her friend and Randy Orton.
"I was servin' a customer and sharing small talk" Raven gave her that obvious look, like what else would she be doing.
"Do you know who that is?"
"Wait, I know this one. Don't tell me" Raven pretended to think extra hard about it before relenting, "Ok tell me"
"That is Randy Orton" Cherry half whispered, half shouted, her blue eyes alive with excitement.
"Oh so thats why he looked at me funny when I called him Frank"
"Raven let me tell you something, you don't talk to Randy Orton"
She hit her palm with her tiny fist, "I didn't realise he was deaf, I just hope my sign language is ok, I'm slightly rusty, last time I had to use hand signals, it was the early fifties and it hadn't even been invented, so you can understand my rusty-ness"
Cherry and Christy gave each other glances before deciding to let their friend in on the 'secret'
"Raven that is Randy Orton," "Yeah, we've established that" "You don't talk to him, you wait until he talks to you and then you thank God for the priviedge"
Raven just looked at them, "I wonder if he bleeds when you cut him"
Alarm rose in their eyes, trust Raven to go all dangerous, "Please don't cut him Raven"
"I'm not gonna cut him Cherry, I'm just wonderin if he can bleed, if he can feel pain, feel happines and so on and so fourth"
Cherry and Christy looked at each other, "Raven I think he can do all that"
"Wow!" Raven gushed like she had just discovered the cure for cancer, "It's almost as if he's human, just like you and me and that guy over there staring at the wall, I think he's drunk"
"Randy isn't just a human" Christy put in, "He's a sex God!"
Randy couldn't help it, he burst out laughing, every word spoken he could hear, each word she spoke Randy found himself liking Raven more and more, she was pretty funny.
"So my theory is correct" Raven pondered trying not to laugh, "If we can hear him when he calls for another beer, then he can hear us when we talk about him, that's almost mind bogglin"
Cherry and Christy turned bright red and started to busy themselves with the bar. Raven shook her head and went back to Randy, that large paw up, wanting another drink.
"So I'm a sex God huh?" Randy asked when she put another drink in front of him. He couldn't stop his blue eyes from looking her over, she was certainly more beautiful than he remembered.
"Apparently so unless you don't agree"
"Oh I agree, but a certain woman wouldn't, she had another opinion on the subject"
Raven had the burning feeling he was talking about her, she hoped she was wrong but deep down inside she knew she wasn't wrong. As always her mouth had dug her into a hole but like any other time, her mouth would get her out of it, or her right hook would. "So what did she say that was so bad Randy?"
"I believe the words she used was rushy rushy" Randy let a smirk come out, Raven however kept her poker face. He was talking about her, figures that Dave couldn't keep his mouth shut.
"Well if it helps, I don't think she was trying to be insulting, just callin it as she saw it"
Randy let out a slight shrug, "Maybe she was right, maybe she was wrong, either way it don't matter anymore, I'm over it"
Slyly she touched his arm, she wasn't used to being so forward but there was something about his eyes and inked arms that was starting to melt her icy veins. "Well you could always prove her wrong Randy,"
"What if I have nothin' to prove?"
Raven took her hand away promptly, "Then I guess you should move on from it and learn from the experience, although if it was me I would definitely want to prove my point, I'm egotistical like that"
Randy let out a stray chuckle, a laugh that he didn't have to force, it had been a while since a woman had done that too him, he was starting to like it more and more. "You don't seem very egotistical Raven"
Her eyes shone deviously, "Trust me, I'm all about the ego"
Randy didn't have a chance to say anything else, Teddy and Cody had finished watching strippers, now they joined him at the bar, Randy knew what was going to happen now and he hated to admit it. Cody and Teddy were still young and women seemed to flock to them more than him these days, it was the same way back in his Evolution days, he got all the pussy but now that he was older, the pussy went to the younger ones, like Teddy and Cody.
"Randy, we just saw this stripper with the biggest-" Cody started before his eyes landed on Raven, "Never mind them, you have the biggest pair of"
Randy elbowed him to shut his mouth, Teddy took that as his cue to jump in, his eyes pouring over the young bar maid. "Hi, I'm Teddy"
"And I'm a little creeped out" Raven couldn't help it, between Teddy and that thing on his friends lip, she was more creeped out than usual.
"And I'm Cody, may I say you are quite beautiful"
Both young men looked her over wondering who would be the lucky one to take her home.
"Hmmm, should I save time or should I let them dangle?" Raven asked herself, she did that alot.
"I'd let them dangle but I'm a prick like that" Randy answered her as he picked up his beer again.
Raven kept the evil laugh to herself, she decided that saving time might be a little kinder, at least it might stop the creepy factor. She looked at Teddy and Cody, "I'm not interested"
Cody gave her that smirk that usually changed minds, "You sure? You're not interested, not even a little bit?"
"You're right, I am interested" Raven smiled at them watching their eyes lit up like they had just won the lottery, "Solely in him" Raven pointed her black fingernail at Randy, "If for some strange reason I wind up going home with anyone that isn't myself, it will be him"