Chapter 44 Nose breakage

"Are you sure you don't mind? We could make it another time" Raven asked, Randy had wanted to take her out again, so after ringing work and getting the clearance, she didn't have to catch her plane, but still she didn't want to be pushy, so she did the only thing she could do in this situation, ask him and hope to hell that he would at least be honest. Randy gave her a little smile, his lips placed on her's sweetly,

"No I don't mind, I wouldn't of asked if I minded"

Raven took his peck as a good sign, "Just wanted to make sure, so where exactly are we going?"

"Well I don't know about you, but I really feel like dancing"

Raven let out a thin veil of laughter, "Sorry but the thought of you dancin funny, I probably shouldn't laugh seeing as how you're bigger than me"

"I'm glad its amusing to you"

She wrapped her arms around the Viper's neck, pulling his lips to her's for a moment "Don't get cranky Randy, I'm laughin with you, not at you"

"Luckily for you" Randy kissed her again, enjoying her soft lips and supple body he let himself have the moment. Until the door came open, his 'friends' talking about crap, as per usual.

"I'm tellin you, he's dating a strip-Hey Randy, how are you?" Cody quickly changed his sentence when he saw Raven, her plump lips smiling at him daring him to go on.

"Who's dating a what now?"

"Yeah Cody, we all want to know the end of that sentence" Randy's tone all icy cold told Cody not to speak, sadly Damien Sandow didn't sense the tone change.

"Cody was saying that Randal is dating an exotic dancer"

"So what if I am?"

"I agree with you Rand, what if he is?"

"Strippers are very low on the ladder of life" Damien glowed at the young girl, of course from his point of view he was simply better than the young girl, her being a stripper only cemented it.

"Oh you're one of those, you hear stripper and think that it's somethin dodgy, maybe you need to be more open minded"

"Life lessons from a stripper, classic"

"Perspective; I'm only a stripper when one of the girls is sick or when Fat Tony decides he wants more money. secondly; I'm what you call an appitizer-stripper, I only ever strip down to a bikini"

"Nice image Rae"

"Your welcome Rand. Lastly; the rest of the time I'm a barmaid, a bikini barmaid"

"Thank you"

"Welcome Randy"

Damien stroked his beard in deep thought, Raven was more surprised that she was still listening, "I think I understand it, you do this job because your father doesn't make enough to make ends meet"

Raven and Randy shot each other strange looks, "You don't know who my father is do you?"

"Should I?"

Randy and Raven exchanged looks again, "I think I'll just leave it Randy, he's startin to do my head in, I would hit him but I promised Dad that I wouldn't put anyone in the hospital this week"

"And you should keep your promises Raven"

"Or I couldn't and see what happens after that" She let out a stray giggle, "Trust me Beard-boy, my father's status has nothing to do with anything."

"And your father lets you do this work?"

"Don't matter what he allows, I'm above twenty-one, I can do what I want"

"That explains it then"

"I'm gonna regret this, but this explains what exactly"

"Well lets just say that with those tattoos, maybe stripping is the only thing your suited for"

Raven threw her hand up in front of Randy, that look on his face was set to attack mode. "He's allowed his opinion Randy, we can't deny the man that,"

He stepped back not feeling any better, he wanted to smack the beard right off Damien's face. He let out a triumphant grin before the pain shot up his nose, his back stumbling into the wall. Raven headbutted him so fast, he didn't see it coming until it was too late.

"Yup and I learnt that while I was trainin as a bounty hunter"

"You were a bounty hunter?"

"Sure was, until my injury but yeah, once upon a time I was a bounty hunter"

Randy let that grin slip to his face, "With each passin second you just become more awesome"

"Glad you think so" Raven laughed as Jamie's voice came into hearing distance, "And now I'm having lunch with my sister, I'll see you tonight?"

"Sure"

Raven gave him a peck on the cheek as Jamie threw the door open, "Raven will you take me to lunch? I feel like salad with the side of thousand dollar shopping" She looked to Damien who was still going on about his possibly broken nose.

"What happened to him?"

"I head butted him, and you said I couldn't do that"

"I didn't say you couldn't, I said you shouldn't"

"Now you tell me"

Jamie took her hand and started pulling her out the door, "C'mon, I wants lunch, Jamie hungry!"

"See you tonight Rand!"

Jamie settled with Raven, her blue eyes still lit up but Raven could tell there was something else on her mind. "You alright Jam?"

"I think so, I'm not sure"

"How do you mean?"

"They were pullin me, Dean had one hand and Punk had the other and they pulled me, it was like they were trying to pull my arms off"

Raven shouldn't of laughed but she did, Jamie gave her an evil look before relenting and laughing too. "It really isn't funny"

"I know its not. Do you want me to talk to them?"

"No. Just what do I do next time they pull me?"

"What did you do before?"

"Um" Jamie's face scrunched up in her efforts to remember, Raven wasn't about to point out that she looked like a wrinkly vegetable when she did that. "I told them that I was havin lunch with you because they were fighting and if they get the pully pully outta their systems then maybe we could have lunch"

"Well thats what you need to do next time, let them know that neither of them will get your company if their gonna fight about it"

"You are so wise"

"Well I have a couple of years on ya babe"

"I love that song!"

"Me too. Ray Sawyer was onto something when he wrote that"

Jamie swatted at her, "You and your Ray Sawyer!"

"Just don't tell Randy"

"I promise I won't but if I do, would you be mad?"

"Nah"

"Sweet!"