Sage's Story (The Town of Pearl 5)

Before Corey and Bill could throw any fists, the bouncers came over and broke up the fight.

Sage smiled and looked toward the bathroom hallway, when she saw Amanda making out with some guy dressed in black. Sage couldn’t see his face. He kept his Stetson low, and with the dim light she could hardly make out that it was Amanda, but her red high-heeled cowgirl boots with the sequins sparling down the sides stood out like a neon light.

Sage walked to the ladies’ room. There was a little sitting area, where some women talked and fixed their makeup. One woman was crying with her friends trying to console her.

Sage took care of her business, then rechecked her lip gloss and stared into the mirror. She realized very quickly that she was getting tired of dance halls, bars, and all the chaos associated with a night out on the town with her friends. It bored her, when really all she liked to do was read, work, plant things in her garden, exercise, and work out in the dojo.

Sage took a deep breath knowing that she was stuck here for a while. Her friends were having a good time so she needed to suck it up and have fun, too.

As she exited the door and walked down the hallway, she noticed that Amanda was starting to walk out of the dance hall with the guy she was kissing and another guy. They were by the table and chairs, and Amanda looked drunk.

Sage made her way over, as Davie joined her.

“What’s going on?”

“I think Amanda is going to leave with those guys she just met. I’m going to stop her. You know how she gets when she’s drinking.”

Davie exhaled in annoyance.

As Sage approached, she grabbed Amanda’s hand.

“Hey, honey, where are you running off to?”

Amanda turned around smiling and looking very happy. She ran her hand down one of the guy’s chests and then to the other one’s. “Meet Tye and Hue. They’re in the oil business.”

Both men smiled as they s

andwiched Amanda between them.

“Sure they are, and I have a cousin who works with Santa and his elves at the North Pole. Come on, Amanda, I think you need to slow down a little.” She reached for Amanda, and the one guy pulled her back.

“Oh!” Amanda yelled out.

“Let her go,” Davie chimed in.

“Yeah, let her go now,” Sage ordered. Another cowboy, a friend of these two guys, walked over. He placed his hand on Sage’s waist.

“What’s going on here, sugar? There are enough of us to go around,” he told her and Sage snorted at the jerk.

“Go take a walk.”

He pulled her closer to him and she nearly lost her balance as her hip hit the wooden table hard. She knew that would leave a bruise, but she would worry about that later.

“Let go of her,” Davie yelled as he tried to pry the guy’s hands off of Sage.

The guy pushed Sage into Amanda and the two cowboys and then took a swing at Davie. Davie ducked and countered, hitting the guy in the nose. “What the hell is going on here?” Corey asked as he and Bill showed up. Sage knew this was getting out of hand when suddenly the cowboy that had been holding Amanda reached under Sage’s arm and cupped her breast. Sage yelled and then twisted from his hold and slugged him. From there on out it was complete chaos.

The three guys who had started a fight with Corey and Bill earlier were now there, some woman, who apparently used to sleep with the two cowboys Amanda was fooling around with, showed up and grabbed Amanda by the hair. Knowing that Amanda was too drunk to handle a fight, Sage pulled the blonde woman from Amanda just as more yelling started and then the word “Fight” echoed through the air. Bottles were flying, people were screaming and cheering, tables were breaking, and the band kept playing as the security attempted to intervene. Sage grabbed Amanda as the blonde swung her open hand against Amanda’s cheek.

Sage was so shocked, she stood there momentarily and watched as Amanda screamed and then slapped the woman back and then decked her. Sage heard Lenny yell, “Watch out,” and as Sage turned covering her face and head, a beer bottle hit her forearm and broke against it. Chards of glass cut her skin and she yelled as she pulled it to her chest. Strong arms wrapped around her and she thought it was one of the cowboys who tried taking Amanda but instead it was Bill.

“Let’s get the hell out of here!” he yelled.

“Get Amanda, Mary, and Sissy.”

“Corey, Lenny, and Davie have them. Come on.”

As they exited out of the dance hall along with a bunch of other people, they made their way down the street to where they parked.