Adrien Moreau (hunter_moreau) wrote in vivavampvegas, @ 2010-07-15 18:41:00 |
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Say Hello to Brother
Who: Alexius and Adrien
Where: The Wild Coyote
When: Wednesday Evening - July 7
Alexius was managing a breaking and stood in front of the jukebox. It was the bar's only source of music and currently had nothing blaring out of its speakers, so the blond took it upon herself to snatch a handful of quarters from the register to drop into the machine and select a few songs to get the place bouncing. Sure the coins weren't technically hers to use, but Alexius would defend that with her own little bit of reasoning of that the bar was partly hers and she was entitled to it anyway.
"You know, we might need these quarters to make change with." Alexius had basically hopped right over him to get those quarters as he had been tending bar that night, but that was nothing new. "Or who knows? Maybe some drunk college kids will come in and want to play quarters with them." Of course he was messing with her, but it was fun.
"Pfft." Alex rolled her eyes at that when she turned to look over to her brother. "Who's gonna miss a couple dollars in quarters. And if drunk college kids come in I'll just give them dimes or pennies to use instead if we're that low." Cause really if they already had a little too much to drink they probably wouldn't know the difference. That was Alexius' logic at work again in her head.
"Quarters bounce better," Adrien said as if he were the authority on the subject. He actually had no idea, but it was just fun to annoy her. "Do you ever think that maybe we need to hire live bands to play here?"
"What??" The younger Moreau's eyes went wide at the suggestion. "And take away the jukebox?" The blonde splayed her backside and spread out arms back against the machine as if she were protecting it. "No ones taking away my music machine." One would have thought Alex would know her older brother well enough to know that he got enjoyment out of annoying her. Alexius, for the most part, didn't and tended to take her brother's words at their face value.
"I didn't say take away the jukebox," he pointed out. "I more meant supplementing it with a band on the weekends or something." He did crack a smile at her over protectiveness of said jukebox, though. "You're acting like I said we should take it out back and break it apart with a sledge hammer. The thing's not going anywhere." If only because he knew that he'd be the one moving it, plus suffering the wrath that could be Alexius.
"Okay. As long as we're straight on that." The blond pushed herself off the jukebox to head toward the bar. "Though if you want a band in here you've got to do the hiring. And make sure they know plenty of classic rock." Alexius grabbed a couple empty glasses of a table in her path to the bar when one of the guys sitting there signaled for refills.
"I really don't know of a good bar band that doesn't know a lot of classic rock," he pointed out to her. "And I don't mind doing the hiring." Hell, it gave him something fun to do. Well, fun to him, anyway.
Slipping behind the bar Alex deposited the empty beer glasses into the sink and then snatched two clean ones down from the shelf. "So, what are you going to do? Advertise in a Vegas paper for a band?" Her inquiry made as she filled one, then the other glass with beer that foamed at the rims.
"Hmm...that, check out and see who plays at a couple of other bars in the Vegas area and see if they may want to pick up an extra gig a month or something," Adrien said to her. He wasn't exactly looking for a house band or anything. He just wanted to have something a little different in the bar a few nights a month. Besides, that meant that people wouldn't have to always remember to bring quarters to the bar in order to hear some music.
"Sounds like you've got it all figured out there big brother." Alexius flashed Adrien a smile. Collecting up both glasses the blond rounded out from behind the bar to deliver the two beers to the thirtysomethings who had requested another round.
"Just something that I've been putting some thought into," Adrien said to her. "Always gotta stay on our toes if we're going to keep this place open, you know," he pointed out to her.
Stopping, Alex glanced back over her shoulder to her brother. "This place isn't going anywhere. It'll be passed down to our childrens, children. It's an original in these parts." Her smile broadening to a grin before the blond looked away from Adrien to get her drinks delivered.
"True," he replied to her. "I just don't want to pass down anything that might be in the red." He was a caretaker at heart, and that instinct went to everything that he dealt with, including the family bar.
"That'll never happen." She called back to Adrien while the two glasses of beer were set on a table. One in front of each man seated there. The blond's whole face seemed to brighten then as Charlie Daniels Band starting filling the smokey interior with the sounds of The Devil Went Down To Georgia. "This is one of my favorites." Alex commented to the men before scampering toward the bar and climbed up on it to start dancing across the bar top to the music of Charlie Daniels.
"Just want to be sure," he said to her. He rolled his eyes when he heard the song start to filter out of the box. This meant that people would be getting their boots all over his bar and he'd have to clean up sand and crap off of it for a year. He leaned against the wall behind the bar and watched as people started to dance.
"Gotcha." Alex returned to her brother as she danced across the bar. And it was customary that when one of the Moreau sisters ascended onto the bar, that she was joined by a couple of the female regulars. It seemed to be an unwritten rule among the women who worked there, or prowled The Wild Coyote frequently, that a girl didn't dance the strip of bar top alone.
"And I just cleaned that bar," Adrien said with a slight sigh as the different women started to get up and dance on the bar. Really, it didn't pay to be a male bartender in a bar where your sister jumped on the bar and danced and you had to watch other men stare at her like ravenous dogs.
"I'll restore all your hard work after the bar closes." Alexius told her brother a moment later when the song ended and she had climbed down from the long stretch of bar along with the other women. "Besides, dancing makes people thirsty." And as if to emphasis just that point, Alex grabbed a bottle of tequila and poured herself a shot, which was quickly downed.
"You're damn right you will," Adrien said to her with a smile as he watched some of the other ladies jump up on the bar with her. He knew she had a point though. Beer sales easily doubled after some women danced on the bar with his sisters, and it wasn't just because some of them got thirsty afterward.