Bouncer
Sneak Peek
by Morgan Kauffman
It was a rather dark night, not a star in the sky and the moon was covered by clouds. All that was shining was lights blinking and spilling from the crack of a doorway. Music boomed and shook the building as four teenagers pulled up in a car and got out. They made their way to the entrance and noticed a long line of other people nearly as long as the building itself. The four teens; two guys and two girls, reached the entrance, surpassing the long line and approached a tall and buff bald guy at the entrance. His name card read simply the word; "Steve". The music was getting louder as the door was swinging back and forth with people coming and going behind him. The man crossed his arms and then extended one out in front of him to the four teens; "ID's." The teenagers reluctantly handed their ID's over to Steve, and he looked them over. "Hmmm... you must be twenty one to enter here. You must be twenty one to enter. You must be twenty one to enter, and you must be twenty guess what guys?! one to enter!", he said as he thrust each ID back to each of the teenagers.
One of the girls gets flustered and approaches Steve; "Then, please explain to me why people younger than us are entering?", she said as a child runs around her legs and into the entrance. Steve pulls his arms in closer; "Maybe I just don't like you.", he said in a laugh. And one of the teen guys approaches and looks at Steve sternly; "Are you serious right now?", he started shouting; "We can't go in but kids can?!", he pointed at a group of children now passing them. "You must be accompanied by an adult that is twenty one or over to get in.", Steve replied, and he pointed them to their car. The girl walked up again; "You know what?! I bet you're just a stupid dork that gets a rise out of picking on people like us! All you care about is your muscles and looks!" They stormed off. Steve pinched his fingers between his eyes and squinted. A kid ran up and kicked him in the nuts as Steve doubled to the ground in pain and the father of the child ran behind him and yelled.
A man approached Steve while wearing the same black shirt and attire with his name tag reading "Jim" on it. "Okay Steve, I've got this now, I'll see you next time." Steve struggled to his feet and Jim reached and helped him to his feet. Another kid runs by and punches Steve in the groin this time. "What the hell?!", Steve shouted as he held his boys in together. "That's what your mom said last night when I banged her!" replied the kid and he ran off. "More like what YOU'RE mom said when I was elbow deep in her ass!" Shouted back Jim, and Steve turned to Jim with a pained expression on his face; "Jim what the hell? You can't say shit like that to kids." "All the more reason I'll never have them.", Jim laughed back and he placed his ear piece in and waved Steve goodbye.
