"Taylor! Taylor! Taylor!" The men chanted as Taylor gulped down his fifteenth shot. They erupted in cheers and hollers as he slammed the glass down on the table for the fifteenth time in the past hour.
"When are they going to stop being so obnoxious?" Nadine said, brushing her hair out of her eyes.
"Honey, it's just a birthday party." Susan said, patting her on the back.
"I don't care, they're loud and noisy, and if that one doesn't stop pinching my but, he's gonna get it." Nadine growled.
"You don't have a choice, deary. I know how much you're making tonight, and it's enough to pay your rent for a month." Susan said, looking at her sideways as she cleared the dishes off the table.
"Oh, I know." She said, throwing the dirty rag into the hamper that was attached to the cleaning cart beside her.
"Just smile politely and suck it up." The older woman said, holding her back.
"Susan, go home, surely they won't last too much longer. I can take it." Nadine said, taking the dirty plates from the old woman.
The woman smiled at her. She was in her early sixties, and Nadine was only twenty-two. She was tired, and her arthritis was acting up again.
"Okay sweetie. I'll go home. And remember, keep that fiery temper of your under control!" The old lady said with a firm smile, while shaking a finger in Nadine's face.
"I will." She said, smiling at the old woman's antics. "See you tomorrow." She said waving after her as the woman closed the door to the suite of the Embassy Hotel.
"Okay."
Nadine sighed and threw the dirty towels from the bathroom into the hamper of her cart that she had to take all the way down to the laundry room yet to wash. She let her breath out and brushed her curly, dark brown hair out of her dark brown eyes. She was around 5'4", and had a very girlish build, but it was slightly muscled from all the years of running around with her four older brothers. Her family had moved to the to Oklahoma after moving with her father's job when she was seven or so from Mexico, where she was born. She was Mexican, and still had her accent from her bilingual parents.
Nadine was a worker in the Embassy Hotel in Tulsa Oklahoma, and she had Susan had become good friends earlier that year when she had started working there. They had instantly clicked and become friends, making their long days and almost as long nights at the hotel more bearable.
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