She sat at the end of the bar in a tight black miniskirt and white blouse. Beside her was a big girl in a loud outfit wearing too much make up. Dressed in a flower print skirt and lavender colored shirt that exposed entirely too much cleavage, she looked desperate. At the other end of the room sat a group of guys sharing a pitcher of beer and laughing too loud. In between were people that didn’t matter; at least not to her. Her eyes were on the guys. One of the guys stood up and headed to the toilet. She watched him go and dismissed him. She wanted the one the other guys were laughing around. Tonight the last laugh would be hers.

Platina smiled. It had been a while since she had taken a female but a quick internal check told her that this one wouldn’t do. Apparently she still had some use in this life. “Buy you a drink?”

“Best offer I’ve had all night. In fact it’s the only offer I’ve had tonight. I’ll take a rum and Coke. Next one’s on me.”

“No, next one is on him,” said Platina nodding towards the handsome man at the other end of the room. “I’ll make sure he buys for both of us.”

“He don’t buy the pretty girls drinks. Just the homey ones or fat girls like me. Thinks it’s funny to brag to his buddies how he went ‘brown bagging’ or ‘pig bustin’. Thinks it boosts their egos to get a little.”

Trina took a swallow of her drink and twirled the glass in her hands.

“Yeah. A girl so ugly you gotta put a brown bag over her head to do her. And pig bustin’ is…” she turned towards Platina and looked down at herself, “well I bet you can guess that one.”

“Nope. Brother. The sad part is sometimes he’s right. Sometimes it’s better to be a joke with somebody than be alone with nobody to laugh with.” She smiled and took another drink.

“Makes you just die laughing,” said Platina with a straight face. “I’m off to get that drink. Rum and Coke, right?”

Platina raked her fingers through her pale platinum blonde hair and ran one of her hands down her mini-skirt. One of the guys at the table looked up and gave her a slow look over. She held his eye for a second and then moved up and tapped Trina’s brother on the shoulder.

Billy looked over his shoulder and swept his eyes over her. A quick look was enough to tell him he had no chance.

“Sorry honey, don’t have any money to waste tonight. Maybe some other time.”

“Oh okay,” said Platina as she bit her lower lip and looked at the floor. “It’s just that I’m new in town and I was talking to that girl