Peter fails to hold onto the laugh that has been begging to escape him; good on his knees? A nice Catholic boy like him?! Just what was she implying?! He fakes a little outrage with a pair of raised brows and a shake of his head. If this were back home - if he were with the boys - his cheeks would be red by now, Christ, they’d have ripped him apart for that comment. But with her and in the company of jest and night life, her humour doesn’t bother him at all. If anything, he takes it as a compliment. Such was the curse of inheriting his looks from his mother’s side; Peter was an undoubted pretty boy, who had been reminded of such a fact during every single family get-together since he was eighteen.
“Hold on” He responds, surprised “ay, I may be prettier than some o’the guys you got peddlin’ on this strip, but I’m much better lyin’ down than I am on my knees.” The gangster’s back and forth with her encourages another chuckle; he’s surprised he’s even, really getting involved in this. Hell, it’s almost childish banter but nothing can really beat it. Not when the night is slow; when the weather is warm enough to sit in during the dark and the smell of the street good enough to bask in.
“Who knows, babe; by the look of it, maybe y’got a life in peddlin’ ass” Peter shakes his head; it was never a comment he could see himself saying to another human being, but there it was. The Italian shakes his head, he takes a drag of the cigarette before him before he turns to face her sharp features properly.
“So - my uh-” he smirks “new pimp; y’gotta name?”
“You talk t’God laying down?” Her earlier joke having been based on prayer-- usually done on bent knees, Angie’s startled by his retort and it shows in her chuckle and changing expression. If theirs had been a more serious conversation she would have considered the fact that she’d thought and mentally spoken many a prayer skywards while laid up in bed. Not to mention all the mini-prayers hastily spoken while standing upright-- everything from begging God not to let the rice burn to all the petty and sometimes superstitious needs that made a Catholic-Lite like herself cross themselves and send up a hurried missive for some divine assistance. None of it is considered-- not at the moment, when they’re each keeping the other grinning and amused.
What he follows that comment up with is a thought she’s entertained before; working as a procurer instead of, or maybe in addition to, a sex worker. It’s the legalities and their consequences that leave that possibility in the realm of dreams instead of a reality she truly pursues. The kind of trouble she could get into someday if her client is ever the wrong one-- like an undercover cop, is the kind of thing she can handle. She’s not afraid of a rap sheet or tainted record, and since it’d be her first offense, Angie knows she’s not staring down too harsh a sentence. Procurers had it different though. Cops and judges liked busting them and trumping up the charges, patting themselves on the back all the while for cleaning the streets of smut. It doesn’t matter to them that working boys and girls can be so much better off working in a small network instead of on their own. If she was ever brought down for helping another girl book steady work she’d get locked up for so much longer than just for doing the work herself. Angie thinks of it all but keeps it to herself for the sake of the light mood, just shaking her head lightly in time with his joke.
“You oughta know better than me-- depends on who’s askin’. It’s Angie to you, and ‘I don’t know nothin’,’ to anybody else.” She gives him a beat to laugh in, or maybe crack wise again, before she’s turning the question right back around on him. “What about you, Altar Boy? What do the Fathers call you?”