when: November 2019 where: the Last Drop with: @jbcnks
The game was over, and the Last Drop was loud – which wasn’t unusual for the Last Drop, or any other bar he’d been in that was, essentially, the exact fucking same – it was just that right now, they were buzzing over baseball. (In contrast to the regular bar fights, which he dutifully avoided, and the usually mediocre open mic, which he grimaced his way through.)
Along the way, he’d made a new acquaintance: Jameson. ‘Jamie’. Who was, in contrast to Declan himself, not drinking anything, as far as he could tell. (For the occasion, it was a single beer; enough to let him blend in, not enough to get him buzzed.) With the game done, it seemed almost impolite to not make some idle small talk – which suited Declan fine.
“–– You said you were from outta town, right?”
“Been in Blackrock long enough to miss the chain stores yet?”















