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A Night With Twilight
Written By ShAnTii

The sound of taxi's passing by extremely fast, loud shouts of people walking down the sidewalk and sirens of police cars are all heard from outside the fourth floor apartment window just a few blocks from the main party street in Atlantic City.  It is a quarter after eight in the evening and Russell James Bradford better known throughout the gay community as Twilight, is getting ready for another night of entertainment. 

Twilight is one of the most popular female impersonator's in Atlantic City.  He is a regular performer and a crowd favorite at Club Fuchsia. The Drag Shows at Club Fuchsia are always top notch and extremely entertaining.  It has always been said that Atlantic City is the original gay club capital of America with Club Fuchsia paving the way in elite and high scale gay entertainment.


Twilight's apartment is small, organized, nicely decorated and clean.  The walls are a bright ruby red with black silk icicle curtains.  The glamorous local super star sits in his tub as he shaves his legs, arms and everywhere else he feels that needs shaving. After taking a comfortable bubbled bath, Twilight reaches for a towel and begins to dry himself. He walks towards his bedroom and turns on his JVC Stereo and plays  his favorite song, "If You Could Read My Mind" and puts it on repeat. This is the song that he likes to listen too when he puts on his clothes, make-up and all. He walks over to his closet and gets the wardrobe he is going to wear for the evening.  His show wardrobe and costume is already placed in his carry bag and all set to go. As Twilight puts on the final touches of mascara, puckers up and puts on more shocking red lipstick and powders up his nose, he sings along with the song,

"I never thought I could act this way

and I've got to say that I just don't get it.

I don't know where we went wrong

but the feelings gone and I just can't get it back.

If you could read my mind love,

what a tale my thoughts could tell.

Just like an old time movie about a ghost from a wishing well
."

He gets close to the mirror, throws a kiss to himself, looks up to see his neck, looks down and adjusts his jet black colored wig and then reaches out for some huge round gold glittered earrings and puts them on. "You look beautiful Twilight." he says to himself.   He gets his carry bag, mini suitcase, purse and turns off the stereo and he is out the door and is Club Fuchsia bound.

As Twilight walks towards his car, he looks up to the sky and sees lightning.  The sound of thunder is barely heard.  He wants to hurry and get to the club as soon as possible before it begins to rain.  He places his belongings in the trunk of his car. He realizes that the car needs gasoline so he drives up to the nearest gas station.  Upon arriving at the gasoline station it begins to drizzle a little and as he gets off his car, the drizzle turns into bigger drops of rain. He reaches for his debit card from the ash tray and quickly gets out of the car.  As he pumps gasoline into his car, he notices two young men approaching his car.   He continues to look at them.  "Yes? Can I help you?" asks Twilight in his deep voice. The guys respond, "Yeah, you sure can. Just stay there you silly ass ho!"  One of the guys opens the car's door and gets into his car and takes Twilight's purse.  Both of them run away.  "Heeeey - you assholes, give me my purse!" yells Twilight as he begins to run after the two guys.  Obviously, he was not able to catch up with them since he was wearing some stiletto's and a tight sequin mini-skirt.  "I can't believe this. My purse has been stolen along with some cash and my cell phone!" mumbled Twilight to himself.  As he is walks towards his car, it starts to rain harder.  Luckily, he has his debit card with him.

Twilight comes to a stop at a red light on 11th Street.  It is pouring hard and he notices that there is an elderly woman walking with a bag of groceries.  He looks at his watch, then looks at the red light and then looks at the old lady again.  He looks at his watch again.  The old lady is getting wet.  Twilight can not resist but to ask the lady if she needs a ride home.  He rolls the window down and shouts, "Excuse me ma'am. Would you like a ride home?"  The lady looks at him and with an uncertain look, the old lady begins to walk towards the car.  As she is walking towards the car, she misses a step and falls off the sidewalk with the bag of groceries.  Twilight quickly gets out of his car, leaves the door open and runs towards the lady and picks her up. "Are you ok? Are you hurt?" asks Twilight.  The lady responded, "Oh dear, I could not see clearly with all this rain. I missed a step and I think I broke my eye glasses." As both of them are walking back to the car, they see a truck coming extremely fast and over the speed limit. BAANG! "Oh no!" yells Twilight.  "Shit! The truck took my door! That dam truck too my door!" The little old lady looks at Twilight and tells her, "Oh dear, I'm sorry. It is my fault."  Twilight tells her that it is not her fault and quickly places her groceries in the back seat of the car and drives off with the old lady and tries to catch up with the truck.  He is driving as fast as he can when all of a sudden a cop's car motions him to pull over. "Dam!" yells Twilight.  

"License and registration please." asks the police officer.  "I am pulling you over because you are driving 70 mph on a 35 mph zone.  And by the way, what happened to your door?  Where is your door?" asks the officer.  As he hands the officer the registration, he tells him, "Officer, please, you have to help me.  My name is Russell James Bradford I am a female impersonator and I had my purse stolen from my car as I was pumping gas.  I tried to run after the two guys that took it but I could not catch up to them.  I do not have my driver's license because it was in the purse. I saw this elderly woman whom I have no idea what her name is and I asked her if she needed a ride home because she was walking in the harsh rain with her bag of groceries.  As she was walking to my car, she fell down and I went to help her and then a truck drove by as fast as lightning and tore the door of my car.  That is why I was speeding officer." exclaimed Twilight as the officer stared at him with a serious look.  "Boy oh boy, you have had some night haven't you Mr. Bradford." responded the police officer. 

The officer receives a call from dispatch about a severe accident further down the road.  He asks for Twilight and the elderly lady to wait for him at the doughnut shop that is across the street.  The officer left to the scene of the accident a few miles down the road as Twilight and the old lady walks to the doughnut shop.  The car is left on the shoulder side of the road. Twilight places a coffee and doughnut order for both of them. He is very cold due to the damp clothes he is wearing.  The old lady stays at the table as Twilight goes to the restroom. The old lady looks out the window and sees someone with a black ski mask slide into the car.  Within seconds, the guy drives off with Twilight's car. As he returns from the restroom the old lady tells him, "Oh Dear, I don't know how to tell you this, but your car has been stolen." stated the old lady to Twilight.  Shockingly, with a messed up and wet wig and smeared mascara,Twilight turns and looks out the window. "This can't be happening to me. This can't be happening to me. Why is this happening to me?" asks Twilight as he looks outside towards to where his car was. 

After an hour or so, the elderly ladies' son came by and picked her up. Unfortunately, she has no groceries to take home. Twilight decides to stay behind a little while longer and wait for the police.  Twilight sits at the far end of shop and drinks his coffee. He's looking out the window and then puts his head down on the table to rest a little.  He is in total disbelief in what he has experienced this evening.  It is truly an unforgettable night.  He hears the dangling door bell ring as someone walks in and begins to shout, "Alright! Just do as I say or else I will hurt you. Give me all the money - NOW. Give me all the dam money. I SAID NOW!"  Slowly, Twilight begins to slide underneath the table.  He is shaking with fear and has no phone to call for help. Less than a minute the robber gets the money from the employee and flees. Twilight gets out from underneath the table and asks if the employee is alright.  They call the cops.  Twilight walks outside and realizes that he just wants to get out of there.  

It is now eleven thirty.  He is walking down the sidewalk thinking about his performance at 1 a.m.  Twilight has an emergency outfit at Club Fuchsia that he can use for the show.  He begins to walk down the sidewalk and comes to a halt as he waits for the light to change color while all of a sudden a car drives by and splashes water on him. "You idiot!" yells Twilight to the driver and exposes his middle finger. "What else can go wrong?" asks Twilight. HONK! HONK! Twilight turns and to his surprise it is a truck driver.  "Hey cutie where are you headed?" asks the truck driver.  "Now listen up, Take that flirty smile off your face because I'm no freakin' woman. I am a man. I need to get my ass to work. I have been robbed.  My car's door was torn off by a truck.  I was pulled over by a cop. My car was stolen. I was at a doughnut shop when it was burglarized. Some lady did not get to take her groceries with her to her home because of my stolen car and I am soaking wet. Can you kindly drop me off at Club Fuchsia?" asks Twilight with a serious and low demanding voice. "Well, I'm afraid to tell you no bud, so hop on in." responds the truck driver.  As they are driving towards the club, Twilight is looking out the window and sees the door to her car in the middle of the road.  Twilight nods his head in disbelief.  As they are about to approach the club, the truck driver mentions to Twilight, "Well, here we are, destination Club Fuchsia.  And lady or sir or whatever you like to be called, I hope your Friday the 13th does not get any worse."  "What? Friday the 13th? No way - no fucking way!" replies Twilight as he puts his hands over his eyes and laughs.  "I can't believe this.  I just can't fucking believe this."  I don't perform on Fridays. I thought today was Saturday?" exclaimed Twilight.  The both look towards the club and then they look at each other. "All of this for nothing!" says Twilight out loud as she bangs her head on the window.  "Now what?" asks the truck driver.  Twilight responds, "can you take me home?" 


 

THE END








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