Chapter 8

   It is my first night of 3rd shift tonight and I walk in already regretting my first meeting with Keith since our last conversation. It is a Friday night and so I grab a schedule and head out to my first hour on the floor. I feel relieved getting out before I see Keith. My first hour is full of chip fills and card transfers so it goes by way too fast. My next post is parking garage escalators. I am walking the corridor when I hear a fight break out in the country bar. Keith is dealing with a woman who is trying to fight everyone so she can go back with the band. Keith is stopping her. 

   I walk over to the bar because it is a woman he is dealing with and I am already close by. I walk into bar and find 216 escorting the woman to the front of the bar. I walk to the front with him. I am waiting with the woman while 216 explains what happened to the Casino Manager. One of the bar hostesses calls me over informing me that the guest has a $1300 tab that needed to be paid. 

   "Ok, I will figure out how she wants to pay. I inform the hostess.

   As I walk back over to the guest to see how she wants to pay her tab she looks over at her friend who just showed up. Her friend asked her what was going on. "This bitch is talking shit about me!" She yells as she brings her fist around, swinging a haymaker at me. She is very intoxicated so I have plenty of time to react to her wild punch aimed for my head. I ducked under her punch and wrapped her arms up from behind her. Her friend grabbed me begging for me to let her go.

   "Release me now, or you can go with her!" I tell the friend. 

   The friend released my arm and I face planted her onto the ground in front of the bar. Everyone that was standing around froze and watched as I placed her in handcuffs and pulled her towards the security suite to wait for Tribal Police to take her to jail for assault, and public intoxication.

   While we were waiting for Tribal Police I had the woman in the interview room. She was pacing the floor and trying to get out of the room. I have a policy for myself when I am in these types of situations. I am going to ask you to do something, then I will tell you to do something, then I will make you comply with the command given.

   "Ma'am, We are waiting for Tribal Police to come talk to you about what happened, Will you please sit down and wait for them and I can get you a bottle of water while we wait?" I asked her to which she replies, "Fuck you, I don't have to."

   "Ma'am, I have asked you nicely to have a seat, now I am telling you you need to sit down and wait for tribal police to get here. You are just making this harder on yourself in the log run by not complying." I tell her, and she responded by trying to shove past me out of the room.

   These rooms are maybe 8 feet by 8 feet and there are 2 chairs and a table taking up most of the space. As she tried to shove past me, I grab her and force her to sit in a chair. I have had enough of this woman acting like an animal that just escaped the zoo. She reared back in the chair and placed a kick to my gun belt. I take a step back to absorb the blow and stumble over the table. She makes a break for the door again. I dive after her. "Get your ass back in here you fucking cunt!" I yell as another guard comes in to help me get her off the floor.

   I take my jacket off and start to head back into the interview room when I get stopped by my supervisor. "Go outside and take a break!" He tells me.

   "I am good, I tell him." trying to get back in the room. After 2 or so years working with me my supervisor knows that I am not ok, and I am going to go in there and fight her.

   "I SAID GO OUTSIDE AND SMOKE A FUCKING CIGARETTE!" He blocks me from the door.

   "FINE!" I say as I head for the door. 

   "This bitch has my dick!" I hear the other guard screaming as I slam the door behind me. I ran into Tribal when I got outside. "Have fun with that one, She has Dane's dick in her hands trying to break his balls right now," I inform them as I light up. They run inside. 

   I go back inside and back out on the casino floor to finish out the hour. Keith finds me.

   "Are you Ok?" he asks.

   "I'm good, are you ok?" I smirk at him.

   "Yes I am fine." he said shaking his head at me. For the first time I see him smile full face and reaching his eyes. I just stare at him. Damn he just got even sexier, I thought to myself and walked away. 

   Later that night, I was sitting at the employee entrance. Tribal Officer Dunn came through the door. He offered me his fist and I bumped it. "You are a little fiesty badass aren't you!" he laughed. 

   "What are you talking about?" I asked. He took his phone out and showed me the video of what happened earlier. As I watched the video, I see the woman start to swing at me. Unbeknownst to me at that exact moment I seen the punch coming I grinned up at the surveillance camera as I crouched down ready to spring into action. I shook my head as he played the video in slow motion, I laughed. Then he showed me a picture of the woman after they got her to the hospital. She hit her face on the floor when I slammed her to cuff her. The whole left side of her face was bruised. I felt a little bad.

   After I left employee entrance I get a call over the radio.

   "144 report to the security suite,"

   Oh, what now I thought to myself as I made my way to the office.