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They pulled into a hotel that looked like a big circus tent, complete with clowns as bell hops and acrobats that tumbled around. This was the Big Top, one of the first themed hotels created in Boston, and still popular for how it put you right into the show. The lobby was filled with dirt and hay, like the inside of a big top, and the fake tent went all the way into the top in the inside, so you could see all the way up. There were lion cages somewhere on the floor. Geo pulled the car around and a big clown with puffy pants and a green nose took the keys and stuffed himself inside to valet park the car. A valet clown.
Jenn lead the way to the Ringmaster's pub, where midgets dressed in top hats served various kinds of alcoholic concoctions and limitless numbers of local and imported beers. This was a favorite of the college crowd and more than once a midget bartender would be asked if he could be tossed around the room. But tonight it was more sedate, exams, maybe, or maybe because not many got out on a Tuesday, even at a hotel casino bar in Boston.
Jenn led them to a round corner booth, where a tall waitress in a striped uniform was immediately at the ready to get their orders.
"Drinks?" She asked.
"I'll have a martini, straight up." Jenn ordered.
"Rum and Coke," Geo said, furtively glancing at Amber.
"Pale ale," Amber said.
"Okay, great!" The waitress responded, running off to the bar to fill the order.
Jenn looked at Amber, "So. Tell us about yourself, Amber."
Amber looked back. What was it that these people wanted to know? Weren't Bostonians notoriously tight-lipped?
"Well, I've worked in editing for most of my life. When I was 16 I got noticed for a video I did on youtube called the funniest girl in the world, where I basically just parodied the latest meme videos since I was born-- you know, star trek kid, tay zonday, rapping girl, etc. It was a hit, as most of those are, and I really just riffed off that. I moved to LA for awhile, thinking I'd get picked up like most of those other famous internet stars, but really, it was an incestuous relationship with the City-- too many desperate people all looking for the same thing."
Jenn looked at her intensely, eyes burning, as if she wasn't really listening, but observing, trying to sense who she was behind the words. Geo kept his head in his glass and only looked up every once in awhile, almost as if he was embarrassed, or smitten.