Barclay Davis - Lover Of Mine, One Last Kick

Art by Scopedog

Friday night at the Crow's Bar, and all is well. Mo and Jasmine are with the Gang, as they celebrate another profitable month at their shawarma restaurant, as well as Bob and his ex Shontel, as their reunion seems to be getting stronger.

At the table, Paul asks Max, "So, is everything now square with Frida?" in regards to Lydia's surprise visit.

"Couldn't be more better, Paul." Max assures him. "Had a nice talk with Frida, followed up by some nice kissing at the end. Frida has nothing to worry about!"

"Ya mean, ya both got loud and messy at the end!" Victor says.

"Complain all you want, shellface." Max tells Victor. "That just means everything is happy and healthy with the two of us!" Max then gets up and heads for the men's room. But first, he saunters up to the front, where Frida is serving drinks, and sneaks up behind her to give her a squeeze and a kiss.

Frida was surprised by that, but quite liked it, saying "Mmmm, you're in a frisky mood tonight!"

"And why wouldn't I be?" Max says. "I have the most beautiful, hottest, sexiest woman on the planet as my girlfriend! I'm the luckiest guy in the whole damn world!😁"

"And don't you ever forget that, little mister!" Frida coyly tells Max, They both kiss and Max turns around to finally head to the men's room.

He passes the table, where Victor jokingly tells him "Still not getting a room, the two of ya?" Max just laughs at that and continues walking. But as Max went to the men's room, Victor noticed someone sitting at a table by the side of the entrance to the back.

It turned out to be Lydia Cole, with heavy makeup and bright red lipstick, who managed to keep herself well incognito from everyone. Lydia then gets up to follow Max.

Victor, not liking what he's seeing, gets up off the table to follow her. He gets to the entrance, where he puts himself up against the wall next to it, then peers into the open.

After a moment, Max is out of the men's room and heading back to the table. But before he's in the clear, a voice calls out to him. Max turns around to see Lydia standing by the ladies' room.

"Hi Max!" Lydia tells him.

"FUCK OFF AND GO TO HELL, YOU!!!"🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬" Max snaps at her. "I already told you I'm not interested in you anymore!" He tries to head out to the table, but Lydia keeps being persistent.

"Max please, just for a moment. Then I'll let you be." Lydia says to him. Max, against his better judgment, decides to follow her, as they both head into the pool room to be alone.

Victor, not liking that, heads over to the pool room to keep an eye on things. When he gets to the entrance, he peeks again to see where Max and Lydia are, then quickly scurries underneath the nearest couch to see what's going on between the two.

"What do you want?!!" Max snaps at Lydia, adding "Christ, I've got a good mind to smack you!😠😠😠😠😠"

"Oh Max, you don't really mean that, do...?" Lydia asks him.

"The hell I do!" Max snapped, adding "Frida told me all about your little one on one with her, the other day! You had her believing I was going to dump her to be with you! Not in a billion light years would I even think about that!"

"You still want to be with that sickly looking toothpick, Max?" Lydia asks him, with a bit of a smirk on her face and a sneer in her voice. "She looks like a stage four cancer patient!"

Max, not liking that response from Lydia, crosses his arms and fires back "I'll have you know, Frida takes very good care of herself. She exercises regularly and watches what she eats. Something YOU should consider, what with that growing muffin top you've got!"

"Oh, you're bad!" Lydia chides Max. "And those upper teeth of hers! Does she use them to open cans?😈"

"I HAPPEN TO LIKE THEM!!!😠😠😠😠😠" Max growls through his clenched teeth, as he's growing more angry over Lydia's mocking of Frida.

Lydia was unmoved by Max's comments. She kept persistent, as she moved closer to him. She continued, "Oh Max...you always were a stubborn one. But I always knew how to get through to you. If not one way...then ano..." Lydia then tried to put her hand on Max's crotch, but the moment she touched it, Max grabbed her wrist, and violently pulled it up in the air.

Max then started screaming loudly into Lydia's face. "YOU DON'T GET IT, DO YOU, LYDIA?!! I DON'T LOVE YOU, I LOVE FRIDA!!! SHE TAUGHT ME HOW TO LOVE, YOU TAUGHT ME HOW TO HATE!!! WHY THE FUCK WOULD I WANT TO TURN MY BACK ON THE GREATEST THING THAT'S EVER HAPPENED TO ME, FOR SOMEONE WHO'D JUST TURN AROUND AND CRUSH MY HEART THE FIRST CHANCE THEY GOT?!!"

Lydia was taken aback by Max's tone and behavior to her. She never expected Max to react to her like this. She said, "Y...You can't be serious, Max! After all these years, don't you want me?"

"NO!!! NON, NEIN, NYET, NAO, NADA, AND ALL THE OTHER DIFFERENT LANGUAGES AROUND THE WORLD THAT SAY NO!!!😠😠😠😠😠" was Max's final answer.

Lydia was surprised. She couldn't believe Max thoroughly rejected her, and was left standing looking at him for a moment, not saying a word. Finally, she turns around and says "Wow!...I...I guess I really can't have you then." She stands there for what felt like forever.

And then, Lydia turns to kick Max square in the groin, which forced him to drop to his knees, clutching his crotch in pain. As he was reeling, Lydia undoes a couple of buttons at the top of her blouse. Then, she grabs a clump of Max's hair, and, as Lydia's forcing him to look at her, says to Max "So I guess I'll have to DESTROY YOU THEN!!!

Max was in pain and confused as to what Lydia had planned. She then gives Max a big, sloppy kiss that covers his entire mouth with her bright red lipstick. After Lydia breaks the kiss, she punches Max's left eye, which sends him to the ground. As Max was reeling from the punch, Lydia undoes the top of her pants, then turns to head out to the bar, mussing up her hair and screaming. Max gets up, with a black eye on his face, and proceeds to head out to the bar as well.

When Max arrives, he sees Lydia screaming at everyone, saying "I'VE JUST BEEN ATTACKED BY THAT MONSTER!!!" as she points at Max. "HE JUMPED ME FROM BEHIND, AND STARTED KISSING ME AND TRYING TO REMOVE MY CLOTHES!!!"

"YOU FUCKING BITCH, YOU'RE LYING TO EVERYONE!!!" Max screamed at Lydia.

"YOU'RE THE LIAR!!!" Lydia screamed. "YOU SLOBBERED ALL OVER ME WITH YOUR DISGUSTING MOUTH AND TRIED RIPPING MY CLOTHES OFF!!! I HAD TO MUSTER UP ALL MY STRENGTH JUST TO PULL MYSELF OFF YOU, YOU PIG!!!

Max turned to look at Frida, who was standing in shock and horror at what she was seeing. "SHE'S LYING, FRIDA!!! SHE'S TRYING TO SET ME UP!!! YOU CAN'T BELIEVE A WORD SHE SAYING!!!"

Frida was in disbelief at what she saw. After somewhat composing herself, Frida angrily attacks Max. "YOU FUCKING BASTARD!!!" Frida says, as she slaps Max's face hard. "YOU TOLD ME YOU HAD NO INTEREST IN HER!!! YOU BEEN FUCKING LYING TO ME ALL THIS TIME!!!"

When Max composes himself after that slap, he grabs Frida by her shoulders and says to her, "FRIDA, SHE ATTACKED ME IN THE POOL ROOM BECAUSE I REJECTED HER AGAIN, YOU CAN'T BELIEVE..." Frida then kicked Max in the groin, which caused him to drop to his knees in pain again, screaming "AAAUGH, NOT AGAIN!!!"

"DON'T YOU FUCKING TOUCH ME!!! I DON'T EVER WANNA FUCKING SEE YOU AGAIN, YOU FUCKING LYING PIG!!!" Frida screamed at Max, as she turned to head towards the Gang, where she started crying into Paul's shoulder.

"Frida!" was all Max could say as he was still down on his knees grabbing his crotch in pain. But then, Lydia approached Max, with her finger pointed at him, and started yelling at him.

"You'd better start forgetting about your ex-girlfriend, Max. You've got much bigger problems now! I'm gonna see to it charges be filed against you for sexual assault and attempted rape, AND I'M GONNA SEE TO IT THAT YOU GET THROWN IN PRISON FOR IT!!! NO HUMAN ALIVE IS GONNA SAVE YOUR SORRY ASS!!!!👿👿👿👿👿"

"Ya got that right, Witchiepoo!" said a voice from behind. Lydia turns to see Victor up on the bar table, with his claws crossed over and the tips on the surface, and his right set of legs rapping up and down, like fingers rapping on a table. Victor just looked at Lydia with a stone cold face.

After seeing him, Lydia slowly starts walking towards Victor, saying to him "Welllll, if it isn't Max's pet freak!" She stops where she is and continues talking to Victor, "Do you really think you can step in and save the day for your lord and master?👿"

Victor didn't say a word. Instead, after he stops his toe tapping, Victor grabs a napkin that was off to his right and tosses it aside to reveal his smartphone, which was lying flat on the bar table. Still unmoved, Victor then taps an icon on his phone that reads 'Bluetooth device, ACTIVATED'.

And then, the widescreen tv behind Victor started showing Max and Lydia's conversation they just had in the pool room. It started just as Lydia was about to approach Max and try to put her hand on his groin. When Lydia saw that, her face went from arrogant defiance, to wide eyed and wide mouth shock and disbelief, as her little scheme was dissolving right in front of her and the entire bar.

When Max starts saying "I DON'T LOVE YOU, I LOVE FRIDA!!!" Frida went from crying in sadness to complete surprise, as did the rest of the bar, as Max had been telling her the truth all along. And as everyone was being exposed to Lydia's scheme, Max, realizing his bacon has just been saved, looks at Victor and says to him "Ohhhhh, Vic-Torrrrr..."

Victor responds by throwing a wink at Max.🦀😉😁

And then, everyone sees the rest of the clip where Lydia kicks Max in his groin, unbuttons some of her clothes, then slobber kisses Max and punches him in the eye. The clip ends when Max gets up to reveal the black eye Lydia had given him. Then, not having budged one inch, Victor coolly says to Lydia...

"That answer yer question? BIIIIIIIITCH?!!🦀😈😈😈😈😈"

Lydia was completely frozen. She couldn't believe that her plans were thoroughly destroyed right in front of her, by a lowly, smart ass crustacean, of all things. Then, Lydia's face starts to grow red with anger, her fists clenched tight as well as her face. Lydia was heavy breathing and seething at Victor, as she started moving towards him, with her arms up. Soon, Lydia unclenches her fists and has her fingers stretched out like claws as she's ready to attack Victor.

Lydia opened her mouth. There was a primal scream! But it didn't come from Lydia. It came from Frida! Who followed that up with a teeth shattering, roundhouse right to Lydia's jaw, that sent her flying across the bar and onto her back, where Frida quickly jumped on her, pinning her arms to the ground with her legs. Frida then proceeded to rain lefts and rights to Lydia's face, making loud grunts each time. Then, Frida grabbed a hold of Lydia's blouse and started jackhammering her face with consistent rights, that made Lydia's face look more and more like a bloody mash, while screaming even more wildly at her.

It was then Max, worried that Frida was losing it, approached her from behind to pull her off of Lydia, saying to her, "Ok Frida, that's enough, you're getting carried away, STOP!!!" Max was able to get Frida off Lydia, as the two of them landed on their butts, away from her.

Getting up on their knees, Max grabs Frida from her shoulders, looks her in the eye, and yells at her "ARE YOU CRAZY?!! YOU COULD HAVE KILLED HER!!!"

Frida cried out "BUT SHE TRIED TO HURT YOU MAX, SHE HURT..."

"ENOUGH!!!!!" Max screamed as he gave Frida a quick shake of her shoulders, continuing "I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER WORD!!!"

Max continued, "It's over Frida! It is ALL...OVER!!!"

There was a deafening silence across the bar, as everyone looked at Max after he said that. Frida seeming confused and somewhat worried about what Max had just said to her. She nervously asked him, "...wha...what do you mean by that, Max? Are you saying it's over betwe..."

Frida went silent all of a sudden, as she started looking intensely at Max, who had a serious and somewhat furious look on him and was breathing heavily through his nose. Victor, the Gang and everyone else inside the Crow's Bar were all looking at Max as well. Everyone was wondering if Max was about to do the unthinkable to Frida.

After an ungodly amount of silence, Frida grabs Max's shirt tightly, with both hands, and cries out loudly and upsettingly at him, "MAAAAAAAX!!!!!"

Max still didn't move much, save for the heavy breathing and the intense look he was giving Frida. Then, after breathing in heavily, Max finally says to Frida, "...Oh I'm sorry, I wasn't LISTENING! I was TOO BUSY THINKING ABOUT HOW beautiful you are!💓💕💖💗💘💞"

Max finished with a soft gentle smile at Frida, who went from being scared and fearful with tears in her eyes, to being taken by surprise by what Max had just said to her.

Max then gently cups Frida's face with both his hands, then looks deeply into her eyes and softly tells her, "I love you Frida...so very much!"

Frida, realizing her worst fears were not about to happen, looked into Max's eyes with her mouth still open and quivering. She then puts her hands to his face, and meekly says to him, "...MAAAAAAAX!!!!!" It was then, Max quickly wrapped his arms around Frida and began kissing her deeply, with Frida returning the gesture to Max in full.

Victor and the entire bar breathed a huge sigh of relief, after that.

As Both Max and Frida were engulfed in each other, the Gang were looking at them with some emotion. Sam looked at Pete and asked him, "Dude, are you crying?"

Pete answers back "I'm not cryin'. He's cryin'."

Bob responds "I'm nut cryin'. Dey're cryin'!" as he's pointing at Mitch and Paul, who are actually crying in each others arms.

"Yeah, we're crying, WHAT ABOUT IT?!!" Mitch yells out. "It's beautiful!"

"Sometimes it is good to cry, no?" Paul says wiping the tears from his face.

After being out for a bit, Lydia gets up and is immediately dizzy and in pain, and is having difficulty seeing, as the beatdown she received from Frida did a number on her. Lydia seemed to be choking on something. She coughed it out and, through her blurred vision, saw it to be her own blood and teeth. Lydia then looked into the mirror on the side of the bar table, that's there for decorative purposes, and saw her own face, bloodied, purple and swollen, both her eyes blackened and swollen near shut, and a lot of her teeth knocked out, leaving Lydia with an ugly, jagged smile.

Lydia was distraught, looking at Frida's handiwork. She then turned to see Max and Frida still kissing each other, never really breaking their kiss, and getting extremely upset by it.

As Lydia was watching Max and Frida go at it, Victor starts talking to her from behind.

"Look at 'em!" Victor says to Lydia. "Have you ever seen two people love each other, the way those two do? You know, that could have been YOU in her position. Being on the receiving end of Max's love. Gettin' ALL that passion and affection that any woman wishes their guy could give them.

"But nope! You were too fucking selfish and full of yourself to even bother giving Max the time of day.

"Ah well. Sucks being you!" Victor continues. "Max is in a far, far better place now with someone superior to you in every way possible. And YOU are where you deserve to be, lookin' the way you do!

"Alone and unloved!🦀😈"

Lydia, in her concussed state, her head and face throbbing in pain, and her vision all blurred, mustered enough strength to get up off the floor and started pointing her finger at Victor. She then moved closer to him while furiously growling at him, "You just be grateful I didn't get together with Max, otherwise, I'd have had you chopped up and served in a salad, you fucking... " But Lydia, in her state, was unaware of how close she got to Victor, as just as she said that, Victor clamped both his claws on Lydia's finger and pinched it hard!

Lydia started screaming in agony, as Victor was pinching her finger very hard, getting Lydia to drop on her knees. And just as Lydia was in the most agony, Victor quickly ripped his claws off of her. Lydia quickly grabbed it to try and alleviate the pain. As she was looking at her finger, Lydia noticed some blood coming off of where Victor had pinched her. Then, her finger started bleeding profusely, as she then grabbed hold of it tightly to stop it from bleeding any further.

Victor then says to Lydia, "Ya know...normally I'd advise you to go to an emergency ward, at the nearest hospital, to get yourself looked at, but...that would mean I'd actually give a fuck about you!" And, in one final gesture, Victor points his claw at the door and says to Lydia, "Get out!"

As she turns to look at Max and Frida, still kissing passionately together, Lydia comes to the realization that she made the biggest mistake of her life. And that she'll be reminded of that every time she looks at herself in the mirror. For Lydia, it feels like her life has flashed before her eyes, yet she's still alive to relive it.

And, with what little pride she has left, Lydia crawls out the door and out of their lives for good.

Max and Frida didn't care. They're too into each other to care about her, or anyone else at the moment. Their love, like their kissing, remains intact, and growing.

Coming up, Barclay Davis - Angela