Bellwether

4.

Kelsi smiles at the dozens upon dozen of pictures and stickers on the wall of the bar. The amount of history in this place was crazy. It's weird how much this place changed in just the three years she had been gone. Even with all the change it still had the familiar glow to it. It was still crazy filled with people yelling singing, and having a good time.

"Is that you Bradshaw!" someone yelled over the rufous of the room. Kelsi turned to see who the culprit was for yelling. When she turned around she saw the group of pilots from before again. Though there was someone new. He was tall and wearing a yellow-looking Hawaiian shirt with a white shirt under, jeans, boots, and aviator sunglasses. Overall, the conclusion was that he was HOT. She watched him walk over with confidence and a smile on his face. Unknowingly, Kelsi was looking at them for a few seconds too long and some of them started to notice her stare.

***

Phoenix leaned over to Fanboy and whispers, "Whos that girl over there?" She gestures over to Kelsi.

"She doesn't look familiar. I mean I know she didn't graduate from our class, that's for sure." Fanboy replies a little louder than he thought. It catches the attention of the others around them.

"Who are you two gawking at?" Hangman looks at them weirdly. Phoenix rolls her eyes and subtly points towards Kelsi. "Her, do you know her?" Everyone in the group shakes their heads no or say something like 'I don't know who that is.'

***

Kelsi snaps out of spacing out and sees the whole group staring directly at her. Her eyes widen and she gives a 'Tf you looking at' face and quickly looks away at anyone but them.

***

"Well, that was weird," Rooster chuckles and looks at the girl in question.

"Not really," Bob answered. Hangman smirks then laughs, "Right because you of all people catch women looking at you for fun."

Phoenix smack's the back of Hangman's head, "Shut it, Bagman."

 Bob sighs, "Do you see the patches on her jacket? There are Top Gun ones and some psycho practically suicide mission patches too. She's not just chilling here on a Sunday night for fun. There's something else she's here for." 

"God, you're such a fucking nerd!" Hangman goes back to the pool table and takes the cue from Coyote, lining up his shot. "If the bitch were here for something for Top Gun she would've come over here already." He takes the shot and a solid-colored ball goes into the pocket. "Besides, look at her she doesn't seem like a good competition." He looks at her and chuckles. "The only place she'd work is the strip club down the road with a body like that."

Phoenix rolls her eyes and starts walking away. Rooster looks at her, "Where ya going?"

"To figure out her story. Also to get away from Bagman." She finishes and walks away.

Hangman yells after her, "It's Hangman and you know you love me!"

***

Kelsi leans against the wall drinking her second beer of the night.

"Hey, you! The one in the converse!"

Kelsi looks up and then down at her shoes. She looks back over and sees a woman walking over to her. She had been part of that group before. Kelsi groans and stands up fully.

"Yeah? What do you want?"

"Well I wanted to get away from those guys back there, but I also wanted to talk to you."

Kelsi looks at her weirdly, "Uh why?"

"Well when you catch someone staring at you and your friends you get curious, also I see that you're from Top Gun so I'm intrigued."