Jake Randolph in "Requiem For A Stripper" Pt. 41

I got there just after 8 pm so the front door already had the closed sign on it. I knocked on the glass and saw Aristotle turn and look at me. He was standing on a wooden crate arranging some flowers. He climbed down and walked over to the door.

"We're closed, Randolph," he said through the glass with a voice that sounded like sandpaper.

"I gotta see Eddie, Ari," I yelled back through the glass.

"Eddie don't like you, Randolph."

"I don't like him either but I still need to see him," I said loudly.

He unlocked the door...