It was hard getting up that morning. Not only had Natalie been having a difficult time at work those past six months, but for the past four months her boyfriend was acting odd. Sean and Natalie had been together a total of four years, hitting up their fifth year anniversary pretty soon and Natalie was expecting a proposal to be made soon. But Sean... Sean wasn't acting the kind of weird that men get when they're about to do something big, no, he was acting the complete opposite. Acting suspicious, controlling, he was being secretive, staying out late every night, sometimes not returning for three days and when he did come home he'd refuse to say where he went and what he did. He'd take out large amounts of cash and spend it on who knows what. She'd often catch glimpses of scratches and what appeared to be either bruises or hickeys on Sean's skin but Natalie couldn't tell. After weeks and weeks of asking what was going on and weeks and weeks of getting ignored and lied to Natalie had enough and told Sean that she was going to stay at her parents for a while and to call her when he was finally ready to talk. Natalie didn't know what to think-If Sean was in danger or if he were having an affair, it was all just to complicated.
With a sigh and a loud grunt, Natalie got out of bed, reaching for her iPhone that was resting on her Night Stand, sounding it's alarm. Once she had turned it off she flicked the light and turned her old lamp on, looking around her old bedroom. She could still faintly smell the cigars her and her friends smoked when they had an older guy over. There was still the stain on her floor when they decided to mix tequila and salsa together before drunkenly tripping over the two and not caring enough to clean up the mess in time-no, instead they just left it for the three days Natalie's parents were out of town before dealing with the mess. Natalie was sure that Jason Boores boxer shorts were still stuffed under her bed from when she first lost her virginity. Her parents came home early that night and Jason barely had time to grab any of his clothing before climbing out of her window and falling into their Rose bush, bringing not only one trophey to his friends, but two as they used tweezers to pull the thorns out of his back and the bottom of his foot.
"Natalie, breakfast is ready!" Natalie's mother called.
Natalie ran her hands down her face, rubbing her eyes as she did so as she tried to wake up. She put her messy brown hair into a badly shaped pony tail before getting up and slipping her arms into a pink thin robe and tying it securely. She opened the door to the hallway and made her way to the kitchen, taking a seat at the small round wooden table that barely fit five. Across from Natalie her little sister 'Lanie' sat with her eyes glued to her eye phone, as she reached to her plate picking up pieces of Bacon and feeding it to the dog under the table.
"Alannah!" Haley, Natalie's mother snapped. "What have I told you about feeding the Dog?!"
"Not to." Alannah replied, too bored to even look up.
Haley let out an agitated puff of hair, before serving Natalie her plate of Eggs and Bacon. "Thanks, mom." Natalie thanked, picking up her fork and knife.
Her mother then pulled up a chair in between the sisters. "So, Natalie. How'd you sleep last night?"
"Alright," Her daughter replied, shoving eggs into her mouth. "I mean, it was a little weird, being in that room again but yeah, I didn't mind it."
Haley smiled, "That's good." She then looked over to her youngest daughter "And Alannah, how'd you sleep?"
"Good." Alannah replied flatly, moving her fingers quickly as she texted. Haley just sighed at her daughters lack of attention.
Natalie picked up her glass of milk and began downing it as her mother spoke to her again. "And Natalie, on your way to work you wouldn't mind dropping you sister off at school would you? I have a few errands I need to run this morning."
"No, not at all." Natalie replied, whipping her milk mustache with her sleeve before checking her watch for the time. "Well thanks so much for breakfast mom, but I probably should be getting ready."
Almost an hour later Natalie had gotten out of the shower, putting on make up and blow drying before she curled her brown hair that reached mid-breast. She then dressed in a cute flattering, flowy top, a blue tight skirt that was barely above her knees and some four inch black high heels. She grabbed her purse, wallet, cellphone and keys before walking out the door with her younger sister of twelve years. Natalie unlocked the car doors to her red punchbuggie and stuck her keys in the ignition.
"When did you get this piece of crap?" Alannah complained, slamming her door shut as she reached to change the radio station.
"Hey hey hey! Hands off!" Natalie said, looking at her sixteen year old sister in shock. Did she not have a filter? "Now put your seat belt on."
"So what," Alannah began as her seat belt clicked tight. "Trouble in Paradise?"
"Excuse me?" "That's why you're back home isn't it? Not 'cause you 'miss' us or whatever but because you and Sean are having problems?" Alannah rolled her eyes, a small smirk appearing on her lips as she looked out the window, "I knew it."
Natalie bit on the side of her tongue not wanting to start an argument and instead she just focused on her driving and pulled away from the house, "So, High School? How is it?"
"Maybe if you came by to visit more than just every five years you'd know how it is." Natalie scuffed bitting now only her tongue but her lips now as well to.
"Would it kill you just to have a civil conversation?"
"Would it kill you to think about your family for once?!" Alannah fired back.
"Excuse me?! Lanie, I do but hey, once you get older and enter adult hood, maybe then you'll understand that things get hard and there's no time for mommy and daddy, taking your sister out to ice cream and for friends. Lanie, your sixteen now. Drop the little innocent victim act and grow up. It's long over-due."
The younger sister didn't reply, just looked out the window as she crossed her arms over her chest. Natalie rolled her eyes once more, before reaching over to the glove compartment, shuffling around as she kept her eyes on the road, every few seconds removing her eyes for a quick glance. She finally found what she was looking for a pulled it out in front of her where she could more easily focus on driving. She pulled a cigarette out of the cigarette package, followed by a small white lighter. Once she had successfully brought the cigarette up to her face and placed it between her lips, she lit it with the small lighter before throwing the lighter and the package in the back seat. She took a long inhale before unrolling the window of the car just barely so it wouldn't mess her hair up.
It was now Alannah's turn to bite her tongue. "You're smoking again." She stated. "Do mom and dad know?'
Natalie blew the smoke out of her mouth shaking her head from side to side. "And they don't need to know, Lanie. I'm a grown woman, I can make my own choices."
"So then you wouldn't mind if I had a drag?"
Natalie's head snapped in Alannah's direction as she looked at her sister like she grew a second head. "Hey!" Alannah exclaimed, raising her hands in defense. "You're the one that said I'm sixteen and that I had to grow up, and that," Alannah pointed to the cigarette between Natalie's fingers, "Is my ticket to adult hood."
"God Damn't, Lanie!" Natalie whispered to herself, taking another puff as she pulled up to the High School before blowing out the smoke.
Alannah unbuckled her seat belt before picking up her black back pack from between her legs and standing up. "Have a good day at school!" And Alannah slammed the door shut.
When Natalie arrived at work, she quickly made her way to the building, already 10 minutes late then usual. As she made her way she passed her usual smoking place where her two friends were just finishing their cigarettes and putting them out.
"Nat!" Shay called. "Where have you been?!"
Nat was a tall, scrawny guy with short brown hair and hazel eyes followed by an English accent. He had moved here to pursue a career in Comedy but apparently the only thing people forgot to mention to him was that in order to become a Comedian you had to be funny.
"Yeah! Kathy is here! Today!" Naomi exclaimed, her eyes wide.
Naomi was an average height, slim, tanned, beautiful woman. She met a guy half way through College and she let the love consume her. She dropped everything for this man and gave him more. Years of bad choices and idiocy finally caught up to Naomi after the couple got sued and they shortly split up after that, ending their toxic relationship.
"Kathy?! As in boss Kathy?!" Natalie confirmed as the three hurried inside the building.
"Yeah! Yeah! Apparently Jeff was giving information away, you know? Telling our 'rivals' when a take over was going to happen, giving away all our secrets!" Shay spilled, as they pushed the glass doors open, all quickly getting out their ID's to scan.
"So Kathy's here to make sure that know one else was working with Jeff, yaknow? Helping bring the company down or really just being a 'spy'." Naomi said, scanning in before Shay and Natalie had even found their ID's.
Once Natalie had found hers and scanned in, the two girls waited. "Man, that's crazy." She muttered.
Natalie worked in the Stock Market and Natalie often found it stressful-as did most people in the business. During those past few months everyone was getting more and more hours to make up for the amount of money they had lost, apparently all thanks to Jeff. They had planned attacks on rival companies and they had attacks on their company. Before the score was usually pretty even, they'd win some and lose some, the other companies would win some and lose some, but those past six months, it was all lose lose lose for them, and win win win for the other company. People were beginning to get let go or fired and Natalie was soon to be next.
Once Shay had scanned in, the trio waited for the elevator for about five minutes, before climbing into an already crammed one that gave you barely even enough room to breathe. "So, lets quick fretting about Kathy," Naomi said calmly before leaning forward as much as she could before softening her voice. "How's Sean doing?"
Natalie pursed her lips together, sighing. "I wish I could say better, but honestly I don't know. Our fifth year is coming up, yanknow? I just thought it'd be different than this, I thought things might go back to when it was when we first began dating, the Honeymoon Stage again."
Shay rolled his eyes. "Nat, he's been with you for five years already. You guys are long past that stage."
"Yeah I know! But like, I don't know, I just thought since it's been a long time we'd start going on more dates again, start kissing before work and before bed, and you know, maybe have a little fun in bed for once if you know what I mean."
Shay and Naomi both let out a small gasp, "How long has it been?" Naomi whispered.
Naomi frowned, giving off an annoyed vibe as she shrugged, "Four months." She said disappointingly.
When the elevator doors opened to the appropriate floor Natalie, Naomi and Shay poured out. "Oh dear! Nat, you know what it means when a man stops having sex with you right? It means he's seeing another woman." Naomi said in a hushed and panicked tone.
"No! It doesn't mean that!" Shay snapped, "Nat, don't listen to her, Naomi doesn't know what she's talking about. Maybe he's going through a difficult time or is having bodily dysfunctions-"
Naomi put her hand up, stopping Shay from continuing. "Okay, too much information there."
"Well like, he has been going to Church if that means anything." Natalie put up to the table, still confused about the whole thing. "Like, I don't know." She sighed. "It's just gotten really difficult. I mean he's talking differently, walking differently, he refuses to eat breakfast or dinner, he's always going out with out telling me and lots of times when he comes home his clothes are shredded! Not only that but sometimes there's even-" Natalie paused as they made it to her 'cuticle'. She put her purse down on her chair before looking around to make sure no one was listening, before she leaned in and whispered, "Sometimes their's even blood on his clothes."
"Whose blood is it?" Shay hesitated.
Natalie sighed, squeezing her eyes shut as they began to sting. "I don't even know." She replied quietly. Natalie then took a deep breath, opening her eyes again once it was done. "Well, we should get to work, with Kathy here and everything..."
"Yeah, yeah, right, right." Naomi and Shay said, awkwardly.
Shay patted Natalie's back lightly, giving a small, sympathetic smile, before going off to get to his own station. Naomi grabbed Natalie's hand and gave it a tight squeeze. "Hey, stay strong, alright? You're doing great so far, alright?"
Natalie rubbed her lips together, wanting to give an encouraging smile but she couldn't, she knew even if she tried she'd just break down. "I will." She said, sounding as if everything were fine while her eyes teared up. "I'll do fine."
So I realize that this chapter was long, and kind of boring and sorry if it made no sense! I just thought I should show what Natalie's life is 'normally' like and really what's going on. Introduce some of her family, friends and Sean. Sure you don't meet Sean but you get an idea as to what he's really like right now. :) All that will make sense in the next chapter and just to keep you guys excited for the next chapter, our favorite Winchester boys get introduced and a certain little Angel makes his first appearance. :) Aaaaanywaaaaays, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and that it wasn't too boring for you, and I hope you got a good view of who Natalie was and just how normal she is. :) Please, tell what you think down below and I apologize for any inconvenient/mistakes! And please, if you have any suggestions or idea's feel free to put them down below. :)
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