Hi guys, so my little break gave me pure boredom and i just started working on this, I don't really know what to think of it yet. If I continue this i don't want to make it too long but I kinda want some feed back about this. It would really help a lot. If you have a better idea for a story you'd like me to write then hit me with a review or PM. I always love a challenge. Anyway... Safe Haven.
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Chapter 1- It's Jade West
"In other news actress/director flees town when boyfriend 'Beck Oliver' proposes to her." Comes from the television behind the bar.
"Tori would you turn that? I've had enough of that gossip shit. If she pulls some shit like that she obviously is a major asshole." My boss Barry gives his input. I shake my head with a smile as a drunk woman groans her displeasure.
"I don't know boss, maybe he just wasn't the right one. You never know the situation." I chuckle at him as he nods in agreement cleaning a mug. The few people that are here are either drunk at the bar with friends or sitting at a table in the far back with friends but this one chick is here all alone and counting by how many beers and shot's she's ordered, she's got to be pretty drunk.
"Ma'am, are you alright? Would you like me to call a cab for you?" I say gently placing a hand on her arm. Her heads shoots up immediately with a scowl on her face. Even in the dark of the bar I can recognize her face. It's Jade West. The runaway actress.
"Does it look like I want you to call me a cab? I'm not handicapped you know." She sneers putting a weird accent thing in when she repeats what I said.
"Is that what you think I sound like? Cuz I don't sound like that." I smile at her. She rolls her eyes but I can see that she wants to smile.
"Is that what you think I sound like? Gee golly I sure wish myself not to sound that way." She mocks me. Okay maybe Barry was right, she sure fits the asshole description.
"Pretty sure I don't sound like a housewife from the 50's but that's just my very own humble opinion." I say in the voice she was using. She smirks at me and raises her mug for a refill.
"And you say you don't sound like that." She mumbles as I turn to the blue moon draft.
"What's your name?" I ask her as I place her beer down on a napkin.
"You honestly don't know who I am?" she asks with a disbelieving look.
"Well yeah but I figure that being a big star like yourself everyone knows you and that can get kinda creepy. I like to keep my creepiness to a minimum when a gorgeous woman walks into my bar." I say with a chuckle. She looks at me like I'm crazy.
"Are you flirting with me?" She asks, her voice going up in pitch. My smile grows to a playful grin.
"Ma'am you take that however you please." I say in country accent with a wink.
"Did you not just hear your boss call me an asshole?"
"Did you not just hear me defend you unknowing you were here? I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, it's not my business anyway." I say with a shrug moving to clean the mugs left behind by the group that just left. She looks kinda impressed but it's a subtle look.
"I like you, what's your name kid?" She asks. It's weird, she doesn't seem drunk at all.
"Are you implying that I am a child?" I ask with mock offence and a raised eyebrow.
"Well to be completely honest, you do look to be about 16 maybe 17. Your personality tells me different, other than the flirting thing. That just points straight to horny teenager. You seem like a very mature child. You also didn't answer my question." She says with a smirk. I can't help but notice how beautiful she really is.
"Victoria Vega, but everyone calls me Tori. I'll have you know that I'm 22 and I told you to take that "flirting thing" however you pleased." I say with my back turned.
"Well I took it as flirting, and you're basically a teen still." She says playfully. This is odd because from what I've read she isn't a very pleasant person, maybe she is drunk.
"Tori, it's almost that time. I'm gonna head home, so will you close up for me?" Barry says.
"Yeah sure, tell Mrs. Collins I said hi and I hope to see her soon." I told him referring to his wife.
"Alright, Goodnight." He says walking out of the door. I turn back to Jade, who is looking at her phone with a slightly annoyed, slightly sad expression.
"So what brings you to our small town of owlville?" I ask trying to bring her attention elsewhere.
"I just drove and drove until I came across a small shit town where it'll be less likely for the papps to look." She says still staring at her phone.
"Hey, this town may be shit but it isn't small." I mix my words to see if she's really paying attention to me. She looks up confused.
"The population said like 12 or something." She says.
"Okay it's 5,000 and I was trying to see if you were paying attention. My town is not shit." I say slightly offended.
"Sorry, I kinda wasn't. So are you working here to pay for college or something?" She asked me putting her phone down.
"I graduated college three years ago." I laugh walking around the bar with the broom, starting to clean up.
"22 and already out of college? I should either be impressed or call bullshit." She says turning around to face me properly.
"I'm just really smart. I graduated high school at fourteen. Once I turned fifteen I went to classes at a local college and UCLA." I say a little cocky.
"So why do you work in a bar instead of using your smarts and going places?" She asks like I had made the stupidest decision ever.
"Well I like it here. I also think I'm doing pretty well for myself." I say as I put the last glass away. "It is time to close up shop my friend." I say sitting in the chair next to her.
"I haven't paid my tab yet?" she says more like a question.
"I took care of it. It's not every day that I can buy a drink for a pretty lady." I say with a grin.
"But I had like twenty." She says looking confused.
"It's okay, I took care of it. Now I hate to kick you out but I have to lock up." I tell her.
"But can't I just sleep on this stool?" she says laying her head on the bar dramatically. I giggle at the display.
"I really can't let you do that. Do you need me to call you a cab?" she goes to stand but immediately stumbles for balance. "I'll take that as a yes."
"I don't really have anywhere to go." She says with a pout.
"You don't have a hotel?" I ask. Was she planning to drive back drunk like this?
"No, I guess I didn't think that far ahead. I maybe had a little more than I thought I would." She says to me rubbing her face tiredly. I feel kinda bad to send her away with nowhere to go. Especially when she's intoxicated.
"You could stay with me but only if you promise not to kill me." I say grabbing my keys from the rack, going to lock the door.
"Really?" she asks. I nod in response and she smiles but it immediately drops. "I'm not having sex with you."
"I wouldn't dare take advantage of you like that. I also like to know my bed partners for longer than two hours." I say with a smile.
"So how far do you live?" she asks.
"A couple of steps." I say grinning like a fool when confusion spreads across her face. "I live in the loft above this place. It's small but cozy, I like it." We walk up the few stairs to my door. I make sure she doesn't fall on the way up. Once I open the door she looks around a bit as I go to the kitchen to make a glass of water. My place is nothing fancy but it's not trash either. It kind of reminds me of a lodge instead of a loft because when I hear loft, I think big city. I have a small kitchen with a breakfast bar off to the side. Directly behind is a large living area, in it is the regular living room stuff. I don't really eat in this part of the loft but I have a dinner table anyway. If you look up you can see the little pull ladder to get up there. Of course that's not the only way up, it's just the most fun.
"You can take my bed. I'll sleep on the couch, as long as you don't throw up in it." I say only half kidding about the vomit. She gives a sarcastic laugh.
"Jade West doesn't vomit, and I can't kick you out of your bed." She says walking toward the couch.
"And Tori Vega doesn't let her guest sleep on the couch. It folds out anyway so it's cool. I would give you the bed downstairs but I haven't cleaned that room since my last... guest." I say awkwardly. My last 'guest' was a woman named Kris, who I'm not proud of. Lets put it this way, I took her to the basement bedroom because I didn't want her in my bed. What can I say, it was a dry month for me.
"Don't do the third person thing, it doesn't work for you. Judging by the way you said it I don't think I want to know." She says shaking her head. I walk over to the ladder and pull it down.
"I'm not walking up that, might as well stay down here." She says. I just wordlessly point to the stairs off to the side that I guess she didn't notice. She huffs and grumbles quietly making her way to them. I pull my justice league quilt off the foot of the bed once I climb the ladder. Throwing it over the ledge and onto the couch where I'll be setting up camp.
"So are you renting this place from Barney?" She asks suddenly as she sits on the bed.
"Barry?" I laugh and she glares. "Nah, other way around." I say walking to my closet for a change of clothes.
"What? You own... this place?" She asks gesturing to the whole room. I laugh once again and turn fully around once I've found something to wear and something that might fit her.
"I actually built it. Well not by myself obviously but I did the design and paid the people and all that chiz. I built this part for myself to live in and I really wanted a bar but I didn't want to start my own so I separated this from the bar. In the basement is my entertainment area. I have two bedrooms, a game room and a pool hall down there. The reason this building looks so small from the outside is because the basement is like an underground bunker type thing. Anyway I have some clothes for you to sleep in if you want." I say walking to the bathroom to change into the boxers and tank and brush my teeth. When I come back out she has the shorts on but it looks like she passed out halfway through putting the shirt on.
"Jade, can you hear me?" I say nudging her a little. She just groans and turns over on her belly. I just laugh and try to put the shirt all the way on without really touching her.
Once I get her situated and covered up I go down to the couch and get some sleep.
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"Ms. Tori are you up yet? Or would you like me to help you wake a bit better?" I hear a giggle come from the front door. I look up to see Rosa with her back turned closing and locking the door. I hurry to my feet and over to her. She turns around right as I get to her and screams surprised. I quickly cover her mouth and hold a finger to my lips. She nods with a frightened look.
"Why are you here so early?" it's got to only be like 6 in the morning. Rosa isn't scheduled to come until 7:30.
"Ms. Tori I'm actually a bit late. It's 8:17 right now." she says with a confused yet amused smile. I look over to my oven and scream when I see Jade sitting there with a mug in her hands and a smirk on her face.
"Who is this?" Rosa says looking slightly jealous. She'll get over it soon.
"Jade West." I mutter rubbing my eyes. I am still so sleepy. I look at Rosa as her eyes widen and her jaw drops.
"Oh my…. Ms. West it is a pleasure to meet you. I love your work." She says in a gushing yet nervous tone. I roll my eyes and walk to the kitchen to get a cup of coffee that I see Jade has helped herself to.
"Morning sunshine." She smirks at me as I come closer. I just grumble walking past her to the coffee pot. "No. Mine." She says and blocks me from the pot.
"But its… my coffee? You can't not let me have my coffee, it's mine." I say with a confused stutter.
"First of all, it's my coffee because I made it. Second, if you want a civil human being you best make your own." She says throwing that southern accent from last night back at me.
"Fine" I mumble. She looks at me like I'm being so unreasonable but it's MY COFFEE!
"Rosa would you start down in the basement? It's a wreck down there." I ask. She gives me this disappointed pout but does as she's told.
"Who is that?" Jade asks me, sipping her coffee once again.
"My House cleaner. You want something to eat?" I ask bending down to look through the fridge. She doesn't answer but I feel her eyes on my ass so I give her a little shake. This seems to snap her out of it.
"Uhh you got any pancakes?"
"Yeah" I say pulling out the batter.
"So Rosa seems like more than just a house cleaner with that wake up call." Jade says with a suggestive smirk. Jesus how many smirks does this girl have?
"Well…. We have accidentally fell into bed a little more than once." I say scratching the back of my neck.
"That sentence made no sense. You can't accidentally fall into bed and have sex, and no one says a little more than once."
"Okay, so we sleep together on occasion. What does it matter?" I ask with a dismissive tone.
"Well for one, if you're paying her it could count as prostitution. Also, it seems like she thinks you guys are more than employer and employee." She says as she comes to stand beside me. I really don't know what to think of her.
"Hey, shouldn't you have like a major hangover and not remember anything from yesterday?" I ask thinking back to how many drinks she had.
"I can hold my liquor pretty well I also don't get hangovers. Last night is fuzzy but I remember it. Speaking of which, I didn't know you are actually gay. I just thought you were playing around." She says.
"That's pretty cool, I wish I could say the same. Also yes I am a lesbian, been out since 1995" I say flipping the cakes over.
"You were like 1 then how could you be out already?" she laughs.
"My parents said they saw it early on, they let me do whatever, never really saying all that normality shit." It's true, they said I was just a slightly girly boy. They never used gender specific pronouns when that talked about me dating or getting married. My sister was a different story. She is the straightest woman you'll ever meet and if I'm proven wrong then hell just might freeze over. I've never been attracted to guys.
"So they were pretty understanding about it?" she asks looking surprised.
"Yeah, I mean my grandparents never approved but my folks are just happy that I'm happy. My mom doesn't like the way I sleep around a lot because she wants a daughter-in-law but they support my being of the homosexual orientation." I laugh as does she. I finally flip the pancakes onto a plate and set it in front of her with the syrup.
"That's pretty cool." She says around a bite of the breakfast food. We sit in silence for a while until the food on both of our plates has been devoured. As soon as I get the dishes together and in the sink Rosa stalks back in with an angry yet hurt frown. I look at her surprised and confused as she slams the door.
"Whoa, woah, whoa. You can't just go around slamming my door like that Rosa, what if it would have broken off the hinges or cracked? And what's wrong?" I ask with a hint off anger in my tone. These doors are knotty alder and notty cheap.
"Is there something you want to tell me?" she says, her British accent showing extraordinarily.
"Uhmmm, not that I know off? What's the deal rose?" I ask getting extremely confused.
"I think your girlfriend here is jealous." Jade says with a smirk, which is really sexy.
"She's not my girlfriend." I tell her with an eye roll.
"I saw what happened down there Tori. Do my feeling not even matter to you?" Rosa says looking at me through tear clouded eyes.
"Of course your feelings matter to me but there is nothing more than a job and casual fucking going on between us. I sorry if you got the wrong idea." I say sincerely.
"You know what, forget it. I quit." She says and leaves slamming the door harder than before.
"Shit, who's gonna clean my place now?" I ask to no one in specific. I run a hand through my hair thinking of anyone I can call for that.
"And Barkly thought I was the asshole." Jade says from beside me.
"Barry, and I'm not an asshole! I thought she knew what this was." I say throwing my hands up. Just as I say this someone comes bursting through the door.
"Tori your whore, I mean house cleaner just stormed out and tried to punch me." The obnoxious voice of my sister rang out in the room.
"Another one?" Jade mouths to me with an amused smirk.
"Eww no this is my sister Trina. Trina this is Jade West." I give the half assed introduction and walk to the stairs grumbling the whole way.
"Whoa, Tor what's wrong? You never use the stairs." Trina says actually sounding concerned.
"We had a loooong night." I hear jade say suggestively. I'm guessing this this the first time Trina actually took the time to look at Jada because I hear a huge gasp.
"How could you give up that beautiful man? And to come sleep with my sister? She isn't all that, I mean yeah she's rich but she's got nothing on Beck! She's actually a slob. Why do you think she needs a sex slave I mean house maid?" Trina says. Ever since she saw him in some stupid nick show she's been 'in love with him'.
"Really Trina?" I say hurt. She looks at me and shrugs indifferently.
"I don't know. She's got some pretty nice cheekbones and that ass in those boxers. Ummphh. It's only a plus that she gave me a safe haven."
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Thanks for reading guys. Like I said, I'm not completely confident on this one but I wanted to try. Sooo, tell me what you though Pretty please... BYEEE