So this is a new story I've came up with since Binding Time won't have much more chapters. This is a different type of story I'm going to be writing, no deaths and no children. Enjoy and REVIEW, lets try and beat my Endless Love REVIEWS.
A pair of black converse walked down the dark night in the Chicago streets. Soft brown locks blew in the air as the woman calmly walked down the street, she knew these streets like the back of her hand.
Friday night was always a hard shift, everyone out to party and get wasted, the job she worked didn't make it easy to tolerate drunk assholes but she didn't mind, she thought it was quite funny.
She pushed the front door open to the bar she worked in and walked straight in, going into the back where all the staff were getting ready to open up. She paced over to the coat hanger, taking her jacket off and hanging it up on the peg and grabbing her name tag that all of the workers had, clipping it into her t-shirt, the name AJ on it.
It would surprise you how busy a bar could get on Christmas Eve, couples coming in to have a drink and a kiss when it turned midnight, single men and woman coming in with their friends to party, it was their busiest night of the year, apart from New Years Eve.
"You spending Christmas the same way I am?" An average height, middle aged woman asked AJ, one of her friends Nikki Bella.
"Sitting on the couch and watching movies? Yeah…" AJ nodded, getting her apron on, starting from her hips and cutting off just above her knee caps, she used to hate wearing it, but everyone had to, so she didn't mind.
"Beats being with family, sitting round a Christmas tree…" Nikki laughed, walking out from the back and walking towards the CD player behind the counter, putting a CD on and playing it from the beginning.
AJ good naturedly sighed as she heard the loud Christmas music play through her ears, calming her down and setting her up for the night ahead. She walked over to the doors and unlocked them, taking the blackboard sign from inside and placing it outside, telling anyone about their prices of drinks and snacks.
She looked up at the lights around the buildings, smiling to herself as the snow started to fall from the sky, settling on the ground softly. There was no doubt it was her favourite time of the year.
She walked back into the bar, looking at Nikki with antlers on her head, attached to her hair band.
"I'm not wearing them…" AJ shook her head with a chuckle, making her way back behind the bar.
"I know, I got you this instead…" Nikki smiled, handing her a Santa hat, placing the hat on top of her head, laughing at her not amused face, "Unless you want these?" Nikki suggested, lifting out a pair of stockings from her bag of treats.
"Who are you buying them for?" AJ chuckled, fixing the hat she was being made to wore, making sure she didn't look like an idiot.
"Any lucky guy who wants to unwrap me…" Nikki said with a cheeky smile.
AJ just chuckled to herself and walked to the speakers that were playing the music, turning the music up louder and getting to work as the bar started to fill up and up, until it was completely full and Nikki and AJ were busy at all times, serving drinks to everyone who asked. There was a lot of rushing about since it was just them two serving a full bar, but they wouldn't have it any other way.
"God, it's freezing…" A man said as he rubbed his two tattoo'd hands together, blowing into them for heat. His feet trailing through the snow, his hate for Christmas grew stronger as the years went on.
Every single bar and pub he passed, the music was blasting out of them and they all seemed full and warm. He walked by and spotted one in the corner of the street, it looked warm and inviting, he didn't even care if he was himself, he needed a drink.
He walked in the doors, mazing through people, the music so loud he couldn't even hear himself think.
He sat down on a stool at the bar, looking at the two girls working behind the bar, clearly by their looks bringing all the men in, this definitely was the busiest bar in Chicago.
"What will it be sunshine?" Nikki smiled, leaning over the bar and smiling to him.
"Beer…" He smiled to her politely, handing her over the money.
"Coming up…" Nikki smiled, taking the money and putting it in the till.
He had no idea why he just ordered a beer, considering he didn't drink, had never touched any alcohol in his life, and he was 36.
"There you go…" Nikki smiled, placing the pint of beer down, "Have a nice night…" She smiled, moving over to attend to another customer.
Phil, or Punk to his personal friends wasn't much of a party guy, he was rarely in bars or pubs, but he felt like he just needed something to cheer him up and he heard about his friends saying that drinking made you forget about any problems in life, so he decided to stop by on his way home, but now… sitting looking at the beer, he knew he wouldn't dare touch it.
Another Christmas spent alone. Don't get him wrong, he was definitely a ladies man and had tried to have his fair share of relationships, but Christmas was just filled with couples kissing left, right and centre and it reminded him about how lonely he was. His friends all had girlfriends and every time they asked him to go out, he would usually refuse, not wanting to look like a loser, the only one with no girlfriend.
His problem wasn't finding a girl, he just couldn't be committed, any girl that he would ask to come home with him, would happily oblige, but then the next morning, he would wake up and pretend it never happened, for respecting woman so much he sure treated them like shit.
"Something wrong with the drink?" AJ asked him, making sure all her customers were happy.
Punk just looked up and paused when he looked at the girl, she was perfect, her brown, long, soft hair sat below her shoulders, nearly touching the small of her back, her eyes innocently staring into his green ones, her cute little smile doing something to his stomach.
"N-no… it's fine…" Punk smiled.
"I can get you something else if you like…" AJ said, not wanting this man's money wasted.
"If you insist…" Punk smiled, "I'll have a pepsi…" He smiled.
"Yes sir…" AJ smiled, taking the beer away and pouring it down the sink, pouring him a glass of pepsi, scooping some ice into it and sticking a straw in it, walking back over and placing it down for him.
"Thanks…" Punk smiled.
"You here alone?" AJ asked.
"Yep…" Punk nodded.
"Let me guess, either you're children are driving you crazy and won't go to sleep, and you told your wife you forgot a present, but really you came here? Or, you hate Christmas and seeing all these couples is depressing you?" AJ questioned.
"Second one seems about right…" Punk nodded.
"I thought so…" AJ said, letting a small laugh escape from her, "You enjoy your pepsi…" She smiled, walking away from him and going to attend to her other customers. She was paid to be nice to be people.
Punk just watched her as she walked away, he'd never seen someone so beautiful in his life, her figure was perfect for being so small, her shortness just made her all the more adorable.
Another few hours had went by and it was finally 5 minutes until it was officially Christmas, AJ had been exchanging smiles with the man at the end of the bar, sitting with his fifth pepsi, getting little smirks back from him.
She wasn't uncomfortable like she normally would be if a customer kept staring at her, maybe it was because he was sober and wasn't just trying to get into her pants, or maybe he was, either way, she didn't mind him looking at her.
AJ and Nikki finally took a break from serving drink and got themselves one, as everyone started to countdown from the last minute until Christmas.
AJ walked over towards Punk and leaned over the bar.
"In a few seconds, all of these people in this room are going to be kissing and hugging…" AJ smiled to him.
"Are they?" Punk raised his eyebrows.
"Yeah…" AJ nodded, reaching for the mistletoe under the counter and bringing it up, leering it about them both, "And just so we both don't look lonely…" AJ smiled as the clock stroke midnight.
Punk just watched her as she pressed her lips against his softly, not getting in too deep, but just enough for her to enjoy. Holding the mistletoe above their heads.
Punk was surprised that she had just came up and kissed him, but he wasn't complaining, like she said, they didn't look lonely which they both were.
AJ pulled back, looking at him as his eyes still stayed shut, wishing she didn't pull away.
"Merry Christmas…" She smiled, putting the mistletoe on the counter and walking away from him to go serve some more drinks.
Punk's eyes didn't leave her for the rest of the night, until he finally decided he should go home, it was almost 2am anyway.
AJ turned around to face him again and realised that he had already left the bar, leaving his empty glass with a piece of paper stuck on to it.
She walked over to the glass and picked it up, taking the piece of paper from the glass that had a mobile phone number on it.
She smiled to herself and put the paper in her jean pocket, walking over to the dish washer and placing the empty glass in it for it to be washed with the other empty glasses.
"Someone looks happy…" Nikki nudged her, pulling the leaver down and pouring a pint of beer.
"Well… it is Christmas…" AJ smiled.
My stories are so random. But REVIEW anyways, like I said, this will be a different type of story to my usual ones, no kids, no deaths, no AJ sob stories. So REVIEW for more.
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