Sara bit back a yawn as she stepped out into the cool Autumn air and quietly pulled the door to her store closed and then took a moment to lock it. Before deciding to head home. Today had started out fairly eventful, she had left home, opened shop and had several customer's come in and buy a few thousand dollars worth of stuff. But around lunch time, everything had died down.
After which she had sat at her desk, done inventory, paper work, boxed up a few things for shipping, checked her shop website, then her email, and then deposited a portion of the money that she made online into her shop account while managing to withhold enough to pay her bills and get enough groceries for the month while still managing to have several hundred dollars left over to put into her emergency fund.
Just in case she needed a trip to the hospital or something like last time.
Not because she had a bad tendency to get hurt- although with her family around all the damn time- she did wind up with more than her fair share of bruises, broken bones, and internal injuries. After all, her older brother's were a bunch of hard handed bastards.
Which was probably why she hated them.
Walking down the crowded street, she began to make the mile long trek to her home while trying to think of what needed to be done once she was home. She knew that she needed to look over some of the applicant's for her friend's apartment building since there was still an apartment for rent. Then she needed to go out and pay a few bills and get some groceries...
Ugh. Is today ever going to end? She wondered tiredly.
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Gray stirred slightly when he felt something cool nip at his skin, and cracked open his gold colored eyes to see why it was so cool that he was almost shivering only to notice that he was propped up against something that felt like brick with grey colored stone underneath him.
Concrete? He wondered to himself with a slight frown. When had he moved from his bedroom in Clover Tower?
His bag lay next to him, just within his reach. For easy access, he would imagine. Straightening his spine a little bit, he pressed his shoulders back against the building/house that he had been left outside of.
He had just shifted to grab his stuff and get to his feet when he heard a soft clicking sound heading his way and looked up in time to see a vision with mid back length jet black hair, wearing a long sleeved aquamarine colored sweater dress with a white pearl necklace, black leggings, and calf length black leather boots with small heels.
Freezing for a moment, gold eyes momentarily met shockingly beautiful teal before the young lady entered the building that he had been resting against.
Who was that? Gray wondered as he carefully climbed to his feet and tilted his head back to look up at the building that the woman had entered. Curiosity to learn the female's name warring with his duty to search for a new outsider to take Alice's role.
And from the look of the stunning beauty that he had just seen, he had his first potential outsider for the new game. Getting up from where he sat on the concrete, Gray grabbed his bag as he got to his feet and straightened his spine until he heard a disturbing pop coming from somewhere in his lower back.
No doubt from his bad posture while he had been sitting.
Moving to stand before the door that he'd seen the woman step through, he paused when he saw a small piece of paper that read,
Apartment for rent.
Fully furnished, affordable pay.
No pets. Only serious inquiries.
If interested either call (376-30095)or stop by and ask for Sara.
Taking a moment to consider the pros and cons among other things. All of which led him back to the fact that he would need someplace to live during the time that he spent in this strange new world. A base of operations so to speak. Taking a moment longer to mull things over, he finally made a decision and reached for the strange looking thing that helped open the door and pulled it.
The door opened and he quickly stepped inside of the building taking a moment to note the interior.
The building was actually pretty nice. Not exactly upscale like he had worried it would be, but it wasn't exactly low class either if the unique paintings hanging on the walls, the plushly carpeted cream colored floors, the vases filled with flowers and wooden furniture was anything to go by.
Reaching out, he ripped down the paper that had been hanging on the door and used it as a sort of guide as he walked up to the desk in the lobby and without a word showed it to the man sitting there.
He was an elderly fellow, in his mid to late fifties with a pleasant and friendly character to him. He took one look at the paper held in Gray's hand and grinned. "Interested in the apartment huh?" He said nicely, his tone laced with curiosity as he looked Gray over from head to well, he couldn't look past where the desk let him but he imagined that the dark haired young man was a foreigner.
Which would contribute some to his lack of vocal response.
The foreigner was a handsome one. Tall, perhaps standing at six foot three with tan colored skin gold eyes and shoulder length blue black hair. His clothes were clean, though they were a bit rumpled and wrinkled. The white shirt underneath the layered clothing made it a tad bit difficult to tell if the younger man was muscular or not.
But the elder would bet that the man was no damn pushover.
Despite being a foreigner, he looked like someone who could knock a person's teeth down their throat and smile while doing it.
Turning partially in his seat the elder picked up the phone sitting on his desk and said kindly, "Well I'm not a nosey person by nature so I'll just stop asking questions and call Sara for you. But we may have to give the gal a moment or so to change since she just got off of work a few minutes ago."
"That and the last time I called her for an applicant she almost broke her pretty little neck when she tripped and fell down the stairs in her haste to get here. I'm sure that you won't begrudge her an extra moment or two..." Gray blinked and the elder grinned as if the man had just spoken and chirped in a pleased tone, "I didn't think so. You seem like the patient type."
