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Chapter 2: First Day First Call
'Beautiful Bakery wasn't kidding about the beauty.' Roxy thought looking up at the building.
The huge sign for the store glowed in the morning sunlight making it shine silver, actually silver was the main colour scheme, from the handles on the doors to the packaging for their products.
She went inside and up to the counter, a woman about her age stood behind it with a smile on her face regardless of the early hour.
"Hello, my name is Roxy Summers. I start work today as the dishwasher." Roxy informed her.
"Of course, Dennis said you were starting today. I'm Ellen, right this way." Ellen said raising the counter for her to come through.
They went through the swinging door that lead to the kitchen, a man in an apron was busy pounding some dough on one of the counters and he didn't look up when they passed by just kept working.
Ellen showed her to the back office where Roxy could keep her purse and gave her a shirt with the company logo on it. Roxy pulled it on over her own t-shirt and then was introduced to the baker.
"Richy this is Roxy, Roxy meet Richy our baker and boss when Dennis isn't here." Ellen said gesturing her hands between the two of them, before going back out front as the bell over the door chimed signaling a customer.
"Roxy, get to work on those dishes." Richy ordered not even looking at her.
"You got it." she said going over to the sink and got busy washing and scrubbing. Roxy didn't mind the rudeness she was new after all, newbies aren't treated the best on their first days anyways.
At lunch time Roxy was granted a break, grabbing her free drink and one free pastry, she went out front to sit down.
Kristy was there and waved her over to the table with a smile, "Hey,how's it going so far?" she said.
"Hey, it's going alright. Nothing bad has happened yet at least." Roxy said drinking down her juice.
"That's good, just keep it that way. Richy can be difficult to work with but you'll come to understand him. Everyone does, if they didn't well they aren't here now are they?" Kristy told her.
Roxy nodded eating her croissant, she was aiming to do well at this job and she'd get along with Richy no problem.
"I wanted to let you know, Ms. Motor Mouth aka Melissa intends to introduce herself to you when you get off work." Kristy informed her.
Roxy fought with herself not to laugh, Kristy certainly had her ways of describing people and it fitted them too, but Roxy wasn't about to judge anyone; she'd find out for herself.
"Thanks for telling me, I'd better get back to it. I'll talk to you later Kristy." she said getting up.
"No problem, see you Roxy." Kristy said in return and left the store.
At the end of the day Roxy was a little tired and her arms were a little sore as she went back for her purse, turning around Richy stood there looking at her.
"You did well today for a new one." he commented.
"Thanks." she said gripping her purse handle nervously, he hadn't really spoken to her all day aside from giving her orders.
"See you tomorrow." he said and walked away.
"Bye!" she called after him awkwardly, before heading out herself.
At home she took a nice, hot shower and rubbed her sore muscles. When she finished they felt much better and she changed into more comfortable clothes.
The door bell rang a short time later signaling Melissa's arrival, Roxy walked from the kitchen to the front entryway and checked the door before opening it for the blonde hair woman standing on the porch.
"Hi, I'm Melissa from down the block. I just thought I'd welcome you to the neighborhood with a blueberry pie, baked it myself." Melissa said holding out the pie and smiling widely.
"Thank you, I'm Roxy. Come in, I'll get us some plates." Roxy said thankful for something to snack on before dinner time.
"You're welcome, your house is so pretty. Of course my own house is fine but the way you decorate it, I wish my house was like this." Melissa said as they walked down the hall.
"It was already like this, I haven't done anything yet aside from adding my own furniture." Roxy told her as they reached the kitchen and she set the pie on the counter.
"Oh my gosh!" Melissa shrieked upon seeing the kitchen making Roxy jump half a foot off the floor, and put a hand to her chest to slow her rapidly beating heart.
"I'm sorry, I've just always wanted a kitchen like this. You wouldn't want to trade houses, would you?" Melissa said.
"No, I just moved in." Roxy scoffed getting the plates, a knife, and two forks. She served up the pie and they sat at the island.
"You're so lucky to live next door to Kristy, I wish I did. We're such good friends I bet Kristy does too." Melissa said and Roxy coughed almost choking on pie from wanting to laugh.
That couldn't have been further from the truth.
"So what do you do for work?" Roxy asked changing the subject.
"Oh I work as a receptionist at the doctor's office. It's actually quite fun, I get to talk to people all day." she answered.
"Yeah, I bet it is. This pie is really good." Roxy told her finishing her slice and pushing the plate away.
"Probably not near as good as yours, tell me why does a lady who bakes takes a job as a dishwasher?" she said sounding suspicous.
Roxy stopped for a moment, had Melissa been looking into her past? She shook it off as paranoia and replied, "I took what I could get and baking is more of my hobby anyways."
"Oh yeah, that's neat. Maybe we could exchange recipes sometime, or have a baker's club." Melissa said.
"No to the baker's club but maybe we could swap recipes now and then. Melissa I hate to be rude but I have a few things to do, would you mind?" Roxy told her, she'd had enough of the talking.
"Not at all, I'll show myself out. See you around neighbor." she said happily.
"Yeah, later." Roxy said, 'Much later.' she added mentally.
Relaxing on the couch she picked up the phone and dialled Lee's number crossing her fingers he'd pick up.
Lee leaned back in his seat on the plane as Barney flew them home after an easy mission, his phone rang and he pulled it out checking the number. He didn't recognize it but then remembered Roxy and picked up.
"Hello." he said.
"Hi Lee, it's Roxy. How's it going?" she said.
"Fine, just heading home from work. I've been thinking about you." he told her.
"What am I?" Barney asked loudly causing Lee to smack him on the arm.
"Who's that?" Roxy asked catching another voice in the background.
"Just a friend, nothing to worry about. How was your day?" Lee said wanting to know if she thought about him.
"Not too bad, met one of my neighbors and boy can she talk. Work wasn't bad at all, I think I'll like it there. I've thought about you too." Roxy admitted, since he had admitted it to her first.
"Really?" he asked, "Well how about we meet up somewhere and talk in person?" he offered as they landed at the hanger.
Roxy bit her lip, and didn't say anything. Nervous things would move too fast or something.
"I promise we'll just talk, I know a great little place we could meet at in say half an hour?" he said assuring her as best he could.
Roxy trusted him for some reason, maybe because he'd had a chance to kiss her or even more and he didn't do it.
"Alright, just give me the address." she said. He gave it to her and they hung up.
Lee rushed to his motorcycle and sped off to his house to get ready for their meeting, he'd deal with any teasing that came from the team later. For now he wanted to get to know Roxy and what kind of a woman she was.
Roxy hurried upstairs and looked through her clothes, settling on a deep, red, long sleeved shirt, dark blue jeans and a black zipper sweater.
She was ready quickly but realized she had no idea where she had to go, dialing quickly she got Kristy on the second ring.
"Hello Kristy speaking." Kristy answered.
"Kristy, it's Roxy. How do I get to 888 Chesterton Street?" she asked.
"Simple Rox." she said and explained the directions.
Roxy wrote them down, "Thanks, I have to go. Bye." she told her.
"See you, have fun." Kristy said and they hung up.
Roxy got into her car after locking up and headed out a smile on her face, she'd know more about Lee Christmas very soon.
Lee had arrived early and waited by the bench near the enterance to Pub he'd chosen for them. Roxy got there shortly after and spotted him right away, parking her car she got out and went over to him.
"Hey there, you look nice." she said taking in his leather jacket, black jeans and a black shirt. She found the black looked sexy on him, he was scoring points for sure.
"Hey, you look great." he said and lead the way inside. They grabbed a table for two on the far side of the restaurant away from everyone else.
They ordered their drinks, and Roxy looked around the place; it had a long bar towards the back, a group of large tables with red and white checkered table cloths with chairs for four on the left and to the right where they sat were booths and tables for two.
The place wasn't fancy by any means but it felt homey.
"This is a nice place." she commented, and smiled. "Thanks for choosing it." she added.
"No problem, I like it here too. So what's your work really like?" Lee said smiling too.
"There's nothing special about it, I'm a dishwasher at the Beautiful Bakery. Richy tells me what to do and I do it, he doesn't talk much otherwise but it doesn't bother me at all. How about you? What do you do?" Roxy explained before the drinks arrived.
Lee nodded as she spoke, "That's good, as long as you're happy. I travel a lot as a sales man, it's hard at times being away from home but it's a living." he said, lying about his job but telling a woman you're a mercenary who kills people isn't really a good idea.
Roxy shook her head, "I don't believe you." she told him crossing her arms and leaning back in her seat.
Lee was surprised, this lie usually always worked. He raised his eyebrows, "Why not?" he demanded.
"On the phone you said you were heading home from work, and a friend was with you. Sales people work alone." she said sending him a glare. Roxy didn't like being lied to, if Lee didn't explain soon she'd leave.
"Oh that, my friend was giving me a ride home from the airport. It beats taking a taxi." Lee explained easily.
Roxy relaxed her posture, that made sense at least maybe he wasn't so bad.
"So where did you move here from?" he asked curious.
"Oh nowhere special, just a smaller city in the next state over." Roxy said quickly, she didn't really want to talk about that.
They talked some more about other things and eventually ordered dinner.
As they ate they watched each other noting little things. Roxy noticed how Lee cut his ham into big chunks instead of little ones. Lee saw that Roxy started with her side salad before eating the main course.
After they finished they waited a while before ordering dessert.
"That was really good." Roxy commented wiping her lips with the napkin.
"Yeah it was, they have some of the best food here." Lee told her.
A man came over to their table and looked at Roxy for a minute before speaking.
"Summers? Is that you?" he asked suprised to see her.
"Yeah, what are you doing here Kyle?" Roxy replied as Lee watched.
"Just hanging with the guys, come on. I'm sure they remember you too." Kyle said and took hold of her arm.
"No, I'm busy Kyle. Another time alright." Roxy said raising her voice some so he'd hear her.
Kyle didn't care, he pulled her up from the booth as Lee got up too placing a hand on his arm that was holding Roxy.
"She said no, I suggest you let her go." Lee said anger in his tone.
"What are you going to do?" Kyle demanded.
Lee punched him in the face and he let go of Roxy before staggering backwards.
Kyle's friends had been watching the whole thing and now came over to defend their buddy, a fight broke out.
Roxy grabbed her stuff and rushed out of the restaurant; she hated fights and she didn't want to be caught in the middle of it either. Lee had only been defending her but on the other hand he had a temper on him.
'What am I going to do with him?' She thought as she drove home.
Lee kicked their butts and when it was over he realized that Roxy was gone. He paid for their food and the damage to the pub before leaving, peeling out of the parking lot.
'Nice going Lee, now you've scared her off!' he thought angrily to himself as he went home.
There's chapter two, please review!
