Disclaimer: I do not own Ten Inch Hero
After that day, Priestly and I became really good friends
We just spend the days at work joking around and making sandwiches
Before we know it, it's the end of the week and we are about to be sending Jen, Piper, and Tish off into the early morning to see Fuzzy
Priestly is still trying to get them to let him come and I just sit back and laugh
"Come on! I'll drive"
"No" Piper says
"I'll buy the beer!"
"No" Jen says
"I never get to do anything fun" Priestly throws his towel down
Zo walks in with a glass container with a bow
"What's that Zo?" I ask
"Well it's for the girls, they have to blow it into wind at the water, holding each other"
"Aw that's so sweet Zo, thank you" Jen takes the container
"Alright, ladies I think it's time to leave" Trucker says
"Aw I'll miss you guys!" I hug Tish, Jen, and Piper
They get in the van drive away as we wave them off
Priestly and head back in with Trucker and work for the rest of the day
"Do you guys want to day off?" Trucker asks us
We both say no because we have nothing better to do
A bunch of guys come in asking for Tish, so I put a sign outside that says "If you are here for Tish, come back Monday"
Jen texts me to check in
Jen: "Hey, how many people have come in today?"
Me: "A lot... for Tish"
I send Jen the picture of the sign that I put up
Jen: Tish said she is sad that she missing all that sex
Me: Tell her not to worry since we will probably be crazy busy on Monday
Me: Now no more texting about work! Have fun and tell Fuzzy I will kick his ass if he hurts you xo
Jen: Ok, will do! Tell Priestly not to do anything stupid for us
"Who you texting there?" Priestly asks looking over my shoulder
"Just Jen, oh and she told me to tell you to not do anything stupid"
"Very funny"
"I thought so"
A really hot guy walks in and comes up to the counter
"Hey-"
"I'm sorry man, but the sign says come back Monday"
Priestly comes up to the counter and leans on it facing away from the hot guy
"Clearly someone can't read" He whispers in a sing-song voice
"Um I can read and I have no idea who Tish is"
"Oh sorry- what can I get you?" I ask him, leaning over the counter
"10 inch, meatball, a coke, and your number"
I look him up and down
"Okay- Courtney Love... dead or alive?"
"Dead"
"Bowie"
"Alive"
"Jerry Garcia"
"Dead"
"Elvis" Priestly cuts in
"Dead"
"Oh, so close"
"Priestly! Shut up! You're the only one that thinks Elvis is alive"
"So I passed?"
"Yeah- the names Lia"
"Well nice to meet you Lia, I'm Connor"
"Hi Connor"
Priestly makes his sandwich and gets a coke, but before I hand his food to him I write my number on the outside of his sandwich
He leaves
"I think there's a little drool on the counter in front of you..."
"Shut up Priestly!"
No more guys come in for the rest of the day
Trucker leaves early, to go say goodnight to Zo and walk her home so Priestly and I are left to lock up
When we get outside I turn to Priestly
"Do you want to watch a movie at my place?"
"Uh yeah sure...is there beer?"
"Yeah there's beer" I shake my head laughing
We watch "Rent" and "Serenity" which are some of my favorite movies
Priestly cries during "Rent" but I pretend I didn't see anything
After we finish "Serenity", Priestly says he really wants to watch "Firefly" now which is the show set before the movie and what it's based on
We both drank quite a lot so I don't let Priestly drive
"Priestly, it's fine just sleep here tonight" I slur
"Haha you're drunk"
"Dude you're drunk too"
I get a blanket for Priestly and throw it at him
Then I go to my room, take my bra off, and collapse into bed
I wake with a killer head ache and a glass of water and aspirin on my nightstand
I get up to make coffee but get really nauseous and I run to the bathroom
I barge in and Priestly is in shower
"Hey Pries?" I say knocking on the door
"Oh don't make loud noises"
"I need to puke so if want to get out of the shower now would be the time"
"I'm just sitting under the water so come on in"
"Okay..."
I open the door, hold my hair back, and puke my guts out
"Oh my god why did we drink so much?" I say
"I don't know because we want to suffer" Priestly laughs
"Yeah... clearly"
"Can you hand me a towel?"
"Yeah, hold on"
I get up from the floor and wait until Priestly turns the water off to flush the toilet
I hand him one of my towels and he steps out of the shower
He looks really hot, with the water dripping down his ripped body
He starts staring at me and I look down and realize I don't have a bra on
"Nice rack" He says smirking
"Yeah, yeah" I walk out of the bathroom with my arm crossed over my boobs and Priestly follows close behind me
I stop him in the hallway and run to get my phone
"Don't. Move." I yell at him from my room
"Why the hell not, crazy lady"
"This is why"
I get a picture of his hair flat before he realizes what happening
"Delete that off your phone!"
"No, I'm good"
"I'm not kidding"
"I'm not either"
I go into my room and put a bra on and change into my comfiest shorts and my "don't talk to me I'm hungover" shirt and put on a pair of sunglasses
"I need one of those" Priestly looks at my shirt and laughs
Priestly puts on his spare clothes that he keeps in his car and drives us to work with sunglasses on
We are both seriously hungover
I walk in the door and Priestly follows behind me
"Hey! How are you guys?" I take my sunglasses off and immediately regret it
"How are you?" Tish smirks at us
"Good but hungover as you can see"
"All right! We've been sitting by the phone waiting, wondering, I demand the full report, I want all the details! What happened?" Priestly bursts in
Jen looks pretty down and Piper pushes Tish towards us
"Okay look, there is a perfectly good reason why we didn't call you guys" Tish whispers to us
Tish takes is aside and tells us what happened with Fuzzy
"Oh no, is she ok?" I whisper to Tish
"I don't know she hasn't talked since last night" Tish whispers back
"You're shittin' me" Priestly yells out
"Pries-" I try to stop him but he doesn't
"Jen! Please tell me you didn't just leave Fuzzy down there wondering...Goddammit Jen!"
"Look, I don't expect you to understand" Jen says close to tears
"No I understand, I understand you wouldn't talk to him because you were terrified that he would judge you on the basis of your looks! Yet you're completely comfortable doing the exact same thing to him!"
Piper stares at Priestly with daggers coming out of her eyes
"Hmph unbelievable, god!"
Priestly storms out and I go after him
"Jen, I'm sorry what happened and I really don't think that was directed towards you"
I hug her and run out the door
I run after Priestly and catch up to him
"Hey! Priestly! What are so pissed for?"
"I don't maybe the fact that no one can rise above how people look! I mean they can't see a good thing that's right in front of them most of the time! Is it that hard to just see past the wrapping paper!"
"Okay you clearly aren't talking about Jen anymore"
"Yeah well, at least one person of the female gender is smart"
"I'm sorry"
"What do you have to be sorry for"
"I'm sorry that people don't see the real you and just how you look"
"I need some time to cool off, can you tell Jen I'm sorry"
"I think you should tell her yourself but I'll come up with a opening statement, not too flashy I promise"
He smiles at me and walks off
I walk back to the restaurant and Jen is crying
"Is Priestly really mad at me?" Jen asks
"No, he's just going through some shit right now" I smile at her
"But he did tell me to say that he's sorry but I told him he needs to do that himself so here's the opening sentence to that very long speech you will be getting later... Jen I love you a lot and I can't help that sometimes I'm a dick"
"I think you captured him perfectly" Jen says laughing
"So I know that Fuzzy is a sore subject right now, but what did he look like?" I ask
"Brad Pitt" They all say
"No, really?!"
"Totally, I would sit on his face anytime" Tish says
I laugh and Trucker walks in
"Hey Angel, how's the hangover?" Trucker asks me
"Oh, ok for now... oh and I'm not sure when Priestly is going to be back but when he does go light on the jokes"
"Did you tell him what happened?" He asks
"Yeah and he's processing his own shit" I tell trucker
Trucker nods and goes back to the office
"Oh Tish, did you like my sign?" I ask her
"I'm going to have a very busy schedule this week" Tish sighs
"Did any guys come in?" Piper asks
"Maybe one..." I say blushing
"Oh what's his name? Maybe I know him!" Tish says
"Connor and he came in because he didn't know you"
"He passed the test which is just an interview except it was to get my number"
"Well at least he passed" Jen says
"Maybe we'll get to meet him" Piper says
"We better or we won't know if he's good enough for you" Trucker pipes up
"Oh I almost forgot but I got a picture of Priestly's hair this morning"
"Okay and what's so special about that?" Tish asks
"I don't think you guys understand, Priestly out of the shower with no gel in his hair!"
"No way!" Jen says and steals my phone
We all look at the picture of Priestly's flat hair and talk for the next 30 minutes until Priestly walks back in
"Hey Pries-"
I go over and hug him
He seems surprised at first but hugs me back
"How you doing Renaissance Man?"
"I'm doing fine"
"Do want to watch "Firefly" tonight?"
"Wait really?!"
"Yeah" I laugh at his excitement "I have the special features DVD set"
"We'll look at you all fancy"
"I like to think so"
"Hey kids you can go now" Trucker tells us
"Are you sure you don't want help closing up?" Jen asks
"Yeah, Trucker we can stay and lock up for you" I say
"No, go home, watch tv, get drunk, do whatever, you guys deserve it"
"I'm going to wipe down some tables" Jen says
"I need to mop anyway" Priestly says
"Don't forget about "Firefly"!" I yell at him
"I won't" Priestly laughs
"Hey Piper, we got to walk home tonight"
"What why?"
"Priestly drove me to work this morning"
"So what did happen with that?" Piper asks me smirking
"We watched some movies, got super drunk, and he passed out on the couch, there was no way I was going to let him drive home"
"Let me guess, nothing happened and you are just friends"
"Well, yeah, because we are"
"Well, I have money on you and Priestly" Piper laughs
"Well sorry Piper but you're not getting any of my money"
"Well this is where I leave you Lia"
"What are you talking about?" I ask her laughing
"I have to babysit Julia tonight and since their house is near our apartment I'm just going to walk"
"Piper, do you have your pepper spray?" I ask her
"Yeah, don't worry"
"You know who I have money on? You and Noah"
"What?! You're crazy! I'm gonna go now"
"Okay, you're free to go" I hug her
I get to our apartment with no issues and I grab some water once I get upstairs
I'm not drinking again tonight
Priestly comes 30 minutes after I get home and I know it doesn't take that long to quickly mop the floors
"So what took you so long?" I ask him
"I had Jen leave early and I wiped down her tables"
"Well you're very sweet"
"Yeah...Okay, let's get this marathon started!"
We only end up watching the first three episodes because we both fell asleep on the couch together
We didn't even wake up when Piper came home
Last night was really fun though
During the first episode "Train Job" Priestly was saying how much he liked this show and how much he liked all the characters
"Train Job" Is a real plot twist and you never expect what happens at the end of the episode
Then is "Bushwhacked" which is not the best episode but every episode is good
The last episode I remember watching is "Our Mrs. Reynolds" which is a really good episode but you also kinda hate it at the same time
Priestly hated this episode because of Saffron who conned her way onto the ship and into being Mal's wife which drifted Inara and Mal apart
He's now fully invested in their relationship and it's so cute
I mean, really, what did I do to deserve these people