Pawnshops and Carousels
AvalonReeseFanFics
A/N: Hello Any interested readers! This is a OCxSeth Hardcore Pawn Fanfiction. It's gonna be all dramatic and romantic and funny, hopefully. So leave a review if you're interested.
*All bolded text is voice over like in the show
Chapter 1
Ashley: My dad took over that new store over in Pontiac, and as we're going over the names of our new employees I start to hyperventilate because I recognize a name. So I do some digging and… it is her and I can use this to my advantage. It took a lot of convincing but, I managed to get my dad on board and if all goes well I'll have Seth eating out the palm of my hand, or at the very least, so damn distracted at his job that he'll be fucking up right left in center… so much so that my dad will have no choice but to make me manager instead of him.
I don't like the way Ashley is looking at me. I don't. All I know is that we're getting a new employee, a transfer from our new location and they're coming in today. Why she's looking at me with that stupid grin on her face, like she caught me with my hand in the cookie jar, is beyond me. I'm not the one who had the new employee transfer here, that was my dad's idea.
Then door opens and my heart stops in my chest.
Because it's Sabrina DeRose.
Seth: Sabrina's the girl that got away.
She was my high school sweet heart, and the relationship lasted all the way through college. I was so in love with her I bought her a ring… which she shot down because I got it out of my dad's store and she wanted her own ring, brand new. I was one down payment away from getting her the kind of ring she wanted when we broke up.
It was stupid. I was a wild, reckless kid, and she caught me with another girl that, honestly, I wasn't even that interested in. And it completely gutted me to lose her. She's the girl who could walk back into my life and I'd drop any girl I was seeing to get with her again. So you can imagine my surprise to see her walking into my goddamn store.
It doesn't take me long to figure out what Ashley has done, what she thinks is going to happen. And let me tell you, if my sister thinks she can distract me by having Sabrina work in the shop she's got another thing coming.
He looks the same.
It's the first thing I think of when I see him again. The infamous Seth Gold the boy who took my heart and played it like a game of whack-a-mole. He's the same height, he has the same intense blue eyes, his hair might be a bit shorter but he still has those stupid earrings I was so against when he got them.
And he's just staring at me.
Anyone else who saw that look on his face would thought that he was glaring at me. But I know better. He's got a lazer focus and it's right on me. That's all. Nothing could tear him away, nothing could shake the attention.
I brush my blonde hair behind my ear I lower my eyes from his. "Hello… uh… hi…"
Ashley moves immediately, pulling me into a tight hug and saying my name like we're besties. Granted we used to be friends back when me and Seth were dating, but we haven't talked since I broke up with Seth. Not that I ever expected her to keep contact, she was his sister first and foremost.
I glance at him again, his hands are deep in his pockets. I know that move. He's trying not to reach for me, whether it be to hug me or to throw me out is unclear so I take a precautionary step away to help him keep himself in control. I force myself to look up at him.
"Hi Seth."
"Hey, Reenie."
It was his nick name for me and it hurts to hear him say it. "It's Sabrina actually."
By the way he looks at me I might as well have slapped him in the face. But it gets that lazer focus off of me and onto the floor, as his jaw pulses away. He's grinding his teeth to keep himself from snapping back. Oh. Boy. Maybe I didn't have to say that to him. Maybe I could have just let him keep my pet name.
"What are you doing here, Sabrina?"
"Uh… well I guess I'm Les' new Administrative Assistant."
Now I'm concerned because Ashley is smiling at me in that devious way that told me she had some sort of plan that probably humiliated her brother and Seth just looks confused.
"Les hired an Admin? Really?"
"Nope," Ashley cries in a sing song voice. "No he did not."
Now I'm doubly concerned. Why the hell am I here if I'm not working for Les?
"Hey Reenie," Les cries pushing through his children to get to me. He wraps me up in a huge hug and kisses my cheek. "So nice to see you again, how you been?
"Good. Uhm… I was told you needed me as an Admin Assistant," I tell him because if I get on the topic of how I've been I'll never get back to this.
"Who told you that?"
"Ashley."
"Well I don't know how Ashley got confused… you're not my Admin, you're going to be Seth's."
My heart stops in my chest. I'm going to be what now? "No… that's not… that's not what she said I'd be… I mean… I can't…"
I'm turning bright red, I can't even look at Seth right now. I can't have him as a boss, not when I'm still helpless in love with him. Not when he cheated on me and was probably rolling around with some floozy even now. Oh god, get me out of this situation now!
"I don't need an assistant," Seth growls. Oh thank god it's not me that has to say it. "And she's not fit for pawn business."
My eyes whip up to him. Excuse me?
"You have the thinnest skin out there. You cry at Disney movies."
"Only heartless people don't cry at Disney movies, Seth," I snap. It's like we're back in college again arguing over the same old shit. I'm too sensitive, he's not sensitive enough. Why do I need to pretend to be upper class instead of the lower class I came from because I'm wanted a ring from a store… and not his dad's pawnshop? Or how it was my fault for catching him cheating because I should have told him I was coming home from work early.
We were living together Seth? Why would I announce myself in my own place? Why Seth?!
"Okay. Firstly. I am much better now…" "Your eyes are misting right now." Shut up Seth!"
Oh god we really were back in college again.
"Okay. Let's just go for a walk. Sabrina, you come with me, let me introduce you to everyone else, we'll talk about your job here okay?" Les says, slinging an arm over my shoulders and tugging me away. But even as I go both Seth and I are stuck in a glaring match, our eyes stay locked on one another until It's too hard for me to stay turned around.
I take great pride in knowing Seth turned all the way around to watch me leave. But that didn't mean I could stay here or work with him. Not when looking at him cut my heart open again. But now that I was here was I strong enough to leave him again? Even if he didn't want me, even if seeing him with his new girlfriend would kill me?
God. What had I gotten myself into?
