Pawnshops and Carousels
AvalonReeseFanFics
A/N: Hello my wonderful Readers! So we're back again with another update. This one's short but sweet. And I mean literally, it's super cute. As always don't forget to leave a review and I'll see you guys next Sunday. Also props to me for getting this up on time! Look at me getting my act together!
Chapter 14
Seth: A month of bliss. A month of us essentially living together, time sharing each other's apartments. We're not apart. Okay sometimes we are, but not really. She's either at my place or I'm at hers. And we spend a lot of time with my family because apparently my mom, my dad, and my sister are her family. God, she loves my nieces. And don't get me wrong, I do too but I want to spend all my time with Sabrina getting her comfortable enough to agree to move herself and her cat in with me.
Is that too much to ask?
Dating Seth has had it perks. First and foremost, it's like I have a family again. The Gold's are always inviting us over for family dinner, I missed Ashley's kids growing up so now they're older and they don't remember their cool Aunt Sabrina who used to babysit for them when they were babies and always did the cool stuff with them that Ashley said wasn't allowed.
Secondly, I could essentially come and go from the pawn shop as I pleased, though Seth liked it if I worked the same hours as him.
Thirdly none of the staff argued with me ever. I asked them to do something and BAM it was done, no questions asked.
And don't get me wrong, I love that, but it wasn't necessary.
This afternoon, Seth and I had started craving burgers and since he was more important to the store, I had been sent out to go get them. Which meant I'm on my way back to the store with enough burgers to choke a horse, because if I was gonna get food for me and Seth of course I was gonna offer to pick up for everyone else that was working.
I had forgotten how much the guards could eat. They had to have ordered at least five burgers a piece.
But on my way back that's when I saw it. A giant billboard with Ashley's face on it with the words: "If you can make me quit, you'll get 20% off your purchase at American Jewelry and Loan."
Goddamn it Seth!
I knew that they were having an argument to see who had better marketing schemes but Ashley had put up an inflatable gorilla that said: "Monster Savings". She hadn't insulted Seth in any way so it made no sense why he had tried to up her with a billboard that personal. Why the hell had he taken this so far, she hadn't annoyed him that much… had she?
I get into the parking lot, and Joe is there immediately to help me bring the food in. This is very nice of him and normally I would have said thank you but I have other things to worry about right now.
I rush over to Ashley was on the sales floor as Joe takes all the burger to the back. "Hey, hey, hey!" I cry heading towards her. Ashley smiles and says hi back to me. "Have you… have you had any weird customers today?"
"Yeah actually, a few," she says. "They all kept asking me to quit."
GODDAMN IT SETH!
"Okay… uh… don't go outside…" I say to her.
"What?"
"I'll fix it!" I call back and then rush into the back. Seth is looking through all the food we had ordered setting aside all the orders so people can just come pick up their food and not have to search for it. I can already see that he's set aside our stuff first, and while that's sweet, I'm mad at him. I cross to him and then smack him hard across the shoulder.
"HEY!" he cries. "What the hell, I got your stuff too!"
Oh yeah, like that was the problem! "You put up a billboard with Ashley…." "Oh you saw that huh, isn't it great?" "NO!"
Seth's smile fades off of his lips as I glare at him. "Seth that is your sister why would you do that to your sister?"
"Aw come on, it's funny!"
"You think Ashley's going to find it funny?"
"Well probably not but that's the point…"
"Seth…" I groan and it was all I needed to do. He sighs, he looks flustered and upset, like Ashley was the one who put up a get Seth to quit billboard.
"I mean… I guess I can… I guess can take it down but…"
"Take what down?" Ashley asks having appeared beside us without any notice. Aw fuck me.
"Nothing!" I shout just as Seth cracks a large grin and says: "Wanna see?"
"NO!" I cry but it's too late, Seth is taking his father and sister to the roof to see the billboard. He climbs up first and then helps Ashley up, then his father and then me. I can see on his face that he's surprised that I came up too. But his grip on my hand is tight, and he doesn't let go until I'm as far away from that ladder as I can get. In fact, he doesn't let go at all, he just holds my hand. Which worries me because Ashley might think that we're in on it together and she's mean and I don't want her to be mad at me when this is all Seth's fault.
"OH MY GOD!" Ashley screams and I sigh, oh here we go. She whirls around on her brother and screams his name at him.
"Now that's how you run a marketing campaign," he says to her.
"He's going to take it down!" I say at the same time.
Ashley looks from me to her father. "Did you guys know about this?"
Les shakes his head while I wince. "Well I saw it when I was coming back from the burger run, but I didn't know about it before hand… I promise he didn't tell me about it."
Ashley scowls at Seth. "You're an asshole!"
"And he's going to take it down, aren't you?" I say to him and he turns that dazzling grin onto me. And I nearly melt. God what that boy did to me.
"You really want me to take it down that badly huh?" he asks me. I scowl at him and he smiles and scoffs a little at me. "Alright. Then let's bargain for it."
I sigh, I'm past aggravated, and of course I would be. Seth's negotiation skills have evolved and now that he's not distracted by being in awe that we got back together he's been whooping my butt at the whole negotiating thing again. And let me tell you I had not missed that.
But I don't miss the fact that he might have done all of this because he wants something specific from me and I have got to say this is a weird way to go about getting something from me. But I'm also worried that he's going to bargain sexual favours from me in front of his family.
I narrow my eyes at him. "Oh god, what do you want?"
He's smiling again. "That's not how it works, you tell me what you're willing to trade and I tell you what I'm willing to go up to."
"You know exactly what I'm going to say it's the same as last night's negotiation and all the others."
Blow jobs. Seth fucking lives for blow jobs. And it's always my very first bargaining chips, because if I whisper it in his ear, all light and husky like that sometimes… most of the time… he forgets to actually negotiate with me.
"Okay… counter offer…" God if he says blow jobs every day for the next week in front of his father, he's gonna get slapped. "Move in with me."
Behind me Ashley gasps with excitement. Les has just made a soft sound, like a cry of excitement that he tried swallowed down. I am staring at Seth with wide eyes.
"Uh… what?"
"You heard me. You want me to take that billboard down, move in with me."
Firstly, I'm shocked that he wants me to move in, cause I thought we were taking things slow. Secondly, we're already kind of living together cause we've been bouncing between staying at my place or his for the last three weeks. Thirdly… why couldn't he fucking ask me like a normal person?
"Counter offer. Ask me like a normal fucking person and I'll agree, but I won't actually move in with you until that billboard is down. And Escobar is non-negotiable."
"I happen to love Escobar, and he's the reason I'm asking," Seth says, which I know isn't true because Escobar hates Seth and keeps peeing on his things if they're left on the floor. "Sabrina, will you move in with me."
I jump at him kissing him solidly on the lips. "Of course I will… once the billboard is removed."
His grin is a mile long and I love it as much as I love him. "I'll call them as soon as we get inside."
"Oh, good cause I'm cold and I'm hungry," I tell him and then skip off. Loving that he's following me, and asking me to let him go down first so he can spot me and make sure I won't fall. Like he'd be able to catch me, of course he'd try but I'd just flatten him.
We're on the right track, Seth and I. I don't even mind that it's going a bit too fast. We have so much time to make up for that I feel that it's just the right pace for us.
