Previously…
Finally, a little later, the bar started to fill up and we were on our way.
That was when they walked in.
Up until now my first night at Merlotte's went smoothly. I was introduced to everyone in the town and was attempting to remember all of their names and faces. Sookie, Arlene, Terry, Sam and Tara were great. They made sure I was getting along fine and Terry and Sam double teamed to keep away pretty much any male attention.
When they walked in, I could tell what they were. Just by the way they walked in; well, more like glided in. One was blonde and the other brunette. They sat down at one of my tables and I quickly finished up the order I was working on.
After taking the food I had to its table, I checked myself and made my way over to their table. "What can I get for you gentlemen tonight?" They both looked up at me.
The brunette one, looking surprised, spoke first. "I thought this was one of Sookie's tables. I was not aware that Sam had hired anyone new," I was a tad startled, but I broke out of it quickly by looking down at my notepad.
"Yeah, I'm new. But I can go get Sookie for you if you'd like," I started to turn away when the blonde one finally spoke.
"No, don't worry about it. Bill can see Sookie later," his deep voice stunned me so I could only nod.
The brunette, Bill, looked a little upset with his companion, but still turned to me to order. "Tru Blood O negative." He said, I scribbled it down quickly. "Please."
I smiled at his gentlemanly attempt to make up for what he had said earlier.
"You sir?" I asked the blonde one. He smirked and it sent a small chill down my spine.
"It's Eric. And I'll have an AB positive," He looked at me with an eyebrow raised. "Your name?"
I wanted to refuse to tell him, to walk away and just let him wonder, but something about him just made me blurt it out.
"Anya,"
Then I was going towards the bar. "Hey Tara, I need an O negative and AB positive Tru Blood," I stood there waiting for the bottles when Sookie came over.
"I see you met Bill and Eric." She sounded reluctant to talk about the latter of the two.
"They seem great. And Bill was hoping to see you," She looked just as excited as he had. Sookie just nodded and went off to see Bill, taking the Tru Bloods with her. It was then that I noticed something about her. She had a sort of aura around her; very perceptive, almost like she knew things without anyone having to tell her. That was something I was going to have to investigate further. I just hoped she hadn't noticed my ability.
From across the room, I could practically feel Sookie and Bill's joy in each other. But what I could sense more was Eric's slight disappointment; in what, I couldn't tell. That was the bad thing about what I could do. Yeah, sure I could tell what people were feeling, but I never knew what it was about until I was touching them.
"Anya! Order up," Terry was saying to me as he pointed at the burger and fries sitting on the counter. I quickly grabbed the plates, trying to remember where they were supposed to go.
"Sorry, Terry. I guess I just blanked." He nodded in understanding and muttered a, "I know what you mean."
Definitely true, I thought to myself. I took the burgers to the table where two grown men immediately dug into them. One of them kept glancing disapprovingly at Bill and Sookie.
"You sweet on Sookie or something?" I asked him. He looked up and almost chocked on his fries.
"What?! God no," He looked to his friend. "Sookie's my sister. I'm Jason Stackhouse." The other man cleared his throat. "And this is Hoyt."
Normally, I could block the images in people's heads, but the vampires' arrival had me slightly mixed up, so when I touched Jason's hand, I was swarmed with his thoughts. First was a picture of me, standing here and smiling at him. Then was Sookie and Bill and I could feel the frustration of the relationship on this thoughts. Finally was a picture of a very beautiful girl with dark hair. His mood was saddened quickly and went he let my hand go, I could see the strain in his face. Hoyt's head was filled with one very annoying image of an older woman. Over and over, I could see her nagging at him and gossiping like crazy: his mother.
I almost started laughing at loud at the woman who was constantly in his head, but I restrained myself.
"Very nice to meet both of you," I said after we were done.
"So," Hoyt began. "How long have you been in town?"
"About two days," They both nodded.
"Where are you staying?" Jason wondered. I looked down at my notepad and was trying got figure out a good lie when Terry called my name.
"Anya! Order up," Terry yelled over the roar of the crowd. I rushed from Jason and Hoyt's table and picked my order up.
The rest of the night flew by without question from Jason again. Although, before he and Hoyt left, I could tell he was still curious.
The only strange part of the evening was that the blonde vampire, Eric, watched me from his table long after he had finished his Tru Blood.
At 4 a.m., it was time to go home. We were all finished cleaning and Sam was getting ready to lock everything up.
"Alright, ladies. Time to get out and go home," He called as we got our stuff from his office. Tara, Sookie and I walked into the main bar, yawning the whole way.
"God Sam, do you have to be such an ass? We're going," Tara said as she made her way out to Sookie's car. Sam locked up behind us and the front light turned off.
"Where are you going for the night, Anya?" Sookie asked from behind me as I made my way to the end of the lot, where my gasless car was parked.
"I've, umm, got a room at a motel not too far from here. It's just temporary." I could feel the shared glances behind my back as I kept moving, forgetting about them. I made sure Sam was in the trailer and Sookie and Tara were gone before getting in the car and starting to get ready to sleep. I had already brushed my teeth in the bar bathroom, so all I had to do was change.
Lifting the makeshift window cover I had made out of my sheets. They covered all of the windows and it was good enough that I could change and that no one could see the light from my flashlight on the outside.
I was changed and getting in the backseat and under my blankets, the flashlight turned off and my iPod playing on low from the battery run stereo I had. A few minutes later, I was almost asleep when a noise from outside the car startled me. I quickly shut off the music and just sat, listening to the outside world and trying to detect any emotions from outside the car.
It was an animal of some sort and was just sniffing around the car. Carefully lifting the curtain, I peeked out of the corner and saw the lassie-style dog sitting outside the car. I relaxed and let the cover fall and got back into the makeshift bed.
The dog didn't worry me and somehow, while I slept, I could tell that the dog stayed close to the car all night.
Author's Note:
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I hope this chapter has cleared some stuff up and wasn't too crazy or anything. Hopefully you liked it too.
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