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A/N: Hey everyone. I'm back. Sorry about the delay. My brother's puppy is being a pain and he is back in North Carolina for a month so it's not been working out too well for me. But luckily Tuesday meant payday for me so I was able to get a new computer charger. I'll be back to posting on Thursdays starting next week but I wanted to get this posted today instead of waiting until Thursday.
Chapter 6
BPOV
I know that it is about a 10 minute walk to the water wall from the Cheesecake Factory. I can tell that Rosalie doesn't know where we are going, so I know I made the right choice in take her here. I don't think that there will really be anybody here and to see it at night makes it more romantic. I have a small surprise set up there as well. It was silent for the first part of the walk and then Rosalie started to talk.
"Okay, so tell me more about yourself." She says.
"Alright as you know I'm 24 and I've lived in Houston for about five years now. Jasper, Alice, and I moved to Texas about a month after graduation. We were living with Jasper's parents but they found out that the three of us were gay and kicked us out. We came to Houston and haven't left since."
"Why did you leave your hometown though?" She asked me.
"We all wanted a change of scenery. Jasper missed home and Alice and I wanted to try something new. We grew up in Forks and even though I knew who she was we didn't start actually hanging out until we started working together. Jasper had moved to Forks to live with his aunt and uncle. He was getting into trouble in Texas so his parents shipped him off. I met him through work as well and we all just clicked. We had our group and ran the high school. I knew when I graduated that I didn't want to go to college, but I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. Jasper was getting homesick after being in Forks for three years so he suggested that we all move to Texas. My parents were alright with it, so we went." I tell her.
"So your car, did you do the work or what?"
"My dad and I rebuilt it together. I've always had a love for mustangs and when my dad's friend just gave him this run down almost shell of a car. When I saw the car I started to ask my dad about it and when I was old enough he let me start helping him. I have to say that if this business didn't work out, I probably would have become a mechanic." I tell her.
"So you and your parents are close then?" Rosalie asks me with a sad look in her eyes.
"Yeah we are. Here we are." I was going to elaborate but we got to the water wall.
Rosalie's expression was priceless when she saw the blanket and little tea light candles around it. I know it wasn't much but it was what I could come up with. She seemed to like it and so that made me happy.
"This is beautiful. How did you get them to let you do this?" she asked me.
"I know a few people around here." I smiled at her.
"No body's ever done anything like this for me."
"Well it's my pleasure. Come on let's go sit and eat this cheesecake." I grab her hand and we walk over to the blanket and sit down. I pull out our cheesecake and we start eating.
"So were your parents accepting of you being a lesbian from the beginning?" she asked me.
"Yeah, they had no problems. We had been through a lot already and that was just one other thing." I tell her.
"So do you have any siblings?"
"Nope, I'm an only child. My parents had trouble conceiving me in the first place and they just weren't able to have another kid." I tell her. "Do you have any siblings?" I ask her.
"Yeah I have an adopted sister and a brother, both younger. My brother James doesn't talk to me either, but my sister Angela, we still keep in contact even though my parents don't know about it. Why did you decide to open a strip club?"
"Jasper, Alice, and I were working at Taco Bell here and I had been to a few strip clubs here, but there weren't really any good ones that caught my eye and Jasper couldn't find any to catch his eye either. Things were getting bad at work so we started looking into it and finally got it going. Then once we got the first one going we went and opened up the male strip clubs for women and gay men. It has worked out really well for us all. Alice met Victoria and Jasper met Edward, who is a bartender at the male club."
"Do you often date your strippers?" she asked. I have been waiting for this question to come up.
"No. I have had offers but I always turn them down." I tell her. I didn't want her to think that I just around dating random strippers.
"You mentioned something about having two dogs. What are their names?" she asked next.
"The oldest is Tigger and she is 13 years old. The other is Harlie and she 8 years old."
"What breeds are they?"
"Tigger is a lab Shepard mix and Harlie is a black lab. They are rescue dogs."
"I noticed that you had tattoos on your arms, do you have them anywhere else?" she asked me.
"Maybe, maybe not. You might find out one day." I smirk at her. She just laughs at me which I take as a good sign. "Yeah I have a lot of tattoos hidden under my clothes."
"What is the meaning to this one?" she asks pointing to the music sleeve on my arm.
"I love music; it's one of the things that relaxes me the most. I can sit at home and play my guitar and just chill. I have music lyrics that has some meaning to me mixed in with different music symbols but revolves around the saying 'Music is the art of thinking with sounds.'" I tell her. All the while she is running her finger around my arm around the tattoo. My arm is just tingling from her touch and it feels surprisingly good.
"It's almost 10 o'clock and I told my friend that we would be gone by then. Are you ready to head back?" I ask her.
"Yeah, I need to get back home anyways." She tells me.
"May I ask why you don't work on one of our busiest nights?" I ask her. it has been bugging me that she doesn't want to work on the night that she could make the most money.
"I want to get Sophie use to me working Monday through Friday and me being home on the weekend." She tells me as we start walking back to my car.
"That makes sense."
"Are we just leaving the blanket and stuff behind?"
"Oh yeah I have someone coming to clean it up for me." I tell her. We spend the rest of the walk in silence. I finally get the courage up to grab her hand and hold it for the rest of the walk.
When we reach my car, I unlock it and open her door for her. When I get into the car Rosalie turns and looks at me.
"How did you get your keys back from the valet?" she asks.
"Oh I brought my spare with me and just told him to leave the key in the glove box for me." I told her.
"You just had all your bases covered didn't you?" she smiles at me as she says this.
"I wanted everything to be perfect for you." I tell her.
We spend the rest of the car ride back to her place in silence. Once we are in front of her building, I park and run around the car to open her car door. I take her hand and walk her to her door. Once we reach it, she pulls out her keys and turns to look at me.
"I had a really good time tonight." She says.
"Me too. I was kinda hoping you would like to go out again sometime?" I ask her nervously.
"I would like that a lot." She tells me.
"Okay just let me know when a good day would be for you."
After that we kinda just stand there looking at each other. My eyes travel from her eyes to her lips and back again.
"May I give you a goodnight kiss?" I ask. I don't want to push her but I want to kiss her so bad.
"I would like that." She tells me and I start to lean in. She meets me halfway and when our lips connect, I can't help but let my eyes close. Her lips are so soft against mine and I can feel those damn tingles travel all over. The kiss starts off slowly, and what I had planned to be a chastised kiss turns into more as I feel her tongue run along my bottom lip asking permission to enter. I open my mouth and her tongue slips in and starts to fight with mine for dominance. I let her win and we continue to kiss until her babysitter opens the door and interrupts us. We pull back panting and look at the babysitter. She has a surprised and apologetic look on her face.
"I'm so sorry. I heard some noises and wanted to see what was going on."
"No it's ok Sarah. I need to go inside anyways. I'll be right there." Rosalie tells her and turns back to me.
"I'm sorry about that, but I do need to go in there and let Sarah go home." She tells me but it looks like she doesn't want me to leave. Score.
"It's okay. At least I get to see you tomorrow at work." I smile at her.
"Yeah, just don't treat me any different from the other girls please." She begs me.
"I won't. I promise. Honestly, if something happened to where it needed to be handle at the club with you, Alice would be the one to deal with it just like I deal with anything that has to do with Victoria, not that there ever has been. We are pretty laid back bosses if you haven't noticed."
"Okay, well I'll see you tomorrow then. Goodnight." She says to me with a quick peck to my lips.
"Goodnight." I tell her. With a big smile on my face I turn to leave once she is inside her apartment. Tonight went way better than I thought it would and she agreed to go on another date with me. I get back downstairs and jump in my car and head home looking forward to see Rosalie tomorrow.
