Chapter 63

I went in the small boutique two blocks away from my crappy building. I'd seen this place everyday on my walks to work but never had the money to buy anything, so I'd always window shopped. The lady at the cash-register smiled politely to me and informed me of they're half off on all the tank tops. I smiled back and began to brows through the racks. After I killed about 10 minutes, I walked over to her and asked if she was hiring, she smiled and shook her head, "Sorry, but I think the gallery is… why don't you go see. The owner's name is Safrina", she smiled again.

I thanked her and walked out. They wouldn't hire me to clean the floors, so why bother. I still walked passed the gallery, it was called The Volturi, some local last-name I supposed.

I walked downtown and sat on a bus-stop bench and people watched for awhile. It was warm today. As I took of my hoody I saw a guy looking at me, he seamed familiar. His deep blue eyes and his gray thinning hair was refreshing, I usually get stared at a lot, I'm sort of used to it since I've been working in bars and strip joints, so what happened next sort of caught me of guard.

The older blue eyed man leaned against his red beat up truck as if he waited for something, I would guess he was parked on a taxi area because the white and orange taxi cab honked it's horned at him, and instead of moving his car, he started yelling and swearing at the driver. The younger man got out of his car and came closer to defend his parking spaces. So the older blue eyed man threw the first punch and as the fight concluded with black eyes and bloodied noses as well as a man on his back in the middle of the sidewalk. As quickly as its started the police where on the scene, they took statements and the older man was taken away in handcuffs, It stuck with me. That scene was like I was being given a reason but still it was something that I had to figure out.

Later that day as I was walking back to my building I ran into Heidi and Felix, I sneered at him, and he walked away. His face was black and blue, his left arm was in a cast and you could see that he had to have stitches on his forehead because of the deep cuts.

Heidi was not even worried about him, she didn't even give me shit about what had happened, she actually told me that they deserved it, she too had been in that situation before, but she was threaten about not keeping quite. "It's Caius' fault" she explained. "Felix is always with him, so that he won't hurt the girls too much, he's sadistic and sick" she smiled sadly as if remembering something about her experience. "I talked to Aro, he wants you back, he promised that you can only waitress, no more dancing, he'll give you all my tables" she smiled apologetically.

Heidi is a good friend, but still I didn't want to go back there, there was somethings that I just didn't want to do anymore. But since there was no chance that I would be getting that kind of money anywhere else, I was stuck.

"Yeah, thanks, so when should I go back?" I asked her resigned.

"Tomorrow, just show up as if it was your regular shift, you'll work my shift too, so…." She trailed of, not saying more.

"So what?" I asked curiously. "Just be careful, don't take any orders in to the private rooms, let Victoria do that, she has more experience and she's actually into it. Just don't tell her I told you. She sometimes gives me the creeps" She looked at me with wide eyes.

"Yeah, OK, well thanks" I told her as she walked away following Felix in to there building.

When I got home I really wasn't sure if I was happy or sad about getting the job back. I sat on my stained couch and stared at the walls.

A few moments later I got an idea and broad out my make up bag, looking inside for the black eye liner I started to draw on the dull green wall of the front room of my old dilapidate apartment.