Six plus one

Three plus four

Five plus two

Seven Seven Seven

The three sevens in a row flash brightly on one of the many bright machines, as the waitress passes by. She passes a solemn, envious glance at the guest on his knees, crying tears of joy.

Character highlight: Alice Kirkland. A broke and down-on-her-luck waitress with dreams of being wealthy. Her name and appearance come from Female England of Hetalia. However, this character is also closely tied to Mary Saotome with a similar appearance, poor background, and personality traits of being high-strung and hot-tempered.

The waitress was a slender blonde woman wearing a black leotard, bunny ears, and black heels. Her long, straight, blonde hair was tied in twintails and she wore black framed glasses. Barely keeping it together on the inside, she continues to hold the circular tray up high and walk towards the next table... hoping... that they tip. Hoping that they tip. She's trapped in this reality, begging for money every day, and every night having anxiety about whether how much she made will be enough to make ends meet. Trapped in a dead-end job and always feeling inferior to everyone else. Like some nobody among a bunch of ...

*ping*

Her thoughts are derailed when she gets a message on her phone.

"Meet me in the bathroom"

What is this? The anonymous user on Craigslist, promising riches beyond her wild dreams, who Alice reached out to last week is just now responding to her? With "meet me in the bathroom"? what the he... Alice turns around and sees only one woman walking towards the bathrooms. A beautiful Southern Belle in an emerald green satin ballroom gown that is a floor length mermaid style with a sweetheart neckline. She also has a puffy cream colored beau wrapped around her bare shoulders. The woman has caramel-hazelnut colored hair that reaches down to her mid-neck with side bangs and spunky curls towards the bottom. She is looking around the casino carefully and her blue eyes lock in on Alice's for half a second before she turns to survey the rest of the room. The mysterious woman heads straight into the bathroom.

No way.

A stunned Alice stops in her tracks, the tray still balanced in her right hand.

This can't be real.

She quickly darts to drop the tray off near the buffet and then beelines it to the bathroom.

Character highlight: Amelia Jones. She has a degree in physics, but she doesn't use it. She is a con-woman who is always traveling for her crimes. Her name and appearance come from Female America from Hetalia. She is dressed just like Miss Scarlett from the movie Clue. She is also a nod to Itsuki Sumeragi due to the very similar hair and eyes and same struggles of not being taken seriously because of her appearance and mannerisms (which will come later in this story).

The women's bathroom door creaks slowly open and Alice's heels click on the hard tiled floor as she walks in. Now, there are a total of three women in the bathroom: Alice, Amelia, and another stranger. Alice watches both of the women touch up their makeup in the mirror until the other woman leaves. Amelia continues to casually apply red lipstick in the mirror until Alice breaks the silence since it is just the two of them alone now.

"This might sound crazy, but I got a message from someone on Craigslist who I don't know what they look like. They said... 'meet me in the bath...'" before she can finish, Amelia manically grabs her and shoves her into a stall. Amelia intimidatingly shoves Alice into the right-hand wall of the stall and closes in on her.

"How much money do you have?"

"I... um" Alice felt like she was being mugged.

"I can make you filthy rich if you let me. How much?" Amelia persists.

"I just have like around 12K to my name, it's nothing much" Alice responds and immediately after she finished answering, they hear the bathroom door open.

"UUUUGHHHH I JUST LOVE PEONY! WHERE DID YOU GET THIS PERFUME?" Amelia's voice changes into a charming southern belle as she collapses her head into Alice's shoulders.

The two women who just walked into the bathroom pass by the open stall where Amelia is obsessively praising Alice on her perfume. They exchange weird glances to each other. "What are they drinking?" they whisper to each other as they finally leave the bathroom.

Amelia switches back to her original self. "Collaborate with me. Give me all the money you have. I will make you richer than your wildest dreams"

"This is crazy! I found you on Craigslist." Alice shoves her away and her heels clack as she angrily heads towards the bathroom door.

"That's fine, I completely understand." Amelia's voice echoes across the bathroom as Alice gets to the door and puts her hand on the handle. "I'm sure your life is already good enough, just the way it is" Amelia says complacently, silently recalling when she stalked Alice's social media and found all of the posts she liked and shared giving away that her life is a dead-end and she desperately wants to start over.

Alice's hand falls off of the handle of the bathroom door. Amelia silently grins from where she was hidden from Alice's sight, still in the stall.