Chapter 2
Hey you guys! I just wanted to say that I hope you're enjoying the book so far! Don't be afraid to get attached to these lovely characters like I have and certainly don't be afraid to offer your thoughts and opinions, I regularly reply back to them as well!
Anyways, I hope you enjoy the rest of the story!!
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She looked like a lost dog, but not all who wander are lost. She thought Cassidy was brave, she was something else. She spun and walked to the nearest table to take an order. The order was slightly complicated, but not as complicated as the bar's orders before she got canned. Turns out, screwing the owner's daughter in the fridge isn't stated as a fireable offense in the employee handbook, but is indeed a fireable offense. She stuck the order on the order spindle and kept going. Four orders my ass. She could do 7 maybe at max 8. She served most the tables out there, ranging from the front to the back of the restaurant. Nine orders at once was her max. She stressed hard, harder than when she found out she had been caught in the fridge with the owners' daughter's legs draped over her shoulders. She plopped down on the curb outside the restaurant and lit a cigarette. 10-minute breaks were truly meant for smokers.
"Aren't you a little young for cigarettes." Cassidy plopped down beside her outside the restaurant. Signing as she leaned back against the wall.
"Aren't you supposed to be inside taking care of the overly excessive number of church-going customers?" Lainey chuckled and blew out smoke.
"Nah, church bus left 10 minutes ago." Cassidy laughed airlessly, leaning against the wall on the smallest curb in all of San Francisco.
"So, what's your deal?" Lainey asked her, looking out across the small parking lot and tapping off the excess of her cigarette instead of meeting Cassidy's eyes when Cassidy stared at her.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Cassidy said, looking over at her. She had no deal.
"You have a girlfriend? How long have you been working here? You always go into gay clubs by yourself?" Lainey softly chuckled, taking a long drag off her cigarette.
"I have a boyfriend, yes. I'm not gay, I don't swing that way. I've worked here for two years. No, I wasn't alone. I was supporting my friend after his rough break up." Cassidy pulled her knees to her chest and hugged them; it was cold outside that night. Lainey shook her head in agreement, understanding some part of it. "What's your deal?" Cassidy asked back, mocking Lainey, but with a smile.
"I've worked here for 3 hours, and I used to work at that bar, and no, I'm not in a relationship..." She hesitated towards the end and cracked a short smile before smooshing her cigarette against the ground, putting it out and tossing it to the side. "Breaks over." She walked in through the back door and left Cassidy in the dark alone outside. The restaurant was fairly empty, 12am now, only people with the munchies or truckers on the road were eating there. Three hours down, three more to go. People started to leave the restaurant and with no incoming people and no orders, Lainey decided to clean up early. Lainey began wiping down tables, booths and putting chairs up. When she got to the bar, she wiped it down slowly, remembering how the incident went in the back of her head.
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"Hey beautiful, Lainey wiped the down the bar counter while Jess served a drink to the last costumer of the night. She was obviously flirting with him. Our late night regular with a chiseled jaw and stubble on his chin. He had deep green eyes and lips like an angel. If she were straight, she would fuck him, but she wasn't, and she never would be. He obviously came into the bar because he knew Jess would be working, wasn't even gay, just came into a frazzled gay bar to talk to the bartender. That was the funniest part about this odd man. But besides buying half the whiskey bottle every night, he was a cool guy, played pro ball and talked a lot about it. Lainey always thought he was coming to the bar just to have someone to brag to.
"Lane, never going to happen." She said, playing hard to get, washing out some empty beer mugs and drying them off to put away for the night. Closing time was the best time, the times she could talk to Jess, nobody else around and if they were, they were too drunk to care. Jess knew she wanted Lainey, but wouldn't admit it, Lainey was dying to hear it from her mouth. Lainey had been so lonely lately, breaking things off with a girl she was serious with, she was ready to get back out there, ready to meet new people, fuck new people. She was willing to catch up on the social norm and sleep with as many girls as possible before she was able to settle down again. Whether she decided to settle down. Whether she could settle down at all. Lainey has always been the life of the party, there is no settle mode that she came with.
She stared at Jess, mesmerized by her looks, she was gorgeous. Everything good came at a price, she had an invisible sign on her back that said, "off limits for the sake of your job." Jess and her father owned the bar. Her dad was the cook back in the kitchen while the ladies ran the front because they were more sociable, women were more alluring to the gay club customers than a big burly man, Jack always said. She chuckled at that.
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"Hey hun, you good?" Dawn grabbed Lainey's arm and squeezed affectionately to try to snap her out of the trance she was in. Dawn smelt of cigarettes and black cold brew.
"Yeah, sorry. Did you need something?" Lainey asked, rubbing her temple hard, grabbing strands of her own hair and tossing them behind her ear.
Dawn shook her head and smiled at her, patting her on the back. "If you need anything, let me know. I'm off for the night, but you know. You have my number." She said, walking out. "Try to have a good night, don't let closing ruin it."
She was right, Dawn gave her number to the two new girls, in case they had questions. That was it. Dawn was married and also like 65 and retired from her every day job. Definitely not Lainey's type, she won't ever risk her job for a coworker again. But the weirdest thing is that with Jess, it was so different than she could ever expect. Jess wasn't just a quick fuck or a coworker, she was so much more. She meant so much more than that to Lainey. Tears welled in her eyes but they were able to go away. Lainey was used to stopping herself from crying now.
Lainey served the last costumer of the night. "Can you give this to that young lady over there?" The old woman handed five dollars to Lainey and pointed to Cassidy on her half. She looked so classically beautiful. Her legs crossed under the table as she ate some fries on her thirty-minute break. She smiled at the old lady and thanked her. Lainey walked over to Cassidy who had her mouth full of food and placed the bill down on the table, sliding it towards her.
"That's from your last table." Lainey slid the bill across the table to her, smiled uninterestedly and left, leading behind the counter and through the kitchen door.
"Lainey, could you take these condiments to the fridge for me please." Erik asked, holding up a basket of the sauces they used that day that hadn't been depleted yet instead of wasting them which was smart. Lainey smiled and took them from him.
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Lainey opened the fridge and Jess was inside looking for the crate of scotch, bent over, pushing boxes around, her yellow thong peaked out from under her skirt. Flaunting her ass to anyone who'd come in. Maybe she knew that would happen. Lainey practically dropped the box of scotch on the other by the door that opened quietly enough not to be heard towards the back of the fridge. Jess jumped and turned to her. The fridge door closed behind Lainey, clicking shut, but Jess had already jumped from the crate being half dropped on the other.
"Oh, thank you Lane. That's what I was looking for." She said, cracking open the crate for a bottle of scotch. Lainey stared at her. Before she was able to grab a bottle, she grabbed Jess's arm tightly, yet unexpected even in her own eyes. Did she really just grab her? What now. Jess looked up at Lainey confused, not moving or yanking her arm back.
"Lane, what's your problem." She said, trying to get her arm back from Lainey after a long moment of just staring. "Lainey." She said sternly. Her breath seen as it left her lips, the fridge was so cold. Her own name from Jess's lips sent chills down her spine, thinking back now, it could've been because they were in the fridge, but probably not. But being in that cold fridge wasn't the reason for what she did next. Lainey leaned in towards Jess and sat an inch away from her face. Their visible breath from their partially open mouths intertwining as the tension and awkwardness strengthened. She didnt know what was happening. This wasn't real at all, Jess was gone. These memories would be the death of her, like Jess had made her ache at the loss of love.
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"Lainey." Cassidy held the door to the freezer open and called to her.
Lainey jumped, looking back at her, "What?" Did that really just happen? Another daydream, why couldn't she just get over Jess already.
"Go on your half..." She said, closing the door. Lainey sighed and rubbed her temples hard. She just wanted to stop thinking about her.
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"Lane, if you're planning on kissing me, just fucking do it already." Jess whispered and smiled. Lainey looked up at the door of the freezer and nobody stood there, she looked deeper in the freezer and her hand was still gripped tightly around Jess's thin arm. Lainey smirked and wrapped the same hand around Jess's neck as if she was going to choke her, but instead she pulled Jess into her and kissed her hard. Jess wrapped her hand around Lainey's arm that attached was the hand around her neck and kissed her back, pulling her closer. Jess stumbled over a box on her way of being pushed against the wall and the two of them fell to the floor, toppling over boxes and crates of alcohol as if they were in a major rush. But they were in a rush, everyone around the bar knew both of them left into the fridge and now they were supposed to do what, just talk? Lainey on top. She continued to kiss her as the two of them laughed. Lainey kissed her as the two of them laughed. She knew Jess always wanted her.
Lainey's hand gripped her thigh and the other wrapped around her lower back. Jess wrapped her hand around Lainey's neck and grabbed her hair, pulling it. Lainey rubbed her inner thigh, under her cute skirt, and Jess moaned. Lainey smiled, was she dreaming? This felt like an amazing dream. She continued to kiss Jess. She eventually pulled Jess's yellow thong to the side and slid her fingers inside her. Jess moaned and couldn't contain herself. Lainey kissed her neck and continued to finger her. Lainey shivered hearing her moan, it was a dream come true.
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"You good, Lainey?" Erik asked, bringing stuff in from the kitchen.
Lainey looked back at him, her cheeks red as ever, she smiled awkwardly and walked out of the fridge. Her body still cold from the fridge. She rubbed her eyes and ordered her food. She was just tired. This was normal when you were up at 2am working.
She ate her fries and sat at the booth, as others cleaned in the back. Lainey pulled one knee up on the booth seat, leaving her shoe on the seat as well as she ate against the corner of the booth. Cassidy walked by and in the corner of her eye, Lainey watched her as she ate. She wiped down the tables and the booth seats across the way from Lainey, Cassidy's back turned towards her.
Lainey watched Cassidy bend over the table slightly to clean the farthest edges of it, her ass bent over it as if she were trying to get Lainey in trouble. The skirt she was wearing seemed so appropriate and longer before, but now it was edging the back of her legs below her butt. Lainey flashed her eyes back down, blushing as Cassidy moved to another table and cleaned it down. She was so beautiful, now that she thought of it, even when she saw her at the club with her friends, she thought the same thing. She looked so different then, different makeup, hair down and flowing with the wind of the club's door.
Lainey kept to herself for the rest of the night, learning how to close. She avoided Cassidy as much as she could, even continuing to not speak and hardly listen when she taught her how to close the seating areas. She sat outside and waited for a friend to pick her up, Cassidy came outside with two paper cups of coffee.
"Need a ride home?" She asked, handing Lainey a cup. Lainey looked up from her cigarette and blew it angled away from Cassidy while she smiled.
"I'm fine." Lainey said, waving her hand in disgust at the coffee, she wasn't much of a coffee drinker, but a girl could handle her alcohol. Lainey rejected the cup of coffee and the offered ride.
"Oh... this wasn't for you." Cassidy chuckled and turned towards her car. "See you tomorrow Lane."
Lainey sat there alone in the darkness. As Cassidy made her way over to her own car. Maybe she should've taken the ride... but hers would be there soon. It was dark out, almost as dark as the fridge that one day.
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Jess's skirt was completely up, her yellow thong pulled to the side, her clit fully in Lainey's mouth.
"Oh fuck!" She moaned, Lainey continued to suck and tease her any chance she could get. She pulled out the two fingers from inside her and put them back in, slamming them out and in again.
"Lane!" Jess squealed with pleasure and grabbed Lainey's hair, pushing Lainey deeper inside. "F-fuck!" Jess moaned loudly. She was close, and Lainey could feel it. She could taste it. Jess arched her back and stabled herself with one hand on top of the stack of broken-down boxes they happened to fall on and with the other hand she pushed Lainey deeper.
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*HONKKKKKKKK*
Lainey looked up from her phone she wasn't even using in that moment and her friend stared back at her. "Would you hurry the hell up? Get in, Stud. Let's go for a ride." Lainey's friend called out from the open passenger side window. Lainey smiled half-heartedly and climbed into the beater car. "Happy birthday, crazy bitch." The friend smiled and handed Lainey an opened bottle of rum that the other two girls were drinking. They pregamed Lainey's birthday without her. She laughed and rolled her eyes as she took a swig from the bottle and her friends cheered.
"Get me the hell out of here." Lainey laughed and her friend who was driving blasted their favorite station on the radio and sped off into the San Francisco lights.