Breakfast (7 years later)

DIANA

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!"

People say alarm clocks are annoying. I say people are the most annoying alarm clocks. That sound you may of just heard was my best friend, or one of them anyway. How do I know this for a fact? Lets just say this isn't my first rodeo.

🎶"It's time to get up, it's time to get up, it's time to get up in the morning! Ooh, how I wish I could stay in bed! But first you get some pop to wake the morning bugler up! And then I'll spend the rest of my life in bed."🎶 Hallie sings this, and very off key I must add. I groan and like every morning when she does this I cover my head with my pillow.

"Come oooon, Diana! It's the one day of the year that we can have fun and maybe, meet some sexy men." she says all this in the best whiny voice as possible until the last few words where she wiggled her eyebrows at me.

"And what day would that be?" This time I'm not being sarcastic, I actually have no idea. Though, I know for sure the reason I don't know is because either I just plainly forgot and it's an important day like her birthday, or I forgot because I wouldn't give one flying shit about it.

She stares at me dumbstruck and has her mouth wide open with her pupils dilated just a little bit. I sit up in my bed, which is near to impossible because I sleep with about 5 comforters and a sheet.

"Don't look at me like that! You know I don't remember things right away in the morning. And for heaven's sake close your mouth, you'll catch flies!" I say and I'm pissed. And if you can't tell, I'm totally not a morning person.

"You..." She takes a deep breath

"Forgot..." another breath

"About..." ok, now I'm getting annoyed.

"VALENTINES DAY!!!!" I look at her and blink a few times trying to process what exactly what she was implying. It finally came to my mind that she was talking about the holiday of "love". Now I know that it's the second option from earlier. And now it's my turn to yell, though hers was more of a scream.

"You woke me up to tell me that it's the most depressing and sappy day of the year!!" I'm not saying that today is depressing to me. I'm just insinuating that today is the day where I get customers nonstop at my work and I get really angry when people(perverted men/women) try to hit on me just so they won't be "lonely". I'm the only person I know who enjoys to be lonely, just not lonely to the point of no friends. Work is my life. That is why I have two jobs. I'm both a bar owner and a writer, can you guess which one I enjoy most?

"Its only depressing if you don't have or find a guy." She says in a tone that she probably tried to sound sexy but it only came out high pitched like every other thing she says. You'd almost think she's a dumb blond whore. But in fact she's neither a whore nor dumb. Actually, she's a nurse but still going to college so she can become a doctor.

As I am staring off in space, with my mind blank, because obviously I'm still too damn tired, Hallie is looking through my closet. I get up and as I'm about to tell her not to mess with my clothes, I start to smell something burning. Which means Hallie brought a friend over with her.

I start to head down stairs, through the hallway, and into the kitchen. But what I find is not a kitchen but a mix of pancake, very uncooked eggs, with a few pieces of meat that looks as if it were bacon but you can no longer tell, chaos. What is so horrible is that as soon as I saw the mess I knew exactly that it was my friend's Krysti's doing.

After I realized this was all Krysti's doing, I began searching for her I finally found her in the dining room with a glass of alcohol in her hand. Don't ask me what kind, because if I'm being completely honest she has a tendency to go in my cellar and grab the first thing she sees. I shake my head, I have absolutely no idea what got me to befriending these two beautiful idiots. A couple minutes later after taking away Krysti's drink and giving her some coffee instead, I hear a pop and force my eyes into the forsaken kitchen where some toast has just popped up nice looking. But instead of krysti making her way towards the pieces of toast it's Hallie.

"Yay, my toast is ready!" I widen my eyes, not because Hallie was eating toast for breakfast, but because the toast was already in the toaster before I came down to see the chaos. Meaning Hallie wasted all that time waking me up and starting to sort through my clothes instead of helping Krysti with the kitchen disaster.

"Ok, this is what is going to happen! Both of you are going to clean this kitchen up before I get home from work! If I see one speck, one crumb of whatever this is, neither of you will have the right to break into my house in the morning and wake me up! Do you understand!?" By the end of my pissed off speech they start to clean the kitchen while I make my way back up to my room and begin the day as if non of that had happened.

As soon as I'm dressed, showered, and powdered with as much makeup as I need which is usually none, I head back down stairs. I take a quick glance at the kitchen before I head out to work and it looks about half way there.

I begin to make my way to the front door of the house before I'm stopped by Krysti's voice calling for me. I turn around and get attacked with a hug. I smile and before I could ask why she was hugging me, she spoke: "give this hug to Josh for me, will ya?" When she said this I burst out laughing and nodded to her before finding my way out the door. Josh is my adoptive big brother and krysti has a huge crush on him, but if I'm being perfectly honest I believe he's got a crush on her too. I just hope in the end they both realize that they have feelings for each other, that would be a happily ever after. Josh is also a cop, but so is most of my adoptive family. I guess I could have been a cop, but I don't plan on using a gun on anybody else unless it's the man who killed my father.

.......

I pull out my keys to the bar out of my pocket and unlock the door to the one place that actually reminds me of home. Maroon colored walls with my office towards the back and a bar right slap bang in the middle of the room. All surrounded by a couple of tv's on the sports or weather channels and booths every where you look.

In a few hours, business is booming but as I said earlier, today is always hectic. The only problem I'm having though is that my co-worker,employee, and good friend Vanessa is late. She better have a good excuse for missing the lunch rush. Though, lo and behold here she comes through the door and hopping over the bar like a pro quickly putting on her apron.

"Where have you been? I've been here having to put up with both the drunk assess and the drunk perverts." Please don't ask what the difference is because I've had enough experience to find out there's a difference I don't have the time nor patience to explain it.

"Sorry I'm late, I had a family meeting that I was forced to go to by my father. He had some important thing he had to tell us about the family business and his will. Not that I have any interest in the family business that is." She explains in a hollow and tired voice, except the last sentence which she mumbled almost talking to herself instead of to me.

"That's fine, I find family meetings to be quite tiresome as well. But, I think those meetings are way more important than work." Especially since I talk with experience because of it weren't for me missing my father's inner gang meetings I might have known about the broken engagement and none of that would ever of had happened. Or I could've at least been ready for the attack.

"Well, now that you're here we can split up and work as a team. You get the drunk assess I'll get the drunk perverts, deal?" She looks at me and says deal. That is where my day begins but for some reason I got a gut feeling that there will be something bad other than throw up in the bathroom to take care of today.