Chapter Five

The papers were roughly shuffled into a folder as I hurried up my last minute paperwork. I was eager to make my way up to where a certain blonde was no doubt sitting in awe at how I had redecorated my apartment for the evening. She loved romantic gestures when we were in high school and I knew if I was going to win her heart back that this was the perfect start.

I locked my office door and decided to swing by the bar to make sure everything was situated before I disappeared for the evening.

I leaned on the counter and watched Brooke as she worked the bar. She was a very good waitress but was a handful when she wanted something.

Brooke noticed me at the end of the bar and motioned to the people she was serving that she would be right back. She made her way over to me and smiled widely.

“So how am I doing?”

“From the looks of it you are doing a pretty good job. If you keep it up I may even think about letting you take over again.” I said shrugging my shoulders.

“Really? Wow…” She smiled in disbelief and was clearly glowing now.

“Well I just wanted to let you know that I’m going to be disappearing for the rest of the night. I will be upstairs and you can call me…but ONLY and I repeat ONLY if there is an emergency…I mean people bleeding on the floor kind of emergency. Got it?”

“Course boss…bleeding emergencies only…she’s very pretty.” Brooke said catching me a bit off guard.

“Who is?”

“Your friend…I didn’t catch her name but she is definitely a 10.” Brooke said walking back over to the patient drinkers.

“She’s a 20 actually.” I whispered as I made my way to the stairs.

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The room was gorgeous. Ashley had completely changed up her apartment. From the little bits I remembered of the place earlier it was clear that she went to a lot of trouble to make this night special. To think she did all of this for me made my heart soar with hope that we could actually work this time. If there was a “this time” I quickly reminded myself.