Red Lips, Finger Tips.

I got back to find Max, Ronnie, Monte, Robert and this strange man who I had never seen before sat around
the kitchen table. He was the type of person that if you seen him once you'd never forget his face, Mexican,
scarred with crooked teeth. Didn't look nice and wasn't nice.
"Hey guys" I said smiling closing the door.
"Hey" they all mumbled.
"Who is she? What is she doing here?" he questioned.
"This is Katie-Jane, she is their new friend" Robert said poting to Max and Ronnie. I gritted my
teeth and nodded along.
"Yeah, I'll be go back out if you want.." I sighed, Ronnie shook his head.
"No it doesn't matter, I've finished my buisness here" the man spat getting up out of of the chair.
"Excuse me? Is there any need to talk to people like that?" I spat back.
The whole room looked at me in surprise, this time Max shook his head.
"I'll talk to a tramp how I wish to talk too" he snarled at me.
"Get some manners, hon" I smiled.
"You'll regret this" He said jumping up and charging at me but stopping ifront of my face.
"Really? You can't take anything from me I have nothing, I don't care about anybody not even
myself so how the fuck will I regret it? Kill me? You'll be doing me and the world a favor" he snarled
breathing heavily in my face, no answer. The man punched the wall and slammed the door on the
way out.

"What the fuck? You've just put us all in danger, you stupid bitch!" Monte yelled.
"What the fuck was I doing? What the fuck were you all doing 'business' with him?" I screamed
using my hands to empisize the word business.
"You don't need to know" Robert joined.
"No I don't and I don't want to, sorry for standing up for myself most of all sorry I ever met you" I
choked. "Sorry, I ever met any of you" I scanned the room and took my shopping bags to the room
I had stayed in the night before. I wasn't going to stay there again anytime soon. As soon as I got
in the room I sat on the dirty blue carpet and cried.
After fifteen minutes of solid crying I got up and walked over to my bag got out my face wipes and
wiped way my tears. It was about time to get ready for work so I choose out a new outfit. Grey high
wasted trousers and a pale yellow cropped cardigan with short sleves. I fastened all the buttons so it
made me look more sifisticated(yeah like I could be safisticated). Then I shearched for my new dolly shoes
and put them on. I made the decision to take my bright green extentions out even though I felt naked without
them, I just wanted a change for a while, I'll probably put them back in tomorrow. Emma always wanted me to
look normal however, Al doesn't care what I look like as long as I serve people with a smile. I re-applied my
eye-liner and red lipstick and packed all my things in two bags and opened the bedroom door.

"Where are you going?" Max asked puzzled.
"To work then to my friends" I answered plainly.
"Okay, wait a minute and me and Ronnie will walk you"
"No, I don't need to be walked to work, if anything happens to me it is my fault. He won't hurt any of you he
is apathetic excuse for a human and only likes to scare people"
"I'm sure he won't hurt any of us he'll only hurt people you care about and you made it pretty clear you don't
like any of us" he said looking at everybody in the living area.
"Yeah, exactly" I said storming to the door in the kitchen to leave. Max followed me and grabbed me by
the arm making me spin around so I was facing him.
"I like the new look you look pretty" he wispered, I pulled away and left the apartment leaving me with
butterflies in my stomach. Why does he do this to me?

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I got to work half an hour early so Emma couldn't complain that I was eating at work like she usually does. I
grabbed a sandwitch and bag of chips and ate them behind the bar, where I had hidden my bags.
"Excuse me, only members of staff are allowed behind the bar" Emma smiled, I put the sandwitch down and
looked at her.
"Fuck me, Katie you look, your fringe, hair, green gone. Ahhh, you look like a, a girl! New clothes, I can be
seen out with you now" she screamedpulling me into an awkward hug.
"Um, thanks I guess" I laughed.
"If only you took those piercings out of your mouth" she giggled. "But you've changed enough I suppose"
"Yeah well, it was about time I changed, finally found a place I want to stay, now to find a cheap apartment"
"I thought you had a place"
"I did but I got kicked out" I lied.
"Well if you ever need a place to stay you know where I am or where Daddy lives" she smiled at me.
"Thanks Em, but I better get to work now. You staying tonight or going out?"
"I'm staying tonight so you don't have so much to do"
Emma has never worked behind the bar before something must be up. We stood behind the bar together
we looked like two mismatched friends a curvy blonde haired, tanned girl with a big smile and a pale skinned
50's style goth.
"How can I help ya' boys?" she winked at the two young men in front of her she bent down and pulled two
beers for them, gave it to them and winked. "What can I say I learnt from the best" she smiled at me.
"That you did" I laughed.

Me and Em had, had a lot of fun flirting and serving everybody who came in to the bar for a Monday it was
quite busy. It made me forget about the all the trouble that happend earlier in the day.
"Hey bar winch" a voice called over to me I looked down the busy bar to find Craig at the other end.
"Hey Craig, what can I get ya'?" I half smiled walking over to him.
"5 beers please for me and my bitches" he said pointing to a table full of men behind him.
"Coming right up" I winked getting 5 beer bottles from behind me. "Here you go that'll be $10" he passed me
the money then took the beers over to his friends. I served the rest of the people at the bar and sat down for
5 minutes rest, pulled my phone out of my pocket to find 4 missed calls and two messges of Max. Ignore.
"What's up Kay?" Emma asked standing next to me.
"Nothing much just.. people"
"I get you" she sighed. "Anyway who was that who you served earlier? He keeps looking over" I shot my head
up and smiled. "You like him then? I thought you had a thing for Ronnie or his friends?"
"What no, I don't like anybody. No way" I rushed.
"Yeah, yeah" she grinned.
"Anyway how do you know Ronnie?" I questionned.
"I don't, he asked if his band could play for an event night or something they need to sell out a show to win
something, I wasn't listening really but I said they could" she shrugged. "Anyway go collect the bottles off
your friends table" she winked down at me.
"Shut up" I wined standing up. She un done the two top buttons of my cardigan so you could see my a bit of
my black lace bra and mouthed "go". I shook my head but went and collected bottles of everybody's table
so it did't look like she had sent me over. I got to Craig's table and leaned over to pick up the five empty bottles
not noticing that my boobs were practically out.
"Like anything bringing over boys?"
"Yeah four more please" I blond haired boy asked.
"Are you even old enough?"
"Are you even old enough to work here?"
"Toshay" I winked.
"I'll come get them, Katie" Craig smiled.
"You know her?" the same blond boy asked.
"Yeah, Elliott I told you I was going shopping earlier with her"
"Oh I thought she was inaginary"
"Funny" Craig said standing up. "Oh, I'll introduce you now, this is Elliott, Eric, Jared and Matt" he said pointing
to them individually, they either nodded or waved.
"Hey I'm Katie-Jane" I smiled.
"Hey what's your friends name?" Elliott asked.
"Emma? She has a boyfriend I think.."
"So that is his problem" getting high fived off the ginger boy, Eric I think.
"Tyipical, boys in a band" I said walking over to the bar.
"What did you mean by that?" Craig questionned walking over with me.
"You're all the same, abnoxious, attitude, assholes the the migcal A's" I said walking behind the bar and putting
the empty bottles in the bin. "But you all have the right to be I suppose"
"Again what do you mean?"
"You have to be confident to get up on stage every night, you have girls throwing themselves at you, you have
every chance to ruin or make your lives, you don't have to give a fuck about anything but yourselves, you're all
beautiful and talented, people in bands start off with nothing but some of the time they will get everything,
it's a life most people only dream about and never get, you're lucky to be in a band hopefully you'll end up
with everything you dream about too" I babbled.
"That was deep, I'll always remember you as the girl that made me appericate what I have and could have"
he smiled.
"Remember me? Why remeber me I'll always be around" I winked handing him five more beers.
"Hopefully you will be" he smiled.

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It got to around 9.30 people were getting lound and drunk by this time and were trying to flirt with people or
trying to start arugments but were stopped before anything started. I had enough time to eat a bag of chips
and made a sandwitch in the kitchen. After what Ronnie and Max said I felt ugly for being so skinny, I wanted
to look normal, I didn't think I looked that skinny because I had big boobs but I suppose they made me
look smaller.
I came out of the kitchen to find Elliott all over Emma, like they needed to get a room. I thought I was easy
to get but compared to her I must be a challange. I poured myself a glass of red wine and sat in the chair
behind the bar for 5 minutes rest. I know I wasn't old enough to drink but nobody had ever asked for my
age before and I liked alchol. The glass was gone within two minutes so I poured myself another as a middle
aged woman came over to the bar.
"I'll be with you in a second" I said standing up with the glass in my hand.
"Drinking on the job? Nice where do I sign" she laughed.
"Ask her" I said pointing over to Emma who's face was still buried under Elliott's.
"Oh" she laughed.
"What do you want?" I smiled.
"A beer please"
"Here you go" I said twisting the bottle top off. "It'll be $2"
"Wow, it's cheap here I think I'll come back here more often" she said handing me the money.
"You should, there going to be a gig soon you should come and bring your friends!" I suggested.
"Yeah sounds fun, what kind of music?"
"You'll have to come to find out, otherwise you might not show up" I laughed.
"Ahh, okay" she laughed.

Craigh walked over to the bar and interuppted our conversation. "Yo, butterfly" he winked.
"Hey CraigyWaigy" I said like I was speaking to a baby.
"My nickname for you is cute, that isn't" he said with a serious look on his face.
"Young love" the woman laughed, we both looked at each other but didn't correct her. "I'll leave you alone"
she said walkng away to a table beyond sight of the bar.
"Why didn't you correct her?" he smiled.
"Why didn't you?" I blushed.
"Hmm" he shrugged.
"Did you want anything?"
"No, just a chat"
"She's all out of that" a pissed looking Max said walking in the bar.
"Excuse me" I snapped.
"Well you've ignored me all day"
"My phone is on silent and I haven't checked it" I lied.
"Ok, whatever babe" he smiled standing at the bar next to Craig. "Hi, I'm Max" he smiled at him holding his
hand out for him to shake.
"Hey, I'm Craig" he awkwadly replied shaking his hand.
"Do you want anything?"
"Obviously I do, I'll have a bottle of Jack ready for when the boys come in"
"Ok" I said reaching for the a bottle of Jack off the top shelf.
"Oh and you could put you boobs away, you look cheap" he smiled.
"Well I am" I gritted slamming the bottle in front of him.
"You look nice Katie" Craig nodded, Max rolled his eyes and walked over to the table him and his friends
usually sit at, just as they all walked in the door. Each of them glared at me however, Ronnie didn't look angry
he looked upset.
"Who are they?" Craig asked.
"My friends, well were my friends. We'll be talking again soon we'll have to I'm in charge of their gig that's
happening here soon" I shrugged. "You should come, so I have somebody nice to talk too" I laughed.
"I will" he smiled.

We spoke until it reached midnight when he and is friends left(with Emma), he made me forget that there
was a table full of drunken pissed of boys glaring at me. I kissed his cheek as he left the door then walked
back over to the bar. I sat on a bar stool and pulled my phone out of my pocket and sent a text to Max.

Me:
Sorry.

I could see him answer back out of the corner of my eye.

Max:
Yeah of course you
are now Craig isn't here.

I shook my head and put my phone back in my pocket and grabbed the bottle of wine I had opened earlier
and downed it. Fuck this.