Three's A Crowd

A New Start

"Well, other than you not having experience, I see no reason for you to not get the job so it's yours! Sorry again that Le- Mr. Ackerman couldn't be here to do your interview but I'd love to welcome you to the team until you meet him!" the redhead smiled, her eyes scrunching in the process. I'd just had a job interview at Club Rose; an exotic nightclub that recently had a job opening.

Not that working in this kind of scene was my thing, but I just needed a big change and some sort of excitement or thrill in my life. I'd been working at a large scale company since me and my boyfriend, Armin left college and I couldn't bear it anymore. Ever since I was 15, it felt like Armin and I had done everything and gone everywhere together, and I had finally snapped. I needed space and I needed something fresh; something I knew he wouldn't follow me into. He hadn't liked the fact that I had gone for this job, but he didn't fight me on it. That's just the thing with Armin, he just accepts everything...

"That's great! Thank you so much for this opportunity, Miss Ral. I swear I won't let any of you down!" I smiled back, finally happy to have found a place to work. I just hoped I wouldn't mess up, having never worked behind a bar before but I swore to work my butt off to make sure I wouldn't lose this job... it would probably end up leading to the loss of my sanity.

"Please, call me Petra. Don't sweat it too much, Y/N. Nobody will expect you to be perfect straight away, they've all been in your position before." Petra smiled warmly, her bright hazel eyes almost twinkling. "We have a great team here, you'll be welcomed warmly, I assure you. As a matter of fact, are you free now? We have two of our girls coming early today, so we could train you up a little before your first shift?" She suggested, tapping her lip with a perfectly manicured pink nail. I couldn't help but notice the large, sparkling rock on Petra's left ring finger.

"Of course, I'd love to start as soon as possible so it would definitely help."

"Perfect! Come with me and we'll get you a uniform and get you introduced. Your boss, Mr. Ackerman is away at a last minute business meeting at the moment, but he will be back at some point this week. I'll pre-warn you now, he's very blunt and almost comes across rude but he's a good guy and a very fair employer." she chirped as we walked around the back areas of the large establishment. I was shown all the area's I would need to know, like the staff toilets, cellar, storage room and of course the staff room. It was there that we came across the two staff members Petra told me about.

"Hey ladies, this is our new starter, Y/N! She's sticking around today for a bit of training for when she starts. I'll stay and help setting the place up if you could teach her a bit behind the bar?" The two women turned to examine me, looking me up and down like I was a piece of meat.

The first person to speak was a short blonde girl, with the biggest blue eyes I'd ever seen in my life. She was really beautiful, and she introduced herself as Krista and her friend as Ymir. Ymir was much taller and very slender with brown hair and eyes and very pronounced freckles across her face. She was also very pretty but in a boyish kind of way.

"Welcome to Club Rose! Of course we'll help you... or well, I'll help. Ymir doesn't work behind the bar very much, she's often on security." Krista grinned and took my hands, squeezing them between her tiny, smooth pair. "It's great to meet you, I can't wait to have somebody behind the bar with me!"

"Well, you always have somebody behind the bar with you... what she really means is somebody that hopefully isn't a bitch. You see, a lot of the other girls are jealous of our little Krista here, because she's the most beautiful girl we have in here!" Ymir smirked, wrapping her arm around Krista and pulling the blonde into her side, eyes not leaving my own as if to gauge my thoughts. It also seemed like a bit of a dig, to whom, I didn't know.

"Ymir! You can't be saying that to the newbies, what will they think!" Krista elbowed the taller girl in the side, looking at me apologetically. "I don't think I'm the best or anything, don't mind Ymir here. But I'm sure we will get along great! Let's go out and get your started shall we?" Krista chirped, taking her apron and heading out to the bar, telling Ymir to go and get started setting stuff up.

Petra smiled, having been quiet during the introductions and put her phone away in her pocket. "Right then, Y/N, you head out with Krista and Ymir and I will get to setting the club up. Good luck!"

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It was now almost ten at night as I made my way home, turning the corner onto the street where I lived with Armin. It was a nice street and we had a large house, courtesy of Armin mostly due to his position in the company. It was only then that I forgot I hadn't told him I'd be staying to train at my new job... or that I even had a new job. My heart sank as I put the keys into the door, knowing how much or a worrier he was and exactly what I was going to walk in to.

So... first chapter. I hate first chapters... and titles and bloody descriptions. This is my first time writing anything new in quite a few years now (depression /sigh. -_-') so go easy on me. I just got inspired to write suddenly and I had this idea pop up while I was watching movies so I'm just going with it for now. I hope I don't have any younglings reading as I don't really hold back with writing so I'm not going to hold back on any swearing, violence or smut. You've been warned, children. :L

Btw, just for reference, the cover of this chapter is what my OC tends to look like. Sorry if you don't look like this or if you don't appreciate there not being the whole e/c h/c in this story but the most I'll do is Y/n.  I prefer having set images of what the character looks like if I need to describe her :)

See you in the next chapter.

-Koala