Anastasia

My head hurts so much!

I wake up in my bed not knowing how I got there. Sadly I still have to go to work. Ughhhhh

I don't remember much after mine and James competition. Only that I won and he owed me 5 shots.

And I took them all along with many more. That was a bad decision.

I slowly push myself up from my very warm and comfortable bed and make my way to the kitchen. I grab some Advil and take it with some ice cold water.

Then I make my breakfast. Today I'm just having some toast. Im too lazy to make something nice and aesthetic. It's not worth it.

After I eat I go to the my living room which is about 5 steps from the kitchen since I live in a studio apartment. As I'm sitting on the couch, watching the boring ass news I remember that my next shift starts in a few hours.

I go up my spiral stairs to the loft which is my bedroom and get changed. Today I'm wearing combat boots, another pair of cargo pants but this time they're black and a light gray lulu lemon long sleeve tight shirt with, once again my leather jacket.

I do the same makeup look from yesterday then do my hair in a tight pony tail. I look at the clock and see that I have 2 hours till I have to leave, so I sit on my vanity chair and watch TikTok until I have to leave

I go down to the parking garage and get into my Shelby GT500 black mustang. Some might call her ugly but I think she's gorgeous!

I begin driving down to the club ready for my second shift. Once I arrive I quickly park my car and head inside luckily I remember the way to the room.

Apparently every new week there is a team meeting to let us know about the next week. Today is that day.

I go inside the room and see a few people already at the table only some missing. I take a seat beside Theo and he warmly smiles at me which I sort of returned. A couple minutes later the rest of the people walk in and Gray, my new boss, follows in after.

Taking a seat at the head of the table he pulls out files and begins to read them out. "Tomorrow dress nice because we have multiple meetings throughout the day with important people. In a couple of days we have another mission to take down a drug trafficking gang.we will speak more about it tomorrow after the meetings."

Ugh I hate meetings. And having to dress nice. Sure it's fun being able to dress up and look pretty but after a couple of hours it gets very uncomfortable and boring.

Gray continues to talk about what today will look like and our jobs "Jayson and Noah your on bartending, Liam, Lucas and Theodore your on waiting tables, James your going to be seating people and Anastasia you will be on cleaning duty. You may now leave to go to your jobs"

Of fucking course he gave me of all people cleaning duty. But I'm not one to complain because I won't give him that satisfaction. "Anastasia" I hear gray's voice call out. I turn around and see him smirking at me " the cleaning supplies are in the closet" he says as he points to a brown wooden door.

I walk over to the door and take out the supplies. I then go to the club section and start sweeping the floors. From the corner of my eye I can see James laughing at me.

If he keeps that up he will have my fist in his face. Theo comes over to me and starts to talk "how's your head after last night?" " nothing a few Alive couldn't handle." I say back.

I do remember bits and pieces from last night but not everything. I know I beat James's ass in the competition and that I saw my old Sargent and his wife.

I decide to get back to work so I could finish early and maybe go home early too.

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I just finished and I collapsed on the couch in the meeting room. I'm so tired!!!!! But what I didn't notice was that Noah was sitting beside me.

"Shouldn't you be bartending?" I ask him "shouldn't you be cleaning?" Noah says back. "Fair point" I tell him.

I look at the TV and see it's the news. They're talking about a car crash that happened the other night. "You got any hobbies?" I hear from Noah.

I turn my head to look at him. Realizing he's speaking to me I reply "I'm yea, I like to read and listen to music" I say back then I ask "what about you?"

"I play call of duty when i can" I just nod in response. "So you're one of those book girlies?" He asks "something like that I guess" I say. He doesn't need to know what I read.

Nobody needs to know what I read. Unless they want to be traumatized of course.

"Maybe you could lend me a book sometime." He says next which makes me snap my neck towards him almost getting whiplash in the process.

"Sir, you don't just ask a book girlie to lend you a book. Those are my babies. I value them more than I value my own life." I say back.

That kitty be a little harsh but I refuse to lend him something like Twisted Love or Ice Breaker. I get the shivers just thinking about it.

He laughs and replies with "okay then sheesh no need to freak out" while putting up his hands. Turning back to the TV. "Sorry" I say sheepishly.

" no, no it's ok I understand. Don't mess with Ana's books it's now a mental reminder" he says which makes me laugh a little.

" you don't mind if I call you that, right?" He asks which I think is really kind. "Yes I don't mind" I spoke trying to sound nicer about it.

"Ok cool then from now on I will call you Ana" he announced. I just nod in return and look back to the news. It's supposed to be sunny for the next few days and nice weather, considering it's may.

" yo, Anastasia! Boss said you can go home early since your done" I turn to the door to see JJ. "Thank god" I mumble. Which i guess Noah heard because he chuckles a little.

I think out of all of them my favourite person on the team is Noah. Remembering that JJ said I can go home already I stand from the couch and grab my bag, heading towards the club part of the building in order to leave.

As I'm leaving though I get a message on my phone. I stop to the side to look at it.

UNKNOWN
Dont think you can escape me just because you left.

What the actual fuck is this? Is it supposed to be a threat? If so by who then? As I'm thinking these things I decide to go home and figure out what to do.

I quickly get to my car and lock the doors. Driving home.

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I get home and check the whole place looking in every single nook and cranny. Also locking all the doors and windows, closing everything blind and curtains. Call me paranoid but I don't care this is my life that could be a risk. Once I decide it is clear I sit at the kitchen take with my phone on the counter.

Brain storming some ideas, I wonder if Lucas (who is the hacker of the team) can track where the message came from. But what if he questions it?

I will see but for now I need to think of possible subjects. It could be some people who I have fought against in the army, or some enemy's I have made from around. That's the only things that make sense.

Maybe I should just brush it off? Might as well just go to Bed now. I haven't realized the time since it was now 11:43 PM. I make my way up the stairs and change into pjs.

I get into my bed and start to drift off.