You and Me- Lisa Cimorelli (Fanfic)

Part 4

Lisa's POV

I'm going to the store today to get food for tomorrow since it's Thanksgiving. Me and all of my siblings usually make some kind of dish to help my mom out. Otherwise cooking for all of us (and some of our extended family that lives in Tennessee) can get really overwhelming. I'm a terrible cook so all they did was put me in charge of buying rolls.
So I'm on my way to Cosco because that's probably the best place to get them. I pulled in and went to get the roles really quick so I could go back home. It was really crowded in the store and of course I looked like a slob because I didn't feel like putting effort into going to the store. I made my way through the store pretty quick and went to go pay.
I started walking out to the car and I noticed a fire truck with it's lights on speed by on the main road. I hadn't talked to Chase since last week when I saw him helping Tom.
But I wondered what it was like working that kind of job. I wondered if he even got holidays off to spend with his family. I mean it's not like he's a teacher or has a profession where he can choose what dates he works.
Honestly I don't even know why I'm thinking about him.

Chase's POV

I'm sitting in the station since we haven't had a call yet. Fire stations are kind of like a house since all firefighters usually stay a few nights a week there. So when we aren't out on call we just hang out, sleep, or play basketball. I've been thinking a lot about my ex Shay since I talked with Lisa. Alex is always talking bad about me even though she knows I didn't do anything to ruin that relationship.
Me and Shay dated for about a year and a half. Then I found out that she was cheating on me and that's how we ended. But when we broke up Alex went into defense mode for her friend and started saying what a bad guy that I am.
It's a lot easier to make me look like a bad guy. I'm not perfect. I've done a lot of stupid things and I don't always treat people great. To be fair to Shay I wasn't a great boyfriend to her. And to be fair to Alex I am a bad guy.
I just don't want to be the bad guy in everyone's eyes. Lisa just met me and she already thinks I'm the bad guy. She doesn't even know me but she's already made up her mind. If every new person that I meet thinks I'm a bad guy before they know me then I'll never get the opportunity to change that.
And then to top it off I act like a jerk after Lisa pretty much confronts be about being a bad guy. That did nothing to help my case. But maybe If I get the chance to start changing peoples mind I will.
The only people who know the real me are Tahj and Derek. So I don't need to change their mind. And I know that Alex and her friends all hate me already. But maybe I can change Lisa's mind. Maybe if I show her I'm different then other people will know that I'm different too. It could be just changing her opinion that turns into changing everyone else's.
My thought was broken by a call that came in. We ran down and started suiting up and then headed out. As I sat in the back on the way to the location we were called to, I continued to wonder about how I was going to change Lisa's mind if I didn't see her a much. I've got to figure out how to change, so that I'm not remembered as the bad guy.