Guarded Heart

Chapter 1

chahged who I want to play Ethan, so I picked the beautiful Chris Hemsworth! 

It was a long day for Ethan, he was sitting at the bar around ten pm chatting with a couple of regular customers when a group of Marines come walking in. He sighs and gets up to go greet them.

"Hey guys, what can I get ya?" He asked them.

"We would like a round of beers please, and shots of JD." One of the guys said to him.

"Coming right up." As he was filling up the glasses of beer, he noticed one of the guys that was with them, a tall muscular guy with light brown hair and bright green eyes. He wore a pair of tight jeans and button up shirt with the sleeves rolled up and a silver necklace and he noticed he had tattoos on his biceps and had a killer smile.

He turned his attention to the glass as it was about to spill over, he caught it in time and placed the glass on the bar. He filled up the other glasses and put shot glasses on the bar and filled them up with JD. He placed the order on the bar in front of the guys.

"Here ya go, enjoy. If you need anything else, just ask, name's Ethan."

"Thanks Ethan." The tall brunette said in his sweet voice making him stop and turned around.

"No problem." He went back to his office for a minute. 'Ok get a hold of yourself man, clearly he's straight and you would be wasting your time getting caught up in someone you can't have.' He thought to himself and grabbed a case of liquor and brought it out to stock up the shelves.

"Hey Ethan, can we get another round of shots?" The tall one asked, smiling.

"Sure, JD?"

"Yup." He got new shot glasses up on the bar and poured the whiskey and handed them their shots.

"So, do you know who owns this place? I'm just wondering cuz I haven't seen it open much so thought it was closed down." One of the guys asked him.

"I actually own it, I just opened last week which is why you hardly seen it open," he laughed.

"Ah well cool, I hope you don't mind jarheads coming in, we like laid back places to chill out after a long work week ya know?"

"No not at all, in fact I have events on Friday and Saturday nights, here." He hands them a flyer. "I'm kinda trying different things, see what brings in the crowds."

"You mind if I mention a couple things that you don't have on here that will for sure bring in people?"

"No by all means, please."

"Have dollar drink nights and ladies' nights but not the same night, you kinda want to make money, not lose it. Those two will most likely bring in a lot of people."

"Thanks, those are good ideas. You can take the flyer and maybe put it somewhere so people see it and come check it out if you would? It would be a great help. Next time you come in, I'll buy you guys your first round just for putting it up for me."

"Thanks man, yea we can do that. This place is cool, you got two pool tables, a new ages juke box type thing, karaoke, lot's of places to sit and dance, got a stage that's a good size, the color is not to bright which is good when your drinking, bright colors can be a pain in the ass haha and you got a back area." he says looking outside to a deck with seats and lights.

"Yup, I thought of what I liked and didn't like when I would go out and put ideas into place when I wanted to open my own spot. Only thing is it's not on the beach which is alright, don't want the sand cuz that's a bitch to clean daily." He laughed.

"Oh, and if you smoke, you are allowed in here, I know people like to smoke when they drink so I allow it."

"That is awesome, to many places anymore you can't even smoke right outside the damn door. I mean if your gonna drink and you worry about smoke getting into your lungs when you're just fucking up your liver? Makes no damn sense to me." They all laugh.