it wasnāt unusual for her to feel a little tense after the bakery closed. there wasnāt a day that went by that wasnāt busy, whether it was spent preparing actual baked goods for customers seeking catering or shoving little bags of coke inside of a cupcake ā it took up the entire eight hour shift, which often left winnie to clean up and count cash in the back. this evening, however, the brunette was on high alert. the streets were bustling with energy, and if she thought sheād be safe taking the money home, sheād do it, but there was no way to guarantee she wouldnāt be robbed. it seemed as though she wasnāt safe here either, as she heard the bell above the door dingle and the sound of the door closing. without a second thought, winnie reached for a rather large baseball bat she kept in the back with her. she wasnāt about to whip the glock out for a cookie robber. as she tiptoed to the counter, bat raised, breath hitched in her throat, she could barely focus on anything else. as winnie reached the front, she swung the bat into the air, not aiming to hit anyone, but mainly to scare the person off.Ā āiāll fuck you up, dude,ā she muttered, before realizing who was before her. winnie dropped the bat immediately, clattering to the groundĀ ājesus, fuck, iām sorry,ā she darted from behind the counter to the door, where she turned the lock and flipped the open sign toĀ āclosedā.Ā āitās been a long day, i swore i locked that⦠weāre closed, but i almost assaulted you, so what can i help you with?ā @slchatā
Simone wasnāt a sweets kind of person. She wasnāt sweet--- period--- but something had called to her that evening. Whether it was the result of hearing her stepfatherās incarceration or a need to just feel something that wasnāt the mind-numbing sensation of Louis Vuitton heels pulling spurs out of her poor feet, she left it in the hands of fate an circumstance as she strut through the very empty bakery in search of a temporary fix. It shouldāve been alarming. Seeing an object whip out towards her face. She shouldāve screamed--- but living the life she had it wasnāt uncommon for others to make attempts on her life--- the only recurring thought at that moment was how soon it was. She left the melodrama somewhere back in the early two-thousands when someone set fire to her apartment in New York. Crazed fan or somebody who knew of her stepfatherās prior calamities, it didnāt matter. California held promise. Now--- she wasnāt so certain.