#adele caruso || threads

Adele had been exploring to her heart’s content. She had never seen anything quite like this. She had taken the morning to plant cherry blossom trees, opting to put a few before her new motel in Eris. It needed some beautification on the outside, just as much as the motel needed on the inside. She hoped it would bring some future beauty as they grew in the next several years. Adele wandered around the market, picking up a few things here and there. Decorative soaps would be a nice touch to gift baskets to raffle off in the motel, or even in the bathrooms. She had so many ideas and didn’t know where to start. Adele moved through the farmer’s market, a booth catching her eye. She had already been walking past it when she realized she wanted to stop, nearly clipping someone else with her basket. “Oh, gosh, I am so sorry. I got too ahead of myself,” she quickly apologized to the other. 

Adele hadn’t been moved into Fallbrook all that long, working most days and spending the evenings licking her wounds down at the bar. Literal wounds, some days after she smashed her thumb with a hammer or grazed herself on a knife at work. The projects at Dog River Motel felt never ending for the woman, but it was what she had enjoyed doing. Though, she would admit that she felt more inclined to be at work more often than not after running into her ex-husband at the bar. After grabbing a coffee, Adele made her way back to the streets of downtown Fallbrook, looking for the next store to catch her attention when someone caught her gaze first. “W-what?” She stopped dead in her tracks as she spotted her sister-in-law. Leave it to her brother to never tell her they lived in Fallbrook. “Maggie?” She called out to the woman in shock.

Adele had been in town only a month, spending majority of her time down at Dog River Motel. It was far from being in the greatest condition when she acquired the building but the previous owner was well on their way out and wanted nothing to do with the building anymore. So, Adele, had been putting in the work as much as she could without outsourcing the help to contractors within Fallbrook. After a long days work, Adele headed to the local bar, ready for a drink. She had set her coat down, taking her bag with her to the restroom before she returned to order a drink. When she returned, someone was in the seat she thought she had claimed. Adele didn’t miss a beat, tapping on the man’s shoulder. “Excuse me you-” it was all that the brunette was able to get out before she met the eyes of her ex-husband for the first time in several years.

Getting involved with Leanne Rhodes was probably one of the best things to happen for Adele since her arrival in Fallbrook a few short months ago. Both women were in the business of flipping. While Adele tended to flip motels and small businesses, finding out Leanne was doing houses, she couldn’t help but want to get involved. And well, it didn’t help that they had already been connected by the fact Maggie was married to her brother. “I can’t believe you did that,” she said as she thought about Leanne threatening her brother. Yet, despite it being her brother, it brought a smile to her face, “and yet, I’m severely disappointed I wasn’t there to see it. I hate that I didn’t see it sooner but he’s always been a piece of shit.”

Adele finished up yet another long day at the Dog River Motel. It was coming along despite some construction holdups she had run into this week. The motel would not be completely done for some time now, but Adele planned on sticking around Fallbrook to see it all through. There was something about the motel that made her want to stick around, not to mention she had grown to like Fallbrook in the short time she had been in town. As the weather warmed, construction was bound to go faster at the motel she was trying to restore. Stepping into the bar, Adele moved around to the side of the bar where it was less crowded. It wasn’t much better when she got over there, but there was a seat open. Adele went to approach it, moving quickly though it seemed that something sparked a fight between two men. The brunette didn’t see it coming as they pushed one another, one of them falling into her. “Fuck,” Adele grunted, stumbling back into someone. It was a domino feeling as she quickly realized what had happened. “Oh, my! Are you okay? These dumbasses,” she jerked her thumb behind her, “are clearly trying to ruin the night for everyone.”

After spending a full day in Eris starting to renovate some apartments in the area with Leanne Rhodes, Adele decided to end her evening with a much needed drink. She ordered at the bar, heading toward a table when she spotted a familiar brunette woman she had run into not only a few weeks ago. “Well, well, well,” she approached with a smile on her lips. “If it isn’t my beautiful girlfriend,” she teased with their now running joke of being in a relationship. Had it not been for the other woman playing along to her a few weeks back, she would have been subjected to the inappropriate pick up lines of men that couldn’t take a hint. 

Adele had headed to one of the bars she had grown familiar with since her arrival in Fallbrook only a short time ago. She, however, had made the mistake of sitting at an empty stool with seats on either side of her. It quickly filled and the patron of the bar to her left, immediately offered to buy her a drink. A woman living in modern times, Adele didn’t assume that it came with strings attached but after the drink came, his flirtatious advances became more and more suggestive. The decline from comfortable to uncomfortable happened in the blink of an eye and Adel quickly looked for an out. Of any kind. A woman she hadn’t met before walked into the bar and Adele knew this was her one chance. “Excuse me,” she pardoned herself, leaving her drink and grabbing her bag as she briskly walked over to the woman and stood in front of her, “Oh, babe, it’s so great to see you.” She grinned painfully, her eyes trying to signal that she was escaping the man at the bar. “We can get a table over there,” she jutted with her finger in the complete opposite direction of where the man was sitting.