Avatia's POV
I got home to find a note on the refrigerator. Mom's not home. Draya's still at work so I call Kenny. It rings for about 9 seconds before I hear his cute voice on the other end.
"Baby? You missing pretty Kenny already? "
I know he's all smiles so I don't roll me eyes. There's NO ONE like Draya and Kenny. They're my best friends. "Dream on Ken, anyways, do you have something doing? You could come over, I'm home alone." I fight the urge to sniff as I remember the reason I'm home. I just lost my job.
"You're at home? Aren't you supposed to be working or stuff like that?" He ask and I just can't hide my feelings so I start crying. "Hey munchkin, don't cry. I'm on my way, okay? Just hold on, I know what's going to make my baby sister happy. I'll be there in a bit." And he hangs up.
He cares for me as if I am his real baby sister not just cousin. I just can't stop crying without eating my favourite chocolate ice cream with M&M's in it. I know that's what Kenny's going to buy on his way here. My nose is all red and my eyes are puffy. I start thinking hard. Who is Mr. Black? I mean the guy has a lot of authority. Wicked and cruel. But I don't want to sound judgemental. The soft look he gave me when he commented on the color of my eyes just can't get out of me head. I hear the sound of the bell and snap out of my thoughts of the guy who made me loose my job.
"Oh my baby, you've been crying." Kenny says as he engulfs me in his tight bear hugs. "Kenny is here okay, don't cry munchkin."
"Hope I didn't disturb you?" I ask as I pull away from him and walk to the couch. The side table is full of tissues.
Kenny scrunchies his cute little nose in disgust. "Someone has been crying nasty to have all this tissues on the table."
I playfully punch his arms and let out a dry laugh and start crying again. "I lost my job Kenny."
"I know honey. I spoke to Draya. I'm so sorry okay, we'll find you another job sweetheart. And that asshole who did that is going to pay." He says and I can feel the anger radiating from his ears.
I look at him for a while. He's so cute with his piercing green eyes. If he wasn't gay, I'll definitely matchmake him with Draya. "Don't cuss Kenny. But seriously, did I disturb you? "
"No munchkin, you're my number one girl in the world and so it doesn't matter if I was busy or not. Let me get spoons before our ice cream melts." He stands up and walks over to the kitchen returning with super large spoons. That's just how Kenny and I are. We use extra large spoons for ice cream. "So, you want to talk about it? "
I take in a deep breathe and tell him what I think. "He's so handsome but he's got some shitty personality. I know I'm not the judgemental type but Kenny he's rude. He's got this amazing silver eyes that one can look at for hours. Perfect jet black hair, perfect chiseled jaws, straight nose, plump lips, amazing muscles that look like its gonna tear his suit apart and he's so tall. So so so tall and_____"
"Woah take it easy tiger, you realise you've been going crazy with his looks, right? And you never go that extra mile with anyone. Even me. Do you have a crush on him?" Kenny ask making me realize what I was saying. I blush red like a tomato. "Oh my God, you're blushing. You have a crush on him."
"No!!! How can I crush on someone like that. He's so full of himself. I don't like him." I say shocked at how fast I said it.
Kenny gives me his I'm- not- convinced look.
"Seriously Ken, I don't even know. If he was a little bit more gentlemanly, I'll consider him a nice guy but no. He's anything but nice. He's the guy who almost ran me over on my first day here and made me loose my job. If anything, I despise him. He's a horrible person with a despicable personality." I deadpan but felt guilty for jumping into conclusions.
"Okay.... That's what you say but I'm still not convinced. So what are you going to do now. You know its hard to get a job here in New York, right? " Kenny ask me as he scoops a large amount of ice cream and tries to put it in his mouth causing it to smear all over his face. I giggle. He's so adorable.
"I don't know Ken, mom's gonna be disappointed. I get a job and loose it the next day? I can't tell her Ken, she's going through so much now. Her job's not stable yet. I'd do anything I find." I say honestly.
Kenny cocks his eyebrows and starts smiling. I know he's about to say something silly. "Even sucking a dick?"
I slap his shoulder. "Eww, that's gross. I feel like vomiting right now."
He's laughing like a maniac right now. Its so funny for him. "You're such a baby, Avatia. I still remember when I had to tell you 'dick' is 'penis'. You're 21 and still a virgin. An innocent one that has never even been fingered.
Gosh baby sis, you're____"
I slap him again. "Stop Ken, that's disgusting. Urghhh, you need to leave now cause that mouth won't shut up anytime from now, will it? "
He's still laughing. This best cousin of mine. Urghh. "Stop what munckin? You're so beautiful. The most beautiful girl I know. You need to get hitched, you know? "
I stand up and pull him with all my strength but he doesn't move an inch. He's so big. "Get up big cat. Get your big butt off my couch and go. I'll see you tomorrow "
"Fine baby, I'ma go cause my boyfriend is waiting for this big butt to have a good time. So bye sweetheart."
And with that, he left. Left me to my thoughts that keep drifting back to the silver eyed Greek god instead of thinking of a new job.
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I wake up the next morning to the smell of freshly baked lemon cake. Mommy's such a good baker and this smell, ooohhh...... I could drown in it. I walk to my bathroom and brush my teeth, do my morning business and walk to my small closet. I choose to wear a cream white sweater and violet mini skirt tagged along with a light black legging. In senior high, I got the class award in fashion. I look at myself in the mirror and smile. I'll just go down to the newspaper store and get to look for a job.
"Mommy " I say as I walk into the kitchen.
She turns and looks at me giving me a lovely smile. "My baby, you look good sweetheart. Are you off to work? "
My smile falters a little. I can't believe I'm going to have to lie to mom. I simply nod.
She runs her fingers through her hair. "Honey, I might be staying long nights at the hospital. There's a lot of work and we need the money."
I walk to her and hug her. "Its okay mom, I'm big. I can take care of myself." I put a piece of cake in my mouth and moan at how good it is. "Its delicious mom. Let's eat so you won't be late."
We sit and eat while sharing small talk. Once I was done, I stood up and kissed mom goodbye. "See you later and take care. I love you mom."
I walked out into the warm air of New York. I guess I'll just walk a bit before hailing a cab. A couple of minutes later, a nice black SUV pulled up in front of me.
I groaned. Not again. I'm tired of seeing expensive black cars everyday. They never end well.
This time, a different guy stepped out. He was good looking with brown eyes and brown hair. "Hi Kim." Oh, so he knows my name? Great. I keep quiet and wait for him to say something else other than 'Hi Kim'."I'm Roberto Cameo and my boss has a job for you." He said and I couldn't miss out on his Italian accent. Why do they all have that particular accent?
I look at him like he's grown two other heads. "Who are you? "
He smiles a bit. "Boss was right when he said you're naà ̄ve. I already told you who I am. Roberto. Remember? "
I have to smile too. His smile is contagious and he seems friendly. "Fine, who's your 'boss'? " I ask emphasizing on boss.
"How about you find out yourself. Don't bother, I don't have a gun and the Job's legal." He says raising his huge hands to show me he's not having a gun. "Just come with me."
I rolled my eyes. "You must be out of your mind if you think I'll just follow you."
He chuckled. "I actually didn't expect you to just come with me. But you need a job and my boss can offer you one."
I think a bit. "How do you know I need a job? How do I even know you're not going to kidnap me? "
This time, he laughed like I said the most funny thing on earth. "How'll I kidnap you? You're 21 so I can only 'adultnap' you. But either ways, its going to look like kidnapping since you have a baby face and you're really small."
Okay, that freaked me out. How does he know my age? "How do you know my age? If anything, you're scaring me." I told him.
He chuckled. "Adam sent me." He said easily.
I thought about it for a while. "Okay, fine. I'd go with you but so you know, I have my pepper spray."
He smiled down at me like I was some 2 year old. "Its fine with me little one, but hey, you don't tell a kidnapper that you've got your pepper spray, okay? "
I just smile and get into the car with him. I hope I don't regret this. After all, I need a job.
Avatia's POVThe silence was deafening. We've been in this car for about 15 minutes and I couldn't take it anymore. "Where are we heading to?"Roberto looked at me for a split second before diverting all his attention to the road. We were heading downtown but I needed to know exactly where he was taking me too." 'Berto?""Downtown. " I could hear the 'duh' tone which caused me to roll my eyes. The only thing I'm good at."I know. Where exactly?" I didn't fail to emphasize my own 'duh'"Like I told you, I'm not kidnapping you. No need to be scared. " he answered like it was the most obvious thing.This guy. I just shut up and looked out at the amazing buildings of New York. I mean, back at Ohio we've got great buildings too but New York, its t
Avatia's POVAfter kissing mom goodbye, I walked out into the busy streets of New York, pulling out my phone and dialling Kenny's number. After a couple of rings, I hear a faint and lazy 'hello'."Still in bed lazy baby?" I asked as I looked around for an empty cab. "Forgot today's my first day at work in Mr. Black's mansion?"I could picture him shrieking. "Oh my gosh, my little baby Ava is gonna be working with the wicked weird dick.""Stop it Ken, don't talk about him like that, 'sides, we don't even know him that much." I tried to defend my new boss although Kenny was right. Mr Black is ruthless. I'll just try to think of him as a good person so I'll be able to focus on my work well."You don't know him be
Avatia's POV."So you stay here all day, alone?" I asked as I put some curry sauce in my mouth. This guy really is a cook.He walked over to the fridge and took out a can of soda. "Yeah, but not anymore, you're with me now." He said raising his eyebrows and wiggling them."Yeah, I'd be here. So, is Mr. Black married?" I asked eager to know more about the guy I couldn't get out of my mind."Are you for real? How can you ask if the boss is married? Don't you fucking read the mags?" He asked, purely shocked from my question.I scratch my forehead. Man I really don't know much about this. "Is he? ""Nope. Most eligible bachelor for 5 years straight. Now don't ask anymore questions about him. You should be a
Avatia's POV.I walked into the extremely quiet house the next morning sending a small smile to Leo."Hi Ava, quite early today." He greeted me back with a rather wide smile. "Boss is having his breakfast so you might just sit and wait for him to come.""Oh, I'd just go do my work." I said and turned to leave when I heard the clicking of shoes. My eyes followed the direction of the sound till the well polished shoe came into sight. I slowly looked up, eyes landing on a perfectly ironed and fitting tux. I felt too intimidated to look at his face so I just went on with a 'good morning.'"So you came? Thought you wouldn't." I heard him say. How rude. The guy couldn't even reply with a good morning too."Yeah, I came back, so you thought wrong." I retorted. This guy was bringing out the worst in me.The little scowl on his face turns to a full blown one. Good one th
Avatia's POVMy hold on Leo tightened. Why was everyone looking at me? Was my hair too messy? Or my lip gloss splotched on my face like a lollipop? "Leo? "I guess he realized I was scared. "Hey! Don't panic, you're new here, and Mr. Vaughn's just suprised."My eyes trailed back to Mr. Black who was now surrounded by a couple of girls in bras and booty shorts. He squeezed one of the girls butt while looking me dead in the eye. As much as I hated to admit it, it stung.I felt Leo gently pull me. "You look damn hot, girl, I'm glad you came.""I promised." I said, my eyes still glued to Mr. Black's hand on another girls ass.Leo led me to a group of men who looked at me like I was some kind of rare chocolate muffin."Picked a little one this time, huh?" One of the guys said. "Looks quite fresh."That got me. Was he for real? Talking about me like that
Avatia's POV.I heard the door bell and looked at the grandpa clock above the doorpost. Its exactly 15 minutes. Is this man some sort of perfect alien? He's so time cautious. I looked down at my extra large T-shirt with a hamburger picture on it and shrugged. Its not like I'm trying to impress him. I walked to the door and opened it."What do you want from me?" I asked with all the courage left in my heart.He didn't say a word, instead, he pushed passed me and made his way into my house. Such a brute.I folded my arms over my chest and repeated my question. He seemed to be staring at my boobs. Huh? And a pervert too.He ran his large fingers through his hair making him look sexier than usual. "I want you."I almost choked on my own spit. "What?" My inner girl w
AVATIA'S POVAs soon as I stepped out of the cab, I ran up to Draya's house and into her room. She was using her phone and put it down as soon as she saw me."Dray." I said as she hugged me. "I really don't know what to do.""Shhh.... Sweetie its gonna be alright. Come on, sit down." Draya said as she smoothened my hair. "Look at me, you're not supposed to freak out."Huh? Was she for real? I looked up at her. "What do you mean?"She took in a deep breath. "What I mean is, you have to act normal. You shouldn't let him know that you know he's dangerous. It's obvious the guy won't hurt you cause if he had intentions of doing so, he'd have done it a long time ago. Clearly he's seeing the goodness in you." She paused for me to take that in, but that wasn't what I needed to hear. "If you act as if you know he's dangerous, he might consider you a threat so its better if yo
AVATIA'S POV"I think Mr. Black likes me.""No freaking way!" Draya and Kenny said in unison. This two hated each other with passion but they always said the same things.I looked at them seriously. Kenny looked like he had not had a hair cut in two weeks and Draya looked exhausted from work. I was missing out on my friends. "You know what, forget about what I said, tell me all that's been going on.""Don't be silly. How do you expect us to forget about what you just said?" Kenny asked like it was the most stupid thing he'd ever heard. "Go on, spill. Tell us what made you come to that conclusion. I want the naughty details. Have you guys done it yet? How was it? Is he really big down there?" Kenny was going on and on. I swear, he was insane.I closed my eyes. "No way. Don't be such a pervert.""That's basic stuff sweetie." Kenny was at it again. Oh God, how did