It was a lovely night, with the stars in the sky and the wind blowing just a little bit, so that they peeked out from the clouds a little bit. The temperature was not quite warm and not quite chilly. The air had a crisp, clean feeling to it.
It was a simply beautiful night, and Sasha could barely see a goddamn thing past the lights of the town. It was dark. Far too dark for Sasha. He'd lived in the city his whole life, and this must be mother natures dirty way of getting back at him for hiding in the little metal pimple that had grown out of her face. Of course, if his home was a pimple, this place would be tiny little pockmark. No, a speck of dirt on her face. It was a tiny town not even worth putting on the map. How his own father had ever found his way to civilization was beyond him.
Sasha's opinions on the matter aside, it may be time for a little background. As you may well know, Sasha isn't from the town of River Lake. In fact, he even dislikes the name of it, thinking it a poor choice and not at all creative. It is, however, his home for the time being. This is because he needs to be here for... Personal matters. Maybe he'll think of that later and I, the narrator of his thoughts, will be able to explain to you his reasons behind being here in the first place. Ah, yes, enough of me, we should look back to the story.
*ahem* Sasha was working the his third week of the nightshift at Delilah's Gourmet, a pastry shop, and, in his opinion, one of the few decent restaurants in town. He lived exactly five miles away and ran there after he made dinner every night, so that he wouldn't need to use a car and could find time to exercise.
It was in this shop that Sasha now entered, ringing a small bell attached to the door, that he was in the employ of Senka, a woman who had most kindly and graciously given him a place to work.
"Good evening," he said to Senka and the other coworkers as he slid off his jacket and went behind the counter. To be precise, "said" might be too strong a word. It is closer to the truth to say that the words found their way out of his mouth, words that his mother had pounded into his brain to say every night. He himself didn't realize how forced his words sounded at times.(If I could write it off as an endearing quirk, believe me, as narrator, I would. But alas, I can't.)
It was then, though, that something caught his eye. Rather, some
one. Well, still technically something, but, being narrator, I know that the devilishly handsome young man that Sasha is looking at happens to be a vampire. But Sasha doesn't know that yet. Ah, right,you're here for the story, not to listen to me ramble.
This young man, who sat staring at a menu, was very handsome. Beyond that, he looked very nice. He also had lovely blonde hair, soft eyes, and skin that looked like he could be on one of those commercials with naked people in towels or covered in bubbles advertising a product that smelled like vanilla or cucumbers, or waterfalls, or sunsets. I personally enjoy the smell of sunsets myself.
However! Why, in spite of all of these very good and wonderful attributes, did Sasha narrow his eyes as if he was suspicious of something? Was this man not simply sitting at a table, probably about to order a meal at this fine establishment in which Sasha himself worked? Shouldn't Sasha stop staring at him before somebody makes a grave mistake and tries to get Sasha to ask the lovely boy for his phone number? Well, to Sasha, the man just looked wrong. He was unfamiliar, and just really really
HO- *ahem* out of place in this very small, rural town.
This was not, though a good reason to accuse the man of anything, and Senka had already warned him a number of times about scaring off customers. So he let it go and turned instead to Senka herself.
"What's the first order of business?" He asked. It was, as always, the second thing he said after "good evening". And that was just the way he liked things