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esteban-barcenas:

“May I give you a suggestion?” he said to the person that seemed about to enter the restaurant. “I wouldn’t go there if I were you. They take hours to bring your order, it’s ridiculously expensive and not really worth it.” He had reviewed the restaurant just a few days ago. “But at the end, it’s up to you.”

Cassie was caught completely off guard by the person talking to her right before she was going to enter her destination. She had just gotten off work and was starving. Someone in the office mentioned the restaurant and she figured she might as well check it out. She listened to the man speak and was quickly turned off from the establishment. “Where, pray tell, would you suggest then?”

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tony-demarco:

It was hard not to stare down the woman’s figure, especially with such a tight fitting dress.  However, with respect to his friend and being raised by his mother Tony managed not to ogle her.  As she complimented him, he grinned ear to ear.  “Not going to lie, it feels weird covering my body.”  Since he lost the weight when he was younger, Tony had no modesty when it came to showing off his body and lovely tats.  “You’re welcome; I wasn’t sure what kind of flowers you liked and thought it would be nice.”  He decided to leave out it was his cousin’s idea.  While she placed the flowers in some water, he stayed close to the door looking around the apartment as he waited for her.  

Once she was ready, he offered his arm to her.  “How was your week?”  Tony asked as the two headed out of her place.  “Is your artwork going to be at this place tonight?”  He asked curiously.  All Tony knew was his friend was extremely talented, but she gave very little details about the gala for the evening.  Well besides dress with class.  “Also thanks for inviting me; I could use a night out with a friend.”  As they got outside he turned towards her, “are we taking an uber down there?  Or are you driving?”

Cassie took Tony’s arms with a small but appreciative smile as the two exited her home. “My week has been crazy. It’s mostly been filled with interviewing for a new assistant, lots and lots of paperwork, and fixing whatever got screwed up in my absence do to my trip. Remind me to never leave here for more than a week again.” With her abuela’s passing and her inability to deal with her emotions, she let work pile up on her almost to the point where it unbearable to deal with. “I have one piece on display. I haven’t been too inspired lately but I promised at least one piece,” she explained and let them to her garage. “It’s no problem, thanks for coming. I really didn’t want to do this alone tonight.” She didn’t want to keep feeling the pitying glances or hearing words of condolences of her lost by her employees. “I’m far too cheap to get an uber, besides I just inherited an amazing car I’d like to show off,” Cassie said as she opened her garage door and unlocked her old mustang for the two of them.

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tony-demarco:

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“How the hell do you not know how to tie a damn tie Tony?”  Looking up towards his older cousin allowing him to borrow the tux, since all the tuxes he owned happened to be easily pulled off his body.  He shrugged.  “Sorry Rocco, I didn’t have a dad to teach me these things.”  Tony commented playing the father card, knowing it would shut his cousin up.  His cousin fixed his tie and glanced over him.  “The suit is a little big on you, but other than that you look great.”  Glancing at himself in the mirror, he had to admit he cleaned up nicely.  “Hey man, thanks again.  I’ll bring it back later this week.”  With that said, he bid farewell to his cousin and headed out the door. Before he could even get to the gate towards the uber, his cousin was shouting at him.  “Tony don’t forget to get her flowers. She is a photographer inviting you to an art gala”  He rolled his eyes, “not a date.”  Not sure how many times he had to say that to the man, he thought to himself as he slipped into the back of the vehicle.

“Geez everyone thinks I am made of money,” he murmured to himself staring out the window. Just ten minutes away from Cassandra’s place, Tony groaned as his cousin’s words played in his mind.  Leaning forward in the car, he smiled towards the driver.  “Uh can we make a quick stop; there is a flower place just down the street.”  With the quick pit stop, Tony nearly fell over at the prices marked on the flowers.  Picking the cheapest assortment, he ran back to the car.

Once he arrived at her place, he stood outside the door for a moment trying to straighten his suit and make sure he looked presentable.  After all, Cassie invited him of all people to go to some art gala.  He figured the least he could do was look decent.  With the flowers placed in one hand, he knocked on the door and waited for it to open.  “Hey, uh these are for you.”  He stated holding out the arrangement.  When his eyes finally fell upon her, he grinned widely.  “Damn, you look amazing.  Not that you don’t always, but wow.”  He took a step forward, “and lucky for you, you will have the hottest piece of eye candy on your arm all night.  Feel free to show me off.”  He teased.

The entire day had been filled with Cassie running around like a chicken with its head cut off. She was so busy between her personal shoot with clients and running the studio plus the art gala she was putting on for her workers and other local artists. She honestly wasn’t sure how she got everything done seeing as she was still without an assistant to help her with these things. After an extremely long day, she got home and was finally able to get off her feet for a few moments. She called up her best friend from college to help her get dressed. She didn’t know what to wear and needed some help. 

After shouting at her friend and throwing dress after dress onto the floor, she finally picked a nice form-fitting red dress with matching heels. Cassie momentarily relaxed before looking at the time and becoming frantic all over again. It didn’t take her long to do her hair and makeup thankfully, as soon as she was done she heard the knock at the door. Usually she just took Diego to these kinds of things but seeing as he had to work, her natural second choice was Tony. He was really a great guy and always knew how to make her feel better and relaxed, plus he would make fine arm candy. “You clean up pretty damn good yourself. Thanks for the flowers, they’re gorgeous. I’ll just put these in water and I’ll be ready,” she said as she grabbed the flowers and put them in a vase before returning to her ‘date’. “Ready?”

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summerdhale:

“I wasn’t asking, but now I know. As long as we’re providing each other a good time,” with no attachments, she thought to herself,” there’s no harm at it. So why now? Besides, I’m great at it.” With a wink, Summer kept her gaze a few seconds on Cassie before she turned to face her drink, finishing all of its content. “Let’s get you drunk, then. What’s your poison for tonight?”

“I’m always looking for some temporary fun. I’ve been told I need to relax more and really what other way is better to make you relax?” Cassie wasn’t looking for anything that wasn’t temporary. All she wanted was something to take her mind off of the emotions she was pushing down. She finished the contents of the glass in front of her and laughed. “Tequila is always my poison. This was a matador, ever had one?”

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adamfcrds:

Adam had been watching the interaction play out for longer than he would have liked to admit. He couldn’t ever put himself in the shoes of a man who couldn’t take no for an answer – how hard could it be for a person to wrap their head around such a simple word? He used it almost every second at work and the people he said it to were usually understanding of the word. Despite his inner musings, he didn’t do anything to intervene. Adam had come to the bar to get away from his over-bearing mother, without making it too obvious he was trying to stay out of her sight, and was enjoying his solitude too much to help the girl out. He averted his attention to the bartender to ask for a re-fill of his drink just as he felt an arm loop around his. “Wha—” He blurted out, his eyes shifting between the girl and the annoyingly persistent male. Realising what her reasoning was, Adam decided to play along. The bartender had put down a bottle and two glasses – also picking up on the situation. “Do we have a problem here?” He rose from his seat on the barstool to intimidate the other male with his looming height. “I’m afraid; I only have two glasses here. One for me and the other for my girlfriend, so if you don’t mind…” He put his hand on the female’s back, guiding her to the barstool next to his.

Cassie sat at the bar and prayed that she hadn’t gotten herself in more trouble ten she already was. She didn’t know this mad and his size alone was incredibly intimidating. She looked behind her and watched the man that was basically stalking her look over at her and contemplate his next move before deciding it wasn’t worth it and walking away. She let out the breath she didn’t even know she was holding, thankful to be done with that creep. “This has not been my day,” she mumbled to herself before turning to the man that came to her rescue. “I’m sorry for invading your space, he just wouldn’t catch a hint. You’re probably waiting on someone, I’ll let you get back to that. I just want to say thank you and if there is any way I can repay you for your help just let me know.”

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summerdhale:

“I’m also sure it isn’t the only reason, but it’s one of them… definitely. And just once? I’m hurt that you’re over how great I can be,” Summer teased, a light shrug along with her words, before she took a sip from her drink. “Life moves too fast, Cassie. In a blink of an eye everything changes, people walk away. Well, you’ll soon find it. Let me know if I can help.”

“If this is your way of asking if I would like another night with you Ms. Hale well it’s not often I can say no to that gorgeous face of yours. And with this particular subject this isn’t one of those ties where I can say no,” Cassie smirked and turned to the drink that was just placed in front of her. “Yeah I’m not drunk enough to get on this level of emotions. But I’ll let you know if you can help. Only time will tell at this point right now.”

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choidamon:

Damon was meeting his best friend tonight but of course, she got caught up in traffic. He had told her to leave earlier like he did but it seemed like it went from one ear and out the other. So he sat at the bar alone, downing his second drink when someone came and linked their arms with his. Looks down, he saw a woman who was looking pissed off and also annoyed. He kept his features cool as he realized she needed to escape the other man she was looking at. “Babe, I didn’t know you were here.” he smiled down at her before looking at the other guy. “What are you looking at man? Can’t you take a hint and leave my girl alone? Like shit man seriously.” He unlinked his arm from the woman’s and threw his arm comfortably across her shoulder, leading her to the other side of the bar. “Was my performance Oscar worthy?”

Honestly, Cassie was a bit amazed at how realistic he made it see. If she hadn’t known the truth she could easily believe that she actually knew the man next to her. As they walked to the other side of the bar she laughed at his question. “And the Oscar for best male performance in a lead role goes to...” She trailed off realizing she didn’t know the man’s name. “I’m sorry I don’t know your name but you would have definitely won n Oscar for that. I’m Cassie by the way and that you so much for getting me out of that.”

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summerdhale:

“Usually it gets me laid, but I can also be surprised about that. I try not to waste compliments on people who don’t deserve them, so consider yourself lucky.” Finally finishing her shot, Summer placed the glass down, asking for another one before her gaze met Cassie’s. “Good. And well, I’ve been trying to start a new book, enjoying my brand new single life, reading books, getting drunk. The usual. What have you been up to?”

“People love their ego stroked. I’m sure it’s not the only reason you get laid. I mean your beauty alone hooked me in once upon a time ago,” she shrugged before ordering another drink. “Brand new single life? Well shit I g away for a month and everything around here changes huh? I’ve been slowly but surely integrating myself back into work, it’s been a bit of a struggle. I’m an artist with no muse, I’ll figure something out though I always do.”

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alexandrakings:

“Cold and snowy. I have to say, while I do love New York, I wouldn’t trade our crazy weather for theirs for nothing in the world.”

“It’s not so snowy this year, which is fucking weird. It was kind of warm when I was there, and by warm I mean not freezing like usual. There are things I love about New York crazy weather I like and there are things about our crazy weather I like. I’m biased technically New York is my hometown but I’ve lived a majority of my life in Australia.”

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diego-olmedillo:

He chuckled “Your mother is a wise woman and I think she likes me more than you, but really now do you want to try me? Because we could totally turn this into a civil war, I’m not sure our home will be ready for that but as long as I get to beat you, I don’t think I would mind” Diego smiled and rolled his eyes “You do know there are Ted Talks about art and photography, I even think there are ones about aliens but I’m not sure if it really is or isn’t I haven seen that one yet, but it does have aliens in the title.”

“Excuse me? You know what, you got a big storm coming. It will be World War 3 in our home and well, we might as well start saving up to be able to replace or fix whatever we breath in our house because we both know it’s bound to happen. You are going to go down so hard.” Cassie was now being the one to roll her eyes. “Okay maybe so but most the time you hear about Ted Talks it’s about medicine or science and just no not for me. But I am now intrigued about aliens.”

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libby-hales:

“I think I might have ordered too much at the food trucks, don’t suppose you want your weight in food? Because I need to get rid of it somehow, and I over-estimated my ability to eat everything.” she spoke, with a small wince, turning to the person beside her waiting for answer.

“Honestly I’ pretty sure I eat my weight in food on a daily basis so I am a hundred percent down to do that right now to help you lighten your load. I’m not one to say no to good food.”

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diego-olmedillo:

“You don’t want to play that game with me, I know your weakness. Okay now that’s a bit too much, there are good TED talks, not all of them, but there are some that are entertaining and not as boring as you are making it sound.” He chuckled and poked her “The point is if you making me do something I really hate I will make you do something you hate too, like you say all is fair in love and war.”

“You know this could truly turn into a war that I don’t quite think you can finish. Like ummi always said, don’t start anything you aren’t prepared to finish,” she said with a smirk. Teasing Diego was one of her favorite past times. Often when she was having a bad day she would text or called her friend just to have some playful banter to make her day better. “You like science so that stuff is interesting to you, not so much to me. And again don’t bite the hand that feeds you, both figuratively and literally.”

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alexandrakings:

“–And now, all we have to do is hope for the weather to continue like this… I mean, can you imagine if all of the sudden it starts raining?”

“It would just feel like I’m back in New York with the random raining and unpredictable weather. Except it’s cold as hell over there right now.”

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diego-olmedillo:

Diego chuckled at her comment and simply shook his head lightly “Hey now that’s not fair, I also cook for you  but fine, I won’t be mean, not to mention is not like dislike that man things, or that I will make you go to some seminar about health care” She was right, she id made most of the meals but also he wasn0t really planning on making her do something horrible.

“Have I taught you nothing? All is fair in love and war my dear friend. Besides you said I have to agree on something I dislike, not me agreeing on torture and that’s all a seminar on health care is for me. Way too many big latin terms for me. It feels like a never ending TED talk,” she said shuddering at the thought.

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diego-olmedillo:

Diego couldn’t say no to Cassie, if there was someone who he trusted to go into a maze was with her, he knew she wouldn’t leave him behind and she did had a point she always carried snacks in her purse and well he also had water so even if it was a little scary he guessed he could go “Okay fine, I guess we can do that, but you will have to repay me for this and do something you don’t like I will have to think what but when I do you will not be able to say no”

Cassie was all for Diego saying yes until it was mentioned that she would have to do something she wouldn’t like. She groaned a little, not really looking forward to it but she did really want to go through the maze with her partner in crime so she just nodded. “Fine, fine when the time comes I will repay you. But as you think about this I want you to remember that we live together and I cook for you. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you my friend.”