New Job

Will Zimmerman enter the doors of the his new job on his first day eager and ready. He just started working at the nightclub Sanctuary. It was a really popular place appearently. Will had just lost his job working as a guidence councellor at Old City High and kicked out of his apartment by his now ex girlfriend Meg.

He had read in the paper there was a job opening for bartender at the club The Sanctuary and he had decided to try his luck. The owner was a British woman named Helen Magnus. When Will first met during the interview he was terrified but she put him at ease and gave him the job almost instantly saying she was a good judge of people and knew Will would fit in just fine there.

As he walked through the entrance he bumped into a man heading to the front door. "Oh sorry my bad" Will said apologetically. He looked at the enormous and intimidating man he just bumped into as the man stared at him. He said nothing. Will was a bit frightened but mustered up the courage to say "Excuse do you know where I can find Ms. Magnus" he asked. The man stared at him and said nothing.

"There you are Will" said a voice from down the Hall. Helen Magnus walked toward him and said "Good your here early you can help us set up" she said. "Nice meeting you " Will said to the man before followoing Magnus into the main room. "Who was that" he asked. "Don't worry he's our bouncer" she said. "I see" he said.

"Hey Magnus, what on the playlist for tonight" shouted a man from the DJ platform. " Tonight is our Songs of the 80's tribute, the disc should be there" she said. "Got it" he said hold up a disc "Who's the new guy?". "This is Will Zimmerman our new Bartender, Will this is Henry Foss our DJ and expert in all thing electronic" she said to which Henry respond by standing very triumphly. He obviously was very proud of this title.

"Nice to meet you" Will said. "Same here, hope you're as good as Magnus thinks you are, she only hires the best" he replied. "Don't scare him to quit on his first day" Helen said. "Hope you make a mean Sea Breeze" he said as they headed off.

"They headed into the back room which was filled to the roof with bottles of Alcohol. "Hey Ms. M, the new shipment of vodka just arrived and they need you to sign off on it" said a attractive indian girl who was walking towards Helen. "Oh alright, Kate could you show are new bartender around" she asked. "Sure" she said.

Magnus headed off to the shipping dock and the girl turned to Will and said "Hi, I'm Kate Freelander". "Will Zimmerman, nice to meet you" he said offering her his hand. She shock his hand and said "So your the new bartender, i'm partcle to Jager Bombers myself, come with me i'll show you you're desk".

Will followed her out to the bar while they walked Kate asked "So who else in are little family have you met". "Henry and the Bouncer" he replied. "The Big Guy" she said. "Is that his name"he asked. "Probably not, only Helen knows what his real name is, everyone else just calls him the Big Guy" she said. "I see" he said. When they arrived at the bar Kate hoped over it and said "Hey Ash get up here and meet the new guy".

Just then rising up from behind the bar came a blonde girl. Will could but feel his heart race as he saw her. He could help it she was beautiful, breathtakeningly beautiful. She had golden blonde hair that had bangs that covered her forehead. But it was her eyes that Will notice most, they were the most beautiful blue eyes Will had ever seen like the ocean on a clear sunny day, they seem to go on forever.

Will could have stared at her eyes forever if he hadn't been distracted by the music that began to play. Suddenly the song "Lost in your Eyes" began to play. Kate shouted "Henry". "Just testing the sound system" he said.

"Will, this is Ashley" Kate introduced. "Nice to meet you" he said offering her his arm. "She smiled and shock it saying "The pleasure all mine". "So Will here is the new bartender" Kate said. "Interesting, me and Kate are waitresses" Ashley told him.

"Will, good I see you've met my daughter Ashley" Helen said appearing out of nowhere. 'Daughter' he thought not actually believing what he just heard. "I need you three to bring in the new cases of vodka" she said. Kate, Will and Ashley headed into the back and picked up the cases and headed back to the bar.

As they walked Ashley was next to Will and asked "So Will what do you think of the club" she asked. "It's nice, not that far from where i'm staying so I can walk here and the money's good" he said. "Where are you staying" she asked. "Well up too a few weeks ago I was living with my girlfriend Meg but we broke up and she kicked me out" he said.

"Just like in a divorce the woman keeps the house and you get the crappy apartment" she joked then suddenly her face lit up and she said "You should talk to my mom about renting one of the room upstair, heck everyone who works her live in one of them, me, my mom, Henry and Kate, why not you then you'll be one of us officially"

Will looked at her and said "I don't know". "Come on, there a great price especially to employees" she said. "Alright i'll talk to her" he said arriving at the bar and putting the vodka away. "Cool, who know maybe we'll be neighbours"

He smiled and got ready for work. Within the hour the club was packed with people dancing to hits of the 80's, you had zombies doing Thriller, then people celebrating Celebration and finally then Jessie's Girl.

Will was able to keep up with all the orders he was been given and was becoming incredible popular. He got more compliment that night than in the whole three year he dated Meg. But one customer didn't like him at all.

Ashley came over and said "Hey Will I need a Bloody Mary and Tequila for table 6" she asked. "Hey baby how would you like to give me your number" some drunken frat boy said as he came on to Ashley. "Not interested" she said sternly. "I don't think your heard me" he said. "Oh I heard and I'm not interested" she said turning to head away with the drink but he grabbed her arm and pulled her toward him.

"I said give me your number" he demanded. "Hey leave her alone " Will shouted heading up to him. "What are you going to do about it" he said pushing Will who in returned grabbed the Frat Boy's arm forced him to let go of Ashley and pushed him away from her.

The Frat Boy responded to this by punching Will right in the face. Will fall to the ground. The Frat and his group began to gang up on Will, whe the Big Guy showed up and literally pick the Frat Boy off the ground, carried him to the exit and throw him out of the Club.

Ashley helped Will up before Will was called to Helen's office. He sat down on the chair across from her desk and thought ' I'm so screwed, i'm going to lose this job'. As if she was reading his mind Magnus said "I'm not going to fire you Will"

"What" he said. "Do you think i fire everyone who help my daughter when some drunken buffoon hits on her, If i did we'd all be unemployed, no I wanted to know if your nose is alright" she said.

"I think its okay" he said. "Let me look at it" she said examining it. "It not broken, but it may swell so put some ice on it" she said "Now if you'll excuse me I have to go and do some important business" she said before leaving the office. "Wait I was wonder if i could rent one of the room Upstair" he asked.

She went to her desk, took something out and said "The rent comes out of your check and it's all your" she said tossing him a key.

Will sat there quite happy that he didn't get fired and turned aroung when he heard the door open. It was the Big Guy with an ice punch in his hand. He gave it to Will. "Thank you" Will said turning around.

"You're welcome" he said. Will couldn't believe his ears and turned around very slowly and looked at the Big Guy and said "You can talk". "Yep, by the way Ashley likes Daffodils" he said before leaving. Will was confused by what he just said.

After he nose no longer hurt Will went back to work without incident for the rest of the night. It was at the end of business hours when Ashley came over and said "How's your nose Will". "It's fine" he said. "Hey listen Will, that was really nice of you helping me with that jerk so I was wonder do you want to maybe get a coffee tomorrow before work" she asked.

"I'd love to" he said. "It's a date " she said. They headed up stair as Will looked at the room number on his key, 24. He went to the room and to his surprise Ashley went to the room next to it. "Well look at that we our neighbours, night Will " she said before going into her room.

Will went into his new room and looked around. It was a beautiful room and he was definatly going to stay there after his stuff is brought from his hotel room. He lay on his new bed and looked forward to his date with Ashley tomorrow and thought 'I'll need to get some Daffodils'