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nineteenninety-six · 4 years

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Arguments of Concern - Part Three

The love I got on ‘escapism’ was so great, thank you so much <3

I also don’t remember much of the beach scene so ignore inaccuracies pls lol

WORD COUNT: 2105

[PART ONE] [PART TWO]

Adam was fast asleep on (Y/N)’s lap as Tommy drove them towards Margate. He was excited when he was told that he was going on a trip to the beach and spent the first couple of hours excitedly chatting and asking his parents a hundred questions before he became bored and tired, allowing his parents to spend the remaining hour of the journey to talk without the chance of having little ears overhearing anything that was said.

Whilst their relationship had slightly improved compared to before, (Y/N) was still bitter at Tommy for getting involved with Mosley and subsequently dragging them into the mess too. Adam was her number one priority and despite how much she hated the idea of it, she would take him and leave Tommy if she needed to. Tommy was the love of her life and has provided her with everything she could ever need but slowly the bad was overtaking the good and she didn’t think she could just watch from the sidelines anymore.

Tommy’s hand on her thigh brought her out of her thoughts,

“You okay?”

“Hmm, just thinking about this mysterious friend of yours” (Y/N) teased, pulling his hand off her thigh before lacing their fingers together.

Tommy brought their conjoined hands up and pressed a kiss on the back of her hand, “Don’t want to ruin the surprise.”

“The surprise...” (Y/N) scoffed, “Don’t tell me it’s one of your old flings or girlfriends?”

Tommy snorted a laugh, “If I did that, I wouldn’t have to worry about Mosley killing me since I know you’d kill me before he’d even get a chance.”

(Y/N) made a vague noise of distress before she pulled her hand free of his and whacked him on the arm,

“Don’t joke about dying” She scolded him.

“ ‘m sorry.”

“No, you’re not.”

“No, I’m not.” Tommy threw her a smirk and wink causing her to giggle.

If (Y/N) tried her hardest briefly forget about the actual reason why they were going to Margate, she could pretend that they were just taking a small holiday as a family.

“When all this is over, we’ll go away somewhere. You, me and Adam. Just the three of us eh?” Tommy spoke up after a few moments, glancing at her.

“Hmm, we can go to Wales or Ireland.”

Tommy smiled at her, “We could stay in a caravan. Adam would enjoy it.”

(Y/N) bit her lip before she spoke again, slightly hesitating, “When this is done...you’ll take a step back right? From the more dangerous stuff?”

Tommy sighed “(Y/N)...”

(Y/N) also sighed, “I’m not being unreasonable Tommy, I’m not telling to completely stop with the illegal side of the business. All I’m asking is to not get involved in dangerous situations with dangerous people like you have nothing to lose, because you do Tommy. You have us.”

“We’ll talk more about it when everything is over.”

(Y/N) simply nodded, not wanting to fight and wake Adam.

They had arrived at Margate now, driving right by the coast, no doubt close to their final destination.

“It’s gorgeous.” (Y/N) gasped as she peered out of the window, gazing at the beach and at the people making the most of the end of the summer heat before autumn fully settled in. The scent of the salty air and the sound of the seagulls made (Y/N) smile, she found the place somewhat calming.

Five minutes later and they were pulling into the drive of a mansion and even though the hedges were preventing her view, (Y/N) knew they were still close to the seafront as she could still hear the crashing of the waves and the faint sound of people.

Tommy got out of the car first and made his way over to her side of the car and opened the door for her. (Y/N) missed the figure step out of the mansion and make his way down the stairs that were in front of the mansion as she tried to step out of the car with Adam in her arms.

“Here lemme take him.” Tommy took Adam in his arms, the young boy still fast asleep. As grew older, he also grew heavier meaning that (Y/N) couldn’t hold him for long periods of time, making her miss the days where he was tiny and never wanted to leave her arms.

“Mrs Shelby! It’s wonda-ful to see ya lovely face again, shame you brought ya husband along with you though.”

(Y/N) whipped around to where the voice came from, instantly recognising it. She couldn’t believe her eyes and when she looked back at Tommy to make sure that she wasn’t hallucinating, she received a nod that told her that he was real.

“Alfie? Jesus Christ…” (Y/N) murmured as she made her way over to him.

Her eyes caught on the large scar on his face, “What happened to you? Tommy only told me you had died.”

“Oh, this thing ‘ere?” Alfie pointed at his scar, “Yea well, you can blame your husband for tha’”

“You asked me to kill you, Alfie.” Tommy sounded like he’d had this conversation many times before.

“You what?!”

“In my defence luv, I did think I was going to die anyway.”

“I...uh..” (Y/N) was speechless.

“I’ll explain when we get inside.” Tommy told her as he moved to stand next to her.

Alfie’s eyes catch on Adam who was clinging on to his father in his sleep, “If it isn’t little Tommy Jr, he’s grown a lot hasn’t he?”

Alfie had only met Adam once when he had visited Tommy at the house, (Y/N) had just come home from a walk with a then two-year old Adam when Adam had run into Tommy office to say hello to his father. Alfie had immediately taken note of how similar the father and son looked and the started to call Adam, ‘Tommy Jr’. (Y/N) was pretty sure that he had only done it to annoy Tommy, which it did- not that Alfie would ever find out.

“I think we need to talk, don’t we? Let’s head inside yeah” Alfie led them into their house and sent his maid off the make them some tea.

Tommy placed Adam on the couch so that he was laying down before taking a seat next to him and (Y/N) sat on Tommy’s other side so that he was in the middle.

“Right, so what happened?” (Y/N) asked as she shrugged off her coat.

Alfie a slightly guilty expression on his face but Tommy began talking before she could question him.

“Remember the boxing match a few years ago?” Tommy asked his wife

(Y/N) sat up slightly, “When you were dealing with the Italians? Yeah, why?”

“Alfie had betrayed us-- me and sent Changretta’s men undercover as his to kill me, except they attacked Arthur instead.”

(Y/N) stared at Alfie, gobsmacked, “I..why would you do that? Actually, why am I surprised, you’ve betrayed us before!”

Alfie just winced and kept silent.

“And so when I went to confront him, he tells me that he’s suffering from skin cancer but he wanted to go out his own way--”

“He wanted you to kill him?” (Y/N) caught on.

“I didn’t wan’ to die because of fuckin’ cancer. The doctor said that I most likely got it from the trenches in the war and that’s not how I wanted to die. He also said that it would be painful and long an’ that’s no way for a gangster to go out is it?” There was both pain and anger in Alfie’s voice.

“So you betrayed Tommy because you knew that he would kill you?”

Alfie nodded, “(Y/N)...I wanted it to be quick and painless. I didn’t want to die from cancer.”

“Oh, Alfie.” (Y/N)’s heart hurt for him.

“I didn’t want to shoot him at first but then he shot at me so I shot at him back.”

“You got shot?! You told me you were dealing with Arthur after he had one of his episodes.”

“If I told you I got shot, you would have killed me.” Tommy smiled at his wife.

“You’re absolutely right.”

Whines and grunts came from Adam as he slowly woke up, his body shuffling against Alfie’s couch. (Y/N) couldn’t help but laugh as he sat up, his face was puffy and his hair was a mess, there was also a frown marring his face, clearly not appreciating the fact that he had been woken up.

“Mama?” He croaked as he crawled over Tommy and into her arms.

“Hello poppet, did you have a nice nap?” (Y/N) ran her fingers through his hair, trying to tame it.

“Uh-huh, I had a dream that there was a big lion but dada saved us before it could eat us!”

“Dada saved us? How lucky are we huh” (Y/N) pressed a kiss to his forehead

“Here, drink this Adam” Tommy passed Adam a glass of water that he easily gulped down.

Feeling refreshed and no longer tired, Adam twisted on (Y/N)’s lap but froze at the sight of Alfie sat opposite them.

“Hello there, I’m Alfie Solomons.” Alfie lent forward and held his hand out.

Adam silently stared before leaning forward and shaking his hand “I’m Adam Shelby.”

“Nice to meet you, Mr Shelby.”

Adam paused before he spoke again, “What happened to your face?”

“Adam!” (Y/N) hissed but she didn’t know why she was surprised, he was a kid and kids were curious.

“Nahh it’s orright, he’s fine. I had an accident and hurt myself”

“Did it hurt?”

“For a bit, yeah, but I’m fine now”

“Okay!” That seemed to satisfy Adam who no longer seemed interested anymore.

Tommy shifted as he pulled his watch out of his pocket and sighed when he checked the time, “I have to go.”

“We’ve just got here.” (Y/N) whispered, upset.

“Do you like ships Adam?” (Y/N) smiled at Alfie, knowing that his plan was to distract Adam so that she could talk to Tommy.

“I don’t think he’s ever seen one.” (Y/N) laughed.

“If we’re lucky we can see one from the balcony, wanna see if can see any?”

Adam looked up to his parents for permission, excited at the prospect at seeing ships. (Y/N) and Tommy nodded and he eagerly jumped up off of (Y/N)’s lap and allowed Alfie to take him to the balcony.

“Can you not stay any longer?” (Y/N) asked her husband.

“I wish I could. You have no idea how much I want to stay with you and Adam and hide from everything back home.” Tommy pressed his head against hers and wiped away the tears that slowly began to fall down her cheeks.

“You must come back to me. You must come back to us because I don’t know how I survive if you’re dead.” (Y/N) sobbed.

“I will come back to you but if something does happen then you must promise to do what we planned yeah? You take Adam and you go.”

“Thomas!”

“Promise me (Y/N)” Tommy made sure she was looking at him in the eye as he made her promise.

“I promise. I promise you, Tommy. If something happens, I’ll take Adam and go.”

“Good.” Tommy pressed a kiss to (Y/N)’s lips. “I love you.”

“I love you too. I love you so much, Tommy.” (Y/N) kissed him back and they continued kissing before Tommy pulled away and stepped back.

“Adam, come say bye to dada!” (Y/N) called out so that Adam could hear her from the balcony.

“Bye? Why?” Adam wondered in with Alfie’s binoculars in his hands.

Tommy knelt down in front of him, “Dada has to go back home for a bit but I’ll be back soon, okay?”

Adam frowned but nevertheless nodded, “Can we see the ships together when you come back?”

“Of course. We’ll go to the beach as well okay?”

Adam grinned excitedly and hugged Tommy, “Okay. See you soon! Love you!”

Tommy tightly wrapped his arms around Adam and kissed the side of his head. “Love you too”

Alfie took Adam back outside while (Y/N) followed Tommy to the car to say one more goodbye.

“Come back to me okay?”

“I will. I love you.” Tommy gave her one last kiss before getting into the car.

“I love you too.” (Y/N) said before Tommy drove away.

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artificialqueens · 7 years

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For The Gains Ch. 1 (Shalaska) - Ennik

A/N: HIIIIIII! This is my first Shalaska and rpdr fic ever! It’s a gym buddies au hehehe also I’ll go by the pen name Ennik for AQ. :)

umm just a few notes and disclaimers i guess?

I actually don’t go to the gym myself, so what I write about is mostly based off what my brothers, sister, and cousins talk about, little research I’ve done, and what i see from Khloe Kardashian’s workout snaps lol. So if you guys actually know how to gym, I’m sorry for any inaccuracies lol. It’s fiction anyway /shrug

Another thing I’ve changed is that the characters who are in real life vegetarian or vegan, are not in this story. Everyone is in their early to late twenties.

Also!! Sharon works for a popular company here and i have not personally worked for the company either or know anyone well enough who did. Again I based it off a little research and what i heard/read from people and some acquaintances.

That said!! Please enjoy the story i hope you like it despite me writing like a kid and yeah, pls leave me comments or anything if you like the story!

Sharon Needles was dragged to the gym by her best friend Willam Belli. Let the records show that she did not go there, on that first day, of her own free will.

It all started when Sharon complained about work during one of her many lunch breaks spent with Willam.

“Sharon, you’ve been in a work slump. Hell, you’ve been in a life slump!” Willam had said, jabbing aggressively at the contents of her croque madame that’s long come apart.

“No. I love my job,” Sharon countered pointedly, “And it’s not a slump. It’s just… been routine for a while.” She sighs, lazily stirring her fruit shake with her straw.

“A slump.” Willam says with finality in her tone. “C'mon, just join me for one session! I have free trials for friends!”

“How will exercising help me with ‘a slump’?” Sharon air quotes with her fingers, sarcasm dripping from her voice.

“Okay miss thing,” Willam starts, “First of all, it will break routine, cause you never go to the gym and second, exercise releases endorphins, and endorphins make you happy!” She explains, her tone becoming light and cheery.

Sharon groans. Has it really come to the point where Willam has to quote her Legally Blonde to convince her to try something new?

“I promise you’ll feel better!! I always do after a good sweat!” She urges.

“Can’t I just have sex?” Sharon says dryly, idly twirling her pasta. She’s already over Willam basically telling her how boring her life has gotten.

“You can if you could find someone.” comes Willam’s snarky reply.

“Excuse me, miss Belli! I could so find someone to hook-up with if I wanted to.”

“Then why don’t you?”

Sharon shrugs, “I dunno. I don’t feel like it.” She had no good answer. Sharon was never the type to live too cautiously or too routinely for that matter. She loved to go out and have fun and party. She loved spontaneity. It was very unlike her to ‘not feel like’ going out or meeting someone or trying something new and Willam knew this very well.

“Slump.” Willam states, effectively ending any argument that was gonna happen.

“Fine! I’ll go to your stupid gym.”

Willam cheers. “You won’t regret it!!!”

So it is with the utmost reluctance that Sharon, after work, trudges into the gym that one evening in early August.

Willam had picked Sharon up from work in her gorgeous BMW X5, the last spoiled-rich-kid gift Willam’s parents had given her. It was her college graduation gift. Willam maintained her car well because even after almost 4 years, it was still a looker.

“Leave your non-gym stuff in the car,” Willam tells Sharon as she turns off the engine, grabbing her keys, phone, and duffel bag and exiting the SUV. Sharon watched as Willam walked away from her car with an air of confidence. She was wearing a matching electric-blue number in the form of a compression shirt and yoga shorts.

Sharon grabs her bag too when she gets out of the car to follow the blonde. She’s in sweatpants and an uncomfortably tight fitting shirt that she had just borrowed from Willam. Not only is she more well-endowed than her best friend, Willam just liked to wear tight clothes, so there was that. She wasn’t dressed for the gym at all. With her non-matching clothes screaming “newbie”.

“It’s almost 8pm, until what time is your gym open?” Sharon blinks as they walk inside. Willam swipes her membership card, allowing her and Sharon entrance.

“They’re open 24 hours, the name is literally 365 Fitness, they’re open all the time.” Willam says snappishly. She goes up to the counter and the employee behind the desk immediately greets her. “Hey Willam!”

“Hey Naomi,” She greets cheerfully, “This is my friend Sharon, she’ll use one of my free trials today!”

“Oh great! She’s the first friend you’ve brought since coming here.” Naomi smiles, then turns her head towards Sharon and politely introduces herself. “Hi I’m Naomi, it’s a pleasure to have you here, Sharon.” Sharon flashes an awkward smile. “I hope your experience is pleasant.”

Naomi hands Sharon a piece of paper where she had to fill out a few things about herself, the paper was marked as a free trial under Willam’s membership, and they let Sharon venture further into the gym. They walked past the stationary bikes, ellipticals, and a TRX room. She saw machines and equipment she didn’t even know existed. Sharon was really intimidated by everything and everyone who knew what they were doing so she kept close to Willam.

“What do you do here?” Sharon asks looking around confused at all the materials.

Willam sets her things down and then looks at Sharon. “It depends on the day. We got leg day, arm day, cardio, core… y'know, all that.” She explains in her typical breezy manner.

“No. I don’t.” Sharon scoffs under her breath, “So what’s today?”

“For me I’m gonna do cardio and maybe some weights…”

“And for me?”

“You can do cardio too. Treadmills are easy enough.” Willam grins at Sharon. “I mean, they aren’t the most famous cardio machines for nothing!”

“Oh ha ha. Tell the newbie to get on the easiest machine there is.” Sharon rolls her eyes.

“Well can you work any of the other machines?” Sharon stays silent. “Thought so.” Willam says.

“And besides, the treadmill never gets old.”

Before Sharon could retort, Willam had already whipped out her phone and was checking her messages. Sharon had never been more self-conscious. She was always confident about herself and how she looked, but the gym was a place she didn’t know much about. She prided herself in her intelligence but in this gym, with all their heavy equipment, Sharon didn’t feel so smart, not knowing what to do with them.

She’s pulled out of the doubts eating at her mind with Willam calling for her attention.

“Sharon!! These are my gym friends.” She introduces. Suddenly there are 2 more blonde girls in her line of vision. A petite one and a statuesque one. “Guys this is my best friend from college, Sharon Needles. Sharon this is Alaska Thunderfuck and Courtney Act.”

Courtney, being the prim and proper polite person that she is immediately holds out her hand for a handshake. Sharon thought it too formal, but she shook Courtney’s hand anyway. Alaska waved at her, big bright smile on her face.

“It’s nice to meet you, Sharon.” Courtney says. Sharon immediately identifies an Australian accent.

“Yeah, finally a face to all the stories Willam has told us about you.” Alaska drawls cheekily.

Sharon shoots Willam a look, raising her eyebrow. Willam doesn’t look guilty at all and just shrugs. Before Sharon could say something to Willam, yet another blonde approaches them. Why were they all blonde? Sharon touches her dark hair, feeling out of place.

“Hey guys! You’re finally here!” The fourth blonde says, “Oh hey, aren’t you Willam’s friend? Sharon is it?”

“Yes!” Willam replies for her. Sharon was stunned. At the forwardness of the stranger but mostly because she already knew her name. “Sharon this our other friend, Katya Zamolodchikova.”

“Katya.” Sharon repeats, storing the information in her brain.

“Did you guys just get here? I’m almost done with my workout.” Katya asks the group.

“Yeah, Court and I just arrived. I think Willam and Sharon too.” Alaska answers.

“Cool, cool. I’m going on the stepmill and I’ll be done with all my sets for today.” Katya says.

“Right now?” Courtney asks, eyebrows furrowing, “I saw Moo on it.” she tells Katya.

“Oh yeah we passed by and Moo was on it.” Alaska adds.

“Aw man, he’ll hog the step machine for an hour, at least.” Katya groans.

Sharon blinks, she was so very confused by the conversation now. “Wait. What? Moo?”

The 4 blondes chuckle. Alaska moves closer to Sharon, the obsidian color-haired girl stiffens on the spot when the tall blonde invades her personal space. Clearing her throat, Alaska whispers, “Oh yeah, there’s this guy we call Moo, cause he’s all calves, no upper body.” She snickers, and the rest of the girls cover their mouth trying to hide a laugh.

Courtney moves closer as well, and it kind of looks like they’re in a small huddle now. “We give everyone nicknames.” She whispers explaining to Sharon.

“Needles, I told you about this!” Willam says, not trying to lower her tone. Katya shushes her in between laughs.

Suddenly something clicks in Sharon’s head, Willam has talked about her gym crew before. “Oh my god, are you The Ashleys?” Sharon asks the group.

The four of them chuckle and nod.

The Ashleys is the name of Willam’s gym crew group chat. Sharon recalls Willam talking about them a few times before. The name comes from a cartoon from their childhood called Recess where there were 4 girls all named 'Ashley’ that formed their own group. Their famous catchphrase, “Scandalous!” was what prompted Willam, Alaska, Courtney, and Katya to name their group chat because the only thing they did more at the gym than work out was gossip.

Their group chat used to be called “buns of steel” but when they realized they talked more about the people in the gym than worked on toning their asses, it had to be changed.

“So is this your first time at the gym?” Courtney asks Sharon when they cleared up everything for her. She nods.

“It’s really fun, I promise!” Alaska adds in. “Especially when you’ve got friends.” She flashes Sharon a bright smile, nodding encouragingly.

“I sure hope so. Willam forced me to come.” Sharon admits.

“Oh, we should start you off easy then…” Courtney says.

“Uhhhhh… that’s why gyms employ trainers, Court.” Katya says, mocking their friend.

“Well Willam said to get on the treadmill…” Sharon supplies.

“No that’s no fun!” Alaska interjects. “Oh!! Do you think she could do HIIT? Courtney and I are doing a HIIT circuit tonight.” Alaska looks at the other blondes for answers.

Katya barks out a laugh, “She might die, Alaska.”

“No, I think it’s possible if we take it slow.” Courtney says reassuringly.

“Obviously not as high intensity as ours but it’s really fun! I think Sharon will really like it.” Alaska nods enthusiastically.

“Wait.” Sharon says, eyebrows extremely furrowed. “What even is hit?”

“HIIT.” Alaska drawls out, “It stands for high intensity interval training.”

“That sounds terrifying.”

“It’s really fun, actually.” Willam affirms. “And you can trust Courtney to lead you in the right direction. This is what she studies…”

“Well not exactly–” Courtney starts, but Willam gives her a look saying are-we-really-going-to-go-into-technicalities-right-now, “But that’s not really important. Sports science, yes.” She ends up mumbling awkwardly.

“We can start her with the ladder…” Alaska suggests. Sharon shrugs not knowing what to say, or who to agree with, because she did not know what on earth they were talking about. “And then maybe the battle ropes!!!” The tall blonde says excitedly, getting ahead of herself.

“I’ll be stalled for an hour because of fucking Moo, I can babysit.” Katya offers.

“You good with that Sharon?” Willam makes sure her best friend is okay with it. She’s assertive by nature, but will never force Sharon do anything she isn’t comfortable with.

“I guess…? Can I watch you guys first?” Sharon looks towards Courtney and Alaska.

“Of course!!! And if you really don’t like it, you can go stretch with Katya.” Alaska snorts.

“Hey! Don’t make fun of my stretches, they’re still considered workouts you bitch.” Katya bites back.

“She’s all yours then!” Willam grants Alaska and Courtney temporary custody over Sharon for the time being, putting away her stuff and letting them know she’d be on the elliptical for the first half of her cardio set. “I’ll see you guys in the weights room later?”

The other 3 blondes nodded. Willam told them to take care of Sharon and told her best friend she shouldn’t overexert herself and just to have a good time.

Alaska and Courtney bring Sharon to the HIIT circuit, closely followed by Katya.

The tallest blonde makes small talk while they make their way to the circuit, commenting on Sharon’s shirt. “Is that Will’s shirt?” She chuckles, motioning to Sharon’s top.

Sharon looks at Alaska a little confused and laughs, “Oh this? Yeah. Can you tell I’m not ready for this at all?”

“Honestly, no one will notice your clothes when they’ve got a face like yours.” Alaska grins.

“Oh…” Sharon’s cheeks turn a little pink, “Thanks?”

“So you agree?” Alaska suddenly says. “You think you’re really pretty?”

Sharon barks out a laugh, she couldn’t believe Alaska quoting Regina George at her. She found it hilarious. She decided to take her chance and hop on the joke. “Oh my god Alaska, you don’t just ask people if they think they’re pretty!” Sharon says in her best Gretchen Wieners sounding tone. It’s Alaska turn to laugh out loud now, and the two of them look like crazy people giggling at each others’ jokes, smacking each others’ arms. Courtney and Katya shoot them weird looks.

“You’re funny, Alaska.” Sharon comments, a pleased grin on her face.

Alaska laughed along with her. “I’m kidding, I’m totally not a mean girl!” She quickly says. Sharon shakes her head, letting Alaska know that she knew she was joking.

“You are really stunning though, I mean that.” Alaska says it almost nonchalantly that Sharon turns ever redder this time.

The dark haired girl scratches the back of her head. “T-thanks, Alaska.” Sharon replies awkwardly. If Sharon was being honest, Alaska was one of the most visually stunning people she’s ever seen. And someone that aesthetically pleasing telling her she had a good look boosted her confidence a little. She had no idea why she was stuttering or why her cheeks were heating up. Alaska had just complimented her, Sharon was the type of person who usually ate that up.

Alaska flashes Sharon a genuinely smile at her stuttered thank you, and before Sharon realizes, they’re already at the circuit. Courtney leading the way for everyone.

They showed her a full minute of their basic circuit and Sharon thought it looked do-able, and dare she say, pretty fun. At least, Courtney and Alaska breezing through it made it seem that way. Alaska was absolutely right about the gym experience being fun especially if you were with friends. It definitely helped Sharon’s overall experience that Alaska, Courtney, and Katya were easy to get along with, and really funny to be around also. Katya had really snide, funny remarks, Courtney was last to get the joke which was hilarious, and Alaska made really witty comments.

They made Sharon do the circuit slowly at first, and told her to do whatever she could in the amount of time. Eventually, Sharon got the groove of things and felt comfortable following the workouts Courtney and Alaska did.

The next day, Sharon’s body is so sore that she had to call in for someone to take her shift. That meant she’d be working the whole of a day next week. She stays at home, in her bed and it’s not till Willam decides to drop by her house during her lunch break that Sharon gets to eat.

“I got you take out from that Mexican place you like!!” Willam says as she enters Sharon’s room with a doggy bag. Sharon groans and struggles to sit up. She can’t believe she allowed Alaska and Courtney to coax her into doing ab workouts.

“You did a plank for 2 seconds!” Willam says exasperatedly when she sees Sharon struggle to sit up.

“Doesn’t matter! It still fucking hurts to sit up!” Sharon bites back.

“Did you take any medicine?”

“I had an advil first thing waking up.”

Willam chuckles and looks at her apologetically, “Sorry, I didn’t take into consideration how much first time workouts hurt… I completely forgot.” Sharon rolls her eyes. “Did you have fun at least?”

Sharon sighs, she thought about her experience last night before answering Willam. “I did have fun. Your friends were definitely fun, that Katya was hilarious, and the workouts weren’t as scarily difficult to do as I thought they would be…” Willam’s face lit up every word that came out of Sharon’s mouth.

“What about Court and Alaska! What did you think of them?”

“They’re both really nice. They made the whole gym experience a lot better actually. Courtney really seemed to know her stuff! And Alaska’s gorgeous! Does she model?”

Willam snickers, “Nah, but she likes to do the workouts pretending that she does.” Sharon wants to laugh but it would hurt her abdominal muscles.

“But I still don’t really see the point in going to the gym, y'know?” Willam frowns at this.

“Don’t you wanna get fit?!” She exclaims.

Sharon shrugs, “I’m happy with how I look…”

“It’s not about how you look, it’s about how you feel!” Willam quickly counters, “Sure you’re gorgeous as hell,” Sharon smiles at this, “But you can’t climb what, like 2 flights of stairs with me without getting winded.” Sharon chuckles cause that was true. She also decided she didn’t really wanna argue or explain to Willam so she just sighs, reaching for the doggy bag.

Willam beats her to it and starts unrolling the top, pulling the take-out out.

“Okay well, I took a half day, and said I’d just work from home so I can take care of you today. I feel really guilty.” Willam confesses, handing her the container.

Sharon smiles appreciatively, “Aw, thanks Wills. Can you go get me plate though? I don’t wanna mess up my sheets.”

Willam spends the whole day in Sharon’s apartment, basically doing her bidding. Sharon didn’t abuse the offer, though. Only asking Willam to do the things she absolutely couldn’t. They spend most of the day watching re-runs of Married With Children. With Willam’s focus going in and out as she answered and composed emails for work. That night they ordered in take-out for dinner as well, and Willam left Sharon’s apartment at 11pm.

The next day, Sharon was still sore but the pain-relievers were working better so she could at least do the bare minimum at work. Unluckily for her it was a Saturday and that meant a lot of people coming up to the counter.

Sharon (and Willam) had studied business management in college. But during her four-year course, she just completely fell in love with makeup and beauty and then by her last year, she had little to no interest in having a profession in said course. She took up makeup classes and built up her credentials in her free time and once she graduated university applied as a makeup artist for MAC and got accepted.

A little over 3 years later, she still loves her job but it’s hard to move up the corporate ladder with businesses like these.

“Sharon, Adore’s out front asking about some reservation?” Violet, one of Sharon’s closest and favorite co-workers, comes up to her in the back room.

“Oh! Yeah, I have her stuff, lemme get them.” Sharon says quickly grabbing a couple of items that were rubber banded together. Adore was a regular at Sharon’s MAC branch.

“Hey Adore!” Sharon greets happily when she steps out the back room into the store.

“Hey Sharon! Ya have my stuff?”

Sharon shows her the goods, carefully plucking them out of the bound rubber and naming them for Adore. “Antique Teddy, white kohl liner, Soft Ochre paint pot, and our Spice lip liner that’s always sold out.” She chuckles.

“Lifesaver!” Adore exclaims, clapping her hands together. “Sucks that this is one of my most used shades and now everyone’s buying it because of fucking Kylie Jenner. Thank you for always reserving stock for me, Sharon.”

“It’s no sweat. You’re part of the family, Adore!” Sharon smiles at one of her favorite customers.

Aside from Adore, only a couple people had walked in the store. Sharon expected it to be busy, considering it was a weekend, but since she was still sore, she wasn’t complaining.

“It’s cause Benefit’s having a sale.” Violet rolls her eyes when Sharon wonders out loud why there’s no customers. Benefit was one of their neighboring boutiques.

It was already later in the afternoon and Sharon’s only patrons after Adore were a mother and her 7 year old daughter, who Sharon happily gave a kiddie make-over to. She loved kids, and despite her dark look, kids seemed to like her too. The mother reluctantly bought her daughter a $16 lipstick. She had only come in to look at powder and mascara but her daughter was getting very antsy so Sharon had offered to entertain her, giving her a makeover while Violet showcased to the mom their different mascaras and the fan favorite Studio Fix Powder.

“Sharon?” A familiar voice calls her name. Sharon had to do a double-take because it took her brain a while to process a name for the face in front of her.

“Oh hey! Alaska, Courtney!” She greets, finally remembering, as the 2 blondes walk into her store.

“I didn’t know you worked here…” Alaska drawls. “It’s nice to see you.”

“Yeah, I’ve been stationed here for 3 years!” Sharon smiles happily.

“Well we just came from that Benefit sale.” Courtney says, to which Sharon and Violet look at each other sharing a grin. “Alaska and her brow products.”

“A girl needs good stuff, okay?” Alaska says defensively, “And when the good stuff are on sale, you go get them.”

“She makes a point.” Sharon agrees. “Oh, this is Violet.” She introduces her co-worker as she approaches them. “These are… friends,” Sharon decides she doesn’t want to explain to Violet that they’re really more her best friend’s friends than her actual friends and that they’ve only met once at the gym. “That’s Alaska, and that’s Courtney.”

“You guys are gorgeous.” Violet comments. The 2 blondes pink at her comment. “It would be stunning to paint your faces.” She adds.

“That’s what Violet means when she calls people gorgeous, by the way.” Sharon clarifies and the other girls laugh.

“So wait, this is so interesting!” Alaska says clearly fascinated, “Can you like… do your whole spiel for me? Like how would you sell me a product?” Alaska walks over to the lipstick displays and picks one up, and then looks at Sharon.

“Oh, you want me to do the whole like, thing?” Sharon clarifies. Alaska nods. “Okay.” She laughs.

Sharon clears her throat, straightens her posture and begins. “Hi my name’s Sharon, how can I help you today?”

Courtney groans at Alaska’s shenanigans, so Violet offers to do the same for her. “I could show you our products too, if you’d like.” She says kindly, which Courtney accepts.

Alaska grins excitedly. “If I’m not looking for anything, what do you do?”

Sharon blinks, she opens her mouth but then closes it again, she composes herself before saying, “Would you like to see our newest collection? is usually one of the most common things we ask. But for the situation right now… hmm…” Sharon pauses to think, her brain racking through the files of what she’s read in their handbook multiple times. “I think it’s more appropriate to ask.. is there anything here you seem interested in?”

“Oh there are a few,” Alaska replies with a little smirk. Sharon raises an eyebrow. “What’s this?” Alaska absentmindedly picks up another product.

“That’s a brow mascara.” Sharon says slowly, observing Alaska’s movements carefully. Alaska puts the brow mascara down and smiles at Sharon, batting her eyelashes expecting her to continue. “Alaska, I can’t do my thing if you never answer properly.” Sharon finally says, chuckling.

“Okay, okay. I’ll play along.” Alaska concedes. “Umm… I don’t know what I’m looking for, but I’m a college senior who wants an easy every day look.” She says trying to sound scripted. Sharon laughs at this.

“Oh! For just an every day look like, a light and fresh looking beat,” Sharon shrugs as she’s talking, hating how 'YouTuber’ she sounds, but Alaska is enjoying the whole thing and you can see it in her face. Sharon starts walking towards the face products display, ushering Alaska to follow her to see the items, “I recommend our… Mineralize concealer,” picking each one up as she says their name, showing Alaska the products individually, “Our Studio Fix powder, our Extended Play mascara, and this brow pencil.” Sharon has handed Alaska the concealer and powder, and she’s holding the mascara and brow pencil. “And of course Fix+ to set everything.” She adds, pulling the spray bottle from one of the pockets on her black apron.

“Oh my god, Fix+!!!” Alaska exclaims, “I’ve actually been meaning to try it…” she says setting down the powder and concealer and taking the Fix+ bottle from Sharon.

“You haven’t?!” Sharon looks slightly offended. Fix+ is holy grail for any MAC girl.

“No. I just told you, I’m a college student. My Nyx one works fine.” Alaska counters. The girl really did have a quick tongue.

Sharon laughs cause she understands. She’s been there.

“Do you want me to do a look on you?” Sharon offers.

“Do I?!” Alaska exclaims excitedly, eyes going wide. “Yeah I would really love that!” She turns towards the direction of where Courtney is. Violet is showing her all their different pure pigments when Alaska calls out, “Court you should have Violet do your face too!!!”

“Yeah we can’t actually decline when people ask us to paint their faces.” Violet informs Courtney.

The two make-up artists seat Alaska and Courtney a chair away from each other, so they had space to move around. Violet decided to give Courtney a very bright look. She painted her using one of their new Personality Palettes, bright pink and a lot of peach tones. Sharon, as she promised Alaska, gave her a very quick, fresh looking makeup look.

“I’m gonna use some eyeshadow, but very light, not completely necessary to complete the look, if let’s say, you’re rushing for class.” Sharon says as she brushes the pigment on the blonde’s eye lids.

“Aren’t you supposed to be selling me the products?” Alaska laughs, trying her best not to move her head. Sharon chuckles stashing away her shadow brush.

“Yeah, but we’re friends so I’m gonna be honest.” Sharon says, grinning as she picks up the eyeliner. “Okay, I’m gonna get really into this eyeliner, cause you’ve got a really pretty eye shape.” Sharon let’s Alaska know what she’s going to do before she applies anything on the blonde’s face. “Close your eyes?” Sharon leans in close, carefully applying the gel liner. Alaska’s breathing speeds up at how close Sharon actually is to her face, she could feel the warmth of her breath. Did makeup artists really get in this close? Alaska was trying to remember the last time someone had done her face.

Sharon pulls back slowly looking satisfied with her lines. “Don’t open your eyes yet.” she tells Alaska, grabbing a piece of paper and fanning her client’s lids. She let Alaska know once the liner was dry, and the blonde opened her eyes slowly.

“Do you want me to touch your eyebrows?” Sharon asks.

Alaska chuckles, “Yeah, why not?! I wanna see your style on me. You can make it different from how I do mine.” Alaska grins at Sharon.

Sharon works on filling in Alaska’s eyebrows. When she’s done with that, she curls the younger girl’s eyelashes and applies the mascara. “I think I’ll skip blush,” Sharon informs her and goes right into applying highlighter on Alaska’s cheekbones. “Your bone structure is gorgeous, by the way.” Sharon adds as she dusts the product on Alaska’s face.

“Thank you!” Alaska says in a high pitched tone, sounding very pleased.

“Okay, now for your lips.” Sharon announces, “Pick a shade.” She holds out 2 lip pencils and 2 lip sticks.

“Oh! This one looks cute!” Alaska picks up a lip pencil in the shade Rosy Rim. “But this one looks really nice, too!!!” she whines a little, when she uncaps the lipstick in the shade Hug Me.

“We can do the lip pencil then the lipstick over it, Alaska. It’s not a problem.” Sharon chuckles.

“Yes let’s do that!!!” Alaska cheers and Sharon smiles at how absolutely adorable she’s being. Wait, did she just think Alaska was completely adorable? She shakes the thoughts out of her head and applies the lip products on her client. And in Sharon’s thoughts, emphasis on the word client.

She finishes up the look by spraying the blonde with Fix+ and she’s smiling proudly at her handiwork. Alaska looks fresh to death. Her makeup was light and it accentuated her eyes and cheekbones, which were, to Sharon, her best features. She also thought Alaska had really pretty lips too and was really satisfied with the color they chose. It was a really good MLBB color (my lips but better).

“Oh my god, Sharon! I love it. This is really pretty!” Alaska admired her look in the mirror. “Next time, I want you to do your look on me!” She turns to the makeup artist, flashing her an excited smile.

“This mug I’m wearing right now?” Sharon asks a little surprised. Alaska nods enthusiastically, and Sharon laughs. “Sure, no problem!” She says. “I’m just here, come drop by anytime, Alaska.”

“Oh yeah I definitely will!” Alaska replies, hopping off the chair. She goes over to Courtney where Violet is still finishing up the rest of her face. Alaska gasps, “Court you look stunning! You should always wear this much makeup!” the tall blonde comments.

Violet burst out laughing, she had to stop working on Courtney’s face or she would mess up her lines. Sharon laughed at Alaska’s shady comment as well. Courtney scrunched up her nose, “Are you saying I look ugly bare faced?!”

“That’s exactly what I’m saying. Also on a regular day, your makeup is terrible.”

Alaska was relentless, and Sharon thought she could definitely get along with the feisty blonde.

Sharon and Violet were glad that Alaska and Courtney had come in; their last interesting clients of the day had been the two blondes.

That night, Sharon had dinner with Willam after work ended late for the both of them. Willam invited Sharon to a place she newly discovered that served all-day brunch food.

“The most interesting part of the day was Alaska and Courtney visiting.” Sharon tells Willam.

“Oh? You saw them today?”

“Yeah they spotted me at work and went in. Vi and I gave them like makeovers and they actually bought some stuff so it worked out.”

“We’re actually planning to go out Friday next week for drinks and stuff.” Willam said. “You should come join us!”

“Oh the gym crew?” Sharon asks. “I dunno… I might feel out of place.”

“Nah!!! It will be fine!” Willam encourages. It didn’t really take much to have Sharon agreeing though. Willam had a really fun gym crew, and Sharon wouldn’t mind spending another night with them. Especially outside the gym.

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