alejandro and jocelyn

Who: Jocelyn and Alex
Where: Outside of Babylon, then inside of Babylon
When: 10:30pm

She'd been stood up. It took her awhile to admit it, sitting on the curb outside of Babylon, wondering if maybe she got the night wrong. Or the time. But no. As humiliating as it was, she'd been stood up. By a vampire. Good Lord, the enjoyment Val would get out of that if he ever found out...Jocelyn didn't even want to think about it. She sat there, her purse next to her on the sidewalk, her chin rested on her arms that were currently crossed upon her drawn up knees as she watched the cars pass by filled with dark, unfamiliar faces. She would have retreated back to her room, but confining herself in solitude, especially with the roses still on her dresser, was simply too depressing. Her first date in years and she gets stood up. It was if another crack in her self-esteem widened and a thousand self-deprecating excuses as to why it happened began to run through her mind.

After a relatively pleasant, and interesting, encounter with Melia again, Alejandro headed for Babylon. He had someone he wanted to talk to, for all he'd really rather not see the place again until his next shift. On Monday. Thank God. At least he'd asked around and found out what room she was in, so maybe he could corner her in there where she'd be the only one to ramble at him.

Except there she was, sitting on the curb. That was unexpected-- and unexpectedly easy. "Hey, waiting for someone?" he asked, coming up towards her rather than Babylon's door.

Who: Alejandro and Jocelyn
Where: Babylon
When: Early afternoon

The second day back behind a bar again wasn't quite as shiny and exciting as the first, but Alejandro was okay with that. It was work, it was bringing in money, and it was safe, and he was perfectly happy with that for a while. He didn't have a lot of customers, so early in the day, but that meant he could get to know the bar a little better, make sure he had everything's place memorized.

Right then, though, he was just leaning absently on the bartop, wondering when he ought to go back to visit Melia, trying not to think about that stupid toy block he'd bought that morning-- and subsequently and pointedly left at home before work-- and waiting for someone to call for another drink.

Who: Alejandro and Jocelyn
Where: Downtown, near Nevermore
When: Mid-morning

Sleeping hadn't happened again, even after the swim and chat with Melia-- maybe especially after the swim and chat with Melia-- though Alejandro had spent the rest of the night and into the morning in bed trying to will himself asleep again. That never worked, but he kept trying it, anyway, just in case. It's not like he had anything better to do.

Rather than try to sort through the pile of bills that had come during his absence, Alejandro left the house and headed into the main part of town. He needed a job-- a job that paid; though he still hadn't worked out whether he was actually out of both jobs as a result of... the whole mess-- before he could pay most of them. While he could check the classifieds in the paper, he was feeling restless and trolling the streets for "help wanted" signs was more satisfying than circling things in a newspaper.