~Stroke of {Jak} Bad Luck~ *One shot*

"I like where we are. When we drive in your car," I sang to myself as I wiped the table with the semi-white cloth that was in my hand. My foot tapped endlessly to the beat. "I like where you sleep. When you sleep next to me," I continued to sing along in a semi-whisper. I loved to sing, but I never liked to admit it. I rocked my body side to side in chorus with my tapping feet. I finished the table and hopped to the next in a swaying motion. "Our lips can touch... here."
Torn came from behind and ripped one of my headphones out of my ear. "Let's not," he hissed, referring to the last line of lyrics that came out my mouth.
I giggled when I realized what I had said. "Not you silly goose!" I teased as I continued to dance to the song.
"Can you stop dancing and just work? You're attracting a lot of attention," he scowled at me. I followed his gaze to see that mostly all of the customers were giving me anxious looks.
"It's not my fault I look smexy when I'm dancing!" I giggled with a cheesey smile. Torn rolled his eyes. "Just do your work okay? No funny buisness."
I saluted him. "Aye-aye captain!" He perked an eyebrow atme with an inpeccable agitated look. I laughed hesitantly. "Oh yeah right," I chuckled. I quickly pulled my hand back down by my hip. "No funny buisness." He nodded with a grim expression and stalked away. I furrowed my eyebrows at him for a couple of moments before I spun around and turned my IPod as loud as I could. I heard Torn sigh just loudly enough for me to hear. "I can hear that," he commented as he returned to his 'emo corner'. I rolled my eyes and stuffed my headphone back into my ear and returned to wiping off the tables.
I sighed once I was finished with the tables and the bar counter. I felt like I was drenched in sweat (even though you really weren't) and slighty exhausted. I had never pulled so many pieces of gum from under a table like today I had. That was a peeve of mine. If people are going to chew gum, they should throw it away and not stick it under the tables. Plastic plus rubber equals no-no. I sat down on the counter and crossed my legs, making me look almost ladylike. The problem was that I was wearing a tube top and a semi-short skirt. Then with my red leg warmers with my knee high boots... no. Not too ladylike at all! I pulled my blood red hair out of the pony I had it in and it fell to my shoulders, still in a nice wavy style. I found a nice comfortable spot on one of the tables just as Tess walked through the door. She ran over to me and gave me her normal hello: a giant hug. "Hiya Rayn!" she cheered once she figured she had snuggled enough.
"Hiya Tess! Might I ask how we are this grand evening?" I asked in a strange tone.
She laughed. "I'm fantastic! Daxter-cums is coming back!" As she spoke, she wiggled her body like she was trying to squirm away from something.
Oh yea that's right. Her lover boy is supposed to come this evening. I forgot, I smiled at her when she gave me a questioning. "Good! Then I can finally meet em'!"
"Mmhm!"
"And to warn him if he hurts my dearest bestest-best friend in the whole wide world, I'll strangle him until he turns as blue as a smurf!"
"Rayn! Daxy-cooms would never do something like that to me!"
I laughed. "I believe you, I believe you! But warnings are always good!" Before she could protest, I hoped off of the table and skipped past her. She yelled something inaudible after me but I didn't listen.
One by one the strange people thatI only met a couple of days ago stepped in. First it was Ashelin (who I didn't care too much about). Next was Keira with her green daddy Samos. I returned to my lonesome table and rested my head on the palm of my hand.
"Rayn can you go and sweep up the floor?" Torn asked. I nodded glumly and went to the back to grab my broom. As he had ordered, I sweeped the floor quickly then scooped up the dirt in the plastic pan and dumped the dirt into the garbage. I put the broom and pan back where they were and returned to sitting at my table.
"It's good to see you," Ashelin told everyone. She didn't look at me though. She never liked it when I was around.
"I see you picked up the place," Samos added as he inspected the place, searching for a particle of dust. "Good thing you did. I thought I was going to get sick from all of the bacteria."
Keira giggled at her dad's wry comment. "It really does look good Torn. What did you do to it?"
He pointed towards me with his thumb. "I hired her," he stated in a monontone voice. I waved when they all looked at me.
"She's going to be here during the meeting?" Ashelin asked darkly.
I answered her for Torn. "Yes because I'm the one that's closing this place up. So I'll stay here until the group of you are done!"
"You really think that's a wise idea Torn?" she inquired.
He shrugged. "She's no threat to us. Last time I checked she was with us," he said, not bothered by Ashelin's worried and horribly mean tone. "No need to get twisted in any knots Ashelin."
"Knots?" she repeated in a nasty voice. "I just don't want this mission to blow up in our faces!"
"Ashelin-"
"I will not calm down! This mission is one of our top priorites and if we don't complete it successfully, we will lose our chances against Veger!"
"What did I miss?" a different voice asked. Everyone turned to the entrance to see a blond with a furball on his shoulder. A lemur inmy opinion.
"DAXTER!" Tess squealed and ran toward the man. She fell for a blond hunk? I asked myself. But to your suprise, she scooped the small orange rodent and cuddled it in her arms. I dropped my head in shock as I watched her run towards me.
"Rayn this is Daxy that I was telling you about!" she cooed, rubbing the small rat's stomach.
I couldn't help but give her a you have GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! "Since when did you become inhuman and start loving animals?" I asked in a bored tone.
She laughed. "No not like that! He's my cuddily-wuddily bear!"
My frown mutated into a disgusted face. "Then who's that guy?" I asked, trying to direct my attention away from them so I wouldn't throw up.
"Oh that's Jak!" Tess said, turning so she could get a glimpse of him. "He helped Jak do all of these awesome missions and saved the world, like, two times now!"
"That's right baby!" the furball piped up.
More like the opposite, I concluded with a smirk. "That's right! I traveled across the horrible deserts, dragging Jak along might I add, and searched through the catacombs. I defeated Praxis with my bare fists!" he placed his hands behind his head, smirking as Tess cuddled against hims harder.
"You mean paws, right?" I snickered. He frowned at me.
As you started to laugh,I noticed that the Jak guy was looking atme with curious eyes. I perked an eyebrow towards his direction before I tuned back in to hear one of Daxter's 'great' tales of his 'heroic' deeds.
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"You've been looking at Jak a lot," Tess added when she was finally by herself and not around that dumb rat.
I shrugged. "He keeps lookin' at me, so I have to look back. Is there something wrong with that?" I questioned, not sounding opinionated as that phrase specified.
"Well he's kind of a player," she said in a soft tone.
I perked an eyebrow. "Muscles, nice bod, blond, blue eyes? Yeah I can see how he can. I'm sure if Daxter wasn't a lemur he would be one too, or at least.... he would try." I tried to take the image of Daxter being human out of my mind. All I could imagine was a donkey (go figure: jack***).
"He already hooked up with Ashelin and he's been close with Keira for a long time. If you try to go for him, they might just rip you to shreds."
"Ah. Well good luck to them cause' I DO have claws of my own," I added as I took a fine look at my perfectly sharp nails that were painted over with a dark red.
She giggled. "Just warning you."
"Well thank you my lovable pal and I will remember the advice. I'm just wondering if he'll be able to stay away from me the whole time..." I knew that I was gorgeous and sometimes yes, I would show it off just to get all of the guys attention. But I knew doing something like that was just considering myself an attention seeker, and I wasn't like that. But whatever I was doing (even when I trying to do anything) was catching his attention.
Ireturned to the counter and sat on the cool marble under me. While a few people (mainly Ashelin, Torn, and Samos) talked amongst themselves, the gorgeous blond finally walked over. It was obvious that he was trying to make it seem like he wasn't coming over just for me. But I could see right through that.
He leaned against the counter next to me. "Hey there," he said in a conversational manner.
"Hey cuttie," I replied back.
"Name's Jak. And who might you be?" He streched his hand towards me and I gladly took it.
"Rayn."
"So what are you doing here?"
"I'm the one that cleans up after the place while the rest of you guys drink and make messes."
"Oh. How did you meet Torn?"
"Let's see. I think he was walking down the street when I bumped into him. Then after we shared a couple of words, he hired me."
"Oh." I could tell he was running low on conversational manner. "What do you think of him?"
"He's pretty cool, actually. Hates it when I listen to music, but other then that he's pretty wicked."
He raised an eyebrow, inquiring something that I would never do. "Since I know what you're thinking, no way in hell. He's cool and all but no," I stated quite bluntly.
"Oh I see. You really are just an employee..." that seemed to be a shocker.
What you thought I was a hooker? "So when were you planning to come over here? When everyone was closing?"
"What are you-"
"Come on dude! You were oggling me ever since you took one step into this place. Do you lose your tongue when it comes to talking?"
"Wait hold a sec! I wasn't staring at-"
I perked an eyebrow at him as I gave him a serious look. He smiled then scratched his head. "Okay, maybe I did. Do you mind?" he asked.
"Na not really."
"RAYN!" Tess called. She ran over to me and tore me off of the counter. "Come on let's go! You're going with me to my shop!" she exclaimed. It didn't matter if I disagreed or not because I was already out of the door.
I leaned against the wall and cocked my head to the side. Tess had made a new weapon and she was planning on giving it to Jak. I yawned and watched as the blond took the weapon and started to mettle with it. I held back my laughter when he reminded me of a baton girl.
He saw my amused expression. "What's so funny?" he asked in his low but cocky voice.
I shrugged and walked over to him. Making sure I did my movements seductively, I took the weapon out of his hands. "I may not be a 'hero' like you, but I know how to shoot a gun. You can't win when you're being a baton girl." Before he could interupt,I twirled the gun out of myhands into the air. But before it leftmy hands, I quickly removed a small gadget, morphing the gun into a smaller rifle. I caught the rifle, spinning it in my hands and placed the small gadget back, morphing the gun back into its sniper form.
He crossed his arms as a impressed expression painted onto his features. "Not bad. You up for a challenge?" he asked.
I shrugged, tossing the sniper back at him. "Sure why not? Tess?"
"Hm?"
"Jakster and I are going to have a little competition. Is that alright?"
She studied me for a little while before she answered. "Sure."
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Damnit!I swore to myself over a dozen times. I always did excellent when I was with a sniper, but I ran out of bullets. The remaining boxes that contained any ammo were abliterated, ruining any chances of me to be able to shoot anymore. I was never good up close. I dettached the small gadget and stuffed it behind the shield I was hiding behind. Why'd you have to make these bot shoot? I whined as I jumped away from the shield. The closest bot to me had already started targeting me so I frantically pointed the riffle toward it. After a loud boom, the bot slit in half. Got one! By the time I finally cleared them, I had managed to take out ten. What did Tess say? After all the bots are gone we have to face each other, right? Almost coincidently, bullet richoted off of a wall near my head. I spun on my heal to see Jak smirking. "Got ya," he mused, already locked on me. "Damn," I muttered. I knew if I moved anywhere, he would shoot. He had me locked. Kill all chances and risk everything? I improvised and pointed the rifle at him. He raised his eyebrows. "You serious? You know you already lost!" I grinded my teeth at his cocky remark.
"EAT THIS!" I pulled the trigger. CLICK!I fell over, absolutely dumbfounded. "YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME! I'M OUTTA BULLETS?!" I yelled as I covered my face with my hands.
Jak laughed as he walked over and presented his hand. "Bad luck?" he suggested. I rolled my eyes and took his hand and he pulled me to my feet. ButI lost my footing and fell against him. He didn't budge and helped me regain my balance.
I wasn't one to blush, but I was at that particular moment. "Man am I having a streak of bad luck then!" I puffed and stepped away from him. "Sorry," I muttered in a weak voice.
"It's okay. You can fall on me as much as you want!" I wanted to smack him for being such an ass, but instead I gave him a queer look and headed back to where Tess and her Daxy were.
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"I'm in the buisness of misery, let's take it from the top. She's got a body like an hourglass, and it's ticking like a clock," I sang loudly as I danced to Paramore. Everyone had left a half in hour ago, leaving me to clean up. I jumped over the counter and rubbed the main table down with a wet cloth. "It's a matter of time before we all run out..."
I continued hoping around as I danced/cleaned. I started to wipe down the tables again. "Whoa... Well I never meant to brag!! But I got what I wanted now!" I jumped onto the table and started to headbang. I kept my eyes closed as I pretended to strum a guitar. "It just feels so good," I murmured before I continued to dance and sing.
I froze when someone tapped me on my shin. I opened my eyes and screamed when I saw that Jak was smiling at me with the most evilest smile you could ever imagine of. "WHAT THE HELL?!?!" I yelled, turning off my IPod and jumped off of the table. He laughed.
"I was coming back so I could get something that I forgot," he chuckled, showing a piece of paper in his hand. "Nice voice I must say. The headbanging part was a little too much," he added and started to walk away.
"WAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIITT!" I called after him and ran in front of him so he couldn't go past the door. "You won't tell anyone, will you?" I squeaked.
"I might," he said in a strange tone.
I bit my lip in embarrassment. "PLEASE DON'T! I BEG YOU! If Torn hears, he'll fire me!" I stuttered in desperation. "I'll do anything!"
He stuffed his hands into his pockets and sighed. "I dunno," he said slowly (a very slow and teasing way).
"Anything!"
"Okay then. Deal."
"Yay! What's your offer?"
He didn't say anything and walked so close to me I could feel the heat radiate off of him. I raised my eyebrows, to clueless to realize that he was giving me a very seductive look. He leaned forward and brushed his lips against mine. Automatically mine acted on their own and latched onto his. I wrapped my arms around his neck as he placed his hands on my waist, keeping me as close as I could to him. He pulled away as a smirk crossed his lips. "Give me a week to scoop you off your feet," he said soothly as he ran the tip of his nose against mine.
I automatically smiled. "But you're a player, aren't you? I don't like one night stands," I said with no pun intended.
He chuckled lightly, still keeping me close. "I don't like them either," he admitted. "I'm just saying that you should give me a week for you to fall for me." He looked deeply into my eyes. "That is... if I haven't already."
I ran my fingers across his cheeks before I rested my hand against it. "One, do you remember my name?"
"Rayn," he said confidently.
"Oh. Lucky guess. Two, I'm still on my feet."
He rolled his eyes as he scooped you up bridle style. "Now you're not," he added with a smirk.
I glanced at the ground and shrugged. "We'll see," I whispered before I locked lips with him again.
Yeah, yeah I know what you're thinking. Kissing after just meeting each other? Some people do it! Please R&M and like always, if you want me to make a one shot for a certain somebody, I'll gladly make it for you! PEACE!