Overall, after the three men left, Rylee's night was pretty uneventful. The crowd didn't die down til about 3:30, but Rylee didn't mind. She made a killing on tips tonight. Patrons who strolled through Ruby's were usually pretty generous, though she still stood by her choice of bra this evening. It was hard to have a bad evening when her shift started out so enthralling. She wouldn't ever dare admit it, but she had Sebastian on her mind for a large majority of the evening. She hoped they held true to their word about swinging by often..

As she was helping close up, she was surprised to see texts from Alexa. She didn't realize how busy she had really been today. Usually she has time to check her phone throughout her shift, but not today. She clicked her messages open to read, or attempt to read, what she had typed.

💞

Rysssss

Ry

Crhis FUKIN Evans hass been texting me all nighttt

Ryleee Ann dontyou ignore me

Rudee don't ask usfor a threesome someday cause illsayNO

🌻

See you had fun at the wedding 😜

Well if Chris is still texting you after all this he must be a keeper.

I can't imagine the texts he has right now. 😂❤️

Drink water when you wake up bitch.

I love you, Call me in the morning

Poor Chris. What in the hell did that crazy girl say to him. Just reading over what Alexa had sent to her, my gosh, Chris was probably in for a doozy.

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Earlier that night...

"You guys. This is incredible." Chris said out loud to the group. It was around 11:00 and Chris, Sebastian and Anthony were sitting in Sebastian's living room finishing up the dinner they had picked up an hour or so ago. Sebastian took a swig from his bottle of Heineken as he raised an eyebrow at Chris.

Chris normally wouldn't show off messages like this, especially from a person he literally just started talking to, but he knew he could trust Seb and Mackie with what they were about to see. Alexa had fallen off the face of the earth when they were texting earlier but she all of a sudden just popped back into the chat. He held up his phone for them to read.

Thisis so great. I'm glad u gaveme your nubmer.

This is nice. ☺️ I'm glad I did too, but are you alright?

I'm danddy. My cousin gotmarried! Her andJosh are Great.

Oh yeah, you're at a wedding right?

Yeppers! Sorry imtrying my best to type. I may havehad a hanfdul of drinks or two.

I can see that. 😜 well I think you're doing great. Do you have a ride home?

😜 to yu too and yes I do! Jakerdoo has my ass covereddddd.

What an mvp heis

Weree onthe way home aas we speak

Well thats good, as long as you're safe.

Youre so cutte. Checkinn to make sure Imnot not dying

How chivlaeruos

Chive

Chiv

Chivalrous? Big word of the day. Nice try.😉

Yeahthat thanks.

Anytime, sweets.

SWEETS. I cantwith you . That's wonderfull

HEY if Ryleee ever askss for a threesomeyouve gotta say no k? Swearit!

I swear, I'm not sure why that would ever come up, but I swear. 😂

Cause she hasn't answeredd my texts. Shes at workk booooo

You shouldd text her and boo er too.

Here

412-555-5309

Tell her whatss what crhis.

How rude of her to work for a living. 😉

Just got homee! I ned to shower beerr statt. Ttyl 😘😘

😊 good night Alexa, be safe.

Sebastian and Anthony took their time reading. Enthralled by the wall of text.

"Wonder who 'Jakerdoo' is?" Anthony questioned aloud.

Chris tried not to think too much into it. Hopefully he was just a friend, or family. Would she be texting him if she had a boyfriend? She didn't seem like the type to flirt around if she had one.. "No idea." Chris shrugged.

"Wow, that's something. I like how she just threw Rylee out to the wolves," Sebastian laughed.

"And I like how all you got out of all that was the snippet about Rylee." Anthony side eyed Sebastian. " Don't think I didn't see you back there tonight at Ruby's. You were eyeing her up like a starved lion in front of a slab of meat."

Sebastian was always terrible at hiding his embarrassment. His blush immediately gave him away as Chris leaned over, staring at him as well.

"Oh shut the hell up," Sebastian tried to wave them off, but they weren't giving in. "Okay, so maybe she's attractive."

Anthony threw his hands up in the air "YES! Chris you little bitch you owe me 50 bucks." Chris shook his head and immediately pulled out his wallet, but Sebastian was left confused.

"Chris thought it would take you a week to admit your feelings. I said it would take you like a day and a half. I watched you across the bar Friday night when we first went to Ruby's, you were like a love sick puppy asking her for those quarters...and then seeing you there today.. damn boy, I was about to ask her for her number FOR you, but I let it slide, hoping you would do it yourself. BUT NO." Anthony finished.

"So here," Chris showed him the texts again, scrolling up to the portion with Rylee's number, "Please for all things holy..text..Her."

Sebastian's blush came back full force. Anthony grabbed Sebastian's phone off the table, slapping it into his hand. "Seb. Please. For our sanity and yours, text the damn girl."

Sebastian froze for a moment but finally caved, typing Rylee's info into his contact page. "It's like almost midnight. I can't text her now."

"Dude that's the most lame ass excuse I've ever heard in my life." Anthony sighed. "She works at a bar bro, guaranteed she doesn't even get home until like four when she works. Just do it. Or I'll do it for you."

Sebastian looked at her contact information and decided "fuck it, why not." And began typing his text.

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After Rylee had texted Alexa back, she noticed that her phone still said she had missed messages. She went back to the messenger home page and saw five messages from an unknown number. Usually if they were spam texts, like about her alleged extended warranty for her car, it was usually only one message. Not five. She scrolled to it and clicked them open. They were from around 11:30. Her heart skipped a beat after reading the first message.

Hi there, this is Sebastian.

Sebastian Stan...

I know this is probably weird, but Alexa gave Chris your number, and then he gave it to me.

...I hope that's okay. If it's not, just ignore this I guess.

Hope you're having a good night.

What kind of fate had lead to this moment? If she was at home, she would have probably squealed like a little girl, but she was just about to lock up and leave work. She couldn't be freaking out right now. The man she had her mind on all evening had just texted her. And why did Alexa give Chris her phone number. And why would Chris give it to Sebastian? She also felt awful for not getting the messages until now, almost four hours later.

She finished grabbing her things and waited for her few other coworkers to scoot out the door so she could lock it. Usually she was fine with being a key holder for the bar, but today she just wanted to be on her way home as soon as she could. Rylee had so many questions, and there was really only one way she felt she'd get answers. As she waved goodbye to her coworkers she headed down the block toward the subway, the sun was slowly starting to rise, she opened messenger and began to type.