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This is my second book and I hope you like it. Plz R&R or give me ideas. Thanx!

Chapter 1

The Red Door. That's where my job is. The Red Door. Can you guess what that is? Well, it's a club. That's where I work with my friend, Gabrielle.

"You ready for another night?" Gabby, Gabrielle, asked. I nodded.

"You ready for another night?" I asked her. She nodded. This was our ritual to ask even though we both knew neither one of us was ready to be groped by guys who thought it might get them a free drink. I've ahd the hottest guy on the earth, Adrian Ivashkov, grope me so some plain guy with a sexy smile isn't going to win me over. I try not to think about Adrian much. We had been dating when Dimitri told me his love had faded and I had run away. I just couuldn't face him now, so working at a bar was my life until I got too old.

Adrian. I wish I could be with him and all, but life doesn't work like that. If only it did.

"You have the bar or the stage first?" Gabby asked.

"I think I'm stuck with going around with a tray of drinks and giving them to the V.I.P's. What about you?" I checked out my french tip nails for chipping paint.

"I'll be serving the drinks on your tray. Sorry. you'll have to deal with the guys copping a feel and sneaking a peak for the night. Sad to say, I have to do that all week in about a month." I gave her a sympathetic look and she nodded, not blinking. We all knew not blinking long enough would make tears come down in a fake cry, but not blinking long enough was hard.

"You're leaving me."

"Following the pay check, Sweetie." She kissed my cheek and then walked over behind the bar. I followed, grabbing a tray on the way. As soon as we walked into the club part from backstage the sound made me stumble in my heels. My really tall hills. Ashley, my best human friend, had told me high heels could do miracles for your legs. That's why I was stuck wearing them. Not normal heels, but five inch heels.

"Hurry up, girls! You're five minutes late which means five minutes since the last bartender and server!" Kyle yelled. He was the owner of this joint.

So being the obediant girl I was, I went over, and filled my tray with all the drinks Gabby had prepareed for me. Then I walked over to the V.I.P section and put on that fake smile. Being in Las Angeles, California we had plently of people coming here so plenty of "Very Important Person" people.

"Hey sexy! I'll take a drink!" a middle-aged man said. Couldn't he clearly see I was only twenty? I was underaged to be selling drinks, much less carrying them around and getting drunk. Not that anyone noticed. We had plenty of kids who went to the local school come here. Normally we would have to sneak them in since the security cameras out front were given to the L.A.P.D because they wanted to make sure we had all people over age at the bar.

"Coming!" I said in a flirty voice, walking over to the man. Plenty of people eyes my bare legs. I guess the heels really did work. I had on a short midnight blue dress. It was super short and strapless. Good thing I had the boobs to hold it up.

"Thanks, baby." He downed the shot and put the empty glass back on the tray like a true ass. I would be back around to pick them all up anyway. When I turned around to give out more shots I saw a table of familiar people. Very familiar people. Mia, Eddie, Adrian, Dimitri, Lissa, Christian, and Alberta. I had heard Lissa was Queen and Alberta was the head of her guard. I guessed the rest of them were blending in. When I looked around I saw three up here. They looked like normal drinking guys, but when I looked closely I saw they hadn't drunken anything and they weren't staring at girls, they were looking for danger.

I saw Christian turn and look straight at me. Adrian, probably sensing his aura, turned to look at him and then me. Before he got a good look, I hope he didn't get a good look, I ducked my head and blended in with the crown. Until . . .

"Hey! What does a guy gotta do to get a drink around here?" Guess who?

"Adrian, shut up!" Lissa whispered. Of course I only heard her through the bond.

"I think I know her. Just getting her attention," he whispered back. Then he yelled, "Still thirsty!"

"The girl's sexy, but she's got a temper on her. Broke a guys jaw because he grabbed her tit, but everyone wants to grab that tit," the old geezer I had served to before said. I came back to reality as saw Gabby in front of me. She jerked the tray from my hands and quickly got in my place. Her dress was black, so from Adrian's point of view with lots of people moving around, I hadn't moved.

"I'll save your ass," she whispered. Her black hair, similiar to my almost black, especially in this light, was also down. She smiled and then turned around and walked over to that special table.

"You're not Rose," the old geezer said.

"I'm Gabby," Gabby said. Lissa turned her head to look at Gabby when she heard the word Rose. Everyone did.

"You're hiding something," Adrian whispered. "I see it in your aura." Gabby kept on her 'I'm hot and stupid' face on.

"What are those?" She asked. The old geezer made a go for her ass and she kneed him in the nuts with her heel from behind.

"First of all, you're dhampir. Rose was here."

"No, I don't know who you're talking about, but if she looks anything like me, I would be looking for her too.

"Rose is here," Lissa mumbled. "She's in my head. I can feel it." Gabby swallowed and sat down a drink on the table. I knew I should get out, but I couldn't. I could see Adrian so clearly and I just couldn't leave.

"Why so paniced?" Adrian asked.

"Look," Gabby said, knowing it was a lost cause. "She doesn't want to see you," she said giving Dimitri and Lissa a special glare. "She left for a reason."

"Like I don't already know why she left," Adrian mumbled. "I just want to see her again."

"Rose," Lissa whispered. Then Kyle marched up.

"I understand there's a vampire reunion going on and all, but I've got a business to run so Gabby needs to work." She stomped on his foot and he flinched.

"You're dhampir too?" Adrian asked.

"Yup. The security guards are guardians. Ironic, huh? Now you can either stay and stop bothering the workers or leave. Your choice." Dimitri sat up.

"You are talking to the Queen and King of the moroi and dhampir world. You have no right to speak to them like that," Dimitri said.

"And you're talking to the owner of the club and I had this pplace built myself on land owned by humans and now me. What I say goes as long as you're under this roof." Then he led Gabby away.

"Rose," Lissa whispered.