alternate_girls (alternate_girls) wrote in btvsal, @ 2010-02-04 18:51:00 |
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Entry tags: | baily bale, place: la, ~shiloh stonestreet |
Talk of Family and Burning Water
Who: Shiloh and Baily
Where: Shiloh's news apartment and then a random diner
When: Early Evening - Monday, February 1st
It had taken Shiloh two trips from her car to the elevator, and then from the elevator to the door of her new place, before the blonde had all her belongings, which consisted of one suitcase, guitar case, sleeping bag and pillow, sitting just outside the door of her new apartment. Shiloh had gotten the place unfurnished, and with her checking out of the hotel she had been staying in just that morning the young woman had to make do with what she'd been able to get her hands on that past weekend. Maybe this upcoming weekend she could get out to some of the local thrift or resale shops and be lucky enough to find a few things with which to furnish her place with. Fishing the key out of a front pocket Shiloh slipped it into the lock and opened the door.
Baily was actually leaving her own apartment to go out and grab something to eat when she saw Shiloh standing across the hall, seemingly moving into what had been the empty apartment next to hers. "Well, consider this a shock," she said out loud, smiling. "Can't believe we're going to be neighbors now."
Shiloh had just reached down for her suitcase and guitar case when she heard the slightly familar voice from behind her. Straightening up the blonde turned around with a smile spreading across her features when she saw Baily standing across the hall from her. "Talk about a small world." The blonde grinned. Who would have thought that within a large city like L.A. that Shiloh would have ended up renting a place in the same building as the girl who she'd met on her first day in the City of Angels.
"Small world indeed," Baily said back to her. "Need some help moving your stuff inside?" she asked the blonde.
"Sure." Shiloh smiled accepting the offer made by her dark haired neighbor. Not that she had all that much to move in at the moment. "Can't offer you anything to drink though, cause as like Old Mother Hubbard my cupboards are bare." Stepping across the threshold, Shiloh carried in her suitcase and guitar case thus leaving the pillow and sleeping bag for Baily to retrieve.
Baily grabbed the sleeping bag and pillow, amazed that the girl really only had so few things to move in with. Sort of made her wonder just where Shiloh had come from. "Well, I'm about to go out to get some dinner if you'd like to join me," she offered.
"Sure!" The blonde answered setting her things down in one corner of the place. "I'm actually famished as I bypassed lunch to get my temp bed," Shi giving a nod then to the sleeping bag and pillow Baily brought into the apartment. "I know the place is a bit sparse," more like very sparse, "but I intend on rectifying that this upcoming weekend." Shiloh told the other girl as if it mattered at all to Baily.
Baily nodded. "Then let's lock up your place and get some dinner," she said to the other girl. Baily was starving herself, so getting food sooner rather than later sounded like a perfect plan to her.
"Sounds good to me." Shiloh smiled tossing her keys up, catching them as they fell back down before making tracks toward the door. "As long as dinner doesn't consist of sushi." Shiloh liked her food cooked and never could understand how people could sushi, much less anything else that wasn't cooked and should be.
Baily shook her head. "I'm basically a diner chick, myself," she told the other girl. "The greasier, the better, in my opinion." Of course, with a metabolism like Baily's, you could eat whatever the hell you wanted and not even have to think about it, so greasy diner food was totally OK to have all the time.
"My kind of girl." Shiloh smiled as they departed the apartment with the blonde locking up once they made it out into the hallway. Wasn't like she ate greasy all the time, but Shi did like her burgers, especially ones with the works. "So, is there a place nearby or are we going to need to drive there?" Shiloh asked making small talk as the pair walked their way through the building toward the exit.
"Nah, the place I like to go to is nearby," Baily said, turning in the direction of the diner in question and started walking. "I had to find somewhere nearby because my cooking, well, the less said about it the better."
"Well then, I'll have to have you over for dinner sometime soon as a way of thanking you for being so helpful to a stranger new to the city." Shi commented as she followed Baily in the direction of the diner the other girl had mentioned. If it hadn't been for her, Shiloh might not have a job right now, thus she wouldn't have a place to call home and would probably still be living out of her suitcase at some motel. Really was the least she could do for her newly made friend, at least that was what Shi was hoping Baily was now. Having a friend in a strange place tended to make the transition from moving from one city to another go a little bit smoother.
"I hope that you're a better cook than I, but I'll take you up on that offer," Baily said to her as they walked. Soon enough, they were standing in front of the diner. Baily pushed the door open and walked over to a table, taking the seat that faced the door more out of habit than anything else.
"I'm not like a Master Chef or anywhere near the cook my mother is, but I've never had any complaints about anything I've prepared." Shiloh told the other girl as they walked along the street. "Seems like a decent place." Shi commented once they reached the eatery and the blonde gave the place a quick glance around once they found a table inside. Being this close to the apartment complex Shiloh had a feeling she'd be frequenting the place, that was if the blonde found the food good, until she was pretty much fully settled into her new apartment.
"Well, I set my stove on fire boiling water, so you've got to be better than me," Baily told her. Really, cooking was the one thing that Baily truly and utterly sucked at. It was just something that she couldn't do. Maybe it was because she didn't have the patience to actually stand over a stove or whatever, but she just couldn't do it. "The burgers are great here, by the way," Baily said as she grabbed a menu.
"How does one mess up boiling a pot of water anyway?" Shiloh asked rhetorically with a slight laugh as she reached over for the other menu. She had heard of people not being able to boil a simple pot of water, but the blonde had never actually run into one of those people until now. "That's just what I'm in the mood to have." Shiloh told the other girl as she flipped open the menu to see what types of burgers the place had.
"You forget about it for three hours and it dries up so bad it catches on fire?" Baily suggested. Really, that was her big problem with cooking, the fact that she couldn't stand around and wait for it. Which is why she came to this diner so often. "Good, because, if you can think of it, they can do it to a burger."
"Guess that means I'll be eating here regularly until I've tasted all the varieties of burgers this place can think to cook up." Shiloh relayed to the other girl, and after another minute the blonde closed up her menu and set it off to one side having decided what she was going to have for dinner.
"Well, it could be a lot worse," Baily said to her. "You could have to live off of ramen right now." Baily hated the stuff, but that was probably because she had to eat it for so long because of her complete failure as a cook. She looked up at the waitress when she came to take their orders. "Yeah, can I get a steak and eggs, steak rare and eggs scrambled with a coke?"
"I'll have the cheesy bacon burger, medium well, with all the trimmings, an order of fries and a vanilla shake." Shiloh told the waitress after the woman took Baily's order. "Glad I don't have to try and do that as I doubt I could live off that stuff for more then two days." Shi remarked after the waitress left their table to get their order placed in.
"Ramen quickly becomes nasty stuff when you have to live off of it for too long," Baily said to her, setting her menu aside as well.
"Well, I hope I never have to find out just how nasty the stuff can be." Shiloh remarked back with a little wrinkling of her nose at the thought of eating something unpleasant.
"You'll be a very lucky person if you never have to find that out," Baily said to her. "Luckily, you can cook, so you should be OK."
"It was either that or starve. One can't live on take out alone, though that would be nice to have someone cook and clean up for you on a regular basis." Shiloh smiled. It was a nice thought, but quite an unrealistic one as the blonde wasn't exactly swimming in the cash it would take to be able to afford such a luxury.
Sad part was, if Baily wanted it, she could have someone clean and cook for her on a regular basis. Still, she had sort of wanted to make her own way in the world, earn her own keep. She had taken a little money from her family in order to set up the apartment, but that was really it. Maybe that was why she felt the need to work so much, too. "Well, I lived on ramen until I had enough money to basically pay for take out all the time," she admitted.
"So, how long have you lived in L.A." The blonde asked thinking their present line of conversation was running kind of thin. Because really how long could a chat about cooking and living on ramen go on for.
"A little over a year," Baily told her. "I came out here when my cousin opened up Avarice. He needs as many decent DJs as he can get." Of course, she had also come out here to kick a little ass and take a few names, but whatever.
"You must be real close to him to just pick up and move to a strange city." Shiloh said to her slightly impressed by the seemingly close relationship that the other girl had with her cousin. Shi was close to her immediate family, but members outside of that, well she wasn't sure she'd drop everything to help them out with a business venture.
"All the family is close like that," Baily said. Some more than others, and no one was talking to her parents right now, for sure, but they had always been a pretty close knit bunch like that.
"Nothing like having a close knit family." The blonde smiled. Shiloh was quite thankful for the one she had, sure she fought with her siblings and had had an argument or two with her parents when she was younger, heck they still had disagreements even now, but that had never strained the closeness of the Stonestreet family. The all probably were closer now then they ever had been.
"No, there really isn't," Baily agreed as the waitress brought them their drinks. "I've got an uncle who swears that, one time only, he'll bail me out of jail, no matter the cost and no questions asked. I don't plan on taking up on that offer, mind you, but that's a nice thing to have." She laughed.
"Yeah it is, and I doubt I'd take a family member up on an offer like that just to see if they'd come through. Never fancied myself standing on the other side of steel barred door, and don't plan on experiencing it anytime in the far or near future." Shi smiled reaching for the glass that had been placed on the table in front of her to take a nice sampling of her shake.
Baily took a sip of her coke as well. "Never want to be on that side, either, but it's kind of nice to know that the offer is there."
"Yeah," Shiloh agreed. "Here's to family." The girl raised her glass as if offer a toast to the sediment she just voiced.
Baily smirked, but raised her glass all the same. "To family," she said, clinking her glass with Shiloh's.