Chapter 1.1 - Nice to Meet You

After writing for a few hours, Bridgette noticed it was getting dark - and noticed the gnawing pain in her stomach signaling that she needed to eat - and fixed herself a simple salad. But as she sat alone at her small dining room table, she realized how odd this felt. She'd never eaten alone before. Even when one or both of her parents were busy with work, she still had her sister to eat with. And even though she and her sister never talked during supper, or at all, it had been sort of a comfort to know that at least one other person was there.

Bridgette brushed the lonely feeling off. She was the one who made the decision to move to Moonlight Falls, and she knew it would all pay off in the end. She had no future in Starlight Shores, where everyone was plastic and everything was expensive. Moonlight Falls was quaint, out of the way, and it was strange. It was everything that Starlight  Shores wasn't. That was the best part.
 
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The next morning Bridgette woke up with one goal for the day: get some form of income. She wanted to be a writer, which was considered self-employment, but in order to be recognized by the city as being self-employed she had to fill out paperwork at city hall.

Bridgette hadn't had enough money to buy a car after paying for the house and furniture, so instead she went with a small bike. Nobody in Starlight Shores rode bikes - unless they were stationary ones at the gym - and Bridgette couldn't get over how much fun it was. How had she not been doing this all along?

At city hall, Bridgette signed all the papers stating that she was self-employed as a writer. Excited from the prospect of actually being employed for once and earning her own money without relying on her parents, she headed home to start working on her first bestselling novel.

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I've been in Moonlight Falls forever and I still haven't written anything, Bridgette thought glumly, even though it had really only been a couple of weeks. She looked at the corkboard in her kitchen filled with notes she had jotted down, ideas for stories. No matter how much she stared at them, she couldn't come up with anything to write.

Before she could even think about doing any writing, though, she needed to do laundry. Packing up all of her dirty clothes in a small bag, she loaded up her bike and headed to the local laundromat (washers and dryers are expensive!).

Tossing her clothes in the dryer, she glanced over and noticed a man standing by a window in the waiting area, just looking out. He was tall and skinny, with shaggy blonde hair. Not thinking much of him, Bridgette headed over to the detergent dispenser.

"You're Bridgette Burrows, aren't you?"

She turned. The blonde guy had moved, heading for the washing machines. She didn't even realize he'd seen her. "Yeah?"

"I recognized you from your pictures." When he saw the puzzled expression on Bridgette's face, he hurriedly continued. "My dad is in the paparazzi business in Starlight Shores. He showed me some of his shots last time I was visiting him and a few of them had you and your mom and sister."

"Oh." And now it's awkward. "That's nice."

The guy laughed. "I'm sorry, I know that was awkward." Yes it was. "I'm Vincent. Vincent Monty."

"Hi Vincent Monty." Bridgette couldn't help but smile a little. After all, Vincent was cute, and she wasn't used to cute guys giving her any sort of attention. She wasn't Bernadette, after all.

"When did you move to Moonlight Falls?" Vincent asked.

"A couple of weeks ago. I got sick of Starlight Shores."

Vincent nodded. "Amen. I grew up there and hated it. My parents split up when I was a teenager and my mom moved here, so I went with her to get away from the Shores."

"I wish my parents were cool enough to want to live here," Bridgette mumbled. Then she paused. "Actually, no I don't. Because then I'd still have to put up with them." Vincent laughed.

They spent the next hour talking. Bridgette told Vincent how she hated being in the shadow of her parents and her sister, and about the argument she and her mother had before she moved; she also told him she loved terrible horror films and fantasy novels. Vincent told Bridgette he loved terrible horror films and fantasy novels too, that he had a younger sister who was in rehab for drug abuse, and that he was Moonlight Falls' self-titled Rock, Paper, Scissors champion.

Not anymore.

"Hey I'm getting kind of hungry. Do you wanna get something to eat?" Vincent asked.

"Sure," Bridgette replied, smiling.

At the town diner they talked more. Vincent revealed that he wanted to go into photography like his father, but didn't want to do cheap celebrity publicity shots. Bridgette, sympathizing, told Vincent that she wanted to write like her father, but didn't want to write cheesy movie scripts just so they could be dissected and altered to the studios' liking, the way her father did.

"Oh man, it's really late," Vincent finally said, glancing at his watch. The diner had kicked them out after they finished eating because they were taking up the table, and they'd been standing outside talking for a while now. "Here, here's my phone number. Give me a call and I'll come over with that movie I told you you needed to see, Infected 2. It's the worst of the worst. You'll love it." They said their goodbyes and went their separate ways.

Bridgette closed the door behind her and thought back on her day. "Did I just have an actual date?" she thought out loud, smiling like a giddy schoolgirl.

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Okay so Bridgette and Vincent are SO adorable in my game. Even after just talking long enough to become friends Bridgette rolled a wish to kiss him, and almost as soon as she got home after their group outing she got a phone call from Vincent asking if she wanted to hang out with him. And he autonomously gives her flowers and cuddles with her. Stop moving so fast you two, I have an idea for this!

I went through Moonlight Falls and redid some of the locals, plus added in some of my own, and Vincent was actually named something else (I think Brad... something or other) and looked kind of like he belonged on Jersey Shore, so I changed him up a little. I was trying to think of what guy would fit Bridgette really well and I remembered him. :) I'll get a close-up shot of him next time. If I remember right, his traits are Good Kisser, Flirty, Artistic, Handy, and Clumsy. His LTW is Swimming in Cash. Bridgette's LTW is Professional Author.