All You Are

A story arc that involves a simple romance between a prostitute and young man. In the streets of Arcadia life isn't always about honor, one isn't always a hero, and sometimes, just the simpler things are hard to come by, but so much more rewarding.

Characters

 * Natalie Marshal - is a cabaret girl working for the Scarlet Club. She is very worldly and is often given many expensive gifts, by her "customers". Her fellow co-workers and "friends" call her shallow and she is regarded as haughty and arogant by those who think they know her.
 * Rashall Young - A young bartender in training

Synopsis
Natalie Marshall is a worldly girl that works at the Scarlet Club, a high-class carbaret club that doubles as a call girl center. Natalie is one of the prettiest girls in the area and makes money easily by attending parties and events disguised as an individuals girlfriend. But because of her gaudy lifestyle she catches the attention of a local street gang. The gang offers their protection to her, including escorts and other such services, but the cut will be 90% of her pay. Natalie brushes the idea off as ridiculous but they force her down and tell her she will be raped and murdered if she does not comply, so she does. A few months later, a customer gives Natalie a bonus, she sticks it in her bra and goes to the gang's office, giving them their cut. But the gang leader,, smacks her for shorting him, mentioning the bonus she was given earlier. The gang leader makes a sarcastic remark apologizing for scratching her face, because she needs it for her job. Inside her mind, Natalie is drifting slowly toward depression, she hates her current life at the moment, but doesn't know how to escape it. She wants to attempt suicide. but is too afraid of the pain that may be involved, so decides against it. On her way home, Natalie passes a bartender leaning in the alley on break. The bartender, Rashall Young, calls out to her, but she ignores him until he mentions that she is a "mob's whore." This causes a violent reaction within her and she throws her expensive purse at him, which causes him to stumble, she takes the opportunity to smack him around. Afterwords, Rashall lights a smoke in his mouth and tells her that she should vent her anger out more often, instead of keeping it held up. He remarks how she was really cute when she was letting out her emotions and that she should see him the next time she needs to do that before reentering the bar. Natalie is angry, but as she heads home she begins to think of Rashall a bit more and more, while blushing. To be continued...

Prologue
Every time I received a new bag or some new jewelry I would be overjoyed, my friends would always call me shallow, or tell me I'm selling myself off for a brand name. But I didn't consider attending parties with older men to be prostitution and I had never regretted doing it, after all it was easy work for good money, and sometimes they would call me again and give me gifts.

-Natalie Marshal

Shop Talk
So I think I’m going to start a new column today, not sure if this is going to stay or not, but the column will allow me or others I designate to give a more indepth look at The World, a fantasy world that I created my freshman year of high school. Well let’s start off with my first topic, the sub-story arc All You Are. Now the wiki post isn’t quite finished, as with quite a bit of the posts on that site. But the story in itself is mostly finished. Natalie Marshal, is a girl working for a club, she’s very materialistic, kind of like me, but worse. Rashall Young is our male lead, he’s a young bartender in training (may change) that just got off his feet, imagine him as someone just leaving college. The two names are kind of important, but it mirrors the relationship in a small way of two people I had known in my years, they are no longer together and I don’t talk to either much anymore, but i did think their relationship was a special one in those days. So why the name: All You Are? other than that it is the blog ’s name (joking lol), the message I wanted to get across for it is, that this girl, who has all these riches and everything can give it up for this poor guy, just because he becomes everything to her. So what happens in the story? Well in the story, and this may all change somewhat, Natalie starts off talking about how all these worldly things are very important to her (a reflection of her emptiness inside?), well all her friends, the few she has anyways, call her shallow. She kind of brushes them off So what does Natalie do exactly? well she is, in a way, a prostitute. She accompanies high status individuals, because she is good looking, and for good reason, in that line of work you have to be. Well this “gang” finds out about her and they kind of force her into a position where she works for them, splitting massive profits their way, or is killed. So we kind of fast forward a bit, she’s leaving work, life has become rather emptier for her and she’s more dependent on material goods, one of the customers gives her a bonus, which she hides from the boss, but he finds out and hits her, it’s a rotten day. She’s told if she hides anymore money, she’ll be killed. On the way home, Rashall is outside for a break, he’s smoking a crumpled cigarette, he calls out to her, because she’s a pretty girl, but she kind of ignores him. This prompts him to call her a “mob’s whore” which hits a nerve inside of her, so she throws her expensive bag at him and then starts beating him. After the ordeal is over, he tells her that she should relieve her stress more often, he picks up her stuff and telling her that she shouldn’t live comforting herself with material things, this message impacts her somewhat. Over the next few meetings they become friends to a point where she can confide her personal thoughts with him. (i plan to actually write the meetings at some point to give it more detail). So one day, they are standing over a bridge and Natalie mentions how she wish she could die, maybe by jumping off the bridge. This prompts Rashall to take her expensive bag and throw is over, she yells at him, but he holds her and tells her that her life is more precious than that, that he’ll be with her if she’ll take him. Well at this point what happens is Rashall lets his intetions be known to the gang, and they beat him up, but because of his persistence, they give him an offer, his arm for her freedom. a year later, Natalie is working as a jewelery designer, at the end of her shift, she walks outside to find Rshall waiting for her, he’s wearing long sleeves, one of his arms is around her, the other hidden in a sleeve, just dangles. The story and some extent the blog is inspired by [this song]. -[Shop Talk – The World: All You Are]