Bartender Stories

I didn't plan on falling in love with Harry Styles. I planned on surviving. Behind a bar, my life makes sense. Drinks in, drinks out. Keep moving. Don't get too close to anyone who might leave. Harry ruins that system the moment he walks in. He's patient in a way that's dangerous. Gentle in a way that makes it hard to keep my distance. He doesn't try to fix me, doesn't ask me to explain the parts of my life I'd rather keep buried. He just... stays. What starts as late-night conversations and quiet companionship slowly becomes something neither of us expected. Something steady. Something terrifying. Something that might actually be love. And when you've spent your entire life learning how to do everything alone, letting someone stay might be the hardest thing of all. UPDATES 9 AM & 9PM EST DAILY!!!! #1 in harrystyles

MLM short story I made to continue whenever I have nothing to do, please remember that if the story has major plot holes - it is usually because I write at night in my most ramfeezled state.

I remember the first time he walked in because everything about him felt out of place. Not in a bad way, but in the way he stood out. The pub was dim, as it always was in the evenings. Golden light from old hanging lamps, the smell of beer soaked into the wood, laughter bouncing off the walls. It is my world. It is a little chaotic and worn, but also warm and comfortable. And then he walks in. Tall-noticeably so. Crisp button-down shirt, sleeves neatly rolled, fitted trousers, shoes that looked like they'd never seen a speck of mud in their life. Ginger hair, neatly styled. Calm eyes scanning the room. He looks lost. Which, of course, made me notice him immediately.

A bartender used to not feeling anything at all sees his neighbor in a new light when she helps him out of a bad situation one night. Jackson's lived next door to Summer for over a year, but when he asks her for help one night and she shows him more compassion than he's felt in years he realizes that maybe what he's been searching for has been right next door to him all along. Now all he needs to do is convince Summer to give him a chance and prove to her that he's nothing like whoever hurt her in her past. Summer has it all figured out, go to work, go to school, and keep her head down. She doesn't need new friends, she has her best friend Rachel and her friend and sometimes more, Wes, but when Jackson comes barreling into her life one night, she feels a connection that she's never felt before. But Jackson is dangerous. He could hurt her if she lets him get too close.

MacKenzie Haas is a single mother living in Chicago, raising her eight-year-old daughter, Winter. MacKenzie's whole life revolves around Winter, work, and music. She doesn't have much time for anything else in life. But it changes when her friends invite her to a concert for a fun night out, something MacKenzie hasn't seen in a long time. MacKenzie ends up meeting Post Malone, the pop star everyone knows about. MacKenzie has heard about him and has heard some of his music but was never a big fan. She ends up meeting him backstage and gets his number. MacKenzie's unsure at first because for so long it was just her and Winter and MacKenzie had no one to rely on but herself. But Austin proves himself and MacKenzie lets him into her life. He's sweet to her and Winter, supportive of her music, and puts his all into their relationship. MacKenzie knows he's good for her and hopes she doesn't mess it up.

Steve Rogers never expected The Midnight Blue Modal - the old‑school Brooklyn bar he runs with James Barnes - to become the place where his life quietly shifts. With dim lights, worn leather booths, and jazz drifting through the room each night, it's a refuge for anyone who needs a moment to breathe. That's exactly what Natasha Romanoff seems to be doing. She walks in every day, always choosing the same booth, always ordering the same drink, always carrying a quiet weight she never explains. Her job isn't dangerous, but it's complicated, and Steve can see it in the way she softens only when she's here. What starts as small talk turns into something gentler - a warmth he feels in her lingering smiles, in the way she listens, in the way she lets her guard down only in this room, only with him. He doesn't know what she does. She doesn't tell him. But the more she shows up, the more he realizes the truth he never meant to face: The most dangerous thing he's ever done has nothing to do with the bar or the past he's trying to outrun. It's giving his heart to her - and hoping she'll want to keep it.

In the world of roaring engines, podium finishes, and relentless pressure, Formula 1 driver Max Verstappen is untouchable-fierce behind the wheel, ice-cold in interviews, and closed off to anyone who tries to get too close. Fame, glory, and expectation have built him a fortress no one dares to climb. But in a quiet corner of Monaco, tucked between designer boutiques and luxury yachts, there's a bar. Unassuming. A little rough around the edges. And it's there that Max finds something he never expected: silence. Calm. And Luna-the bar's owner, a woman who knows exactly how he likes his drink but nothing about his world. Or so he thinks. Luna isn't impressed by his fame. She doesn't ask questions or offer praise. She's sharp, private, and more interested in keeping her distance than getting drawn into someone else's orbit. But Max keeps coming back. And slowly, between bitter gin and long, late-night conversations, something begins to shift. Because Luna has spent years building a life where no one can take too much from her ever again. After a lifetime of caretaking, heartbreak, and being left behind, she's learned how to survive alone. She doesn't want chaos. She doesn't want complicated. And Max Verstappen is both. But love doesn't ask for permission. And when the line between their two worlds begins to blur, Luna will have to decide whether she's brave enough to risk everything she's built for something she swore she'd never need. And Max? He'll have to figure out how to hold onto something fragile in a world that breaks everything it touches. slow burn, really slow burn, slow updates max verstappen x oc

Roan and Elijah have a toxic past but after a few years apart they find themselves in each others' lives again, out of neccessity. Roan is stuck in the past, while Elijah is focused on moving foward. Roan is emotional and Elijah is closed off. Can these two make it work? Also on Tumblr and Royal Road

Mercy is a bitter knife ... use it to cut away all that I am - ARCANE S1 SEVIKA X OC

For those who are being crushed by "rightness." For the things you cannot say. There is a place where they can simply sink. Above ground, the world is overflowing with blindingly righteous arguments and suffocating pressure to conform. That is why, sometimes, people have to descend all the way to the bottom just to breathe. Hidden quietly in a back alley stands **bar DESCEND**. A place reached only by flesh-and-blood people who have slipped through the order of society. This is the story of someone who could be anywhere- and yet, whose story would never surface. When the doorbell rings, a quiet night of colorless, transparent time begins. A serene human noir where wounded adults pass one another in the dark. With tonight's tune, your seat is waiting.

Her love life's a mess. She doesn't know where she belongs. She's just a girl. A girl who loses everything to find herself.

I wanted to write a bad fan fiction as a joke. Sooooo if you like The Neighbourhood and you like cringe you're in the right place! ‼️ I'll be real with yall ... This was so bad and so stressful to write because I am not a decent fanfic writer at all lmao I prefer to read them. So here was my attempt at writing a terribly cringeworthy one. I hope these four chapters at least gave you a good laugh!

A Long Lived Romance, has reached a final chapter. Though the romance between Devin Winters and Cozilyn Winters has ended, their shared history linger. Once lovers, best friends, and next-door neighbors, they now navigate the delicate balance of separate lives, shaped by the memories that remain. Their journey forward is nothing tension and tenderness, as they learn what it truly means to move on without letting go of the past.

angel shot: (noun) a secret code for women to safely alert a bartender that a date has taken a turn for the worse as a way to escape from the male (or female) on the date. James Buchanan (Bucky) Barnes was a bartender at a small restaurant, so he's experienced the dates of many couples. Some of these dates were successful, the others... maybe not. So why when Bucky meets this one girl, he feels the need to protect her specifically? *I don't own most of the characters in this book and are instead owned by Marvel*

When Savannah Rivers moved to NYC, all she had in mind is to start a new life and forget about her past that she left back in California, where she grew up. Only, her career choice, as a journalist, will lead her to cross paths with Nathaniel Howard, a pediatrician who takes over the family clinic after his father's death and becomes the next person of interest. But Nathaniel Howard isn't like any other business man/doctor she had ever met, and as their relationship grows, she discovers that he, also, has some skeletons in his closet. To read the full story go to https://www.hinovel.com/

A story where a bartender falls in love with a customer who just gets wasted. What will happen next?

"So you're a sociopath?" "Depends on who you ask, sweetheart?" - CHERRY VALLEY

25 years old Ying Yue, struggling to meet both ends with a 5 years old boy who she found after she had an accident 3 years ago and was homeless. Without remembering anything about her past she didn't know what to look for, where to go, she soon found herself after being discharged from the hospital. Within the hospital she waited for her loved ones to find her,even though she didn't know who they might be but she waited but reality hits really hard. Nobody came and she soon found herself in the streets without a penny and homeless. That's how she came to live under the bridge near a old restaurant. It wasn't anything special but after a year of living homeless she became numb. Over the whole year she tried to find a job but without an identity she couldn't get any job. One day she found a boy no older then 2 or 3 years old lying under the bridge where she lived for a year with rag torn clothes shivering under her torn blanket which she managed to get while fighting other homeless people. The little boy had a fever and signs of severe malnutrition . When she tried to hand over the boy to the police but they refused to take the child and threw both of them away from the police station saying they were not a charity for the homeless people. Left with only 15 dollars she went to the drug store to buy a syrup for cold for the baby boy hoping it would work curing the fever and miraculously it did cure the boy. Then on she decided she can't live like that, she must live a better life for herself and for the baby she found. That's how she found herself and her baby boy in the red light district while looking for food after failing to keep all those random jobs where you don't need identification for the job. On her life turning point she suddenly met a person who might be connected to her past and her past may not be what she thought it was.

Roxanne Mabini, a twenty-five-year-old single mother of twins joined a speed-dating event just to have fun and get speed-dating checked off her bucket list. She wasn't looking for anything. She merely played along, stayed open-minded without expectation. That was until the devastatingly handsome bartender named Aloysius "Wish" Gregorio stepped up and filled in for the lack of male participants and mesmerized Roxanne more than she'd ever expected. Literally, he is every girls wish. Finally, she meets a man who shares her interests. But will a girl whose heart has been shred in pieces learn to trust and love again? When Chris drops back into her life, Roxanne's first love and the father of her children, old flame reignites. He's been waiting for the right timing ever since he was forced to leave her and now he has to win her back. Will the power of chemistry and strong connection be enough to fight the old flame that is once again burning bright? Roxy must make a big decision: which is more important, to provide a complete family to her children or her heart's desire to be with someone to share her life with?