Sunday September 2nd, 2007
The Day It All Began
"What else could you possibly need in this store, Kaylee?"
"Everything." Joey had been overhearing an argument between a ginger girl and her cousin for the past ten minutes they had spent in Newbury Comics. It was his first full week working at the store part-time as a cashier. His shift ended six minutes ago but he purposely took his time because he found her Bostonian accent quite adorable. "I mean look at this; where else could you possibly get all of this in one beautiful, heavenly, downright sexy store?"
Joey had to duck his head down and suppress a laugh because they were on their way back to pay. Seeing from the Harry Potter buttons, Chewbacca backpack, TARDIS keychain, and Gryffindor tie; she was quite the nerdy fangirl. Pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose, he began to scan the barcodes on the tags. The cousin frowned at the button rack; she probably had the more inappropriate side facing in their direction. "…And your total comes to forty-six dollars and sixty-two cents." He announced after tapping the screen several times.
The fangirl looked up at him with big, brown disappointed eyes. "Really? Dammit! Katie, can I borrow a ten? It's the last tie." Her cousin glared back at her and she pulled out her empty pockets. Trying to help, he came up with a solution. "If you want, we can hold on to that for you if you come back sometime soon." Joey offered, even though he wasn't entirely sure if he could. However, it wouldn't be hard just to hide it somewhere in the back…
"Could you do that please? I should be getting my check tomorrow." A wide grin spread across her pale freckled face. He nodded back and bagged everything else for her, shoving the tie into his pocket so he could hide it in the back once they left. She gave one more "thank you" to him before leaving with her purchased items. He laughed and shook his head at her excited outbursts from a few minutes ago and headed to the back room to go find somewhere to hide the tie.
He found a corner behind the supply boxes filled with used CDs and tucked it in safely before leaving for the night.
Monday September 3rd, 2007
As expected, the orange-haired girl he met yesterday was back at the same time with enough money to buy the tie. She couldn't thank him enough and actually hugged him and bought him a tea from Starbucks after his shift. They'd shared some small talk, and Joey learned that her favorite color is green; she loves Star Wars, Doctor Who, Harry Potter, and musicals; and also that she was from Massachusetts, but she'd be going back the next day.
He didn't know that it'd be two years until they met again.