Stephanie jealously stared at her sister's Facebook page. A few hours ago, while Steph was at work, her sister, Melanie had posted a status stating that she was two months pregnant with her third child. Stephanie hadn't even gotten to meet the second kid. She exited out of the page and sighed. Her brother-in-law, Phil, was some big shot who came up with some kind of new medicine for erectile dysfunction and everyone loved him for it.
She turned off her computer and got up to find something for dinner. After a few minutes of staring at her almost empty pantry, she decided she was eating out again, so she went downstairs to her car and drove off to the nearest McDonalds.
On her way back, she couldn't stop thinking bout how jealous she was of her sister. Melanie met Phil right out of high school, she never had to go to college since Phil came up with his medicine a year later, they always had money, she was about to have three kids and seemed happy. 'I'd be happy too of I never had to work.' Steph thought to herself. She was the exact opposite of Melanie, she went to college for four years, has the shittiest job ever, and barely can come up with enough money to pay the bills, let alone own one car.
"Hi mom." She answered her phone in the elevator, "yeah, I know, she's having another baby. I saw it on Facebook too." Steph unlocked her door and slammed it behind her, "oh, just eating out tonight, I just got home and don't have any time to cook."
Linda, Melanie and Stephanie's mom had to be the most over caring person on earth. Stephanie hated to have to talk to her mom because all Linda wanted to talk about was either what Melanie was up to, or Stephanie's future, "yes mom, I'm just eating out today, not everyday." That was a lie, she ate out five out of seven days of the week, "its fine mom." She sat at her table waiting to eat her food, "can I eat and call you back?"
She hung up and put her head in her hands. She kept tears from falling between her fingers. She picked up her remote and hit power, only to see a blue screen for the third time this week, "damnit!" She let out a frustrated groan as threw the remote at the floor, "why do I even try?" She ate her dinner quickly, staring at the clock on her stove, when she finished, she ripped the cable box out from her TV stand and went back downstairs.
She drove to Comcast in an angry rage, this box was brand new, or so they told her. And the minutes she brought it home, it gave her nothing but problems. She parked in front of Comcast and stormed inside, "this thing hasn't worked for me since I got it. What the hell?"
The young attendant behind the front desk stood up and quickly took the box off the counter, "um, I'll be right back with a new one." She jumped to the back room. When she came back, she was holding a newer looking, shiny black box, "this one is brand-new ma'am. I don't think you should have any problems."
"Yeah, that's what you guys said with the last one." Stephanie started to tell the attendant her Comcast information and as she was about to leave with the new box, a familiar-looking man walked in, wearing a full suit and tie. He smiled at her and it seemed as if everything went in slow motion. He had long blonde hair pulled back into a ponytail and dark brown eyes you could get lost in, "hi." Before she could control herself, she dropped the new box on the floor and the glass on it shattered, "crap."
"Are you a new customer? Why are you getting a new cable box?" The man asked, standing beside her at the counter, grinning.
"Oh, um, mine wasn't' working, it hasn't worked right since I got it." Her face was burning, she opened her mouth to try and say she had to go home, but it was almost like she wasn't able to speak.
"Do you want to go get dinner?" He asked, leaning on the counter, "there's a really good restaurant right down the street I know of."
"Sure." She replied without thinking. A perfect stranger had just asked her out in the middle of a Comcast store, she just felt like she needed a man's attention that bad, "I think I'm gonna need another cable box though."
"I think I can manage that one, did you have a regular box, or a DVR box, or what?" He stepped behind the counter, "or an HD one?"
"Just a regular one, I can't afford all the other stuff." She smiled, shyly, "you work here?"
He sighed, "um, yeah, I'll tell you about that later," he nodded towards the attendant, "go get me a new DVR box, I'll give her that one."
"You don't have to do that." She picked up the broken box and handed it to him, "sorry about this one."
"It's okay. You're right, I don't have to give you a better cable box, but you don't have to go out with me, but you are." He gave her the box and walked with her outside to her car, "so, about dinner, we could walk there. It's just down here a little bit."
"Alright, let me put this in the trunk then." She smiled, "and about you, you're really dressed up to work at Comcast." She motioned to his suit and tie, "you're still really dressed up to be the manager of that Comcast store."
"That's cause I don't work there, and I'm not the manager." He kicked a rock and took his wallet out, "look," he pulled a business card from the front of his wallet, "I am the CEO of Comcast."
"What?" She scoffed, "Comcast's stores have individual CEO's?" She looked at the name on his card, "Paul Levesque?" She read aloud, "where the hell do I feel like I know you from?"
"The commercials. I'm the CEO of Comcast. I do commercials, I own Comcast." He leaned on her car's trunk, "come on, let's go to dinner."
"You own Comcast?" She stood by her car, "who are you trying to kid?" She stubbornly glared at him.
"Nobody. I'm Paul Levesque, the owner, how do you want me to prove it to you?" he stared back at her, holding his wallet, "if anything, why can't I prove it while we're eating?"
Her heart skipped a beat, "okay, fine." She followed him towards a dirty-looking restaurant. He was cute, really cute, and seemed really nice, "you come here a lot?"
"I've been to that store a couple of times. And I've been stuck there, so I ate here, and it's amazing." He opened the door for her, grinning as she walked past.