Chapter one : Currently Untitled
Alex slumped into her chair and sighed, an uneventful life was what she aimed for, but this wasn't really what she expected.
Sitting alone in a small convenient store in the middle of no where was fun for the first several months of the year.
She had a job to her self, no whiney co-workers, no boss with a stick so far up his ass you could see the other side come out his ear, and enough materia and potions to stock the entire Shinra army, 5 times!
An ideal job for her indeed, but the only problem was the slow business. She didn't know why no one had ever stopped by.
It's not like she needed the business, it just seemed awkward starting a business and not having sold one cure materia or a potion, and at half the price of all those other generic ones closer to the mainland!
But due to her familiarity to bizarre or disappointing situations, she dismissed it with out a logical conclusion.
"Just the way things are," she murmured to the ceiling, the silent void she was so accustomed to. The small brunette reclined into her rigid wood chair and rested her eyes.
' The way things are, ' a hushed masculine voice mimicked her in question form.
"Yeah," she answered back, unshaken by the fact that she didn't know whose voice it was and where it was coming from.
' ... I think she's talking to herself,' another voice questioned. It was more audible, but not quite as deep as the last one.
Alex blinked and realized that the voices she had been hearing were not the ones she normally associated with (not that she considered hearing voices normal).
' For #$&'s sake, she's sleeping! Wake her up and let's go, ' She cringed inwardly at the gruff voice assumingly addressing her, it sounded familiar, but hard to place with the people she vaguely remembered from years before she started this business.
"Excuse me miss," came the first voice clearer than before. He sounded especially polite, but some thing dragged behind it.
' I don't know… it does sound very familiar though… could it be-.' Her train of thought was cut off by the foreign voice again.
"We'd like to purchase these items."
Alex opened her eyes a crack, but didn't bother focusing.
"Maybe the store is closed," came the second voice.
"$(, why don't we just take the stuff and go? There aren't any alarm systems," the gruff voice blurted hastily.