Name: Customer Service
Rating: M
Summary: Cassidy can't seem to get over how her life is turning out. Already in to a few months of her senior year of high school and she's been cheated on, dumped and works at a dead end job at the towns local grocery store but when a celebrity comes back to his hometown for the holiday's will the loose ends of her life be tied together by a first love.
Disclaimer: I don't own Zac

Cassidy stood behind the counter feeling the spit from another human being hit her face as they pointed and yelled at their reciet. What they were complaining about she didn't really know because after all she didn't really care.
Cassidy looked over to her right giving a pleading look to her manager telling them with her eyes To take care of this customer or i'm going to take care of him myself

Her manager looked up from what she was doing and then looked over at the man who was still yelling. She nudged cassidy out of the way and she tried to reason with the pissed off man.

Cassidy sighed as she walked through the swinging doors out in to the front end. She was miserable and a seven hour shift behind the customer service desk wasn't helping either.

She walked under the huge clock on the wall and into the womans restroom. She looked at herself in disgust at her dirty work shirt and then up at her hair which was assembled in a mess on the top of her head.
Last night was a long night since she spent most of it out in the freezing cold yelling at her now ex boyfriend about seeing him with another chick from high school the only problem is was that chick was now her ex best friend.

After about five minutes of staring at herself motionless she heard her manager walk in and call out her name "Cass we really need you back up there"

Cassidy looked over at her boss feeling flushed "are you okay?" her manager asked brushing her hair in the mirror.

Cassidy shook her head "i can't go back behind the desk I need a break, Can I go like block or something?" Her manager stopped what she was doing and looked over at her with a sympathetic look "Okay but only for a little bit, you still have three more hours and I'm not covering for you for that long"

Cassidy smiled as she walked past her boss and back out in to the brightly lit Store. She walked past all the registers hearing the crying of babies and the beeping form things being rung in, Cassidy crinched at these sounds since she now heard them in her dreams.

She got down the the stores discount aisle ready to start pulling products forward. You see the magic of blocking is making the shelves look fuller than they really are. You'd be amazed at how good cassidy was at making 7 boxes of macaroni look like 20 in a matter of minutes.

Now Cassidy wasn't the tallest of beings she only stood about 5'1 and she was as skinny as a newborn babies legs, being sarcastic of course. so when reaching the top shelf she had to improvise with the bottom shelve. She looked up at the cups of instant macaroni laying in all different directions it seriously looked like someone just decided to knock every one over.

Feeling daring cassidy took it to the next step and stood up on the second shelve putting her atleast 3 feet in to the air. She kept hold with one hand on to the top shelve as she carefully started to place the cups one on top of the other. She had just almost finished when she was startled by a screaming girl as she ran down the aisle almost knocking Cassidy off the shelve. She waved her free hand in the air trying to balance herself but cassidy felt her hand slipping and she closed her eyes bracing herself for the cracking of her head against the tiled floor.

She gave a quick scream as she felt herself fly back bringing a few macaroni cups with her. When she knew she was about to hit the floor she clenched her teeth hoping that biting down on something would make the fall a little less painful.

She opened her eyes though when she felt herself fall in to the arms of a complete stranger. She opened up one ey looking around "Is my head bleeding?" there was silence for a second then the voice replied with a "no" still holding her "anything broken or look like it shouldn't be there" The voice chuckled "I don't know you tell me"

The stranger let her down slowly as she put one foot on the ground after another, feeling a little light headed she took a deep breath before thanking her savior. "thanks so much" she said as she brushed off the dust on her shirt form the top shelve "It could've been a real mess"

Once done brushing herself off she looked up at the person who caught her. "it was no problem really I try to help"
Cassidy's bottom draw hung open as she realized who it was "Oh wow I uhm- to be honest am ten times more embarresed now then if you were somebody else"

Zac laughed as he dug his hands in to his front pocket "well at least you honest" he said looking down at her "so really your okay?"
Cassidy nodded as she smiled I must look real attractice right now she thougth remembering her reflection in the bathroom mirror.

They stood there in silence for a second "I'm cassidy by the way" she said with a smile pionting at the cheesy name tag over her chest.

Zac smiled "well by the looks of you reaction I feel like you already know me but I'm going to be a gentleman about it and introduce myself anyways, zac Efron" he said laughing at himself and putting out his hand. Cassidy shook it smiling. "wow a rescuer and a gentleman please tell me are you single?" she heard him laugh at her little comment before dropping her hand.

cassidy always liked making jokes at the worse possible time and this was now the worst possible time.

They both looked over abruptly at the shaking shelf next to them. Some kids must of been fooling around and when one pushed the other in to the shelf it sent it shaking making a can of soup on the top shelf come flying down hitting cassidy directly on the head.

Cassidy fell back unconcious now as Zac jumped forward grabbing her limp body before she really hit the floor this time.

Cassidy woke up staring up at the cieling. The lights were shining brightly in her face as she noticed the gross colors of the discolored cieling tiles. She felt her head pounding as she took her focus off the lights.

"hey are you okay?" she heard him say as she snapped back in to it. She looked up at him as his face came in to view. he was looking down at her with raised eyebrows as he waved his hand in her face.

She srunched up her forhead trying to rememeber what the hell had just happened. She laid there for a second not feeling her head on the ground but in his arms like he was cradling her or something.

Now feeling more embarresed then confused, she sat up quickly feeling the piercing pain in her head. "Oh my god that kills" she said rubbing her hand on her forehead.

She sat there for a second and saw the can sitting on the ground next to her. Zac got up and put out his hand "c'mon I think your okay" She grabbed it feeling the warmth against her now clamy hand. She felt herself being pulled up as a rush of pain went surging through her head.

"that is one big bump" he said putting his finger to it "that's deffinitly going to hurt in the morning" Cassidy sighed as she closed her eyes trying to make the pain go away but it didn't.

Zac put out his arm fro her to grab on to "I'll bring you up to the front, I don't know if you can walk on your own". cassidy grabbed on to his arm feeling his fore arm muscle flex as he moved. He lead her up to the front and all the usual sounds of a market were now five times louder. "please tell me you have some advil or oxycotton or soemthing" she said as she heard him chuckle. "No sorry I can't do anything for you"

Cassidy made a sour look on her face when she heard her boss shrieking and running over to them "oh my god cassidy are you okay, let me look at your head"

Cassidy stopped her "Oh woah too many questions" Her boss shut up looking at the bump "you can go home I'll have one of the other girls take over you shift, are you okay driving home?"

Cassidy felt more dizzy as she answered "No i didn't drive today my dad dropped me off" Her boss answered back "well I'll call your house and let them know to come pick you-" Cassidy stopped her by shaking her head "they won't be back until later they're out of town or something"

Cassidy squeezed zac's arm tighter as she felt herself sway back. Zac put his hand behind her resting it on her back keeping her balanced "I'll take her home" he said lookging over at Cassidy's boss

"oh, are you two friends or something?" zac smiled nodding his head lieing "yeah good friends"
Cassidy didn't fight his answer she was too tired. Her boss nodded taking one more look at cassidy's lump that was now the size of a golf ball "well cassidy just call me tomorrow and let me know how you feel then"

Cassidy nodded as she felt herself being lightly pushed towards the front doors. Her vision was still blury as the tears built up in her eyes, she wan't crying because she was in pain but she was crying over how much her life did a 360 in the past day and a half. She quickly brushed back the tears not wanting to look like a big baby inf ront of some guy she just met.

She walked outside still feeling Zac's hand on her back . Trying the make the situation light she broke the silence with light conversation

"I can't believe she didn't know who you were" she said laughing as she thought of her boss being socialy challeneged "I mean here you are this big movie star in her store and she didn't even recognize you" she felt the giggles coming on but she contained herself she didn't want to seem like a nut case.

Zac smiled and shrugged "hey you win some you lose some I guess"
He lead cassidy over to his car which was luckily parked in the front so they didn't have to walk far. he opened the door up for her and helped her ease inside as she grabbed on to her throbbing head.

He closed the door once she was in all the way and sighed. Already two hours back home and he was in more than he bargained for. he walked past the front of the car taking the keys from his pocket and jumping inside.

He started up the car when he heard cassidy speak "sorry for waisitng your time, really I could've walked"
Zac smirked and put the car in drive "yeah you would of walked right in to the middle of traffic"

Cassidy laughed feeling dizzy again. She leaned her head back and groaned "i need a nap" She sideglanced over at zac who was looking over at her "are you sure you don't have a cuncuson or anything?" he said with a raised eyebrow

Cassidy shook her head "I don't feel like I do" she looked out her window "oh and if your wondering where I live It's spring street right over by this-" she was cut off by zac who finished her sentence for her "sub shop and across the street is the park"

Cassidy picked her head up confused "wait how did you know that?"
he laughed as he took a left turn "I grew up here, I'm actually back for the holiday's"

It made perfect sense now to cassidy "Oh so that's why your here I thought you were just passing by and happened to be lucky enough to catch a girl saving her a trip to the emergency room".

She laughed at herslef as she felt the car come to a stop "here already.." she said trailing off as she reached for the handle. When she was about to open the door she felt him grab her arm. She looked back behind her

"are you sure your okay?" this time he asked worried "because I would feel guilty if the next time I saw you; you were in a cast from falling"

cassidy smiled and reassured him "really i'm fine but thanks for worrying it's cute"

He took back his hand and rested it on the wheel smiling back. She opened up the door and stepped out slowly feeling a dizzy rushing feeling hit her. She stepped on to the sidewalk but for some reason it didn't feel like sidewalk it felt like clouds. Cassidy scrunched up her nose. Did someone like slip me a drug when I wasn't looking she thought as she took a step forward but that one step felt like a leap making her almost fall back.

Zac stepped out fo the car and ran over to her grabbing her arm catching her again "woah, almost took another spill there" he said calmly as he lead her up the walkway.

For a day in december it was pretty warm outside, almost hitting sixty so the breeze and shade from the trees felt nice.

Cassidy tightened her grip on her front doorknob as she turned it slowly "really all I need is some ice and a pillow and I will be A okay"

She walked in to the breezeway still feeling Zac's grip on her arm as she lead him down the hall and to the kitchen.
Zac let go of her arm only when she sat down "how about I get the ice" he said as he walked over to the freezer.

"your a really nice guy" Cassidy said almost mumbling "I mean we just met like what twenty minutes ago and already your inside me house taking care of me" She smiled "It at least took a few weeks before my ex boyfriend even got upstairs" She giggled to herself and at her little joke.

Zac smiled that can must of really hit her hard as he kept hearing her babble on about her ex boyfriend. he saw a towel hanging off a hook and unfolded it dropping some ice and then wrapping the towel around them.

he turned around and looked down at Cassidy who had now rested her head on the kitchen table. Calmer now Cassidy felt like herself "I'm sorry, I must sound like an idiot right now. i don't know what happened I just felt like I was on a trip of acid"

Zac smirked as he handed her the towel of ice. She put it up to her head feeling the cooling sensation take some of the pain away. She lifted up her head and stood up facing him.

"I think I'm fine now, thank you for driving me home and giving me this ice" Zac shrugged "It's no big deal i don't mind helping"

Cassidy turned around and walked back down the hall this time towards the living room. zac followed looking at the pictures hung up alongside the walls. They were msotly pictures of cassidy through the years hinting at that she was an only child.

He followed her into a bigger room containing a television and a few chairs. cassidy had already made herself comfortable on the couch as he sat down on the chair nearest the door.

He looked over at her as she laid her hea down on a pillow "this is so sereal" she said smiling "i mean here I am a cashier with alump on her head, and there you are a celebrity sitting on my chair..In my house"

Zac laughed and stood up "I should get going" Cassidy nodded but remained laying down "yeah, thanks again thoguh this was all really nice of you"

He backed out in to the hallway seeing her start to close her eyes "I'll probably see you around" he said as she waved goobye

"yeah and maybe next time I'll be fully concious for the whole hour we're together" Zac couldn't help but laugh as he opened the door and walked back outside.

She was actaully a pretty nice and normal girl , maybe it wasn't so bad that he was back home. I mean LA can be a little over rated.