Chapter 1

"Hello, welcome to Benny's Burger Bar, how can I help you?" Keely said in a bored voice, to the middle-aged man standing in front of her.

"Hi," the man smiled, revealing two rows of about three teeth.

Keely grimaced, but tried to keep her face straight. It was hard.

"I'm looking for two cheeseburgers, fries and a cola," he said, his eyes scanning the menu.

"Do you want a dessert?" Keely said, is the same bored tone.

He shook his head. "I'm watching my weight."

"Where are you expecting it to go?" Keely asked, unable to help herself.

After spending three hours in this wretched place, she needed some sarcasm to brighten what was left of her day.

"What?"

"Nothing," Keely rolled her eyes, knowing that her boss probably wouldn't like her being 'rude' to a customer. Not that she cared.

A job. Her mom's most ridiculous idea yet.

She had sat Keely down and told her that as much as she liked giving Keely money to buy things, she thought it was time that Keely earned her own money.

So, now, here she was, a Saturday, working at the most awful place in town, while her other friends did things that were reasonably…well…reasonable to do.

"That'll be five dollars," Keely sighed, as she punched a couple of things into the till.

The man handed over a five dollar bill that looked like it had been chewed, and then waited while Keely grabbed a couple of things from the shelves where the food was stacked, and shoved them on a tray.

"Thanks darling," he said, taking the tray.

"Eew," Keely shuddered as he walked away.

She had been called darling five times today, and mostly by elderly men.

Keely leant her elbow on the counter, and placed her chin on it. She had never been so bored.

Why did kids complain about going to school? Why did she complain about going to school? Because she'd so rather be slaving away at algebra, than slaving away at serving fat idiots.

"Keely!" Benny, the manager called to her. "Stop slacking!"

Keely rolled her eyes, and reluctantly stood up straight.

"Yeah Keely, stop slacking!" a familiar voice called from the doorway.

Keely rolled her eyes again.

"Nice outfit Keels," Via sniggered, as Keely turned to face them, her arms folded over her red dress.

That was the four-hundredth reason why this job sucked. The uniform. A red dress. With a collar. And a bow…eew…

"Very funny. Laugh it up. Go on!" Keely threw her arms up in the air.

"Don't mind if we do," Via said, and began to laugh.

Keely sighed, and then looked over at her best friend. Phil Diffy was standing behind the other two, and looking at Keely with an amused smile on his face. Keely knew that he couldn't be silent through all of this. No way. There was a smart remark heading her way pretty soon.

"Are you going for the Minnie Mouse look today, Keely?"

There it was.

Via and Owen collapsed with laughter, but Phil stood there, staring at Keely, a smirk on his face. It wasn't a mean smirk, just the kind of thing guys did when they wanted to annoy you.

"Good one. And I'm presuming you took the Tigger approach," Keely said, eyeing Phil's black and orange striped shirt.

Owen ooh-ed. "Burn!"

"Look, can you guys please leave, because I'm working here, and if you're just going to ridicule me…" Keely began.

Via stopped laughing. "Actually…"

"What?" Keely asked, fearing the answer.

"We're hungry," Owen said bluntly.

Keely's eyes widened. "And out of all the places you can eat, you chose here? There is no way that was a coincidence!"

"Well, no…but since we're here," Phil shrugged, and then pointed at the picture of the cheeseburger. "Still have any of these left?"

"Maybe," Keely sighed.

"I'll take that as a yes. Three of them, three fries and three cokes. Okay?" Phil asked, smiling at Keely.

Keely punched in the order. "That'll be nine dollars."

"Hey! What happened to the friend-of-an-employee discount?" Via objected.

"Oh, you don't get that any more," Keely said, holding her hand out for the money.

Phil sighed. "That's nice."

"I am nice," Keely said, took the money, and grabbed their order. "Thank you for coming to Benny's Burger Bar. I hope you choke on your meal."

Hmm…yes, I did promise a sequel to Unbelievable, but the creative process for that story took a lot longer than the creative process for this story, so I will try to write that as soon as my brain gets a good idea.

I have no idea where I'm going with this story, so bear with me. If you can.