Author's Note: Originally this was posted on January 1, but due to some unknown reason the story was taken down. But I decided to bring it back after one month of its original release date. Hopefully nothing will happen to this story this time. I think you've heard enough of me talking so without further delay here is the return of the Dick Figures version of Clerks.
Chapter 1: Blue
The time is 6:20 and a dog is sleeping on a neatly made bed. A phone is sitting quietly atop a bundle of laundry. When it suddenly starts to ring. A closet door then swings open, and a half-clad figure falls out. As the phone continues to ring a hand falls upon the receiver, yanking it off the trash can and answers it. "Hello..." he said groggily.
"What?...No, I don't work today...I'm playing hockey at two. Why don't you call Red?...Because I'm fucking tired...I just closed last night...SIGH Jesus...What time are you going to come in?...Twelve...Be there be twelve?...Swear...Swear you'll be in by twelve and I'll do it...Twelve...Twelve or I walk." he said before he hangs up the phone. The figure slowly sits up and remains motionless. The dog stands up and wags its tail. The figure then pats the dog on its head. The Rumpled Figure the lays down on the bed revealing to be a stick figure named Blue. He then grabs the dog and wrestles him.
"Next time, I get the bed." Blue said before releasing the dog and sat up. "Shit." he said exhausted. He then went on to doing his daily routine of getting in the shower, getting out and grabbing a half-empty gallon of milk from the fridge and gulping down his breakfast before he grabs his keys from atop a VCR. He then goes to his car and backs out of the driveway and speeds down the street.
Blue's car pulls up, with a screech at a convenience store called the 'Quick Stop' he steps out of his car and lifts the metal shutter of the store to reveal the door. He opens it while grabbing two bundles of papers and throws them inside the store.
He enters a very dark room that's barely lit by the daylight. He then flicked the switch and suddenly, the lights flick on, revealing the glorious interior of the convenience store. A cat looks at Blue as he passes by. He opens the paper bundle with scissors. He slams the newspapers into the proper racks then he places a coffee filter in a metal pot, puts in Ground coffee, and the mix is shoved into place in the coffeemaker. He flicks the switch and the machine comes to life. He then notices that there's an empty newspaper rack with the heading 'Asbury Park Press'. Blue rubs his chin and stares, puzzled. Then it finally occurs to him that there's no newspapers. "Shit." he said as he went to the register and extracted a quarter.
Blue then went outside to newspaper machine and drops a quarter in the slot. He pulls the door down, pulls a stack of newspapers from the 'Asbury Park Press'
vending machine. He struggles to hold them all in one hand as he lets the door slam shut. He turns to walk away, but stops when he heard the sound of the quarter dropping into the change slot. He then takes a step back to grabs the coin before heading inside. As he enters he drops the papers into the empty rack with a resounding flop and drops the quarter back into the register drawer.
Blue then went outside and tried to jam his key into the window shutter lock. But it was stuck. "Shit!" he said kicking the shutter angrily as he discovers that the lock is gummed up with gum, preventing the Blue from putting in his key. He then opens the trunk to his car and he reaches inside, pulling out a folded white sheet. He then heads inside and grabs a can of shoe polish and dips his hands into the shoe polish and writes large letters on the sheet. After he was done he takes garbage can outside and stands on it and tucks a corner of the sheet under the awning. As soon as it was on he jumped out and read the banner 'I ASSURE YOU, WE'RE OPEN.' He then headed inside to shift the door sing from closed to open.
Blue then leans behind the counter, with his morning routine completed. He stares ahead, waiting for a customer. He then drops his head in his hands.
Author's Note: Well thats how Blue starts his day working at the Quick Stop. Hope you enjoyed and I assure you that this story is here to stay this time.
