Stranger Danger
Kagome rubbed her eyes tiredly. After staying up late with her brother trying to compose the letter to their grandparents, she had to go to work at the club. She dropped the letter off and got an energy drink before her shift started.
Her boss was convinced that if one person was having the time of their life then others would want to join. So every night Tuesday through Saturday at 11:00 pm to 4:00am she was having the best night ever. It was very draining. Then she would get ready for school and nap until 6:45 am.
Now at 11:18 am she finished her rock-star and was gonna have to drink the second Starbucks coffee drink at lunch. If her health class wasn't so interesting she would have been dreaming 45 minutes ago.
When she goes home she'll have to pack a suitcase for her and Souta and stay over Eri's house this weekend.
At least then she wouldn't have to worry about trying to sleep and a hour later waking up to the house full of gas. That was a long night. And her mother blamed her.
The stove wouldn't have been touched if Kagome had woken her ass up and made her chocolate chip cookies in the first place. At 2:00am.
For some reason her mother thinks if she walks down stairs she'll have pelvic bleeding or something equally tragic. After school she'll pick up Souta, pack their things, drop him off, and head to work. Along the way she needs to pick up a large energy drink and this time probably some hot coffee.
It will be nice when the day comes that she doesn't waste her spending money on drinks to keep her self awake. Hopefully this thing she's planning with her grandparents works. Otherwise she was screwed
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"Ai I'll be back by dinner. Just hang out with Ermery till later . Gotta go make that paycheck." He looked down smiling lightly when I teased him.
It's disturbing that such young kid can look so serious all the time. Even Shippo wasn't always serious and he was most likely 4 times her brother's age.
Sighing I got up and ran to the bus stop. After spending 15 minutes getting oogled at on one side and not looking at the man constantly picking his nose we reached the cafe. Getting off I got ready to deal with rude customers, gropers, pms-ing bosses and lazy flirting coworkers that are really big assholes. Just another day
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"Look I don't know how many times I need to tell you this but I'm not going to date you. Seriously I've even met your girlfriend. Or rather girlfriends. By the way Mira said it's over. She met Ezra the other day when you were 'sick'. Ezra didn't say she was dumping you but I have a good reason to believe she's gonna kick your ass as soon as she sees you. Have fun."
Flouncing out with my tray on my hand I left him sputtering some kind of nonsense about how I should have covered for him and made something up. Rolling my eyes I slapped a smile on my face and went to give a group of elderly people their food.
Old people are so sweet.
At least I thought so until I felt a hand reach under my ridiculously short skirt and try to squeeze my butt. Rather then react violently like I use to I simply smiled harder and stepped out of his reach. Then once I was done I flew away ignoring said man's protests.
Later when they left I saw him stop to talk to the manager first. Finally my shift ended and it was time to close up the cafe. But not of course before she gives us our daily performance. "Kagome, I thought you were doing so well until a sweet old man came up and told me you ignored him the whole time they were here. You know that customer satisfaction is what makes your paycheck. That's a mark off for this week."
Huffing naturally I protested even though I knew that I would never win.
"I didn't ignore him. It wasn't until I delivered their food and felt him feeling me up that I avoided getting close to him. He was in the wrong. Was I just suppose to sit there and let him touch me inappropriately? Then go back so he could do it some more."
She shot me a knowing look.
"Kagome if he wanted to grope you then your suppose to let him. What good is it to have good food if the customer doesn't leave here with something making them want to come back?"
"Why else would we go out of our way to have our employees so good looking? Or our uniforms so sexy. Our customers like us because we have amazing looking staff and we allow them to do whatever they want. Mr. Hinye opened this cafe for that specific reason. I know your still in the new employee phase but you need to get over it and accept it. In reality your the only one with the problem."
"We even have a underground service where if the customer requests someone and pays enough they can spend a night with them. Of course we don't get into details so all they pay for is a date but if they pay the individual more then whatever else they do is their business. No big deal. Your not even on the market yet since it hasn't been a full 6 months. So don't complain about some wandering hands."
My eyes were wide. That has got to be one of the worst things I have ever heard. I expected something like that from the club. But this is a high class restaurant. Working here is a big deal. Now I know why.
Leaving with my head down I debated on whether to find a different job or not. No this job pays extremely well, I'm just lucky I'm not 'on the board' yet I guess.
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Ok its official. Someone is stalking me. They're very good at covering their tracks and blending in. However I haven't shaken this feeling since the well closed.
For awhile after we moved in with Fumiko it wasn't there but recently they found me again. Now as much as I would like to believe that youkai are living in the present, I've never sensed one so its impossible.
Her revoir broke when she walked right into a woman. Snapping my head up I quickly bowed in apology. "Gomen'nasai I was not paying attention to where I was going."
Noticing she dropped her bag I reached down for it. She looked like a very important woman. And I just tried to run her over, great. As I handed her stuff to her I realized the whole time she had been staring at me like I was a ghost.
Tilting my head a little I stared back.
"Do, do I know you? You seem very familiar to me. Like I've met you before. Could it be that you come this way often? Or maybe we met before. A long time ago."
She just looked at me. Then suddenly another pedestrian bumped into me. When I looked up again she was gone.
A/N: I am so sorry for waiting this long to update. I started 3 stories at once and I'm trying to get each one off the ground. I promise that this story will be my main focus for now. Also it was hard trying to finish this chapter because I didn't want to rush her meeting her grandparents. But there is no doubt that she'll be meeting with them next chapter. Thanks to everyone who followed, favorited. and reviewed on the first chapter. This got a much better response then I expected from 1 chapter.
