AN: Hiya! Thank you guys so so much for the follows/favs/reviews, did not expect it at all so gracias! Here's the last part to this...enjoy!
Tuesday. Ste wants to pound his head into the wall. He rolls off the bed and doesn't even care when he falls right onto the ground. Its another pointless day where he has to work at his job from hell. Although his first day wasn't necessary awful, he can honestly say he didn't enjoy it. He ended up hiding in the fitting rooms till he heard the announcement that all the employees could go home. Ste rushed out of there as if he was in a marathon. He chanced a glance to where Brendan was last at, or in other words where he was hiding, but it was empty. He didn't blame Brendan for leaving as he himself avoided him but he still felt slightly hurt. Couldn't figure out why though. When Ste finally got to the parking lot he looked around and saw at least 10 employees walking out with him. He didn't recognize any of them. Ste tried finding Brendan in the dark of the night but it was more difficult than he thought. He tried to sneak to his car so people wouldn't notice how run down it looked but when he looked up he locked eyes with Brendan going into his sleek sports car.
"Have a goodnight Steven. Drive safely, doesn't look like the car would be able to take much more."
Brendan gave him a smug smile and laughed to himself as he got in his car and drove away.
"Bastard." Ste mumbled to himself as he went home for the night.
As he gets ready for his shift today he wonders if Brendan will be working as well. He puts a vast amount of gel in his hair but this time decides to make it go sideways, almost as if an invisible air is blowing it to the side. He puts on a dark plum colored shirt and black trousers, and decides against the blazer today. His shift is the same as yesterday, 5PM-10PM. Ste makes himself a bagel with cream cheese and walks out of his flat. And just like yesterday he gets there 30 minutes early. He doesn't feel like going into the break room and making mindless conversation with the other employees so Ste takes a seat outside the store under some trees to get shade from the scorching sun. Ste unwraps his bagel and takes a huge bite from it. Almost half of it. He's not paying much attention until there's a shadow right in front of him.
"Got a big mouth don't ye."
"Huh?" Ste looks up and sees Brendan staring right at him. Or he thinks he is, he can't really tell since Brendan has on sunglasses. He's wearing a red shirt and black trousers. His hair is styled to perfection. Typical.
"The bagel. You gobbled it down." Brendan literally pushes Ste so that he can take a seat next to him. "So you actually going to stay after work and clean or you going to hid in the fitting rooms again?"
"I didn't...it was well messy in there." Ste hopes it came out as a decent enough lie but again he can't tell with the sunglasses on. He doesn't know why he does it but he reaches up and takes Brendan's glasses right off him. "There that's better. Was bugging me."
Brendan looks taken back and he opens his mouth several times before he finally speaks. "Do you normally just take people's things away from them Steven?"
"Nope consider yourself special." He hands Brendan's glasses back and almost raises his hands in victory when Brendan doesn't put them back on. "What you doing here anyway?"
"Well last time I checked I worked here."
"Oh ha ha very funny Bren I meant out here."
"I just got here and saw you almost choking on that bagel. Figured I would make sure you were ok." Brendan smirks at him and gets back up. "Anyway I gotta get inside so ill see you there."
Ste waves him off and as he goes to take another bite from his food, Brendan reaches down and snatches the bagel right out if his hand.
"Ey! I was still eating that."
"That's for calling me Bren. It's Bren-DAN." He takes a bite of Stes food and walks into the store with Ste following closely behind him cursing under his breath.
Ste clocks in and starts walking back up to register 5 assuming he would be in the same department as yesterday.
"Steven come here."
He turns around to see Brendan just standing on the other side of the store with his hands in his pockets. He walks over there as quick as he can without looking like a lost little puppy.
"Yeah?"
"I thought it was a bit awkward of you working in that department so I switched you. You're going to love it."
Ste can see from Brendan's smile that he will definitely NOT love it.
Turns out he's right. He gets placed, or forced, into working in the dreaded shoe department. From first glances it looks like a disaster area. It's day and night to the department he worked in yesterday. Yesterday he barely had around 10 customers and from what he can tell there's at least 50 women here. He laughs a bit as he thinks it looks like a wrestling match with these women almost fighting for shoes.
"There's a sale going on so."
Ste waits for him to finish and realizes he's done. Stupid way to end a sentence he think.
"You're really going to assign me to work HERE on my second day? I can't handle these people."
"There's 6 employees here, including you, so I think it'll be fine. See the girl with the brown hair, her names Anne, just ask her if you need any help. So chop chop get to work."
Ste hesitantly starts walking. He's stepping into his death. He hides his name tag as he snakes his way through the crowd and looks back at Brendan laughing at him before he walks in the opposite direction. As soon as Ste makes it to the registers to introduce himself there's already an older lady asking for help. Anne is about to walk over but Ste signals he has it. How bad could a 60 year old woman be?
"Hi youngster do you mind helping me find this in a size 7."
Ste gets caught up with the word youngster that it takes him a moment to nod and go look. He assumes she would wait for him on the chair but she gets right behind him clearly in his personal space so he shuffles even more towards the shoes.
"Umm there ya go." Ste helps her back to her chair.
"Aren't you going to put them on me?"
"What?" Ste looks around and sees some of the other employees doing the same thing. He wants to throw up. He has a weird phobia with feet. He does not like looking at them but he gets up his courage and sits down in front of her to help. "Oh bloody hell." He can't contain his mouth when he sees her feet. It takes everything in him to not get up and run the other way. But he manages to put them on her and they actually look nice. "I think they look good on you." He gives her as much as a smile as he can.
"I don't know. Let me see them in brown."
"Fine."
After 30 minutes he is still with a the SAME woman. There are at least 15 boxes of shoes next to her and she has found something wrong with each and every one of them. He looks behind him and sees Anne in hysterics. She gives him a thumbs up and keeps laughing at his misfortune.
"Steven you going to take these boxes back or do you want me to just slam right into them."
Once again Ste was to concentrated at the job at hand he didn't even see Brendan approaching him. He also didn't see Brendan almost trip over the piles of shoes he has laid out.
"Sorry Bren...DAN. That woman over their has me getting every damn shoe in this place and she doesn't like ANY of them."
Brendan looks over in the women's direction and smiles. "Her name is Lucy and if you give her help you're stuck with her for the whole day."
"What!"
"First hand experience Steven I once asked her if she needed help finding anything and 5 hours later I was standing outside the dressing room with a pile of clothing waiting for her."
"You can't be serious? She's doing me head in. Can't you take over"
"What would I get in return if I did?"
Ste watches Brendan as his tongue licks his lips and very slowly looks him up and down.
"What do you want?" Ste plays hardball here.
"Same thing you do."
"Really and what would that be."
"Steven-" Brendan takes a step forward and once again Stes personal space is invaded but he doesn't mind. Not at all. "-I think you know what I want."
"Youngster I was thinking a shoe like this in gray."
Brendan takes a step back and awkwardly fixes his already perfect collar of his shirt.
"Yeah yeah. Right." Ste rushes away and Brendan takes a seat next to the women.
"You know he's new right? You're going to wear him out by the end of the day."
"Nonsense Dan he seems healthy enough. I won't get him to tired for you."
"It's Brendan not just Dan. Wait what?"
"You and him. Rolling around in the sheets. I saw the way you two were looking at eachother. Might as well have just gotten to business right here and given us a free pay per view show."
Brendan is speechless and he feels his neck burning up so he looks down as he gets off the chair. "Funny. Tell him I-"
"You said bye? Got it. But I'm sure you'll see him later on."
Brendan just walks away with his head down avoiding any eye contact.
Ste walks back up with two boxes in his hands. "Ok I think you will like this. Umm wheres Brendan?"
"He had to go but he wanted me to tell you he said bye."
Ste blushes a little as he gets on the floor to help her get the shoes on.
"Aww youngster you like him?"
"What? No no I don't."
"Sweetheart I have years of experience on this and I can see it a mile away. You like him. That or you just want to get in his pants. Either one is fine."
"I...no no...he's me boss."
"Don't worry lad he feels the same way about you too. And I bet he would LOVE to be your boss outside of work."
"Can we just not talk about this?"
It takes another hour before Ste manages to actually find the woman a pair of shoes she likes and she actually buys them. When he looks at the time he realizes that its just about to be 10 PM so he starts to help with the cleaning. It's only him and Anne putting stuff up but then they are joined by Brendan.
"Bren are you going to help us or just stare at Ste the whole time." Anne throws a shoe at him and he catches it and throws it back. Ste hears his name and looks back to see them both staring at him.
"Anne go clean up housewares department. Ill help him finish up here."
Anne smiles at Ste and then lightly pushes Brendan. "Have fun you two." She happily skips out of there.
"Ok so Brendan you want to start picking up some of those boxes while I pick up the shoes over here."
"Im not gonna actually help."
"You what?! I can't do this on me own."
"I didn't say you would." Brendan gets up and starts kicking the shoes under tables and seats and then slides the boxes into a corner. "Done."
"Oh yeah cause this looks neat."
Brendan picks up 2 boxes and throws one at Ste. It hits him right in the stomach.
"Learn how to throw yeah!"
"You could have caught that. Go take it to the back room and put it up."
"I can carry more than a box." Ste goes to grab another box but Brendan just pushes him in the direction of the room. Ste doesn't resist and just goes with it. They get to the back and there are shelfs upon shelfs of different boxes of shoes, every color, every size. Ste goes over to one side of the shelf to put it up and hears Brendan just throw the box he was carrying on the floor. Ste rolls his eyes but continues. He looks down and he sees it.
"Fuck! Oh god there's a massive rat in here. It's chasing me!" Ste runs to the other side of the shelf where he sees Brendan sitting on a ladder that can easily fit 3 people on it. Ste does some weird snakelike movements trying to get away from the rat that isn't following him.
"Steven there's nothing behind you." Brendan barely is able to talk as he laughs at the sight in front of him.
Ste looks back and then climbs onto the ladder but stands on it still staring down towards the floor. Brendan looks to the side and finds it ironic that in his line of vision is Stes cock. He looks up and catches Ste looking straight down at him.
"What?"
"Umm-" Ste gets nervous and just lowers himself to sit down next to Brendan "-nothing just looked like you were on your knees."
"Thinking of me on my knees already huh."
"No no. I mean yeah. Wait no just. Shut up."
"Whatever." Brendan leans back a little and stuffs his hands in his pocket again. They sit in silence as they wait for the announcement that they can leave. Brendan sees from the corner of his eyes that Ste is trying so hard to not look at him. He decides its time to mess with him. Brendan rolls up his sleeves more and takes a button from his shirt off. He removes one hand from his pocket and very slowly glides it across his trousers, making sure to come in contact with his groin. He hears Ste gasp next to him and he smiles to himself as he keeps repeating the same action. When he looks over at Ste he sees his eyes are closed. Brendan is about to curse him out for falling asleep on him until he actually hears what he's dreaming of.
"Oh fuck Brendan. Please please suck it."
Ste is moaning and his hips are pushing upwards as Brendan stares down at him almost becoming a mess by just the sight of the boy losing himself. His chest is rising and falling as he pleas keep going throughout the room.
"Bren you're amazing! Don't stop."
Brendan moves over and stands in front of him. He leans down and whispers into Stes ear. "How badly do you want me Steven."
"So so much. I need you."
"Scream my name. Now."
Ste shouts so loud that even Brendan has to move back a little before he becomes deaf. Ste suddenly opens his eyes and looks right into the eyes of Brendan. "Please don't tell me I dreamt that out loud?"
"I got a good show."
"Oh god!" Ste tries covering his face but Brendan pulls them apart.
"I didn't say I didn't enjoy it did I? Come on."
Ste jumps off the ladder as he follows Brendan out. "Where we going?"
"Just shut up." Brendan walks to the doors and waits for the manager to open the doors up and lets all the employees go home. Once they reach Brendan's car he opens the passenger door for him. "We're going to mine."
"What about my car?"
"We have the same shifts Steven. Ill just drive you to work."
"So wait I'm spending the whole night and morning with you?"
"Dream come true isn't it."
"Nightmare more like."
Brendan smiles and closes the door and then gets pushed by Ste as he opens it himself and jumps into the passenger seat. "Hurry up then."
"Thought so."
As Brendan drives them away Ste can't help but think that this job wasn't such a bad idea after all.
