HEY ALL YOU TWO PEOPLE THAT MIGHT STILL BE READING MY STORY!
I'm so sorry I haven't updated in a while… I have A LOT of homework right now.
3 WHOLE PROJECTS! 3!
I know, my teacher is mean. But he can be nice. Like today, pretty much all we did today was play games! (I go to a Christian school so I have one teacher for every subject but math)
I'll try and update more often! I promise! I'm also gonna try making paragraphs and not just one big paragraph :P
Anyways... enough of my rambling (I tend to do that a lot)
ONWARD!
Chapter 10- Work
I got up from the bed and looked in my bag from the mall. I opened it up and took out the smaller bags inside. I put on a purple, white, yellow, and blue plaid shirt with an ocean blue tank top underneath and rolled up the sleeves. Then I put on a pair of bootlegger jeans and some combat boots. I took my messy French-braid out and put brushed it out with the brush I'd bought at the mall. Then I put it up into a ballerina bun and used a thin, small, slightly transparent scarf as a headband. I tied it on the side in a bow and took a selfie to see how I looked before stepping out into the main room again. Just as I was about to look at the picture, I got a text. I looked at the name of the messenger, 'Message from Martin'.
"OH MAN!" I exclaimed as I ran out of the room to the living room. Not even looking up from my phone, I paced around the group of turtles and April, dodging any and every obstacle without paying attention to anything but the message. "Oh man, oh man, oh man", I said under my breath repeatedly as I waited for my Messages app to open. As the app opened, I immediately clicked Martin's conversation. The message read, 'Hey, you weren't at work yesterday or two days ago. I called your apartment but you didn't answer'. I stopped pacing and sat down on the floor behind the giant stacks of TVs as soon as I finished reading the message. "No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This isn't happening, this isn't happening", I muttered as I rocked back and forth, squeezing my eyes shut and rocking back and forth, hugging my knees to my chest. Martin was my best friend at work. He was always there for me, like the brother I always wanted. I stopped rocking and picked up my phone from where I had set it down beside me. I began to respond to Martin's message, 'I know. I've had a lot going on recently. Have people been asking about me?' He responded not ten seconds later, 'Our boss did, but I told him you weren't feeling well and I covered for you. Your welcome J'. I let out a loud sigh of relief and laid on my back laughing. "YES!" I exclaimed standing up. I began pacing again, but this time, out of joy. I responded to the text, 'THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! OMIGOODNESS I LOVE U MARTY! I'LL GIVE YOU HALF THE PAY I SWEAR! I OWE YOU BIG TIME! Do you know when my next shift is?'. I clicked send and did several twirls, my pace turning more into a jog. I jumped over a stack of comics and twirled again. I heard a bleep and checked my phone. Martin had replied, 'Np. You dont have to give me half. Its what friends are for and I know u need the money. Dont worry bout it J. Ur next shift is from fifteen minutes from now for 3 hours.' I stopped dead in my tracks and my facial expression went from overjoyed to dead. 'OMIGOSH IM GONNA BE LATE! THX TTYL!', I texted Martin.
"Ooooo, this is bad, this is bad, this is so very bad!" I said, spinning pivoting, looking for a way out. I couldn't miss another shift, I couldn't. Then I saw an elevator that had a tube as wide as it leading up. I smiled realizing that that was a way out and ran back to the room I had been staying in and grabbed my purse. I made sure everything was still in it, and ran back out toward the elevator. I pushed the elevator button several times before I heard a ding and the doors began to slowly slide open.
"Whoa!" I spun around and saw Leo speed-walking toward me. "What was all that? Wh-where are you going?" I spun back around and walked into the elevator. I turned to look at him. "My job. I missed my past two shifts and I can't miss another. My shift starts in less than ten minutes! GUH! WHICH ONE OF THESE STUPID BUTTONS TAKES ME TO THE SURFACE?!", I exclaimed, my view now on the eight buttons on the elevator wall. Leo grinned a little and stepped in beside me. "Here", he said softly, pushing the button numbered '2'. "Which Apple store do you work at?" "The one on Fifth", I replied, twiddling my thumbs nervously. "I'll drive you. It's not far from here", Leo said. I looked up at him and my I felt my face light up. "You will?" "Course. I can tell you need this job, after everything you've been through, it's the least I can do."
I smiled and we both looked ahead as the elevator doors finally opened. He speed walked to the same van I vaguely remember seeing in the alley when April and I had run out of the mall. He opened the passenger door and I ran in. He closed the door behind me and jumped in the driver's seat. He pushed a button on the ceiling of the van and suddenly a garage door opened. I looked around and realized we were in what looked like an old factory or something.
He sped out and soon enough we were at the Apple store. "You have your T-Phone, right?" I stuck my hand in my purse and felt around for it as I got out. "Ya. Thanks for the ride. I owe you!" I said slamming the door and running into the Apple store.
Wow, I can't believe I made it! I wouldn't have gotten here on time without him, I have to find a way to repay him. Now that I think about it… he has been acting a lot nicer than the others. Maybe April's right… but… he's a turtle, and I like someone else. Even if I did like Leo, it could never work… could it?