(Hey guys! So you know that I tend to always update on friday and saturday nights. It's now saturday and there's still no friday chapter.. So I'll be writing two in a row tonight. So... Enjoy!)
Tris' POV.
"So I applied for a job yesterday." I announce to the breakfast table of Christina, Marlene, Shauna and myself.
"Ooh, get you. Where at?" Marlene asks, spooning a small spoon of lucky charms into her mouth.
"The cinema." I respond.
"Unlucky" Christina remarks and I look at her puzzled.
"Why is that?"
"You get to watch all the cute couples go into the movies and you're too scared to ask Four if you guys are official yet" Shauna finishes for her, and the trio of devils laugh like crows.
"Wow. I feel... Venom in your evil words" I glare at her with a smile. Okay. It was funny. It's been a week since Four and I went shopping, and some fans took photos of us and posted them all over the internet. I guess we did look sort of cute. My wearing his beanie because he thought my ears were cold.
"I'm just kidding!" She whines. "But you guys should really make a decision soon, before some other guy swoops in for you" she says with a wink
"You're hilarious babe" I sarcastically say in a raised voice, between shout and normal speech. I do it all the time when I'm hyper, trying to make the girls laugh.
"Tell me about it" she says with a chuckle.
"But when are you two-" Christina starts
"Can it." I joke, making them all laugh again with mouths filled with cereal.
"When do you guys think you'll be applying for jobs?" I ask
"Well I already applied for a lifeguard position" Shauna explains. "I should be getting a text back soon. She takes her phone out and smiles down at it, clearly a text from Zeke. Can't believe I'm the last one out of all of us to get a boyfriend... I mean I guess it was inevitable. My friends are all beautiful and I'm just... Average. If that! I mean Four must see something really special in my personality because there's no way my looks landed me into a 'Flirtationship' with a good looking youtube star.
"We best get our finger out then" Marlene says to Christina with a snort
"We can just apply at a beauty salon, they cant say no" We laugh with Christina as she comically flicks her hear over her shoulder.
So I actually ended up getting a text from the manager at the cinema and he told me I had the job. The bad news is, is that he needed me to come and start that very night. He said he'd pay me double for my first week if I came tonight, so I said I could definitely do it. More money for... stuff. And alcohol. And clothes. And perfume... Gosh... so many posibilities. I'm starting to sound like Christina...
My boss is called Max, and he seemed like such a cool guy when I had my interview with him earlier. He sat me down in a room with a large coke and popcorn and we sat with some modern classics playing in the background. He was in the middle of watching The Empire Strikes Back. I had small nerd out with him as we discussed the whole movie inside out. What? I like my Star Wars movies.
I push open the front doors to the Cinema and find a reasonable amount of people inside. There's a long red carpet that covers the majority of the floor, but around the food counter its tiled incase people spill drinks and such. I walk past the long corridor of screening rooms and enter Max's office.
"Hey, Tris!" he jumps out of his seat and walks hurridly toward the door. He invites me in and closes it behind me. "You're just in time!" he says and points toward a seat infront of his desk that I sit in.
"I am?" I ask. I arrived 10 minutes earlier than what he asked.
"Yes! I was just about to head out! I have a uniform somewhere... You can just use your current clothes for today but I'd prefer it if you wore the uniform tomorrow" he turns from the comical man to a serious boss.
"Of-course" I reply with a smile.
"You can wear the hat if you want. And I had a name tag made for you" he says, handing me the nametag, with a bag with the uniform inside.
"Brilliant! Thanks." I say with enthusiam. I've always been one to look forward to working, especially at somethere like a Cinema. As an aspiring director I thought it would be a cool place to start.
"If you need anything, look for a guy called Al. You won't miss him. Literally. Big fellow... Small bushy beard. He holds the fort when I'm not here." he explains. His phone makes a digitilized tone and he pulls it out, reading a message. "Oh, gotta go! Good luck!" he says,and in one swift movement he rushes off down the corridor.
Okay. So two things I gathered there. Max, my boss, seems like he has an addiction to energy drinks. Or something along the lines of it... Second, Al. I know an Al... I wonder if it's the camera man for DauntlessTV. I met him and simply smiled at him, as he nervously held the camera. If he's a cameraman for such a successful YouTube group, why's he working in a cinema? Hell it might not even be the same Al.
After my long thought process, I put my nametag on and put my handbag inside the uniform plastic bag, which seems like a very logical thing to do. Go Tris! I wander back to the counter, where I indeed find Al the DauntlessTV camera man. He smiles at me as I walk toward him.
"You must be Tris." he says, and we shake hands. His seems abnormally sweaty, but I ignore it in fear of upsetting him.
"And you must be Al" I grin back at him with excitement.
"Right you are. Do I remember you fr-" he begins but I cut him off
"You were filming for DauntlessTV and I got picked to be in the video" I explain and he snaps his fingers with realisation.
"Of course" he slaps his forhead "How could I forget?" he says in a higher pitched tone. I laugh, trying not to make it awkward. He seems super nice. Just... too nice.
"So where do I start?" I ask, partially wanting to make progress. Partially wanting to get rid of the poor guy.
"Didn't Max give you a specific role?" he asks with a puzzled face.
"Nope. He seemed like he was in a big rush. He probably forgot." I tell him and he shakes his head.
"Oh the big dope... Well I can assign you a job for today but Max might want you somewhere else tomorrow" he explains
"Sure. Wherever you need me to go" I innocently smile
"Well... I think Adrian on the food court might be ending his shift soon" he looks at his watch and then back up at me. "You can head over there if you want. When is your shift ending?" he asks
"I think Max said I'm only working for three hours tonight, so until 8." I tell Al.
"Ah..." he raises his eyebrows. "That's all good. I think I can just cover from after then. Hell, Max may even get back by then but I doubt it." we walk to the food court and he shows me to my station.
"All set?" I ask after he shows me how to operate the drinks machine, where the popcorn buckets are and he introduces me to a kind girl next to me called Tori.
"Sure. If you need any help, don't be scared to ask either Tori or myself." he says, smiles and walks away.
After two hours of selling food and conversing with Tori I find myself in my element. Pouring drinks and scooping popcorn is a fairly easy job. Maybe I can persuade Max to let me stay on the food court.
"So Tris. What's London like?" Tori asks
"It's cool. I mean, there can be some really pretty parts but then there's some dirty icky places. Just like every major city, really." I explain.
"I've always wanted to go. When I save up money I think I might have to visit you after your gap year." she says and I laugh
"Well... You might not need to" I say and smile at the ground.
"And why is that?" she asks, sliding over to me. "Fill me in with the gossip." she greedily laughs and I chuckle at her curiosity.
"Well... Have you ever heard of DauntlessTV?" I ask and her face drops.
"Should I have?" she says and I actually am rather surprised.
"Well... They're big on YouTube. Pranking and stuff" I explain
"Oh! Oh no wait, the guy with the number for a name!" she catches on
"Yeah! That's the guy I was going to talk to you about, coincidently." I say and she cocks an eyebrow at me
"What about him?" she asks
"Well... We might be sort of dating?" I say, twisting my own fingers together.
Tori snorts and slides back across the counter to her station. "Cool story, dude" she says with a laugh
"No! I actually am. Well. I'm not dating him, but we've had cute movie days indoors and stuff. It's cute" I insist and she rolls her eyes
"I'll believe it when I see it" she remarks and we both laugh. She nods at an approaching customer.
"Hey! How can I help?" I ask him.
"Well first of all, can I get a large popcorn and your number?" he asks, at first I don't catch on.
"Sure!" I say and begin scooping popcorn.
"Wait, really?" he says with a shocked tone
"Really what? If you pay for the popcorn you get the popcorn, dude..." I awkwardly chuckle and set the popcorn on the counter.
"Oh, You didn't hear me!" he sighs with relief. "I asked for a popcorn and your number" he chuckles and I smile back at him
"Well... I'm really flattered but I sort of... have a boyfriend?" I say and glare at Tori who clearly finds the whole situation hilarious. He ignores her, and focuses solely on me with a confident smile. I can tell he's a rich kid from the nearby university. He wears a patterned cashmere vest sweater that looks burgundy. Underneath he wears a red long sleeved shirt. A weird colouring but he works it. His pitch black hair is slicked back, even looking wet. His suit pants lead into black posh shoes.
"Oh. Oh okay" he smiles. "Well, my name is Peter" he says, offering his hand. I take it and shake. "I'll see you around" he spins, walking toward his group of University friends who are equally impeccably dressed as he is.
"Dude. Why did you say no to him?" Tori stares at me, gobsmacked. "He was gorgeous! He was clearly rich, too." she adds.
"Well if you believed me like before, I have Four!" I nudge her.
"I... I can't even. I want to believe you, since you just rejected the rich kid, but I just... Can't!" she hands a customer a tray with Nachos.
"Well you should! I wouldn't lie about that stuff!" I chuckle and again she rolls her eyes.
"I'll believe it when I see it" she repeats herself.
Twenty minutes or so after the Peter incident, I find myself serving a rather large line of customers. It's pressurizing but Tori keeps me right, simultainiously maintaining her own customers. After cutting down the line to one couple on a date and a guy behind them, I finally let out a sigh of relief.
"That'll be 12 dollars, please" I ask the couple. They argue over who pays, and it reminds me of Four and I in starbucks. I smile at the memory and the pretty girl smiles back at me, mistaking my smile for genuine kindness. I mean I'm kind, but I'm not that kind. Screw that. The guy hands me the 12 dollars perfectly and they walk away with their arms linked.
The solo guy behind them wears a trench coat but has a snapchat pulled down over his eyes. "They remind you of somebody?" he asks and I instantly know his voice.
"Four!" my eyes light up and I smile from ear to ear. "How did you find out I started working here?" I shout with a high pitched voice. I put a hand on my chest.
"The girls all went over the house. Shauna told me I should walk you home because your shift ends soon" he explains, lifting his hat up and I see his smile. His dimples crease into his cheeks.
"Holy crap!" I hear Tori say from my right. "You weren't lying!" she laughs.
"She wasn't lying about what?" Four asks her with a laugh, clearly understanding I've been bonding with the girl.
"Oh nothing... But she's a keeper, dude. She turned down this super hot rich looking kid earlier. Told 'im she has a-" she realises she almost let it slip and stops her self.
"She has a what?" he looks at me with an evil grin. He knows what I said. Asshole.
"A good friend." she says with a straight face, the corners of her mouth creasing upwards as she knows what she's done.
"Is that right?" he asks me and I nod.
"A good friend" I giggle.
"You must be talking about Uriah then?" he says
"Ew, no. He isn't my friend at all. He stole my bacon..." I joke, with an evil whisper.
"Anyway. I'll take two large cokes and a salted popcorn, please" he says and I look back at him confused.
"Two cokes? For who..." I say, fearing the worst. He pulls out two tickets from his pocket.
"Don't worry, Tris. I bought us tickets. They're for us." he smiles
"Aw!" Tori says, covering her mouth. She leans in and whisper in my ear "Say yes, he's a keeper" she leans away and I laugh.
"What did she say?" Four laughs and I pretend to zip my lips closed, I shrug my shoulders.
"I hate when girls conspire against me..." he shakes his head
"Hey Tris, give me your phone? I need your number" Tori requests and I hand her it.
I begin scooping the popcorn and set the drinks on the machine. "So what movie are we watching?" I flirtatiously grin at him with a raised eyebrow.
"50 shades." he says with a serious smile.
"Okay, what really?" I say with a laugh. As much as I want to see it, I can't imagine he would have been seen dead buying tickets.
"No really. 50 shades" he reassures me.
"Apart from it being extremely sexual, what do you even know about it?!" I test him
"Well I read the books, so a lot" he says with a serious, deep tone. He smiles and I realise he isn't even joking
"You're so sad..." I joke and he laughs, fixing his hair in a reflecting surface behind me.
Tori taps my arm, handing me my phone back. I completely forgot about it. "You can end a few minutes early, Tris. I'll cover for you" She says with a smile.
"I owe you!" I say and hug her bye, skipping around the counter to hug Tobias.
"You smell like popcorn" he creases his face up after he inhales the smell.
"Oh, I do?" I say, feeling nervous.
"Yeah. It's awesome. I love pop corn" he opens his eyes wildly and smiles. I hit him with the plastic bag containing my uniform and purse.
"Big dummie. Let's go in early?" I suggest, fearing Al catches me sneaking out.
"Why not?" he rhetorically asks and guides me away.
"Later, Tris!" Tori shouts and I turn to wave at her with a beaming smile.
(So, another chapter done. This was probably my favourite chapter I think I've ever written on any story. I hope you guys all feel the same! And one last thing, this is by far my most successful story now. You guys are all awesome! Anyway, gotta quickly start the next chapter. As always, I hope you all enjoyed, and much love! -Al.)
