for meet cutes day 18 - a gets stuck in jeans in a fitting room and b, the attendant, has to help them

for 366 words - knee

for writing club: showtime - the temple

402 words by gdocs


Scorpius can't move his legs. He's into skinny jeans as much as the next guy, but these jeans are a little bit too skinny, even on his string bean body. He tries to bend his knee to maybe help himself shimmy out of them. He can't. He tries to force them down his legs again. He can't. He wobbles, the jeans making it impossible to walk normally, and he bangs his back against the wall of the fitting room. It made a loud noise, but Scorpius is pretty sure that no one else is in the area.

Scorpius then tries to use the wall as an anchor and shove the jeans down. It still doesn't work. Scorpius thinks he might have to pay for the jeans and live the rest of his life with them on. It might make going to the bathroom a pain in the ass, but Scorpius doesn't see another choice.

There's a knock on the door of the changing room as Scorpius is still trying to pull the pants down. Seriously?, he thinks. He knows that there are other open changing rooms.

"Excuse me? Sir? Do you need any help?" the person on the other side of the door says, and Scorpius goes very still as he realizes that it's the fitting room attendant. He feels mortified, just a little bit, but also. He can't get out of the damn jeans.

"Yes," he squeaks, out of breath from the effort. He reaches an arm forward to unlock the door, and just his luck: the changing room attendant is cute. Great, he's going to have a cute guy help force his pants off and it's completely non-sexual. That sort of sucks.

"I can't get out of these," Scorpius says, looking desperately at the attendant, whose name tag reads Albus.

"Okay," Albus says. He looks over Scorpius for a second, and he hesitates before dropping down to his knees. Albus dips his fingers into the sides of the jeans and yanks down, hard. Miraculously, they come off, and Scorpius is glad that his underwear stayed on.

Albus, realizing that he's face to face with Scorpius' underwear, quickly gets up.

"Thank you," Scorpius breathes, and Albus gives him a shy smile.

"Anytime!" he says. He nods at Scorpius, and exits the room.

While Scorpius puts his own pants on, he makes a mental note that he has to get Albus' number.