Two weeks later
"I told you someone would answer my ad, Krelbourn." Mr. Mushnik said happily. He was right, for today the new employee of the flower shop was coming in for the first day of work there.
"And the person is coming today?" Seymour asked him as both he and Mushnik tidied up the shop a little to get it ready for opening at 8 a.m.
"Yes she is coming today, Krelbourn." Mushnik told him.
"She is coming today?" Seymour asked, sounding surprised that the new employee was a woman.
"Yes, she. When she gets here, I want you to show her around and explain how to work the register and ring up a sale. Got it?" Mushnik asked.
"Yes, sir." Seymour said.
Both men continued to work on getting the shop ready for about another 20 minutes. As they were finishing up, in walked a young woman who appeared to be about the same age as Seymour. She had short blonde hair that was a few inches above her shoulders. She wore an off the shoulder, sleeveless black dress and black spike heels. In addition to her "interesting wardrobe", the woman also wore bright red lipstick and pure black mascara.
"Excuse me, I'm new here." she said in a very tiny, high pitched voice.
"Ah yes, welcome Audrey. I'm Gravis Mushnik, the owner of this flower shop." Mr. Mushnik said and politely shook Audrey's hand.
"It's nice to meet you, Mr. Mushnik." Audrey said as she shook his hand. She then glanced over at Seymour, who was standing behind the register with a "This is the new employee?" look on his face.
"Seymour, this is Audrey. She's the new employee here. Now, would you please show her around the place?" Mushnik said, sounding impatient.
That snapped Seymour out of the look and he said "Um, yes sir. Come on Audrey, I'll give you a tour of the shop."
"Oh, thank you Seymour." Audrey said.
Seymour basically gave Audrey the same tour Mushnik had given him eleven years ago when he first moved here. He showed Audrey the different areas of the shop, how to work the register, how to prepare a floral arrangement, and how to count change. It took a good 20 minutes to show Audrey around, but it was worth it.
"Thank you, Seymour." Audrey told him after he finished showing her around. "I really appreciate this."
"Oh…um…anytime, Audrey. If you need help on anything, just ask me or Mr. Mushnik." Seymour told her.
"Oh I will, Seymour." Audrey replied and she went into the back room to organize the flower cooler.
While she was doing this, Audrey was thinking about how nice and friendly Seymour had treated her. Barely anyone had treated her like this her whole life, considering that she didn't have the best childhood ever. Her father had left the family when she was only five, so it was just her and her mom. Her mom had been the only person other than Seymour who was nice to her, but now that her mom was dead Audrey had no one. She had already been in 3 relationships, but all had been abusive. She was lucky to be away from those men, and she vowed that the next relationship she would get into would work, no matter what happened.
Sure, Audrey thought Seymour was cute, funny, and polite. However, she just met him that day and didn't know how a relationship with him would work out. She was attracted to him, but at this point in time she truly felt she didn't deserve a relationship with a nice guy like Seymour. She felt that they would be better off being just friends for the time being.
Seymour felt the same way about Audrey too, but he didn't know about her past and she didn't know about his. So both of them kind of kept their immediate feelings for each other inside, not knowing how long they would have to do so.