Would you like fries with that? Chapter four.
A/N Here it is, chapter four! I don't own THE BSC OK? Got it? Good.
Also Lioness reviewed this story which delighted me considering how fantastic her fanfic is!
A month passed, a month of smelling like French fries, lying to my fellow members of the teen against meet club and putting up with Sunny using happy meal toys to flirt with boys during homeroom.
"I don't know how much longer I can take this," I said to Jill as I stared at the cash register trying to decipher the new menu.
"Oh cheer up Dawnie! You made the four week mark, most of the people who can't hack it quit before then" Jill beamed, today she was wearing her uniform which went nicely with the teddy bear barrettes she'd clipped onto her hair.
"I'm only here because I have to be, everything about this place disgusts me and I feel as if I've been dropped into my own personal hell," I groaned.
"Oh you're so funny Dawn!" Jill giggled and then she checked her watch.
"But if you're really getting tired we could go on our break now, things have gotten pretty quiet" she said eagerly.
Outside it was night although considering it was California the late winter air felt no colder then a light breeze.
Jill and I walked past Nick who was having an animated discussion with one of the cats behind the dumpster until we reached the outdoor eating area.
"So how's Gracie doing? Did she like the unicorn book I gave you?" Jill asked eagerly.
"She's been obsessed with tea parties ever since she fell asleep watching the mini series pride and prejudice with carol, she actually hits people if they use spoons the wrong way," I said.
"Oh my gosh that's so cute!" Jill squealed.
"Well that's one way of seeing it, of course it's funny when she forces Jeff to do it," I recalled wistfully and we were both silent for a moment listening to Nick throw a bottle at the cat.
Obviously their conversation hadn't gone well.
"So why are you here?" I finally asked and Jill blushed for a second.
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"Why are you working at McDonalds?" I asked and Jill glanced down at her fingernails.
"I'm trying to earn money for college, I mean dad doesn't really pay anything and mum doesn't make a lot," she admitted sounding very serious.
"Oh" I said understanding.
The ringing of my cell phone however interrupted the tense silence.
"You've got a cell?" Jill asked sounding astonished.
"I know it's terrible huh? Carol made me get it in case I'm ever raped or murdered in an alley way but lately people just use it to bug me" I sighed as I answered it.
"Dawn?" a voice asked and I had to do a mental cartwheel to try and place it.
"Ducky?" I finally guessed.
"Yeah it's me, so how's my favorite sweet sixteen year old going?" he asked and I glanced at Jill anxiously.
"Fine, I mean I'm doing good, what about you?" I asked wondering why Ducky had decided to call me out of the blue.
"Oh I'm doing ok" he trailed off and Jill leaned forward eagerly obviously wanting to know who was calling me.
"Um Ducky why are you calling me on the phone? In fact why are you calling me at all?" I asked.
"Oh I needed to ask you to ask Sunny something, she isn't taking my calls for some reason" he began and I sighed, it was always about Sunny.
"Ok what's the message?" I asked.
"Well you know when my car got totaled?" he asked and I winced.
"Yeah?"
"I think I left my Ipod on the back seat and I've been trying to find it for weeks, I rang up the auto wrecking yard and they said they'd sold the wreck to Seth Goldstein? Anyway it sounds like it was that guy from Vista that Sunny dated last year" Ducky began and I slowly nodded.
"You want me to ask her if she can get your Ipod back" I realized.
"Well it couldn't hurt, I mean it could be another Seth Goldstein who happens to live in Palo City but I may as well give it a shot before I splurge four hundred bucks on a new one" I heard him reflect and Jill began to tap her watch impatiently.
"Is that all you wanted?" I asked.
"Well yeah I mean what else would I want?" he asked.
"What else would you want." I echoed.
"Dawn are you ok? You sound a bit depressed" he began.
"I'm fine"
"Are you sure because you sound a bit off" he continued, the problem with Ducky was he was way to sensitive for his own good. Occasionally he tended to make up problems he thought we had and it never seemed to occur to him that we were allowed to be moody sometimes.
"Everything's cool Ducky, I got to get back to work"
"Since when do you work?" he asked and I glanced at Jill.
"For a few weeks now, I'll talk to you later" I said.
"Ok bye Dawn" he finished and I hung up.
Jill was still staring at me intently.
"So you're still pretty good friends with Ducky huh?" she asked me during our next shift as we attempted to clean out long ago dead French fries from underneath the deep fryer.
"Yeah, why wouldn't we be?" I asked and Jill just shrugged her shoulders.
"Well he goes to college now and you know how people tend to drift apart after high school" she reasoned carefully.
I knew that, after all I hardly ever spoke to the members of the band Vanish anymore ever since they'd broken up due to artistic differences.
"Well he still IM's me whenever he's online and Sunny's got him wrapped around his little finger" I explained and Jill grunted as she used the broom to dig out more grime.
"Uh huh" she said.
"And what does that mean?" I asked.
"So he still talks to you?"
"Sure he emails me all the time and he calls me as well," I admitted and she was giving me that look again, that intent knowing look.
"So a guy in college whom you were friends with when you were thirteen still calls you and emails you all the time?" she asked.
"Yeah.." I began trailing off.
"Does he have a girlfriend?" she suddenly asked.
"Not exactly, I mean he's dated a few people but it was never anything serious" I began and Jill smiled, it was the same smile she wore when she found the My Little Pony backpack at Walmart.
"Well it's nice to see that you two are still friends after such a long time and I'm sure he'll really appreciate what you're doing with his car" she smiled.
"Ducky's getting suspicious" Sunny hissed while I sorted through my locker some time later.
"Huh?" I asked not registering what she was saying.
"Ducky! He called me earlier asking about you" Sunny said folding her arms across her skintight white midriff top.
"Asking about me? Why would he call you to ask about me?" I asked feeling a bit surprised.
I'd known Ducky for three years and he would always call me because he was concerned about Sunny, it was never the other way around.
"He said that you told him that you were working, he thought you were having money troubles" Sunny began and I bashed my head against my locker door.
"God what is with that guy? He's way to into caring about our welfare! I swear to god if he devoted all his passion towards his friends towards the world he could end starvation, save the rainforest and plug up the hole in the ozone layer" I pointed out and Sunny giggled.
"Sorry I was imagining Ducky like literally plugging up the Ozone Layer" she smirked and I rolled my eyes, it seemed to me that girls got less mature when they started having sex.
"That is just so gross Sunny, did he say anything else?" I asked and she frowned for a second.
"Well he said one weird thing" she began.
"Hmm?" I muttered.
"He asked if you were happy" she finished with a shrug of her shoulders.
"You're right that is weird" I finished feeling puzzled, why would Ducky care about whether I was happy or not? I mean yeah he cared but only in the superficial way he cared about every one.
"Any way I covered for you, I told him you were saving up for your prom dress" Sunny said proud of her ability to lie with a completely straight face.
"I've done the figures and based upon Seth's quote and the amount of shifts you two have been doing you'll have enough to pay off the car in two months" Maggie said chewing on the end of her pen.
"Of course I could be completely wrong, I'm often wrong about everything," she reflected.
We were sitting in her room enjoying the vegetarian quiches the cook had whipped up for a light "after school" snack.
Sunny had already polished off half of them while licking her lips and crying out loudly that she was happy to eat anything that didn't come out of a deep fryer.
"Two months? Can't we do it any quicker?" I groaned.
"Well I've looked at your school schedules and your exam time tables several times, so unless you want to give up on school and sleep you're stuck" Maggie said.
"Wait a second? You looked at our school schedules?" I asked.
"We have school schedules?" Sunny remarked a faintly surprised expression on her face.
"Well yeah, how do you know what classes to go to?" Maggie asked Sunny.
"Oh I just wander around until I run into the vice principal, he always seems to know where I should be" Sunny said airily.
"Any way why are you looking at our schedules?" I asked and Maggie slowly blinked.
"Didn't I tell you? I'm turning this whole experience into my major project for my finance class" she informed us.
"Oh"
"I'm even considering investing in several shares, my dads company is doing really well" Maggie added thoughtfully.
"Sure, whatever, just make sure we have enough to pay for the car" Sunny said wagging her finger at Maggie.
"If the shares you well you'll have enough money to buy a new car" Maggie said smugly and then her crippling depression consumed her again.
"Of course it won't go well, nothing goes well for me, that would make a good angst filled poem actually" she added as an after thought.