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The Secret Life of Nook
Chapter 4: Back to Work Stress
It was seven in the morning when Seth's alarm clock went off. It was Monday which meant Seth had to go back to work with that raccoon. Today would be a very busy day according to the letter Nook had sent Seth the day before. He said that he had remodeled and the store needed to be restocked. It was also the day that Nook was going to teach Seth how to run the cash register. Luckily the store was going to be closed, so Seth wouldn't have to deal with costumers...or so he thought.
Seth got out off bed sluggishly and made his way over to the frig and got out an apple. After changing into the store uniform he made his way to the new Nookway in the acre diagonally above from his house. The outside looks bigger, Seth thought. I wonder how big the inside is. As he went inside he saw it was the size of a small grocery store. He was amazed at how clean it was and how it was so empty.
"Good morning, Seth," Nook said coming out of his office. "How was your weekend?"
"It was good,"Seth said. "How about you?"
"Busy as you can see," said Nook waving his paws to show the upgrade of the building. "You're going to be busy today, too. I have many things for you to do. First, I will run over the basics of the register with you and the leave you with the guide to learn how to do the more complicated stuff. I will also need you to re stock every shelf in the store. I left you an outline of where I want you to put everything. Then you need to make fliers to advertise our grand opening tomorrow and there are three deliveries in the back that need to go out today."
"And let me guess, you want me to finish all of this by the time I get off work at four o'clock right," Seth said staring at Nook like he was crazy.
"Of coarse not, I want you to stay an hour later than you normally do to finish it," Nook said. "Oh, I for got to tell you I have to leave right after I show you the basics of the register, I have a very important business meeting in Snowville. I won't get back until six tonight. And I expect you to have all the work I assigned done by the time I get back."
"Yes, sir," Seth said. After concluding his speech on how to run the cash register properly, Nook grabbed his briefcase and made his was out the door. Seth made his way to the backroom to see what he had to deliver. There was a ranch wallpaper for Cookie, a Japanese vase for Dora, and a pack of stationary and new note book for Cleo. He decided to do the to do the deliveries first to get the traveling out of the way. He packed everything up and made his over to Dora's house. When he got there, Dora was out in her garden.
"Good morning, Dora," Seth said as he got out the new vase. "Here is the vase you ordered. Nook couldn't deliver it himself because he had an important out of town business meeting today."
"Thank you, Seth," said Dora, " I was wondering why you were delivering. How is work going for you?"
"Really busy," Seth said, "Our grand re-opening is tomorrow and I need to stock and make fliers. Plus I have to learn how to run the register by the time Nook gets back. He really picked a busy day to go over to Snowville for a business meeting."
"Snowville!? I used to live there and there really is nothing that great there except for the villagers. I wonder why the meeting is there," Dora said thinking.
"Who knows," Seth said getting ready to go to his next stop. "Well I hope you have a great day Dora. Don't forget to come to the grand re-opening."
"I hope you have a good day to, Seth," Dora said turning back to her garden. "Don't forget to come by on one of your days off. Oh, be careful when you go home tonight because we are supposed to get some heavy rain."
"Alright. Thanks for the warning," Seth said. After leaving Dora's house Seth made his way down hill to Cleo, the horse that lives by the sea. It didn't take Seth long to get to her acre but when he got there she wasn't home. So, he decided that he would go to Cookie's place to deliver her order and then try to find her.
It wasn't long before he came to the river that ran through the town. Seth decided to take a look at the water. It was running high and fast from the previous days of rain. If Colorado was to get any more rain there could be some flooding along the river. After a few minutes of standing and looking at the water, Seth decided it was time to go and made his way up to Cookie's house. Luckily Cookie was there when he got there and Cleo was there, too. Seth gave each of them the stuff they ordered and made his back to the shop. When he got there, someone was standing at the front door. As he got closer he saw it was the village koala, Gonzo.
"Why is the door locked," Gonzo snapped. He wasn't one of the friendliest animals in the village. "I have been waiting here for half an hour. Are you going to open the door or not?"
"Sorry, Gonzo, but we are not opened to day. We are trying to prepare for our grand re-opening tomorrow," Seth said as politely as he could considering he was not too fond of Gonzo and his daily attitude.
"Well, I am sorry but you should have sent out a notice that you were closed today so I wouldn't have wasted thirty minutes on my life waiting for you to tell me that," Gonzo said in an even more intolerable tone.
"Sir, that is not my job. You should take your complaints to Tom Nook," Seth said trying to stay in his polite tone although he was getting annoyed at the complaining of the evil looking koala.
"Then may I speak to him now," Gonzo said pulling at the door handle once more.
"He is at a business meeting in another town and won't be back until later this evening," Seth said.
"Why would the old raccoon be at a business meeting anyway? His store is a self ran industry and the only other connections he has is with the Able Sisters," said Gonzo walking back towards is home.
It then occurred to Seth that when he had first started working there Nook had told him that the shop was a small town business and would never leave the boundaries of Colorado. Seth wondered if this "business meeting" had anything to do with Nook's secret life. After pondering the thought for a few Seth made his was into the newly built building and began to do his other chores that Nook had left for him to do. After putting out the new items and reading the How to Work a Register book, Seth took the fliers he had made and went to post the fliers that he had made. The sky was starting to get covered with extremely dark storm clouds. By the time he got ready to go home the sky was completely covered with storm clouds and the wind was starting to pick up.
Seth stopped by the bulletin board on his way back to his house. 'Thunderstorm with high winds and heavy rains for tonight. 90 chance of the same thing tomorrow.' Seth sighed and went into his house. He grabbed his notebook and wrote down:
4. An out of town business meeting with unknown purpose.
He closed the book and went to bed.
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End Note: Again hope you liked this chapter and sorry for the wait.