Melody
After a short interview with the diner’s middle-aged manager I got the job. All I’d had to do was smile, talk a little about the weather and avoid questions about my education. I know that a high school graduation isn’t necessary if you’re looking for job as a waitress but most managers still preferred it if their employees had high school diplomas so by now I’d learned to avoid the subject. My new boss, Mr. Bonner, had offered me a good pay, better than I had expected, and told me that I started my first shift the next morning.
Feeling pleased with myself I made my way back to the hotel. It wasn’t late but I was tired and I didn’t feel like eating out alone. Usually loneliness didn’t bother me, most of the time I didn’t even notice that I was pretty lonely but today I felt differently about it. I was thinking about my ex-boyfriend Ty. Sure he had had a few flaws, okay more than a few, but I had really loved him. Now that the inevitable had happened and we had broken up I couldn’t help but reflect on how lonely I was. I had no family, at least none I kept in touch with, and friends, I didn’t have a lot of those either, one of the results of constantly moving I guess.
Back at my hotel room I ordered room service, threw on sweatpants and put my hair up in a ponytail. Outside the sun was setting and I couldn’t help but smile, the entire sky was burning red and orange and it was simply breathtaking. I opened my window and placed myself in the windowsill eating my room service waffles. Soon enough I would have to start looking for a little studio apartment to rent, even though the hotel I was staying at didn’t charge much it couldn’t be permanent. I needed a place of my own if I was serious about staying here. A car drove by with the windows rolled down and a country song playing on the highest volume and somewhere in the distance a dog was barking but otherwise there wasn’t much noise so even though it was only 9pm I went to bed with my window wide open letting the summer breezes sweep in.
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Love Makes Me
Teen FictionHunter is a young singer songwriter fighting a writer's block. He is determined that what he needs to work past it is a summer romance but once he's found the perfect muse, Melody, getting her to fall for him turns out to be harder than he ever thou...
