Just What I Needed | Robin Buckley

7. perfectly splendid

Nicoles POV

Arguing with Robin the other day was really annoying and so what if Harrington gives me a little pat on my shoulder or a little smile here and there! Nothing is going on between me and him.. but there also seems to be nothing going on between me and Robin except for our little awkward attempts at flirting.

"New shipment equals more bananas!" Steve said placing a box onto the table and opening it up.

"Hey what's wrong?" Steve said taking out the bananas and looking at Nicoles upset face.

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Nicole and Steve were on prep duty and Robin was out front which was weird since she said she would never leave them alone in the back with bananas again.

"Nothing just- ..guy trouble?" Nicole replied looking around the room not wanting to see Steves face. He sat down next to her and began prepping the bananas for banana splits and looked at her as if saying "who's the lucky guy?"

"You don't know him Steve! So don't even try to bother me into telling you who it is"

"Alright alright but I can help with guy advice because, well i'm a dude"

Nicole giggled and sat upright grabbing a banana and helping him with prepping them.

"Hawkins must have a thing for bananas because we keep getting new shipments for them weekly!" Steve said in an annoyed voice and shaking his head.

"Yeah well maybe if you hadn't eaten them all!" Nicole chimed in and the two shared a smile and giggle.

As Steve was doing his job Nicole stared at him for a little too long and started to realize the good things about him like how he was always nice to her, had good humor and his hair wasn't that bad..?

Just then Dusting slammed open the door with an angry Robin following him.

"Excuse me employees only??" She said stopping the kid which he replied in a yelling tone saying it was important and that he had to talk to Steve.

Robin, annoyed said whatever and walked out not even wanting to guess what he meant.

"I need to talk to you it's like- Saving the world important!"

Steve agreed to listen but Dustin insisted on having Nicole leave the room.

"I can just listen to music on my walkman!"

"Uh.. sure do that"

Nicole gave a hurried okay and quickly put on her headphones and pressed play, "Hit Me With Your Best Shot by Pat Benetar" started playing and Nicole hummed along to the tune continuing to prep the bananas.

Nicole was humming a long but was startled when the kid pulled out a recorder slamming it onto the table, he mouthed sorry and continued talking to Steve. He then proceeded to place a red little book on the table which intrigued Nicole since she was such a big fan of books, although she couldn't read the title since there was something blocking her way.

After a while of Nicole minding her business and Steve and Dustin were talking Robin walked in through the door which made Nicole take off her headphones.

"All right, babysitting time is over. You need to get in there" Robin said pointing at Steve with an ice cream scooper and then looking around the room seeing that the white board was completely erased and instead of the data that was collected there was the russian alphabet written on it along with the english one.

Nicole tilted her head and furrowed her eyebrows wondering how she didn't notice them erasing Robins work.

"Hey. my board that was important data shit birds"