Dead Love

Chapter 3: Movies & Tapes

Steve didn't want to go to work today, he was exhausted from the long eight hours of school, his back was sore from sitting down on those dingy hard chairs, yet here he was in his car driving Robin and himself towards their job the 'Radio Shack' which was right in front of the school so them taking a break from school wasn't there.

He sighed while he pulled up into the Shacks parking lot, taking the keys out of the ignition and resting his head against the wheel, contemplating if he should just quit this job.

Steve heard the car door open slightly tilting his head to watch as Robin exited the car, "C'mon Steviee! let's go" he groaned while letting out a soft laugh, "Don't call me that!" Steve moved his body getting out of his car leaving his bag and jacket in the backseat since he didn't need them while locking the car and heading towards the store with Robin.

He walked behind the counter after Robin, letting their manager know that they were here before Steve walked threw the door heading into the break room to get his vest and clock in.

Steve picked up his vest that had his name and the shop's name engraved on the front, he then proceeded to move towards the small clock-in box grabbing his time stamp and listening to the small click ring threw his ears signaling that he was now starting his shift.

The brown-haired male walked out of the break room heading towards the main desk watching as Robin walks into the break room to do the same, Steve walked up to the counter picking up the paper their manager leaves there every day, a list of Movie and Tapes they need to re-stock, along with checking for Missing Movie's, Late turn in, and making sure things are clean.

Steve looked down at the re-stocking section of the paper taking his time reading the list, making sure that he read everything right since he had an issue with reading things correctly, he then proceeded to move towards the box that was by the front desk picking it up and placing it down on the counter, grabbing the small box cutter that was placed by the old dingy computer, listening to the small clicks echo threw the empty store, pressing the shiny blade onto the tape gliding it down the sticky obstacle, pushing the blade back into the yellow box cutter placing it down by the box, grabbing the brown flaps bushing them apart to look inside the box and the Movie's he needed to restock in the shelves.

He grabs the movies placing them down on the counter carefully to don't damage anything, Steve grabs a handful while walking out from behind the check-out counter, heading towards the shelves, he looks down at the first Movie that was at the top of the handful, 'Poltergeist' Steve heads towards the Horror section of the store, placing the Movie down by it genre before looking threw the stack of Movie's he has in his hands looking to find if any more are part of this shelf.

'The house of Sorority Row'

'Creepshow'

Steve grabs both of these movies placing them gently onto the shelf while looking down at the Movie that's now in view, 'The man from Snowy River ' he turned his body heading towards the Romance section placing it neatly along with the rest of the Romance one's he has in his hands, 'Tootsie' 'Kiss me Goodbye' and 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' Steve looked down at the last movie he had in his hands, 'The World According to Garp' he slightly smiled walking towards the small Comedy shelf placing the Movie down there, while turning his body going back to the counter to put the other half away.

He doesn't bother going all the way around the front desk, reacher over for the rest of the movies grabbing them in a hurry to go and do the other task on the list before customers arrive, he walked threw the shelves putting movies away in their designated genres, he finally gets to the Drama genre placing the rest of the movies that he's holding, 'WarGames' 'Flashdance' 'The Outsiders' Steve made sure that the movies wouldn't slide out from the shelf's before heading back to the desk, going around it and grabbing a pen checking off the first task on the paper.

"I'll do the tapes, can you do Late due's and The Missing movies ones?" Steve asked, while slightly turning his head to look at Robin watching as she logged into the old computer, "Yea-" The bell on top of the store's door softly rang threw out of the small shack interrupting Robin, "Welcome" Steve spoke giving the client a small smile before going back to his task knowing that Robin's already got the customer handled.

Steve picks up the small box that has 'Cassettes' written in Sharpie boldly, while picking up the box cutter and walking around the front counter to go towards the Tapes section of the Store, he places the box down gently on the ground leaning down cutting the tape off the box with the yellow box cutter, before closing it and shoving it into the pocket of his vest beginning to sort threw the tapes separating them by the Music style.

He can hear Robin talk to the customer in the back as he peacefully puts away the tapes reading the name's of the song and artists, 'The Girls Is Mine -Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney' 'Electric Adventure -Eddy Grant' 'Our House -Madness' and a lot more, he heard the customer leave along with the noises of a bag, and the bell at the door ring threw the Shack.

Steve eventually finished stacking the tapes in their designated areas, while standing back up groaning as he felt his knees pop from all the pressure of staying down on his knees for so long.

He leaned down grabbing the now empty box folding it when he cuts the other side, so it wouldn't take too much space behind the counter, he places it down by the other empty, folded boxes making sure it would slip and fall making a mess back there.

Steve sat down next to Robin on a small stool, resting his head against the counter and saying goodbye to their manager as he handed the keys to Steve telling both of the teens that they would be closing today making them both groan and eventually nod their heads.

He placed the keys down onto the counted hearing a soft clink resonate threw his ears, while the sound of a car engine turning on and diapering slowly implied that their manager left, Steve rested his head against his arms deciding if he should fall asleep now knowing that they won't be getting many customers, only a few around four to seven.

Steve tilted his head to look out the window that was next to the counter, looking out of it staring at Hawkins high school, or more like the parking lot, he sighed while closing his eyes knowing that he won't be able to fall asleep here because of Robin not allowing him to.

"This is gonna be a long shift.." He mumbled while slightly tapping his nails onto the counter listening to the satisfying sound vibrate threw his ear and head, "You're telling me" Steve could tell Robin scoffed threw her sentence causing him to let out a small smile, letting the silence surround the small store, the only noise's that were picked up being Robins tying along with her page's flipping.

Steve already wanted to go home maybe visit Billy and tell him about the new movies that were released, maybe.