high on love | stanley barber

| 1 | the bowling alley

olivia james, walks in on her first day of the job. she's working at a bowling alley to get by, to help her family. although her family doesn't give a shit about her. her dad was a drunk, her mom was dead but her little sister madeline was her favourite.

"doing it for maddie." she assures herself as an older woman walks up to her, holding her uniform.

"so, you'll work after school, 5 days a week. stanley will be showing you around, showing you how to do the job. here's your uniform get changed and he'll be waiting for you" the older woman tells her, handing her the uniform and walking back behind the counter.

she takes the uniform and goes into the store room. after she's changed, she hangs everything up and walks out to find stanley waiting outside.

"hey, olivia right?" he asks as she leans against the wall.

"that's me, your the stoner kid right?" she asks a slight smile playing on her lips.

"yeah, that's what they know me as. maybe you'll know me as something different." he says.

"yeah who knows stanley the stoner. on a different note is this job okay? it's just i'm not doing it for me." she asks.

"yeah actually, decent pay and it can be kinda fun if your not cleaning the bowling shoes." he says.

"okay. what's my job today?" she asks him as he leads her behind the counter.

"if we have customers, serve them. it's quite easy, you ask how many's in their party and you always tally up the pay first and make them pay before you ask their shoe size. then you ask their shoe size grab their shoes and their good to go. but this alley is normally empty at this time of day, so you shouldn't have to do much. gladys the woman who gave you the uniform she goes at 6 the alley closes at 11 tonight, but nobody really comes. so we can get high in the back room." stan says.

"okay, i've never gotten high but i'm kinda excited." liv says sitting on the counter.

"i can't believe we've never spoken before stan" she says.

"weird world" he replies simply.

once gladys went home they were laying on the bowling lanes high as a kite. her thoughts were cloudy and she just felt utter bliss laying with stanley talking random shit in the empty bowling alley.

"this is so nice" she says giggling. "i have zero fucks, i don't care about anything!" she exclaims throwing her hands up in the air.

"that's why i do it" he admits sitting up.

"tell me some secrets of yours stanley barber" she asks sitting up moving opposite him.

"secrets secrets secrets." he just repeats. "i'm a virgin, i like getting high, cuz it shuts everything out. home is shit. my favourite band is bloodwitch. you now" he says.

"uh, i'm also a virgin, this is my first time getting high, i work here for my little sister and my favourite singer is lana del ray." she says.

"how olds your sister?" he asks them getting closer to each other.

"she's 5" she says as she notices a bruise on his eye.

does his dad hit him?

she tries to put her hand on his bruised eye as he pulls her hand down.

shit does she know?

"stan, tell me your main secret." she says trying to get him to tell her about his eye.

"my dad is a piece of shit." he admits.

"pass me your phone." she asks him as he reaches in his pocket unlocks it and hands it to her. she adds her number under the name liv~ bowling alley. "if you ever need to talk stan, call me i know shitty fathers, we can help each other." she says giving him a small smile.

"thank you" he says pulling her into a hug.

"i'm sorry i only knew you to be the stoner stan. i can see your so much more than that." she says pulling away from the hug as he pulls her closer planting his lips on hers gently. "wait stan, we've barely known each other a day. i like you but let's take it slow?" she asks.

"yeah, sorry i just went for it." he apologises.

"it's okay stan." she says giving him a slight smile.

"it's getting kinda late, need a ride?" he asks.

"yeah, my dad will kill me if he picks me up high."  she explains getting up grabbing her bag from out the store room.

once stan has dropped her off she notices her dad isn't even there.

"hey stan, before you go back to your shitty dad. you wanna come in and meet my lil sister and maybe watch a movie until my dad comes back?" she asks.

"yeah" he replies getting out of the car.

they walk into her house and madeline is at the door patiently waiting.

"livvy?" she calls out as liv opens the door, maddie jumping into her arms.

"i'm back, i'm sorry i was so long monkey." she says.

the night concludes after they watch shrek with maddie, liv asleep on his shoulder, maddie asleep on her lap her hands running through maddies curly ends.

okay i'm so obsessed with stanley barber rn. you already know what i'm doing i'm writing a fanfic about him <3 i hope you enjoyed this actually quite long chapter :) until the next one

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