Electric Love - R. Meeks

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"I'ᴅ sᴘᴇɴᴅ ᴛᴇɴ ᴛʜᴏᴜsᴀɴᴅ ʜᴏᴜʀs ᴀɴᴅ ᴛᴇɴ ᴛʜᴏᴜsᴀɴᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇ, ᴏʜ, ɪғ ᴛʜᴀᴛ's ᴡʜᴀᴛ ɪᴛ ᴛᴀᴋᴇs ᴛᴏ ʟᴇᴀʀɴ ᴛʜᴀᴛ sᴡᴇᴇᴛ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ ᴏғ ʏᴏᴜʀs. Aɴᴅ ɪ ᴍɪɢʜᴛ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ɢᴇᴛ ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ, ʙᴜᴛ ɪ'ᴍ ɢᴏɴɴᴀ ᴛʀʏ. Iғ ɪᴛ's ᴛᴇɴ ᴛʜᴏᴜsᴀɴᴅ ʜᴏᴜʀs ᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴇsᴛ ᴏғ ᴍʏ ʟɪғᴇ, ɪ'ᴍ ɢᴏɴɴᴀ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ʏᴏᴜ."
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Belle and Randy had woken up two hours later. Randy checked the time and realized he needed to get to work. "Shit!" He half yelled.

He yanked his shirt off and found the Bradley Video shirt he had to wear. He pulled the shirt down and slid on his shoes. Belle put on her own shoes and rubbed her eyes groggily.

"Bye Martha!" He yelled down the hall at his sister as he jogged down the stairs, skipping one occasionally. Mrs. Meeks was covered up on the couch watching the news.

"Bye mom, love you," Randy said, blowing a kiss at his mother and then heading out the door.

"Bye Mrs. Meeks!" Belle called as well before following Randy outside. They got in to his car and he started the engine.

They got to the video store relatively quickly and Randy walked inside as if he wasn't almost late.

Belle followed him to the back of the store and watched him clock in, along with one of co-workers.

"You know, Belle," the co-worker paused, "You spend so much time here you oughta just apply."

Belle laughed slightly and grabbed a cart of movies, passing it to Randy. He wheeled the cart out and got to work pretty quickly.

"Today's been fun," Belle smiled. Randy looked like he was going to say something, but a customer walked up.

"Hey," the customer said, walking closer to the pair, "What's that scary movie where that dude kills people in their dreams?" he asked.

"A Nightmare on Elm Street. You can find everything in the franchise in the horror section over there." Randy replied, pointing in the direction of the horror movies.

"Thanks," the guy said. Before he walked off, he looked at Randy and then looked at Belle.

He looked her up and down before sticking out his hand, "Tony," he introduced.

"Taken," Belle replied, turning back to Randy, "Like I was saying, today was a lot of fun," she continued, making it a point to grab Randy's hand. This had two purposes.

The first one was so that Tony realized that not all girls were in to the jock type and he had no right to dismiss Randy and Belle as being together.

The second one was to a) keep Randy from getting jealous and b) to give him an itty bitty ego boost.

Tony scoffed and walked away.

Belle and Randy kept putting up movies, chatting along the way. They'd been there for probably two hours when it happened.

They'd gone back to get yet another cart of movies and Randy was pushing it through the store. He jumped on to the back of it and rode it to its destination, nearly running some poor guy over in the process.