You should have been more clear

Chapter 1

June 1st 2023

Let's start this story off with the truth. My parents are divorced. My dad hates my moms side of the family. My mom hates my dads side of the family. I'm 15 and my parents have been divorced for 10 years. They still haven't gotten over the fact that they hate each other.

So when I asked my dad if I could stay at my moms parents house (who live 2 hours and 30 minutes -give or take a few- away) for the whole entire summer...let's just say he was speechless.

"So dad, I was talking to grandma and papa about staying at their house for the majority of the summer."

Silence

"And they said they could get me a job because the people who own stores at the state beach they could get me a job."

Silence

And that's house the rest of the 10 minute car ride back from the grocery store went.

I only have 2 weeks left of school and I need to come up with a plan to get my dad to say yes. My ideas so far are: make a slide show, beg for him to let me go, maybe hunger strike.

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June 14th 2023

Today was the last day of my sophomore year of high school. After showing the slide show to my dad, and some tears he said yes.

So now here I am packing my bags because my grandma and papa are picking me up tomorrow.

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June 17th 2023

I arrived at my grandma and grandpas house two days ago and now today is my first day at the job. The uniform is pretty boring. I can wear any kind of pants/shorts I want but I have to wear a shirt or sweatshirt with the company name on it. It's not that bad because the company name is 'Golden Apparel' so it's basically like a souvenir shirt that the shop sells but on the back it says "employee."

I met my boss, Bradley the day before and he seems cool. His kids work there and they're around my age. His daughter Tatum is 15 and his son Charlie is 17. Only 4 people are working today including me.

"Hey." A girl says to me.

"Hey."

"I'm Tate." She tells me.

"Oh, so you're Bradley's daughter, yeah?" I ask.

"Yup." She says cringing a bit. "I honestly hate having my dad as my boss, I mean I don't mean to scare you away, like he's not a bad boss or anything. Just my dad."

"I get that. I had my dad as my drivers Ed teacher and it was awful. Every time he told a story about me to the class I would look around the room and act that he was talking about some other girl who just so happened to have the same name as me."

"Oh that's horrible. Jesus, my dad being my drivers Ed teacher would make me want to crash the car." She tells me.

"Oh believe me I tried." We laugh.

"So who all works here?" I ask her.

"We'll only 4 of us today. Me and you, and then Mae and Adam." She starts.

"No we like them?" I say.

"We like Mae, definitely not Adam, but we'll get into that later. All the other workers are around our age. Me and Charlie are siblings. My dad probably explained that to you. Keaton and max are also siblings. Keaton is 17, max is 15. Keaton works here cause he is fiends with Charlie. Silas, Keaton and Charlie's friend, is 17 as well. Marlee is 16. Mae is 19. Nash is 18. And then , Adam he is 14. We don't like Adam. I'm sure you're probably aware by now but my dad is like hard core Christian. And Adam, he's the pastors son. That's not why we don't like him though. Like he has zero social awareness. He'll say the most out of pocket things and hurt peoples feelings. And then last summer that he worked here he stitched on me to my dad and also got five people on our staff fired."