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Lisa
"Lisa, can you go help Jennie tidy up the stock room, she's been out there way too long." Steve, my supervisor, orders as he walks past the aisle that I was re-stocking. Probably on his way to bark orders at another employee.
"Okay." I say, putting the last of the tins on the shelf. I'm half-way through a six-hour shift in the grocery store that I work part-time at. For the last two years, I've been working in my local store being the general storekeeper. Filling the shelfs and keeping the stock room and shop floor tidy, as well as occasionally severing on the tills. It's not a fantastic job but at eighteen and still in my senior year of high school, it helps out with the bills at home.
Collecting all the plastic wrap up, I head to the backroom. Putting all the rubbish in the correct bins - because, god forbid, a stray piece of plastic the size of my pinkie nail gets put in the cardboard bin - I make my way deeper into the stock room and there I see the sight that makes this crappy job worthwhile. The brunette hair of Jennie swings in its simple ponytail. The gap between her lime green polo and jeans increases as she stretches on tip-toes to reach the items on the back of the shelf. Muffled swearing comes from her as she struggles to pull items forward. I just think that she's amazing, no matter the situation.
I quietly make my way to her as she finishes pulling everything forward. As she lands back on her feet, I wrap my arms around her middle, placing my head on her shoulder.
"Jesus, you scared me!" She jumps before settling into my hug. "Not that I'm complaining but what brings you out here?" she says moving a hand to caress my head.
Submerging myself in her perfume, I place a few light kisses on her neck, earning me a soft moan. "Steve sent me to help you, apparently you're taking way too long out here." I say while releasing her, ready to reluctantly get back to work. I probably would have kept the job had Jennie not started the week after me, even with drill sergeant Steve. Actually, no I wouldn't have, there is no doubt in my mind that she is what keeps me coming back. Got to love the perks of working with your girlfriend.
"Ughh. It wouldn't have taken so long if I didn't have to pull everything forward. The number of items that have been shoved to the back is ridiculous. I feel like my shoulder is going to pop out of its socket." She grumbles.
Massaging her shoulders, I ask. "Where do you want me, my love?"
She gives me a saucy grin and an eyebrow wiggle before explaining what she's done so far and where she wants me to help. We settle into working alongside each other just like we have for the past two years. It's not the most glamorous of jobs and the pay is pitiful. But this dank dusty store room will forever be one of my favourite places in the world, it was in here that I fell in love with the brunette beauty next to me.
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Lisa
We'd gone to school together ever since I'd moved to Korea seven years ago. My first ten years spent in my birth country - Thailand, before we relocated, because my dad got a job posting here.
When we first started working together, we were very different people. Although we were in the same year at school, we'd never spoken to each other before that first shift. Jennie is with the typical high society popular kid crowd, whereas I'm with the invisible middle income family of the school social structure. At least that's what my friends tell me, I don't play into all that popularity rubbish. I do my best at school and I have my mates, while also enjoying a secret romance on the side.
We were like two planets circling the sun, each on their own path. Thankfully something happened to bring us together. That something being a locally owned grocery store, that needed cheap labour.
