****1 YEAR EARLIER****
I walked into CVS and took my position at the front counter while shoving my green uniform over my head and pinning my bulky name tag on my shirt. “Hey! You didn’t call last night, I thought some angry trolls had come over to your house and ate your eye balls!” I laughed airlessly and turned around to face Clayton with my eyes closed. “It wasn’t the trolls, a unicorn poked them out!” I screamed. We stared at each other for a minute with serious looks on our faces, but I saw Clayton’s lips tilt up slightly and I knew I had won. Within an instant Clayton was on the floor roaring with laughter and clutching the side of his stomach. I giggled at the sight but I turned around when I heard an annoyed cough. An old lady stood in front of me holding a bag of items. The scowl on her face told me she was someone important and that she thought highly of herself, she obviously had no time for imperfections or jokes. So without a word I rang up her items and told her that the total would be 14.95 and said my required line ‘Thank you for shopping at CVS, please come again!’
After she left I turned back to Clayton and he asked me again why I didn’t call. “I just had to do something ok.” I snapped, getting a little irritated even though I usually don’t mind when he plays 20 questions.
He shrugged and asked “Do you wanna catch a movie after our shift?” Just in case you’re wondering I'm not dating Clayton; that would just be weird because he’s like the brother I never had and I'm the sister he’s always wanted. “Sure.” I replied.
After 8 painfully long hours later I slipped off my uniform and went to go find Clayton in the back. I found him talking to a guy in a corner of the stock room. “Hey you ready to go to the movies?” he asked me and the guy standing next to him raised a pierced eyebrow. “Yope! Who’s your friend?” “Liam, he just started today.” He answered and gave me a knowing look. I laughed and shouted “THE INITIATION DRINK!!” Clayton smirked and went to get the ingredients. I walked over to the guy and smiled at him.
“Don’t take this personally ok; we do it to every newcomer here.” And just as I said that Clay walked in with the food. “Clay be a dear and grab the blender.” I said while using the nickname I gave him when I first met him. He came back to the table and plugged the blender in, I opened the bag and slowly pulled its contents out while Liam just stood there, probably afraid to move or say anything.
“Ladies and gentle-women we have a bag of chocolate chips, strawberry chap stick, a can of root beer and grape juice, radishes, baked beans, marshmallows, a chicken wing, a pop tart, coffee, captain crunch, coconut, pure coca, cookies, popcorn, and last but not least watermelon!” Clay announced as he dumped each item into the blender. I grinned at Clay and laughed. We each had to drink the initiation drink before we could give it to others; just to make sure it was gross enough. And let me tell you that on a scale of 1-10; ten being the grossest, it was a solid 25.
Clay hit the ‘chop’ button on the blender and it roared to life. After he was bored with the chop action he moved on to all the other modes. In a total of three minutes we had a lumpy light brown mixture with chicken and marshmallow lumps scattered throughout it and it smelled like rotten garbage. It wasn’t appetizing at all.
I poured the mixture into a glass and handed it to Liam. I could faintly hear him mutter a sarcastic ‘yum’ and gag, I couldn’t blame him this was nasty. He put on a brave face and quickly took the cup and swallowed it whole. He stood there motionless for a second before he stared gagging and coughing uncontrollably. I quickly handed him a glass of water and he downed it within seconds, his coughing had subsided but he was still gagging from the taste it left on his tongue.
Liam turned to look at us and started screaming “WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME IT WOULD TASTE THAT BAD?!?! I MEAN COME ON! GIVE A BRO A LITTLE WARNING WILL YA?!”
“Sorry man, are you ok?” Clay asked him after he was done with his ranting.
“Dude, my mouth tastes like I just swallowed a dead corpse…”
“Well that’s a new one! Usually we get ‘I just ate some road kill and it’s stuck in my throat’ or ‘I ate a dead rat’ or ‘did you slip in a hobo’s shoe when I wasn’t looking?!’” I laughed remembering all the other employee’s that drank our nasty smoothie.
“Well those would pretty much sum it up too…” he chuckled.
After we cleaned up our mess we started walking to Clay’s minivan and then I had an idea.
“Hey Liam, do you wanna join us at the movies tonight?”
“I guess if you really want me to come and you’re not just doing the ‘pity act’ for the ‘new guy’.” He stated like it’s happened before and shrugged.
“Nah, we want you to come, your part of our gang now!” Clay exclaimed excitedly and squealed like a little girl. Liam and I both burst out laughing at this. I smiled at him and confirmed Clay’s words and Liam agreed to come.
When we arrived at the movies we started arguing over which movie to see. I wanted to see Tangled, Liam wanted to see Men in Black, and Clay wanted to see Insidious.
“Come on guys! It’s not going to be that scary!” Clay argued.
“Are you kidding me?! I saw the preview and that scared the crap out of me!” I screamed and in return I got some looks from the people around us but I just ignored them and continued. “Tangled has some violence too you know!” “Oh really, like when!? It’s a movie about a princess and a prince! I don’t see any violence there!” Clay shot back at me. “When she smacks the guy with the frying pan!” I screamed getting in his face.
“Guys, GUYS! Chill!! Let’s just flip a coin twice, whoever wins first round will go against me and that winner will be our movie chooser.” We all agreed. Liam flipped a coin and I called heads; it was tails. I frowned and tackled Clay to the ground and demanded he would at least buy my ticket and snacks since he won, he agreed but not by will. Liam flipped the coin again and he called heads; it was tails. Insidious won.
After we bought our things we headed to our theater and took a seat towards the front and sat down. I was seated in the middle of the two boys and I found comfort in the heat their bodies gave off in the cold dark theater. The movie started and I began munching on the skittles Clay bought me. On a few occasions I jumped and held Clay’s hand tightly while he just chuckled and squeezed it softly as if to say ‘it’s not real Rayne, calm down.’ I just closed my eyes tightly and they stayed that way for the rest of the movie.
I woke up from a shift underneath me. I was sleeping for a while, my mind clicked and I realized I was still in the theater with the boys. I moved my head to the side and felt something soft underneath my head. I looked up and saw that I was lying on Liam and I began to panic.
Why was I laying on him? Did he try and push me off but I just laid there like a zombie, trapping him in his seat so he couldn’t run away?! Did I drool on his shirt? Oh god I hope not! I quickly looked at where I was laying on him and was relieved to find there was no drool in my place.
I looked at Liam's face and saw that he was staring at me. I smiled sheepishly and apologized for sleeping on him.
“Don’t worry, I don’t mind. You can sleep again if you want, the movies only half over.” He smiled a genuine smile and turned back to the screen. I muttered thanks and leant down on his shoulder again but I wasn’t planning on sleeping. I closed my eyes and listened to the screams and yelps from the people behind us. Before long I fell asleep again but not before I felt a hand slip into mine gently. I smiled in spite of myself thinking it was Clayton forgiving me for making him buy my stuff. Only until after I woke up I would realize I was deathly wrong…
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song of the chapter~ She's A Lady - Forever The Sickest Kids
the only thing in the song that relates to the chap is the part where it goes "shes a lady, and ladies shouldnt be messed with" lol *it was hard finding a song about this chapter ok!*
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