Took you Long enough (Jonah x FEM reader) EDITING

Shoplifter Pt 2

Last chapter Y/n and Jonah helped Emma with her first period, and things left off a little tense? What's happening now?

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Matteo, Cheyenne and Garrett were standing around the blue couch that the old man died on. I was actually sitting on the couch watching my zombie show. Apparently they both really wanted it, so they were arguing on who should get it. But while they were bickering Dina had rushed over looking for me.
"Y/n! Where are you- Oh there you are. You clearly aren't doing anything so come with me." Pausing my show I looked up at her with a confused look. "My help? For what." Cheyenne had turned to face Dina to ask for her opinion on the couch. "Dina, who do you think-" putting a hand up to shush her, "Not right now. I have a criminal in holding and I need Y/n's help getting a confession."

Sighing and putting my phone away, I put my hand out for Dina to grab so she could pull me off the couch. After doing so I walked with her to the back of the store. "So what? Are we doing what we did last time, where I pretend to be another shoplifter and get them to confess?" Speed walking a couple steps ahead of me she nodded. "Uh huh, I think it'll work this time." Once we got to the holding room, I started taking off my vest, and talked in a hushed voice so the lady couldn't hear me. "This better work, the last time I just sat there for 25 minutes and all the guy did was hit on me. He only confessed because I said I'd go on a date with him."

Grabbing me by the arm, she opened the door shoving me in. You'd think she'd be gently considering I didn't actually steal anything. "Get in and sit down thief. Gosh two in one day. How lucky am I to catch you both! Now I'm going to go get proof, so.. sit in here.. and think about what you've done!" Rolling my eyes, I sat down next to the lady, waiting for Dina to leave so I could try and get the confession. I could tell the lady was side eyeing me, and I was about to say something before she beat me to it. "What's the nut job accusing you of stealing."
Side eyeing her back when she called Dina a nut job, I sighed and slouched in my chair thinking of something I'd probably steal.

"Just some video games. Between you and me though, I did actually try and shoplift them. What was it for you?" She scoffed and acted like I insulted her mother. "A thing of lipstick. Like as if I'd shoplift from some janky cheap store, I'm not as poor as the people that shop here." Shooting her a look, I kept myself quiet for awhile. I knew if anything else came out of her mouth I'd blow a fuse. After a good couple minutes of silence, hiding my phone, I texting Dina saying it wasn't working. To which she just left me on read.

a little later, Dina walked in with Amy. She gave me a confused look, to which I just shrugged at. "Hey there, this is my bestie, Amy." Hearing Dina talk to the lady nicely definitely intrigued me, so I sat up straight in my chair. Trying to hold back a laugh at Amy's confused face. "Be careful of her, she's a little unstable." Amy pushed the lady's legs off the table, I'm not sure why they'd be there in the first place.

"Are you gonna let me go or what?" "I want to, but Any here is a maniac. She's loco." She seemed unsure of what to do, but played along. "Yea, loco! Loco 'bout bustin' perps!" Amy then proceeded to growl at us, well mainly the bratty lady. Now that almost made me laugh!
She then went on a rant about her 'cousin' and some dude named Crazy eyes for "Orange Is The New Black." Calling the lady a puta, she started air boxing. I chuckled into my shoulder and earned a glare from Dina.
"Is she ok? I don't understand what's happening here." Laughing in-between words, "I don't either lady." "It's boxing."

"Ok listen you two, I'm not confessing to anything. Especially not to two minimum-waged morons." I stood up from my chair as both Amy and I spoke at the same time, "I'm sorry, what?" The bitchy lady gave me a look but dismissed me. Dina tried keeping up the act by offering a back rub, but both Amy and I were done. "No, no, no, no-" looking over at Dina, "Yea no. I'm not sitting here with this egotistical bitch kay? You guys got this." The lady scoffed at me, "You can't just walk up in here and call us morons. Who do you think you are?"
"Forget it Amy, this clearly isn't working okay? Guess you're free to go, courtesy of one broken camera in the make up department."

Amy then realized that the cameras in the Jewelry department are angled over the makeup department as well. Dina basically took credit over what Amy said. "I just realized! If we pull the footage from jewelry, we've got our proof!" "That's what I was saying but yea." They started to leave, of course not until Amy air boxed again. Dina stood with the door opened waiting for her to come out, but turned to me. "Y/n are you staying in here?" Looking over at the lady I scoffed. "No. I should probably get back to work anyway." "Ok, I'll keep you updated."
Giving her a thumbs up after we left the 'jail' room, I put my vest back on and went to whatever department I was needed in.

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They ended up finding out that she was innocent, so Glenn called the three of us in to try and make sure she doesn't sue. Dina and I leaned against the counter as Glenn apologized and Amy stood next to him with coupons to give her. I keep calling her bitchy lady or in general lady, but I don't think Dina told me her name so.

"Everyone here at Cloud 9 is so, so sorry to have inconvenienced you-" I scoffed at what he said, but didn't say anything out of not wanting to make the situation worse. "-we are willing to anything to make it right." Amy offered the coupons, but the bitchy lady clearly didn't want them. "Let me be clear. You have two options. You can either fire this dum-dum right now,-" she pointed at Dina as she said this. "-or I can go and call your corporate offices and make them fire her." Glenn tried to talk it out but she wasn't having any of it. "-I can't waste another minute of my life with you back-country idiots!" She stormed out of the room, and even Glenn admitted that he didn't like her.

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Jonah and I were teaching Emma how to play a video game. Well, mainly Jonah. I just sat next to him and sketched while he told her when to shoot. But soon enough Amy found us and sat down next to Emma, asking what she did while she was gone. "We mostly played video games. It was fun" "wow. Thanks you guys for, uh, keeping an eye on her." "It was easy. She's a great kid.", I nodded in agreement. "Yup. We're almost done decided on how she was her outfit to look."
After a minute or so of silence Emma blurted out. "They helped me use a maxi pad."

As Amy slowly turned her head to look at us, mainly Jonah, I pressed my lips together and his behind my sketchbook. She had that scary eyes mother look on.

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After closing, Glenn had asked us to stay to honor and remember the old guy that died on the couch. And the way he wanted to remember him, was by burning the couch. Cheyenne and Matteo were definitely upset about this. "Why do we have to destroy the couch?" "For one thing, it's a wonderful way to memorialize a man." Dina chimed in, "Plus, I looked up the store policy. If a death occurs in any display furniture, it has to be destroyed. Who knew." To Garrett blurted, "I knew. Same thing happened at the Kirkwood store a few months ago." "Ooh I heard about that." Cheyenne and Matteo looked at each other stunned and confused. Jonah then lit the couch on fire.

As Glenn spoke for the dead guy Charles, Dina thanked Amy and I. Mainly Amy since I just basically sat there. The couch was going up into flames pretty quickly Glenn said it was time get out of there.

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Hey I actually updated again 😺
I don't think I like this chapter either but it's eh. Sorry the paragraphs are a bit longer.
Enjoy