The Frozen Melody

23.Living.

Tyson watched as the questions ran through Keith’s eyes, and he knew right then that he was going to be rejected. He wasn’t surprised at all when the man whipped around and ran out of the room without a word.

Of course, that was to be expected. His heart doesn’t even hurt anymore.

The boy slowly got out of the bed, careful to make sure that the few wounds that Keith had accidentally reopened with his powerful push just then didn’t drip blood onto the bed or carpet. Soundlessly, Tyson gathered up his bandages and used them to soak up some of the leaking blood drops.

It had taken the family five years to convince him that he won’t get punished for doing something bad, but he had never tried this before. It was just that the thought of Keith, all alone because Helen would never love him that way... Tyson will take any punishment if he could help that man.

But first, he should probably practice a bit more before he tried anything more with Keith. It has been awhile since he sexually pleasured someone else, he must be out of practice.

His head whipped back and stared at the calendar on the bedside table, all previous thoughts were put on hold.

Today was Saturday?!

His eyes re-read the calendar and clock. And it was already 8:38 in the morning!

Crap! He was supposed to start work at nine!

This thing with Keith would have to wait; the guy was probably not ready to see him anyway, judging by the way he ran out of the room.

Tyson made his own little dash out of the bedroom, grabbing a spare shirt and pants along the way. Can’t show up naked on his first day of work, right?

His wounded body protested against his actions, but his mind was still too used to pain. And so the boy ignored the aching and rushed out of the house quietly.

“Morning Tyson!” The shop manager, Lily, greeted the boy as he rushed into the largest store in the area. “Just on time, come on, let’s get you started.” She smiled and waved him toward the backroom so she could give him his uniform and instructions. “Winter will be coming soon, so I reckon we’ll get busier real soon. But for now, we’ll use this downtime to train you on doing returns, recovery, and cashier.”

“Returns? Recovery?” Tyson questioned while running slightly to keep up with the tall boss lady.

“Returns are when customers return an item and you’ll be putting that returned item back to its proper position. Recovery is when… You know those customers who take something off the shelf, thinking they want it, but after walking around a bit, decide they don’t want it. And, instead of putting it back, they leave it somewhere random? Well, recovery is when you find those misplaced items and put them back properly.”

“Okay.”

“So you’ll need a pretty good understanding of the store and where everything is. Which is why now is such a good time for you to join us. We're not getting that many customers in the shop these days, so you’d have less interruptions when you do your work. During the busy times, my god, we’d hardly ever get any returns and recoveries done because we’d constantly be doing customer service.” Lily blabbed on with a laugh.

They finally found a set of uniform that could fit Tyson after a while of searching. The boy’s body hadn’t yet started its growth spurt, much to his dismay, so he was even shorter than Hibie these days.

Lily giggled and petted the boy’s soft hair, “I’m sure you’ll grow out of this uniform in no time Tyson and become a tall handsome man.”

He highly doubted that, but nodded anyway