After looking around the store for a bit I found the perfect thing. "How about this?" I asked the man, holding up a delicate silver chain with a locket on the end. The locket's face was carved to look like lace or vines, I'm assuming, with small rubies set into it, almost looking as if it was bleeding.
"I'll take it," he said.
I rang him up, handing him the box that now contained the small trinket.
"Thank you," he said, smiling at me like a kid in a candy store.
He started walking out when I stopped him. "I never got your name," I said.
"John, John Smith." And with that, he was gone.
Ashley slumped against the counter, her dirty blond hair sweeping over it.
"Now that," she said, "is a man."
"Yea, and he's like in he's thirty's. You my friend, are only sixteen," I told her, slightly glaring.
The front door rang again and I snapped to attention. "Hi my name's-"
"Save it Er, it's just little ole, me."
Ashley hoped up on the counter and batted her eyelashes, "Hey Landon," she said. I rolled my eyes."
"Hey shorty," he said back. He looked at me, "When do you get off? I wanna go see Star Wars but I don't wanna go alone."
I started to answer when Ashley interrupted me. "Erin has to close up, but I get off in 10 minutes," she said while latching onto his arm.
Bitch, I thought.
Landon looked uncomfortable. "Um, no thanks Ash, I'll wait for Erin." He flashed his million dollar smile, "I know she wants to see it too."
2/8/16
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The Girl You Never Knew
Teen FictionThey say happiness will find you, But I think sadness finds you too, It sneaks up on you in the darkness, Just when you think you've made it through, It opens holes in what was solid ground, The kind you never know are there, Until you go to take an...
