The New Kid

Chapter 08: A Change of hmm

Ava POV

"Hi my names Ava, how can I assist you today?" I say for the 1000th time today. Yes I got a job, I started last week and I wanted to quit the day after I started. These uniforms are stupid and I have to sound like I care what people want.
"Uh, ma'am I'm sorry we do not carry that product anymore, actually no-" I say as I'm cut off by the customer...over the phone!
"Ma'am, I'm sorry would you like to speak to a manager?" I ask oh so politely. "Ma'am?" I repeat. Oh well, guess she hung up, guess it's my turn. I hang up the phone and look at the clock 4:15. Honestly, time couldn't be moving any slower. I'm scheduled here til 5:15 and I don't wanna be here a second later. I get up and brush off my black dress pants and fix up my navy blue and white blouse and blazer.

"Katherine I gotta use the bathroom." I say looking over to my co-worker.
"It's Pamela, and okay." She barely speaks back to me. I shrug, she looked like a Katherine to me.

I head to the bathroom and make it into a stall and do my business. When I come out, some girl is staring at me.
"Uh, what?" I ask.
"N..nothing. I uh just thought I recognized you from somewhere." She says.
"Hmm, well I don't recognize you." I say a bit confused.
"The news! The news." She says frantically.
"Uh?"
"You and your sister, you guys were like held hostage by your parents." She explains. Oh haven't I heard this a million times today.
"Yeah, I told Katherine I would be to the bathroom and back. So toodles." I say waving to the girl.

Of course I'm not gonna cry every time some nosey sucker asks about what happened to me. Yeah it was traumatic, whatever. All I wanna do I hit everyone now for asking or even bringing it up.

I make it back to my desk and smile at Katherine.
"You were gone half an hour." She states.
"Yeah, did you want me to tell you everything that went down in my personal stall or did you wanna take a whiff for yourself?" I ask rudely. She just looks the other way with her cheeks red. I bet she'll start minding her business now. I sit there for the next half hour eating crackers I stashed in my drawer.

I get up to clock out and say goodbye to Kathy or Pam, whatever her name is and the other girl on the other side of me. Her name is Alana.

As I'm leaving I spot TJ's car and instantly light up. I hop into his car.

"Hey babe." I smile and lean over kissing his lips.
"How was work?" He asks driving away from that awful place I call work.
"Fine, I guess." I look at him with the 'don't ask' face.

We ride in silence, mostly because I was falling asleep. I wake up in my bed with TJ's arms around me. I snuggle into him, wiggling a bit. I guess I woke him.
"You alright?" He whispers with his sleepy voice and oh my, I forgot how to answer.
"Mhm." Was all I could get out. And he rubbed my leg and went back to sleep.

I looked over to find my phone sitting there in my face with 4 missed calls from Armery. I call her back, trying to be as quiet as possible.

"Ava!" She picks up.
"Hey." I whisper.
"Why are you whispering? How are you? I miss you. I've gotta come see you!" She goes on and on. I chuckle quietly and whisper back.
"My boyfriend is sleeping, I'm awesome but I miss you too and we need to make a date."
"Boyfriend? Mm you mean the hottie that was at the mall with you that day? I'd let him be my boyfriend any day." She says giggling.
"Armery!" I get a bit louder.
"I'm sorry but he's gorge." She says. I smile.
"He is, isn't he?"

Our conversation goes on until midnight, actually past midnight.
"Guess what?" Armery says.
"Uh, you got a good test grade?"
"Actually yeah. Through everything that happened my GPA has remained a 4.0" she says. "But HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" She screams in my ear.
"Uh, are you sure?" I ask her.
"An I sure? Heck yeah. It's my sisters birthday, 19th at that." She says in a 'duh' tone.
I pull the phone away from my ear and it sure is my birthday. I laugh out loud and thank Armery.
"Oh how I love you. What would I do without you?" I ask.
"Forget MY birthday." She answers back.
We talk for a little while longer, then I finally decide to go to sleep.

I wake up the next day cold and uncuddled. I get up and walk downstairs to the kitchen and find an entire buffet of food waiting for me!

I uncontrollably start tearing up. Yeah I'm a hard ass or whatever, but I've never had anyone do this for me before. My birthday has always just been a day that me and Armery spend watching tv, wishing we were the people in the movies. Even if they were getting beat, anything was better than that hell hole.

I look up at Ms. Polt and TJ, teary eyed and smiling, all in one.

"Thank you guys, you don't know how much this means to me." I say to them.
"But I do." It can't be! I look over and there she is!
"ARMERY!" I scream out I run and jump on her. I've honestly never cried this much in my life, maybe it's Mother Nature. She wipes my tears away and I just smile at her. "How?" I asked.
"They can't separate us for too long. You're my sister, blood or not. I wouldn't miss any of your birthdays as long as I live. We're in this together." She says quoting our matching tattoos on our hips. I hug her again not wanting to let go.
"Alright, enough of the mushy gushy stuff,let's get this party started!" She says. I nod and we stand up, I hug Ms. Polt and thank her and she lets me go. I look over at TJ and wink before giving him a kiss and thanking him. After all my crying mess, I sit down and eat the best breakfast I've ever had in my entire life. When I'm full I sit back in the chair and burp.
"Excuse me." I laugh.
"You done?" Armery asks. I nod my head and she says "then go up stairs and get ready for the day."
I don't argue I just go back upstairs and get a shower and all my hygiene stuff then getting dressed.

When I'm all done I walk back downstairs to find only TJ cleaning up.
"Where's Armery and Ms. Polt?" I ask wrapping my arms around him from the back.
"Ms. Polt had to go into school today. It's still in session." He chuckles. "And we'll see Armery soon." Was all he said.

I nodded and asked if he wanted any help, although everything was cleaned. It looked spotless. He looked at me and we both burst out laughing.

"I love you." We say at the same time. Then there was a long pause and I smiled at him.
"I'm so happy to be with you." I say.
"I hope so, because I feel the same about you. So with that being said Ava, will you be my wife?" He says getting down on one knee. My heart stopped and I spoke before I could breathe, whispering 'yes'.
He stands up sliding the beautiful ring onto my finger. The diamond is not too big, and not too small. It's just right. As soon as I realize what I said and what happened I look up at him, jumped up on him and we had the most intense make out session ever.

"I got it!" Armery says coming around the corner with a video recorder.
"You got what?!" I ask.
"Your reaction." She smiles at me.
"I'm gonna go get dressed, I'll be back down." TJ says to me, pecking my lips I nod and fix myself up.

Armery and I talk while he's getting ready and watch tv. After he's done we go out and start shopping for everything, but with nothing in mind. As were shopping, I can't help but think this is the best day ever. Then I feel this pressure and at the same time hear a bang. I feel the pressure in my side and all the air is knocked out of me and I fall on the ground. My eyes are getting heavier, yet I still have no clue what going on. But the only thing I can remember is me saying yes to TJ.
"Yes." I whisper over and over again. I don't know why my eyes want to close but I try my best to keep them open. I didn't try hard enough though because everything went black and all I could hear was "I love you."

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I've been so busy! But thank you to who is still reading. I hope you enjoy and sorry this took so long to get up!