Books, Tea, And Video Games

Chapter 1

As soon as I heard my alarm clock start beeping obnoxiously. I imagine it translating to, "Come on, asshole! Get up or you'll be late for work!"
Now, I'm usually a patient guy. But I didn't get enough sleep last night. What might you ask? Playing video games.

While mumbling various curses towards my alarm clock, I reached over and slammed my fist down on the snooze button.

"I need a different alarm." I muttered with a small groan into my pillow. After a few seconds, I gave a long sigh and turned, kicking the blankets off of me, and sat up in bed, rubbing my eyes with a tired yawn. Then I slid out of bed and shuffled to the bathroom. I flipped on the light and squeezed my eyes shut when they burned and tried to adjust. I blinked a few times and looked in the mirror. Yeah, I still look like shit. "Like always." I said out loud tiredly, then grabbed my toothbrush to brush my teeth.

About ten minutes later, give or take, I was ready for work. I looked at myself in the mirror. Regular black T-shirt with a red and black flannel along with jeans and black converse. I actually looked decent.

After grabbing my phone, I headed out of my apartment, closing and locking the door behind me.
Today is going to be shitty, I can just feel it. I exhale and get into my car, and turned it on.

"Please don't be a shit day." I said to myself, and backed out of my parking space and started to drive to work.
At a stop light, I realized the silence of my car. I don't like silence. I turned on the radio, and groaned when I heard the song that played every damn hour on the radio. "This song is so annoying." I turn the radio off and just hook up my phone to the speaker. I am going to be a crabby asshole today, aren't I?

When the light turned green finally, I started to drive, singing along to my favorite song.
Let me get one thing straight. I don't sing in front of anyone. Just rock out when I'm in my car.
Fifteen minutes later, I pull into the parking lot. I'm surprised when I see someone is parked in my usual spot.
I park next to them, feeling irritated, both with the car and myself. I need to get more sleep.
I shut off my car and shove my keys into my pocket and got out, slamming the car door. I start for the door of the Game place where I work, but a girl next door catches my eye. I spotted her through the large window. She was leaning on the counter top next to the register reading a book.
I'm not a creep or anything, but I've definitely noticed her before. She's cute.. I think. I've actually only seen her from far away.

I head inside the Game Shop.
"Hey man 'bout time you got here. You're a whole two minutes late." I roll my eyes. "Oh my god." I say dramatically. "A whole two minutes? I hope Josh doesn't find out." Aaron was my douchebag best friend. Josh, our manager.
"You know that girl that works at the book store right?" I nod.
"I haven't see her up close though."
"Dude she's hot." I narrow my eyes a little as I walked behind the counter. "Don't you have a girlfriend?"
"I did."
My eyebrow shot up. "What happened to Jenna? She was nice."
"She was actually crazy."
"Sorry to hear that."
I didn't want to know what this girl did. I've heard a lot of what Aaron ' s past girlfriends have done. Three or four months ago, Monica, (I think that was her name.) Keyed his car just because he looked at a hot girl a little too long. Crazy right? I thought that only happened in movies.
"So, sign up for any of those dating sites I've told you about?" I heard Aaron ask.
"Nah. I want this awesome romantic story to tell to my kids about how I met my wife."
"You said you'd sign up!"
"I just wanted you to stop talking."
Aaron looked at me with a small glare and I just grinned back at him. He flipped me off.
"Seriously though man," I say, grabbing the box or games and walked from behind the counter to put onto the shelves. It was a relatively small store, so speaking at a normal tone he could hear me. "I want the first encounter to be.. cute I guess."
"Bro, girls aren't animals. They aren't encounters." I watched as he ducked out of sight.
"Tall blond with brown eyes spotted in her natural habitat."
"You're being an idiot." Despite what I say, I grin in amusement.
"Yeah yeah whatever."
When the bell at the top of the door chimed when someone came in, I looked over.
"You boys better not be stealing or messing anything up."