SAM

Chapter 3

"Mom!I want an ice cream too!" I heard a cute little girl,about 8 years old,squealed in delight when she saw the fridge full of ice cream.She is jumping excitedly while holding a box of barbie doll.

"Oh then, you have to choose baby,a barbie doll or an ice cream?" a 40 year old woman approached the kid  while holding 3 packs of noodles, they are standing in the grocery area of our shop.

My eyes shifted to the kid to see her reaction.I see her looking carefully  between the toy she's holding and the ice cream on the fridge.She scrunched her nose,I can sense that she's little confused about what to choose.

"I want this barbie doll mom" the little girl had finally decided with little sadness in her voice."Good girl" I thought.Some kids would have insist their mothers to buy all they want but this little girl respected her mother by choosing only one by following her mother's instruction.

"Okay baby, then give me that toy so I can pay for it now" her mother said with a hint of amusement in her voice.She is surely up to something.

As the mother is about to pay for the toy and for the noodles, I saw her stole a glance at  her daughter who is now waiting for her near the exit of the shop and she smiled at her lovingly.Her next move made me confirmed my guess as I saw the mother went to the fridge and took 2 cones of ice cream."Please include this too Miss" she said smiling at Frel.
"A mother's love is the best" I said to myself while smiling seeing the mother and the kid enjoying their ice cream outside the shop.

What I just witnessed is one of the  scenes in shop I considered priceless. .Before I thought I'll be only selling our products to our customers, receive their payments and change their bills but I realized there's more than that.I see different persons coming in and out of our shop everyday and each of them have their own stories. They told me their thoughts and I found myself listening and thinking of  possible ways to remove thier worries or solve their problems.I never thought a shy girl like me will be sharing her ideas to people she just met and how wonderful it feels to be trusted. I also found myself observing them and appreciate things like the amazing love of a mother to her child  that I have seen today.I never thought a shy girl like me will be sharing her ideas to people she just met and how wonderful it feels to be trusted.The simple thank you's and  hello's  were turned to a warm smile and friendly talk every time they visit the shop and that's how I gained new friends here in province.

Before I lost deep in my thoughts,a female voice startled me and when my eyes fell to the owner of that voice, I felt my jaw dropped to the floor.She's the girl with that beautiful smile who came here 4 days ago!

"Hello, can I have 2 bottles of soda?" I heard her said nicely at Frel.
I feel like my eyes got glued on her . It's a good thing that the glass of the cashier counter is tinted.hehe.I see her talking while smiling to her friend beside her while waiting for their order.That smile again! She is very charming.I learned that she has long straight black hair and perfect set of white teeth.Adding to her charm is her beautiful brown eyes, her full plump lips and  pointed nose that compliment her pretty face.Frel finally came back and gave them two bottle of soda.

"Thank you!"her lovely voice muffled in my ears as she thanked Frel. I am still in trance that I haven't noticed I already received their cash and she and her friend are now ready to walk out from the shop."There's really something about her smile. I whispered softly in the air  and  a sudden realisation hit me."Oh god.." I can't believe it."She's the smiling girl I saw in my dream few days ago!" I gasped in full surprise.

"Wohoo! It's closing time!" I cheered excitedly in my head when the clock striked at 6:30pm.It's been my favourite time of the day when I can finally have my free time which I mostly spend it at home."You are hibernating too much in your cave like a bear"I chuckled remembering what my friends used to tell me everytime I hang out with them after seeing them for a long time.

"Sister! Can I play games on your phone?" My little brother, Andre asked me with sparks in his eyes the moment I stepped on our house.

"Oh, sure,but there's no good games here in my phone".I stared at him confused.He normally doesn't borrow my phone to play games because my phone is a very old model.

"Nooo! In your new phone sister, it's in the table!"He said smiling wide.
"Huh? Oh really? yeyy! "I run out fast to our dining room area and saw a box containing a brand new phone.

I entered my room to turn my new phone to it's on mode.I am beyond excited, I've been dreaming to have this phone since I was in college.
"This is awesome!" I said with the biggest smile in my face. This is my prize for myself for working  after I graduated. I was busily checking my phone when a specific phone application caught my attention."Wattpad"I read while staring at it's logo.I hurriedly open it and learned that it is like a free book application where you can choose any story of your interest from the list of books provided in it's search menu.I noticed that I have few books that are already save in my library area."Big sister surely saved them for me" I  thought happily.

I feel like a I am a high school student again when I opened and read excitedly the first chapters of the fanfic book I chose to read.I missed reading books so much.I developed my interest in reading books by borrowing novel books from our high school's library but somehow I made this huge gap from reading novels  because I needed to read academic books most of time when I reached college.Reading novels is one of my real passion in life.I can read a book non stop for a whole day except when I need to eat and I transformed to a vampire when I forget that I need to sleep at night when a certain story hooked me so much.I love the adventure, the adrenaline, the emotions I feel by losing myself into the realm of the story I have read.

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I swiped the screen of my phone to turn the next page of the story I am reading. "It's a cool story..uhmm" I murmured after finishing the fanfic book I started reading last night.The book is about the beautiful sibling of a famous boy band who pretend to be a man so she can join the bus tour of another famous band and in the end, the girl was busted and she and her crush became a couple."The leading girl character must be very beautiful in real." I imagined a tall and attractive woman following the character's description from the story.Whenever I read a story I am always interested with the girl character . This maybe because I love girls *wink.hehe.
Since I finished the book I decided to start reading a new one.I scrolled down the list of books I have.I noticed the books belongs to different genre, there's a thriller book, romance, fan fic, sci fiction and so on.I have the mood for lighter love story this time thus I picked another fan fic book based on it's book story details. It says it's a love story between two people in unexpected time.I always have this thing with love stories.I found it beautiful and captivating whenever I read one.As I progressed to every chapter, I become more and more confused.I've been waiting for that part where the female protagonist will be introduced but the author of the book always mentioned about two men."Oh boy!" I quickly scanned the book details of the story and I found out it's a boy×boy love story.O.o I am not aware that certain story like this exist but now I know and a light bulb popped up in my head."If there's this kind of story then there's surely be a story for the same love in girls"I muttered to myself with my eyes wide opened.I felt like I won a lottery with this new discovery.