The Legend of Ohn

The Meet

The next morning I woke with no sounds of birds, but it was sunnier than most mornings in the beginning of summer, even for Washington. I stepped down the stairs casually to find a wonderful present sitting in a chair sipping coffee.

"Good morning, Cherry, coffee?" Tammy said with a small smile. I quickly ran up to her and gave her a hug before making my own coffee.

"You're my hero."

"And why's that?" She sipped longley and looked out the window at the backyard.

"I was starting to fall into a rut of daily routine. I need a mix up, bad."

"You know what actually sounds great?" She said absently looking at the red mug in her hand. "Cherry and coffee. They make mint coffee, why not cherry."

"Are you planning on eating me?"

"Not without proper coffee grounds." She smiled and combed a hand through her beautiful thick brown waves of hair that cascaded heavily down her lower back.

Ah, to have normal hair, I thought. At least hair that wasn't bigger than your head, literally, when you woke up in the morning.

I sat across from her and sipped the warm coffee.

"We have a new worker. I guess he's all the buzz on the Fair Staff Twitter page. Very cute, very serious." She laughed to herself. "He's in-charge of security."

"They let a new guy be head of security? I heard you have to have at least three years of experience and about the same training as a mall cop." I sat on the counter and watched out the window. "Its probably got better pay too." I gulped my coffee down.

"I don't know, I guess he's really buff or something, maybe one of Ted's friends. But they say he doesn't look much older than eighteen, maybe twenty." She trailed off then her eyes narrowed slightly in thought.

"Oh well, all the girls will be on him like flies to sticky tape, disgusting and hard to look at." I smiled a bit.

"Hey, that was almost sounded rude, I'm proud of you." She laughed a little louder than normal and stood. "Well go get ready, I'll be in the car." She rinsed the mug and set it in the sink. I watched her go and bit my lip looking down at the coffee, it smelled of mint. When did I buy mint coffee?

I jumped when she honked her horn, she was looking at me from her car, she could see I still hadn't moved.

"I'm going, I'm going." I mumbled and hopped down and set my mug by the sink and jogged up to my room to change.

By the time we got to the fair most of the employees hadn't even arrived. There was a lingering exhaustion that hung in the air. I grabbed a cup of coffee from the stand I live by on the way, Tammy said to so I could welcome our newest member. I had an off feeling about today, but it didn't matter as long as the work got done and none of the rides exploded or anything.

I knocked on the security station's door and walked in. An older gentleman with mostly bald and greying hair smiled up at me.

"Cherry, nice to see you in the early hours." Greg the old head of security greeted kindly as always.

"Greg, nice to see you too. How's Betty?" He laughed a deep belly laugh and nodded.

"Great, she's great. Her hip surgery was successful but she's gonna need some physical therapy to get it rolling again." I nodded and smiled.

"I heard there was a new security man on the job. I thought I'd welcome him with some coffee."

He made an odd face and I was wondering if he had heart burn. "He's a young fellow, and mysterious one at that, he got crazy eyes like yours but I think its just those special eye contacts all you kids are getting." He rubbed the salt and pepper beard stubble on his chin. "I don't know, the kid just don't rub me right."