She Walks Alone

Chapter 10

So, I took the job at the garage, I'm working the diner on Sundays, and Rylan still has not spoken to me. Which I is what I wanted but it's hard to get him out of my head. I told him on Monday and it's Thursday now.

I have Ashton and we're on our way to the garage and I'm freaking out. What if the other workers don't like me. At the diner the other waiters and I keep to ourselves, since the place is always so packed. We round the corner and stand face to face with the state of the art garage. All the east side (rich side) people bring their cars here. Meaning their are some extremely nice cars that we get to work with.

I push open the door and walk inside taking in my surroundings. It smells like oil and tires. I walk to the front desk in the beach of the large seating area. There's a girl with dark hair and green eyes she looks about 14? But she looks vaguely familiar.

"Um excuse me miss I'm looking for Daniel." I say as kind as possible. Her head snaps up from whatever she was doing under the desk.

"Oh! You must be the new chick, come on! Daniel's office is this way" she answers gesturing me to follow her. His office? He has an office here? Well I guess his dad does own it so.

"I'm Daniel's sister, Beatrice, by the way but just call me Bea, cool?" I nod my head. She seems very outgoing and confident. The way she talks, how she walks, her attitude, everything just screams confidence. We reach steel steps and climb them to the top where the is a long hallway. On the left side is a railing with an above head view of all the cars and the mechanics. Bea stops at the second to last door and opens it up. We step in to see Daniel with his hands moving a mile a minute and eyes glued to a computer screen.

"Hey big bro Roxanne's here." She walks over to him tapping his shoulder trying to get his attention. He looks up frazzled and Bea points to me and walks out.

"Ah, hey Roxa, I'm sorry, I-I sometimes get to into my work sorry."

"It's totally fine, don't worry about it"

"Well, anyway, lets get to it" he runs to a door and pulls out a uniform, I'm guessing it's mine. "This is yours there's a bathroom through that door change and meet me in front of the door, Ashton can wait with me if it's okay with you" I nod and tell Ashton to behave before handing him the Daniel.

I go into the bathroom putting all my clothes into my bag, and throwing on the jumper which fits perfectly. I use my mom's old bandana as a headband and roll up my sleeves before going outside.

When I step out there Ashton and Daniel are racing toy cars down the hall. Oh boy, these two, what am I going to do with them. Ashton's car wins and Daniel falls down to the ground in fake agony while Ashton jumps on him in victory.

"Okay, you two, lets go,"

Ashton grabs on my neck wrapping his legs around my abdomen as I pull Daniel up from the ground. He runs and grabs the toy cars handing them to Ash saying he won their bet. I shake my head at their antics smiling.

"You two and your bets are just so silly."

"They are not sill at all, anyway, come on, I want to introduce you to the crew. I'm going to warn you they can be a bit cruel, sometimes, but they're super cool, so don't stress over it, you already know the kinds of cars we usually deal with so we have a few rules." He goes into full explanation on the rules of the garage as we make our way to the work area. I look around in utter of it all, I notice their are a few of the mechanics here already.

"So this that over there is Taylor, and that's Nikesh." He points to a girl with pale skin and white hair tied up into a ponytail; a guy with bronze skin, muscles, and messy black hair. They are both walking away from the car they finished; to a black Range Rover.

"Are you ready to start?"

"Yeah totally so am I going to be working with them on my shifts and where can Ashton go?" I ask I'm curious to know if there's anyone else I'll have to work with. I'm not exactly a people person.

"Well, there's two more but you'll meet them later. As for Ash he can stay with Bea upstairs. Come on someone just brought up this mustang something's up with the ignition then there's a black 1967 chevy impala that of my regulars brought in it needs a lot of work." He gives me an awkward smile before heading off to the other side of the garage to take Ash to Bea.

I'm begin working on the mustang once I'm half way through with a voice pipes up from behind me.

"Ello! You the new girl? I'm Christopher I mange the place when Danny and his dad aren't here." I nod at his first question before taking his outstretched hand to shake.

"I'm Roxanne."

"Well Roxanne just thought to introduce myself get but you can get back to work now." He walks back to where he was and I continue my work.

He doesn't seem bad quite nice actually and a cool British accent. Bonus points! Kidding! I'm just weird. Don't mind me. In attempt to avoid anymore weird conversations in my head I focus on the cars till it's time to go.

"Roxie! Roxie! Look what I built with Beatrice" I turn around to the screaming voice behind just in time as he jumps into my arms.

"Well hello there what did you build?"

"This." He shows me a toy car, a #24 DuPont Chevrolet. As in Jeff Gordon's car, his favorite race car driver.

"Oh Ashton that is so cool! I'm impressed it looks very nice."

"I hope so we spent a lot of time on it." Beatrice says as she walks into the repair area.

"Thank you so much for staying with him! And thanks for helping him build this car."

"Don't sweat it it was very fun anyway I came over because Daniel wants to see you in his office."

"Oh, okay, I'll head up now." She nods and heads to leave as Ashton and I make our way to his office. I knock on the door before walking in.

"Roxie! Ok so I was thinking maybe possibly you don't have to say yes but... wouldyouliketogooutwithme?!"

"Huh? Ok slower please it's fine whatever you have to say."

He looks at me nervously before spilling the beans. "Would you like to go out with me?" Least to say I'm stunned. Completely and utterly stunned.

I try to think of the right words to say. I like Daniel but not that way. And Rylan. "Daniel I like you a lot but not that way and on top of that I'm kinda trying to get over this guy I used to talk. Sorry."
He looks at me nodding and smiling. "It's extremely okay us being friends is even better. So now tell me about this guy." He leans forward resting his chin in his hand while raising his eyebrows. My face heats up; Ash just laughs.

I lift my head and sigh before I begin. "Well his name was Ry-" I'm cut off by the door as a blond head pops in

"Hey man is the car done?"

"Yeah just got done today oh and by the way Rylan meet the girl I was telling you about Roxanne and Roxanne meet my best friend Rylan"

"Roxanne!" "Rylan!" We both look in shock at each other while Danny looks between us eyebrows raised.

"So I'm just gonna make an educated guess and assume you two know each other?"