It Started With Joy - A Schoolboy Q Fanfic

Chapter 5

The driver pulled up within the next 10 minutes. I was still contemplating in my head if I was ready for this even though there was no turning back now.

"Where do you want to go?" our driver asked

"Umm.. is Marshalls close by? What about Goodwill?" I asked kind of embarassed

The driver did a 180 and gave me the 'are-you-freaking-kidding-me-right-now?' look.

"We'll just go to the mall" Tez said saving my butt from the death glare. "And do you mind rolling up the partition?" he asked.

"Sure no problem" he said.

There was a long and awkward pause. I felt kind of stupid asking about Marshalls. I felt even more stupid asking about Goodwill. What is wrong with me? I need to get with the program.

"Ahem." Tez clearead his throat.

I stopped beating myself up in my head and looked at him.

"You know it takes some time to get used to. Don't worry about it and if you want, we can still go to Goodwill" Tez said softly

"Well thanks, I'm just not used to this kind of life. I come from barely having food in the fridge to worrying about what food I have to throw out because it's spoiled."

"Look it'll be okay. I promise. It was hard for me at first too but I grew into it." he said honestly

"Well where did you come from? How did you come upon this job?" I asked bluntly

"I... don't really wanna talk about it. If you dont mind." he said sadly

"Oh.. umm yeah thats fine. Sorry for asking" I said.

After 15 minutes of awkward silence in the car, we finally arrived at the mall. It was huge. There were so many shops and things to buy. Anyone could easily blow ten thousand dollars here.

"There's a Marshalls over there" Tez pointed.

So we walked inside. I picked up a few pairs of shorts and a few t shirts and crop tops. I figured I would only spend 200 on clothes and then we could go home. Maybe I could put the rest in my bank account. I picked up a pair of vans and 3 pairs of crew socks. A sweater and a cardigan.

Tez helped me carry it all to the counter.

"Is that all?" the lady at the counter asked me, ringing up my items.

I eyed a chocolate bar but I decided against it. "Yes that'll be it" I said nervously

"That's gonna be one hundred and forty five dollars and eighty six cents." she said while removing the security tags. I pulled out two hundred dollars from my pocket and handed it to her.

"Your change will be fifty four dollars and fourteen cents. Thank you for shopping with us." she said to me finally looking up with her eyes glued to Tez. She flashed a huge smile and we left. Tez grabbed my bags and proceeded to go further into the mall.

"What's next?" he asked

"Honestly, if they have a Walgreens in here, I'd be more than happy, but clothes wise I'm done. I've got what I need." I said surely

"Well let's go to Walgreens" Tez said pulling his phone out. Before Tez could finish punching in our drivers number, we were outside, and he was already there.

"That was record time Murray" Tez said jokingly

"I figured you guys wouldn't be long" he said eyeing me

We went to walgreens and I got soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, conditioner, and other female needs products. Tez walked out of the store once I picked those up. 'Guys are just something else' I thought. I purchased what I needed and headed back out to the car. We were finally on our way home. We got to the house and there was another car in the driveway. Murray drove off. Tez opened the front door without unlocking it.

"Ant is that you?!" an excited, small voice said from the living room.

"Yeah!" he yelled

And the pitter patter of two little feet came from the living room, closer and closer, until it stopped.

I was face to face with the famous, Joy.