Two Sides of the Same Street (A Clouis Fic)

Chapter Three

Word Count: 1645

Summary: Louis and Clem have some fun in the cold weather.

A/N: This is probably the fluffiest piece I've written so far, enjoy :)

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Clementine took another sip of her peppermint tea, basking in the warmth it provided. "Does it usually get this cold during winter?" The snow fell gracefully from the dark sky, blanketing the town in a white sheet.

"Unfortunately yeah. But it makes for some killer snowball fights," Louis munched down onto his croissant. Goddamn Omar never failed to amaze him. "Marlon and I get really into it, I stand as the champion."

"You do have other friends, right?" She questioned. Louis only ever talked about his wacky adventures with Marlon, the boy seemed almost as mad as Lou. Probably why they were so close.

Louis scoffed. "Of course, everyone loves me. Omar is my friend too, right dude?"

Omar turned from a happy customer and his gentle smile shifted to a glare, directed specifically at Louis. "Run while you still can." He whispered to Clem.

Clementine hid her snicker behind her large mug as Louis threw one of Clem's chips at Omid's back. "He secretly loves me."

"Right," Her tone gave away her lack of belief and her annoyance at missing a chip. "Anyways, who's turn was it?"

"I believe it was mine. What is the last song you listened to?"

Their bus ride game had somehow made it's way to their lunch break, the third lunch break they had shared together that week. Surprisingly, Clementine found it to be fun. "Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Rey. I was listening to it on the ride to work this morning."

Louis tipped his cup of lemonade to her. "Good choice, so your car got fixed then?" Another piece of croissant flew into his mouth, it was addicting!

Clementine giggled at how Louis ate his food. Why was it so cute? "Yes finally. No offence to the bus. So, What is your worst customer story?"

It was a juicy question. Louis's ears perked up as a devilish smile grew. "I have the best one. I had only been working at the shop for a couple of months when this family of three walks in one day. As the parents are checking stuff out their kid goes batshit crazy, he's running around, touching everything, trying to take stuff off the walls and his parents aren't doing anything! I tell him to stop multiple times but he won't listen, so I got both of my keen eyes on this little dude until the old manager calls me into the back so I can unbox some CDs we ordered. As I'm back there, we hear this fucking banshee-like scream, turns out this kid had climbed the top of one of our drum sets, jumped off and landed on his spine on our spare snare drum stand we have sitting nearby."

Clementine's jaw was hanging wide open like a fish.

"It gets worse. The mom marches up to me and starts going off at me, saying that I should have been watching her child. She starts talking to the manager about how incompetent I am meanwhile I'm standing there like an idiot. But my manager says to her how it's not my job to watch her child and how she should have told him to be more careful. Eventually, the family stormed out. Sometimes I wish the shop was idiot-proof."

"Oh my god," She threw a hand over her mouth, trying to repress the laughter. "That sucks."

Louis brushed it off. "It was, but it's funny to think about now," His water helped to clear the scratch at the back of his throat. "I wanna hear your story now. Any customers you wanted to beat over the head?"

"Mine isn't as exciting. It was a few days ago, this guy comes in wanting to return this antique Royal Doulton vase but it was way past the return date. He starts screaming but then he takes the vase and tries to throw it at Lee! Luckily he dodged it and threw the guy out."