Charlie Logan walked into her favorite Record Store, just a few blocks down from her crap apartment she shares with her best friend Roxi. It’s a frequent stop she makes on the walk home from work at the Elementary School. She’s a Kindergarten teacher. And she loves those little monsters, she does, with all her heart. Almost as much as she loves the adorable record shop that always has her favorite artists on display and an amazing track on the sound system.
The owner of the shop is this gorgeous guy, curly chocolate colored hair, beautiful, mischievous blue eyes, and a sweet but cheeky smile. He’s like 6’4 and his arms are ridiculous, and Charlie does not have a crush on him, because she doesn’t even know his name and that would be ridiculous.
Except that she totally does.
He always talks to her when she’s in the store, and he’s cheeky and funny and super relaxed and it’s unfair is what it is.
She spends way too much money in this store, considering she barely makes anything, she sleeps on the couch in a run down studio apartment with her best friend, who is a bartender, and also doesn’t make anything, and their fridge could die any day now.
Roxi says it doesn’t matter, it’s almost November, they just keep all their food on the balcony and let the snow keep their food cold until March. Charlie doesn’t mention pigeons and rats, even though she knows Roxi sees this as a serious solution to the fridge problem.
It’s just that Charlie has this thing about music.
She’s in love with it.
She has notebooks full of songs, she taught herself to play the guitar when she was ten, and she loves to sing, was born to sing. Unfortunately she’s kind of shy and performing isn’t her thing and crowds make her nervous, so there went that dream. She changed her dream, to becoming a DJ, mixing music is something that she’s really good at, but her parents informed her that, that was not a career path that they would finance an education for, so she became a teacher. She finds it a bit unfair that she couldn’t be a music student, but Jess spent college in a sorority, partying every night, skipping class everyday, undeclared as her major for two years before failing out and telling their parents she wanted to be a model, which they supported a hundred percent. She’s not bitter about it.
She’s also not bitter that her sister lives in a cute little house with three of her friends while Charlie’s sleeping on a couch in a shady part of town. And she’s also totally not sad about the fact that while she hasn’t had a date since the tenth grade, Jess is currently dating a gorgeous, successful music producer [Jess’ favorite singer is Ke$ha, and honestly if Charlie hit her, who would blame her -shut up, she’s not jealous-], who’s father is some sort of ridiculously famous film director, and his mother is a famous actress.
Plus, he’s super nice, so Charlie can’t even hate him.
She sifted through some CDs, she has some papers to “grade” tonight. They’re Kindergarteners, in a crappy second rate school. Honestly, if they wrote something somewhat related on the paper, and she doesn’t have to call a social worker tonight, it’ll be a successful assignment.
She loves her job though. Her boss is some hippie that she’s pretty sure is high half the time, but he really does care about these kids, so she respects him in all his weirdness. Plus she gets to wear whatever she wants to work, so she’s all in. Turns out Kindergarteners don’t’ mind if you’re wearing converses and a Ramones tee instead of a nice pants suit. She readjusted her book bag on her shoulder.
She’d had to walk home again, because her car was stalled in the parking lot for the third time this week.
Her life is a bit of a mess really, but she’s dealing with it.
