Chapter 1
He entered the shop ready for his first day. A shimmering smile plastered on his face stepping behind the desk to go into the back of this wonderful music shop.
“Wow, wow, wow” An Irish voice said a hand sticking out in front of him to stop him. “Who are you?” The guy asked. He stood tall with his black hair in a quiff and the light deepening his check bones more than they already did. “Well?” He asked pushing him to answer his first question.
“Nathan’s my name don’t ware it out.” Nathan said trying to make this tall guy laugh and offering his hand to shake it.
“Ok what are you doing here?” the tall guy asked walking pasted Nathan and taking a seat on the sofa adjacent to the door.
“Oh yeah!” He said turning to face the guy. “I’m the new employee” he answered making the tall guys eyes narrow at him as he inspected the newbie.
“And you already have a key?” He asked standing up again walking back towards Nathan.
“Um… Yeah.” The tall guy pushed past Nathan and into the front of the shop and sat in the chair behind the desk. Which Nathan thought was a bit stupid seeing as the sofa was much more comfortable then the wooden chair he was sitting in now. “So what’s your name?” Nathan said running out front to look at the tall guy.
“Siva” He nodded picking up a magazine to read.
“Got a last name?” Nathan smiled trying to start up a conversation with Siva who obviously didn’t want one.
“Kaneswaran” He answered trying as much as he could to finish this conversation as quickly as possible.
“Wow that must be hard to spell.” Nathan’s joke was returned with a stare to say “Leave my alone”. Siva then glued his eyes to the pages of the magazine he was reading. Then the bell of the door rang and a man entered the shop in a hurry. He was tall with curly brown hair and blue eyes.
“Sorry I’m late Siva” The curly haired guy said leaning on the desk completely ignoring Nathan. “Did the boss ask where I was?”
“No bird.” Siva said looking up from his magazine with an amused smile on his face. “Soon you’re going to get in trouble with him bird and none of us are going to be here to cover.”
“Well when that day comes I’ll think of a way to cover for myself” He said jumping over the desk with a playful smile on his face. “Oh, and you must be the newbie” he said sticking his hand out to Nathan. “I’m Jay, but you can call me bird. Everyone does.”
“Nathan.” Nathan said shaking Jay’s hand happy that at least one of his colleges was friendly.
“So why were you late this time?” Siva’s Irish accent cut in as Jay sat on the desk seeing as Siva took the only seat.
“Sarah missed her bus and I had to drive her in, oh and I need you to cover the last part of my shift as well” Jay told Siva hoping for him to agree to cover for him. Siva put the magazine down, sighed and stared at Jay for a few seconds.
“Fine, fine, but this is the last time.” He said standing up and walking into the back again.
“Is he always like that?” Nathan asked Jay sitting in the seat that Siva was sitting in and leaning on the desk. A small smile crept up on his face before he answered.
“Not all the time, he’s just not into new people” Jay said placing his elbows on his legs and resting his chin on his hands. “It took him about two weeks to get used to me so it’s not just you.”
“So who’s Sarah?” Nathan asked Jay relaxing a bit more around him.
“My little sister, we moved down here after are parents died” Jay’s playful smile fell into a frown. As he remembered what really happened with his parents and who Sarah really was.
“Oh, I’m sorry” Nathan said tightening up a bit, wondering what could have happened to them, the worst going through his mind.
“Don’t worry. They weren’t the best parents in the world.”
“Yeah but it still must have been hard” Nathan said not taking a hint to stop talking about.
“Look can we just get on with our jobs” Jay snapped jumping of the desk and walking away trying to control his emotions.
