Trapped

Suzie, Do You Copy?

"See you ladies in two weeks." Rosalyn waves to her coworkers as she walks to the vet clinic's doors.

"Have fun," Janise, the clerk, waves back at her.

"She will now that she has a man and not just her little brother." Tiffany, a vet tech, winks at her earning a smack from Janise and a chuckle from Penelope.

"Be good and stay safe." Penelope throws her own wink in at the word safe.

"Dr. Myung." The older clerk gasps.

"I'm going to miss you guys." Lyn laughs as she went out the door. She got into Darling. Despite Dustin coming home today, she was heading to the mall. In their last phone call, he said the first day back he would spend it with the boys. Tomorrow, she would take him to the mall to visit Steve.

She got out of her car and walk into the mall to make her way to the ice cream parlor. She walks into Scoops Ahoy and got in line behind two pretty girls that were about her age. She notices how they were checking out her boyfriend.

"Alrighty, one scoop of chocolate, that's a buck-twenty-five. Anything else," He asks them. The girl shook her head no and reaches into her purse. Steve caught his girlfriend's eyes and Lyn nods suggestively to the African American teen in front of her.

Lyn knew the game that Steve and Robin had going on. If Steve was able to get more girls' numbers than rejection, Robin would clean the place. Steve got Lyn's approval first, the only reason she agrees was that she knew he was a terrible flirt. So far Robin hasn't had to clean since they started this game. Honestly, Lyn was started to feel bad for him. He was able to successfully hook them in with his look, but once he opens his mouth it would get awkward so he was never able to reel them in.

Steve looks her up and down. He points out the first thing he noticed. "Ooh, Purdue. Fancy." He took the money she handed to him.

"Yeah, I'm excited." She nodded with a big smile on her face.

"Yeah, you know, I considered it, Purdue, but then I was like you know what? I really think I need some real-life experience, you know. Before I hit college, see what it feels like. Kind of like, uh, I don't know, see what it's like to earn a working man's wage, you know?" He started to ramble. The two girls shared an amused look that said can you believe this loser. Lyn rubs her temples, why was he making like him working here was more than or just as impressive as Purdue. Thankfully he pushes the wrong button on the register and it made a high pitch beep putting an end to his rambling. "Oh, I'm sorry." He looks down to fix the registry. "I think that's, like, really important." He looks back up to finish his point.

"Yeah, totally," She said sarcastically. She hid her un-amused look by licking her ice cream cone.

"Yeah, anyway, this was, like, so fun. We should kind of like, you know, I don't know maybe hang out this weekend or...." Steve tried to give her the change, but he missed her hand making all the coins fall on the floor. The girl looks at him in shock while her friend tries to hide her giggles in the background.

"Oh, sorry about that... uh... I don't know. Maybe next weekend or..." He was fumbling on asking her out.

"Yeah, I'm busy." She tries to nicely put him out of his misery, while she shoves her money into her purse.

"Oh, that's cool. I'm working here next weekend, so the following weekend's better for me." He shrugs his shoulders. He was still trying even though all signs told him to stop.

"No. I'm sorry, I can't." She smiles and grabs her friend's arm. They walk out of the ice cream parlor giggling.

"I - This is my first day here. I have a girlfriend- so it's whatever." He yells at their backs making them crackle loudly.