Room 34B

Chapter 2

(The picture above is her outfit for the day)

"Hey Louis! It's Gianna I was wondering if you could come in tomorrow"

"I thought Kayla was on the schedule for tomorrow." Louis said. "She was but some unfortunate things happened and I have to fire her now" I sighed. "HA! That bitch had it coming." Louis laughed. "Yeah. Well. I guess she did." I said as I laughed with him. "I'm sorry that was really unprofessional." Fuck I cant believe I said that. "Like I could give two shits but yeah I'll come in tomorrow." As soon as Louis said that a giant weight was lifted off my shoulders because I really was not prepared to deal with a bunch of assholes trying to get a good sale. "Thank you so much and I'm really sorry, I wouldn't ask if I didn't really need help." "It's fine. I'll see you tomorrow." Louis said. "Ok yeah, bye."

When I finally hung up the phone I realized I have to call Kayla and fire her now.

"For fucks sake." I whispered to myself. I pick up the phone again to call Kayla. The phone continues to ring until it goes to voicemail. "I swear to fucking god this girl is gonna be the death of me." I curse. I decide to leave her a nice little voicemail for whenever she decides to pick up her phone. "Hey Kayla, this is your BOSS and I'm just calling to let you know you don't have to worry about coming into work tomorrow, or any other day for that matter. You can come on Monday to pick up your final paycheck. Not that it will be much since you never show up to work. But hey at least it's something! Ok, bye now."

That felt really good. Maybe a little unprofessional but fuck I was getting sick of her. Now that we are one worker short I have to find someone else to take her place. I hope this won't be too difficult. I mean it pays well and you get free shit so it shouldn't be too hard to fill the position.

Now, it's finally time to go home.

When I get home I'm greeted by my cat at the front door of my small run down apartment. My job pays well but not enough to afford something nicer than this in the city. "Hi munchkin! I missed you so much today. You wouldnt believe how stupid people can be." I said to him. Yes, I talk to my cat. Problem?

I walk into the kitchen and munchkin follows me. He always follows me everywhere. It's kinda comforting, except for when I have to use the bathroom. He just sits and stares while I'm taking a porcelain bowl cracking shit. It's really weird and makes me feel like he's judging me.

I went over to the fridge to pull out the leftover pizza from last night because I'm not cooking today. I'm eating then going bed because I'm fucking tried and have to get up early.

While I'm in the kitchen I feed munchkin and give him water. Once I'm done I make my way into my room with my food. I set my alarms just in case I forget then turn the tv on. Some random reality show was on but I don't change it because they are oddly entertaining.

I finish my food and find myself drifting into a state of unconsciousness.

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I'm startled awake by my alarm and instantly groan and turn it off. My first instinct was to throw my phone across my room but i really don't wanna have to get a new phone right now.

It is 5:00am right now but I need time to get ready and to the mall with time to still get things situated before the doors open at 8:00am.

I start getting ready by taking a shower. I do everything I need to do and get out fast. I take out my blow dryer and straightener so I can start on my hair. While I'm straightening my hair I end up burning my neck.

"FUCK!" I gasped loudly. Perfect. This is just what I need right now. "Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck." I keep repeating. It hurts so fucking much. This happens often so I go to my medicine drawer to get the burn ointment and put it on the burn. After I do that it still hurts but it's bearable.

I start on my makeup and I just put on some concealer as a base then put some winged eyeliner on. I finish it off by putting some mascara and chapstick on. I don't feel like doing anything extravagant so this will have to do.

Now I have to put together an outfit. I put on some baggy black jeans and a cropped black tank top that has the dickies logo on it. I get my bag together for the day, put my old converse on them head out the door to my car. I get in and
make my way to work.

It was 7:00am when I left my apartment, I got to the store at 7:20, now it's 7:35 and I'm waiting for Louis to show up.

It's 7:50am when he finally walks through the door.

"Good morning" I say to him. "Morning" he grumbles back. "We open in 10 minutes. People usually don't start trickling in until about nine but after that it's a madhouse" I explain to him. Louis and I have worked together for about a year now but this is his first Black Friday. "Ok" he responds dryly. "Ok..." I mumble to myself.

Louis stays in the back for a little while doing god knows what and I just stay in the front to see if anything needs to be fixed.

"Hey Gianna?" Louis asked from right behind me. I jumped and yelped. Louis just started softly laughing showing his perfectly sculpted smile. "Sorry I didn't mean to scare you but I have a question" he apologized. "It's fine, but what's up?" I replied. "So I know you just fired Kayla so I was wondering if you were looking for someone new to take her place?" he said leaving me confused as to why he wants to know. "Um yeah I am actually. I was gonna put out some signs and stuff out tomorrow. Why?" I asked him, still confused. "I have a friend that really needs a job right now." He told me and I started to understand where this was going. "Um yeah just give me his number so I can call him for an interview. What's his name?" I said.

"His names' Harry"