Friday, February 23, 2007

Chapter Twenty

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Christina said...

"No. Don't go." I said, as Spence climbed out of bed and started getting dressed.
"I have to. I've got to get home." He said. After he got dressed he leaned down and kissed me.
"I'll see later." He said.
"Okay. Bye." I said, and yawned. He left and I rolled over and fell back asleep.

I woke up to Oz banging on my door.
"LOOOOOOOOOOOOLA!" He shouted.
"WHAT!" I shouted back. He opened the door, and threw my cell phone at me.
"It's been going off all fucking morning!" He said, and slammed the door. He looked grumpy and tired. I looked at it and I had ten missed calls.
"FUCK." I shouted, and layed down. I was tired, and had a horrible headache. I opened my phone to check the messages and saw the time. It was noon.
"SHIT!" I said, and got out of bed. I was suposed to be at work at 7:30 to train Smurf. "FUCK. FUCK! fuckfuckfuck." I said, trying to hurry and get dressed.
"You sound like a chicken saying fuck." Oz said. He was standing in my doorway.
"GO away grumpy ass." I told him.
"I wanted to say sorry. I'm tired." He said.
"I'm beyond fucking late." I said.
"OH shit. I'll give you a ride if you want." He said.
"Thanks." I told him, and grabbed my make-up bag so I could do it in the car on the way. Oz dropped me off and I ran inside. The place was empty except for Warren, Angie and Smurf.
"Where have you been?" Angie yelled.
"I slept in. Sorry." I said. "What is going on?"
"The computers are all down, so we can't make any transactions. None of the music machines are working. It's a nightmare." She said. "Didn't you see the closed sign on the door?"
"No. I just ran in when I got here." I told her.
"A tech is coming out to look at everything tomorrow, so we're just closed down until then." Warren said.
"I'm so sorry guys." I said. I felt horrible for be so late.
"It's okay. We've just been training smurf. I'm in a bad mood though, so I'm going to go home." She said. She grabbed her purse and left.
"Okay then." I said. I turned and looked at Warren and Smurf. "I'm so sorry guys! Especialy to you Smurf." Smurf just shrugged.
"Faget aboutet!" Warren said. It made me laugh.
"Yeah. It's cool." Smurf said.
"Thanks. Hey, want to order a couple pizzas?" I asked.
"Hell yes!" Warren shouted.
"Hey, why do we have to be here anyway?" I asked. Warren shrugged.
"I've got no where better to be. Might as well stick around in case something else goes wrong." Warren said.
"Eh, sounds good to me." I said. I walked back to the office and ordered some pizza from a place down the street.
"Where is the pizza from?" Warren asked, showing Smurf how to use the price gun.
"Uncle Tonys!" I said, and a really, really bad Italian accent.
"Awesome, that is my Great Uncle Tony's place. Uncle Anthony Jr. runs it now." Smurf said.
"Are shitting me?" I asked Smurf.
"Nope." He said.
"Fuck, you have a lot of family." I said.
"Shit. Stop fucking cussing in front of the kid." Warren said, and I glared at him.
"Like I havn't heard it before asshole." Smurf said, and we all laughed.
"Hey, i'm going to run to see if Spence wants to come over." I said.
Warren rolled his eyes.
"What?" I asked.
"Nothing. GO." He said.
"If the pizza gets here before I get back, grab a 20 from the register." I said, and left. I ran down the street to Spence's store and walked in. Spence was at the counter tapping a pen on the desk. He looked really upset about something.
"Whats wrong?" I asked, and he looked up at me. He hadn't even noticed I had been standing there.
"I just got a call from the hospital. My dad had another heart attack." He said. He looked away from me when his eyes started to water.
"Oh my god. Is he okay?" I asked. He shrugged.
"I don't know. He has to have another surgery." He said, and he started crying. I ran behind the counter and hugged him.
"Come, on. Let's go get Smurf. I'll go with you." I told him.
"You don't have to do that." He said.
"I want to." I told him. He looked into my eyes, and then nodded.
"Okay." was all he said.