❝Confess, Leila. Who were you talking to?❞
❝A customer . . . ?❞
❝You were squealing like two seals mating, snorting like a food-deprived pig, and screeching like a drugged parrot.❞
❝You know how some customers can be qu—❞
❝I'm serious, Leila.❞
❝Okay, it's this guy who's been calling in frequently.❞
❝Wha—tell me, where are you working right now?❞
❝Here in McDonald's fast food restaurant.❞
❝Are you side-working for Hate Line? IKEA's Help Center? Porn Tech Support?❞
❝Definitely not.❞
❝GOOD, THEN STOP ANSWERING HIS GODDAMN CALLS.❞
❝Fine, it's not like that I'm in love with that guy or something.❞
[ She feels a rush of regret pumping her heart as soon as she said that. ]
❝You're lying.❞
❝How would you know?❞
❝I was just like you. So vibrant with young romance. Oh, too caught up in those Cinderella fairytales with glass slippers and happy endings.❞
❝Ew, I am not into those rubbish.❞
❝But that mere rubbish, unfortunately, is the foundation of so many relationships these days. And for what? Ditch-'em-after-you-hump-'em marathons. Suicidal tendencies that come from the heartbreaks.❞
❝Well, what if a happy ending does exist?❞
❝Love is a trap. It hypnotizes you into thinking it's all beauty, just to leave you hanging on the cliff as it watches you fall into your own desctruction. Remember that.❞
❝Wow, did you read that on Wattpad or something?❞
❝As a matter of fa—❞
❝SARAH, STOP BEING A LASCIVIOUS LESBIAN OVER THERE AND HELP ME, YOU DEVIL'S OFFSPRING!❞
❝WHAT THE—UGH, YOU GARDENING HOE!❞
[ Sarah warns Leila with one last look before zayn-ing away towards Manisha's station. ]
❝That was so deep even Adele can't roll in it.❞
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Miss Delivery Girl
Short StoryMcDonald's delivery worker Leila Nasser finds herself forming the unlikeliest bond in the world with Trevor Tanner, a condom seeker too lewd for his own good, though he does have his own charms. But is the risk worth taking? #1 in Short Story | five...
