[In which a sarcastic highschool student gets through his school year with a crush]
Beep, beep, beep, beep
I let out a sigh as I swiped the groceries through the machine scanner sliding them into the bags. Man I'm 17 years old, and this is what I'm doing. Working in a mini mart cash register, at 6 pm in the evening on a Friday night
Sad huh?
For me not really, I mean if I'm being serious, i'd rather be here than at some party. I don't want to get piss drunk then holler about it the next day, no thank you sir
I smile a little at Ms. Winters the sweet old lady that lives across the street from the Mart. She smiled standing infront of me, "That'll be 29.75"
I watch as she pulls out her wallet, but suddenly looks up at me. "Boy that's a lot of money" I nod slowly watching her. "Why is that so much money?"
I let out a sigh, "I'm not the one who's buying all this, so I have no clue" I said, hearing a tint of sass in my voice. I didn't mean to, but people just ask the simplest questions
Ms. Winters nods taking out the money handing it to me, "How come you got that hat on? Were inside sweetie"
I let my hand roam up to my black wide brim hat then shrugged, "Because I like it, don't you like it?" She tilts her head a little, "Yes, but it makes you look a little gay"
"I am gay Ms. Winters, thought I told you this the other day" I say nonchalantly, yeah I was blunt but hey what did I have to hide for. If you're gay, then you're gay no big deal
I take out the change from the register handing her the coins. "Oh did you? That's cute" I rolled my eyes a little before putting the bags in her cart. "So, doesn't it hurt when you have sex?" She also asked questionably
I felt my cheeks turn to a furious shade of red, what the hell? "I wouldn't know, I haven't done anything yet" Ms. Winters gets behind her cart before leaning to pat my face, "Good sweetie, stay pure up there"
I stood there speechless as she gives me a warm smile before walking towards the exit. "What the fuck" I mumbled to myself. People around here are so weird, like what sweet ole woman asks about gay sex?
"Zayn! Get back to work! I don't pay you to just stand there!" I hear my boss Simon shout from the chip aisle nearby. The thing is, he doesn't pay me at all. Well not enough, 5 dollars a day of course
I'm still wondering why I work here, mostly because of my friends and my aunt says this makes me get out the house more
I sigh sitting behind my station. I glanced around the empty mart groaning more. I could be home stuffing my face, listening to music, staying in my room watching old movies. All that good stuff a loner like me does
"I know how you feel grim, we all don't want to be in this hell hole" I turn my head to see my co worker Jessica. She was a tall, dirty blonde haired woman with dark brown eyes and always shed her famous mean look.
The first time I met her I was 14, which was when I started working here. She was my mentor and might I say a kick ass one
She smoked, cursed, showed me all her tricks and shortcuts around the mart and since then she's been practically an older sister to me. Well much older considering she's in her 50's.
Grim was a nickname she gave me last year. When she noticed I always wore black she said I was like the grim reaper himself
She gives me a small smirk tilting my hat a little, "You amaze me. You'd rather stay here in this dump, then go out tonight" I nod with a shrug. "I think that if I didn't come today, I'd miss you to much"
Jessica snorts pinching my arm a little, "Ah you missed it kid, Johnny got cut off this morning" I gasped looking at her with interest, since school since school was starting pretty soon I still came to work late from being at the library like I did the beginning of summer
She leans in motioning to Simon's office, "So he called Johnny in, closes the door. Me and the crew went to the door to listen like the nosy bastards we are. And all we heard was Simon talking, then after a while we heard yelling and screaming, from Johnny of course"
I snort as she starts laughing. "We all ran back to our stations and Johnny came out like a dinosaur grabbing stuff and throwing them. He even threw a bag of chips at Spoogy's head, I've never laughed so hard in my life," she wipes her pretend tears making me snort.
"Then he started cursing everyone out" I raised an eyebrow, "Even you?" She shakes her head giving him a scowl, "Everyone knows not to do that to me, I know everyone's secrets. So if they come at me, best believe I'll come at them with receipts"
I shake my head giggling a little. "Just don't come at me" She pulls out one of her cigarettes, slipping one into her mouth.
"Never you sweetheart, your the only one besides Spoogy I can tolerate here" she mumbles looking for her lighter
"Everyone gather around, meeting time" Simon calls out from where the middle of the mart is
Jessica and I groan in unison before going over to where he was. As I waited with Jessica for everyone else to come from wherever I felt someone hug my side making me look down. "Zayn I missed you so much this morning"
I rolled my eyes at my dramatic friend Elizabeth. She was American who moved in the uk a young age since her father had a job here. She had short blonde hair, green eyes, she was kinda short and the most lovable person ever
"It was only a few hours Liz" She shrugs hugging me once more, "Still" she mumbles as all the co workers began to gather. I looked around spotting my mini mart squad, yes I call them that because we were cool and chill lowkey dorks though
There was a Spoogy, a freakishly tall, somewhat built, crazy but sweet 20 year old guy. I really don't know his real name, he hasn't told anyone but he said when the time is right he'll tell. He had these pretty diamond blue eyes and dark brown buzz cut.
For some odd reason he reminded me of crazy Steve from Drake and Josh but not that crazy, but he does have his outbursts some days.
He worked in the storage room, his job was to make sure we had extra everything in here, the best part of that job Zayn envied was that he could take naps all the time in there
Then there was Calum, a tan tattooed boy who was 17 years old. Everyone called him kiwi fruit because supposedly he's was kiwi or something Zayn didn't remember.
He already graduated high school, well homeschool. His mom thought that he was such an angel, that he shouldn't go out into any bad school to ruin him.
Which I thought was pretty fucking weird, he was like bubble boy. Except he wasn't in a bubble, and his mum let him go some places
He had his feathery dark hair down, the blonde streak showing. He has these deep brown eyes, Australian accent, and cheeky smile that could make anyone else smile too.
He was the sweetest guy in the entire world, like I swear anyone here would defend from anything bad like a rude customer or a little cockroach
He worked as a cashier, his station right across from me
Then there was Elizabeth, my girlfriend as she calls it. We've been friends since the 5th grade in middle school. She was being picked on by some dicks at our school and I came to the rescue throwing sand at them. Ok yeah I got suspended that day but I also made a new friend
She was Simon's assistant so whenever he needed something, she's be the one to go out and get it
"Ok everyone so I'm sure everyone knows what happened to Johnny" Spoogy snorts scratching the back of his neck, "Oh we heard Sir" he mumbles loudly.
Jessica lets out an obnoxious laugh causing Calum to giggle. He soon covers it up with a small cough once Simon glares at him before continuing
"Anyways, we'll be a worker short so until then, everyone has two jobs to do" Everyone start groaning, some even whining. I just start looking around half listening, nothing this man says is interesting.
Anyways that was pretty much the highlight of my life besides school which you'll learn about that later
Just as Simon was going to continue a voice called out near the registers. "Anybody here?"
Simon sighs rubbing his temples, "Someone get that customer please" Elizabeth backs up a little to see who was standing there and gasps a little.
"Zayn go get it" I frown at her, "No I'm tired, you do it"
While we were bickering Simon digs in his pocket pulling out two quarters shoving them in my hand. I look up and down from my hand staring confusingly, "The hell is this?"
"Twenty five cents, now hurry and get that customer" I scowl at him before going towards my station. "This is fifty cents by the way!" I yell as I glanced at my boss.
"Go get em tiger" I hear Jessica call out making me roll my eyes. I noticed a familiar set of brown eyes standing here holding bags of chips under his arms
Holy Shit
Liam Payne, captain of the football team. Most popular and well known guy at our school, everyone loves him of course. Damn that Liz! She set me up, she knew he may or may not be my crush, but you guys don't need to know about all that
"Uh hi" I say before standing infront of him. He smiles before placing the bags infront of me, "Uh Zack right?" I restrain an eye roll motioning to my name tag.
Jesus Christ
It pisses me the hell off when people call me Zack. Seriously call me something else with a Z not some corny Zack, shit is that so hard?
But since it's Liam I'm not that pissed, I mean we don't even talk let alone glance at eachother. I mean I do stare sometimes, but like I said that doesn't matter either
Liam looks down at my nametag before his whole face turning red from embarrassment.
"Oh Zayn, I'm sorry" I shrug it off beginning to scan the snacks. I listen to him start rambling once again.
"I don't know how I got your name wrong, you were in four of my classes last year" I look up surprisingly, noticing the small smile on his pink lips.
"Wow your like the first popular person who notices me" I saw something flash his brown eyes but gives me a half smile, "I'm not like that, believe me. It's just some people think their royal or something" I snort before grabbing the credit card he's holding out
"So you work here huh" I nod nonchalantly before handing him back the card. "That's pretty cool" I snort before giving him a are you kidding me look. "What's with the snacks? Trying to gain weight?" I say now confident in trusting my voice from stuttering, like how juvenile and embarrassing would that be?
Liam grins cheekily shaking his head as I place the chips in the bag. "A party at my friends house" "ah house party, sounds wild" I hear him chuckle making my cheeks flush red. Ok so I may or may not have a huge crush on him
"You seem pretty chill, why don't you go to parties?" I place the bag on the counter giving him a slight shrug. "Well first off I'm not popular, and second I don't want to bitch about my hangover the next morning. So I'm good"
"You don't have to drink though" I nod adjusting my hat a little, "True there's always that possibility I'll end up drinking something"
Liam frowns and all I could stare at was his cute bushy eyebrows, damn he looks adorable."That's true, you're very smart"
He grabs the bags before smiling widely at me, "Thank you Zayn, maybe I'll see you in all my classes this year yeah?"
I nod a little before waving a tad bit awkwardly which made me want to punch myself in the face. He begins walking but stops midway, "Oh and I like your hat. It looks cute on you"
I felt like part of me wanted to collapse on the dirty floor, he called me cute. Liam Payne just called me cute, wait so he's gay? Or maybe bi?
"Uh thanks" I say softly. He smiles before rushing towards the exit. I couldn't help but facepalm, I'm such a dork.
Such a great way to start off my story without my dark cool vibe.
Welp, I'm Zayn and this is my story.
- - - - -
So here's a preview of this lovely story, I hope you liked it so far.
This story is coming soon but not as soon as I want it to be. Can't do all these books at one time, I'll be all over the place ;-;
Besides I really want to focus on this once everything else is done because I'm legit jumping off the walls to start this book
So comment what you think :)
-Saliah xXx