Hometown Hotshot by C Morgan

Author:C Morgan [Morgan, C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New Chronica Publishing
Published: 2019-11-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Liv

I managed to make it back behind the counter after wolfing down my food. I was still five minutes late, though. I looked around for Tandy to make sure she hadn’t seen me slip back here late, and I sighed with relief.

Until a voice came at me from behind.

“I won’t tell my sister about the five minutes if you don’t.”

I jumped. “Holy shi—! Percy. Don’t do that. You scared the living daylights out of me.”

He chuckled. “Sorry. Didn’t mean to. I figured you saw me back here.”

“No. I didn’t. I’m sorry.”

His placed his hands on my shoulders. “Don’t apologize. You’re fine. And I don’t think you’ll get caught today. I mean, except by me.”

He gripped my shoulders before he released them, and I held back a shudder. I didn’t know why Percy always did those kinds of things—coming out of nowhere, keeping his eye on me in the shop. I kept telling Tandy—his sister—to talk to him because those types of things made me uncomfortable. But she always shrugged me off, telling me that, as the store owner, watching his employees was his job. Even if they didn’t know they were being watched. How else was he supposed to run his shop?

To her, it was normal.

But to me? It was creepy.

Even still, having Percy around was better than Tandy. I swear, the bitterness in her had only grown after her father died. As the oldest, she expected to inherit the general store. But when it was announced that her father left it to her younger brother, she became angry. Empty. Cold. She constantly said the only reason her father left the damn thing to her brother was because she was a woman.

But I think her father did it because she was completely insufferable as a boss.

Percy might come out of nowhere sometimes, but Tandy breathed down our throats and criticized us on every little thing. And if she came into the shop with personal baggage? Hell have mercy on us all. She still stood on her high horse, even well after high school. It didn’t matter that Tandy ruled the school as our homecoming queen, though. That was years ago. She needed to get off it and move on, find something else to be proud of.

But it seemed not many of us had moved on from high school.

Myself, included.

“So, you know Jake’s back, right?” Percy asked.

I looked up and saw he had made his way to the other side of the register on the customers’ side. Even with standing up on a platform that usually put me above the customer’s head, I was still eye to eye with Percy.

“Actually, I just saw him at lunch,” I said.

“What’d you two talk about?” he asked.

He leaned his forearm against the counter, waiting for a response, but I wasn’t sure how to answer. He and Jake were still good friends. So, I decided to go ahead and tell him.

I mean, he’d hear it from Jake later anyway.

“He’s wanting a second chance,” I said.

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