"Can I help you with something?"
I regretted the question about 5 minutes after asking it. Now, about 2 hours into to ordeal this girl looked visibly more exasperated than I felt. Her eyebrows furrowed with disapproval as she rotated in the body length mirror, comically craning her neck backwards to get a better view of her own ass in the ugly pink dress that she's made me grab 3 different sizes of. But not only the ugly pink dress, the 4 dresses before it as well.
"It looks weird in the back." She huffed.
I agree, it looks weird in the back. The open back with long straps just didn't fit her torso correctly and sagged in odd places, not fitting tightly like it was supposed to.
"What about a size smaller?" She glanced at me through the mirror. I was standing behind her leaned against another dressing room stall because I knew if I walked away, she'd start shouting for assistance. I know this because when she first walked into the store and asked me to let her into a stall, I heard her from across the entire expanse of the establishment shouting, "Can I get a dressing room attendant?" I just sort of stood there for a while because I couldn't believe she'd actually yelled in a
store.
"Hellooooo?" She bellowed afterwards, maybe a little quieter, more polite.
I was bewildered by the situation, because number one: There was no such thing as dressing room attendants in our store. Everyone that worked here just had a key to let customers in so they could count their items beforehand and prevent theft. This wasn't an expensive designer store where we put on your shoes for you and grab any size you want, kissing your ass until you buy something. Number two: She seemed way too young to be this bitchy. Normally this was '40-year-old Karen with a chip on her shoulder' type behavior. This girl seemed about my age, very late teens or early 20's maybe.
"You've tried on every size below it." I practiced a voice so calm it would put a yoga instructor to shame.
"What about the yellow one? The satin one with the chain straps."
I ground my teeth together while simultaneously burning a hole through the back of her head with my glare. She didn't notice and was trying to pinch the fabric of the pink dress to see what it would look like if it fit correctly.
"Ma'am, I have to tend to other customers. My co-worker is in the stockroom and I'm the only one in front." I spoke slowly, as if I was addressing a petulant child.
Her face pinched and her eyes shot daggers at me through the mirror again.
"What other customers? There's nobody in here. It's Valentine's Day and a Friday night. Everybody is out doing something."
Then why aren't
you
out doing something? What in god's name possessed you to come make my life hell on Valentine's Day of all nights? I was already irritated enough to be stuck with a closing shift, not that I'd be doing anything other than fucking my own hand if I wasn't here.
Deep breaths, in through your nose and out through your mouth.
The corners of my mouth yanked up like they were attached to fish-hooks.
"Which yellow dress are you
referring to?
" I tried not to hiss but the vexation leaked from my words.
"It's on the left side sort of by the clearance rack. It's on display next to the red one I tried on after the other red one."
Jesus fucking Christ.
"I'll fetch that for you." I stomped as I walked, taking my irritation out on the concrete below my feet. I grabbed the yellow dress in every single god damn size available and stomped back. She was back in her stall. I could hear the sound of a zipper unzipping.
"Did you get it in small? I might need a medium too. Could you grab those?" I was silent as I stared at the wooden dressing room door, willing it to spontaneously combust.
"I got every size on the rack." I murmured, hoisting the pile of dresses to hang over the door.
"Extra-large? Seriously? Do I look extra-large to you?" She snapped, pulling the cluster off the door and into the dressing room. I heard her rustling around a bit before she opened the door and started shuffling out of the dressing room. This was definitely the tightest dress she'd tried on. She looked a little flushed, probably from the exertion of squeezing into it. She grabbed her long brown hair and gathered it into a messy ponytail.
"Can you zip me up?" She'd zipped up the back of it for the most part but couldn't quite reach the last couple inches. I awkwardly approached her, yanking the zipper up and stepped away again.
My eyes slipped down to the roundness of her hips and the curve of her ass that had the silky, canary yellow fabric bunching just above it. I think it was her lack of height that was making it difficult to find a well-fitting dress. But, the tight tube of satin didn't leave much room for a mishap in fitting because as long as she could squeeze into it, it could rest really anywhere on her body. I looked up from her moderately thick thighs to the dramatic curve of her waist, then into the mirror to see her tits being pushed up by the fabric. The chain straps didn't really do anything to hold the dress up, her sizable breasts were doing a nice enough job of that.
Then I realized she was staring at me through the mirror. I hurriedly looked down at the ground, pretending to cough and shuffle my feet. I felt my face grow hot from the accidental creepiness I must have just conveyed.
"Uh...Is that the one?" I glanced at the store through the archway of the fitting room. Empty, no people passed by to window shop either. The mall had to be closing soon, so she'll have to leave. Maybe I should tell her I have to start closing up.
"I don't know, is it?" Her sultry tone made me pause and glance at her again. She rotated in the mirror and looked at her ass before turning her head to turn to face me. She quirked one well-groomed eyebrow over an olive green, mascaraed eye.
Um...what? Did I imagine that tone?
I had to make an active attempt to not let my eyes slip anywhere but keeping contact with hers.
"It looks good. Uh..." Said active attempt was failed when my eyes dipped down to her tits again. I opted to just close them, rubbing them with a finger as though an invisible speck of dust just blinded me.