Having spent the last two weeks since leaving college in Ohio slowly realizing that my options are severely limited. I hadn't been able to accomplish any of the wonderful things I had planned on just three weeks before, when this unbelievable desire to return to Shelbyville jumped up and began a life of it's own.
Shelbyville, yeah, my hometown. Kind of a modern day Mayberry for those of you late in years enough to remember. Anyway, that's how I ended up back at the local McDonald's. I had been on the original crew when it had opened, so it wasn't hard to get back on. Not that I was too happy about it, but remember, limited options. Anyone that has ever flipped burgers for a living know what it's like, and if you haven't experienced that joy, then far be it from me to deprive you of the full treatment. So no further talk of my days need be necessary.
My life was typical, except today. Being unattached and as always on the prowl, I spied a sweet young thing in the lobby. She was about 5', give or take, lovely long brown hair that sparkled, puppy dog brown eyes, a sinful little smile with a devilish glint in her eye. Not to mention the proudest pair of breasts in the room. If the guy that said more than a mouthful's a waste had seen her he would have change his tune.
Being ever the hound, I grabbed the first available body and asked if he knew who she was. Since he was a typical employee, it took a few seconds for him to respond. "Why, that's Nise," squirted out and then he just looked at me.
I smacked him in the back of his head and she works here joins the name.
"Impossible, I would have seen her, hormones you know," I shot back.
"Well, they must be tired or something, cause you've worked with her two nights this week. The shy little brunette named Denise."
I was stunned, but it was the same face. I had pretty much decided that she would be a little timid and I had been there before. I wanted a little fire in my life. After all who knew how much longer it'd last. At that point it became my goal to get this lovely lass on a date and alone. Yeah, I'm a guy. Substance wasn't important, just animal lust.
I made a lot of effort and finally caught her attention. Then I moved in for the kill, if she was as hot as she looked, I'd be in heaven within an hour after I left work.
"Hello Nise, you look very sweet tonight," I cooed. Sorry, I had to come up with something quickly. And then she burst my ego bubble as quickly as I had inflated it.
"Hi...... um.... thanks. I'm sorry but I can't remember your name," came my way as she flashed her beautiful eyes into my heart.
"That's ok..... I'm Warren."
"Hi, thanks Warren," she uttered as she returned to her friends. With my ego severely in check I returned to work. I thought to myself, maybe a little more than an hour. You see a true hound never admits defeat.
The next time that we worked together I had decided that I was going to ask her out. I convinced the boss to let me go on break right after she had and headed to the break room. As I walked into the room she was sitting at the table, eating a Big Mac. I notice that a small amount of sauce had started to ooze down the back oh her sandwich and I said, "Mind if I lick your Big Mac".
"What?," was the only reply she offered.
"Your sandwich is leaking, I was just gonna help", I answered, laughing a little to help relieve the tension. "Well, actually I just want to break the ice a bit and start to get to know you better." I heard somewhere that honesty worked sometimes, although I had never actually tried it, who knows, I'd have tried anything.
As soon as I had sat down, my whole outlook had changed. I had slipped out of the hound mode into one that I was a little unsure of. She was very beautiful. Her eyes smiled and her smile flash like the sun. I found myself starting to feel things I had long forgotten. I was still young but I had only fallen for one person in my life, and that didn't turn out to well.
But this one, I couldn't understand it, but I wanted to just talk with her. Before I knew it we were getting yelled at for being gone too long. That conversation began a series of times when we just sat and talked. I had completely forgotten about wanting to go out and hadn't even brought it up.
One of the times we were talking and she was very upset. She told me that her boyfriend had broken up with her and she wanted him back. I knew of the kid, but wasn't really a friend, still I told her that I would talk to him and see what I could do.