She woke up by the sun blinding her eyes.
"Took you long enough, I thought you were gunna sleep the day away." Chris chuckled.
She simply gave him an evil I-can-and-will-kick-your-ass glare and rolled back over. "I promise to take you to the pancake house if you be a good girl...and they have free refills of the amazing vanilla iced coffee." He poked her repetitively and his voice changed notes just like a dad would bribe his kid.
"Fine." She drug herself out of bed and threw her clothes on. She brushed her hair a bit and had to fight from falling over. This is going to get annoying she thought to herself as she sarcastically blew the comfy bed a kiss.
"You'll be okay, silly; I let you sleep until eleven o'clock." He grabbed her hand and they walked out to the car. She rolled her eyes. He really was adorable, even if he did have too much damn energy.
They arrived at the pancake house and it was noisy and full of people. She sat with her elbow cocked on the table and her chin melting into the ball of her hand while Chris chatted away at her. She wasn't paying too much attention, after all about six hours earlier she had experienced the best sex of her life.
"Would you like to come to work with me today?" he asked
"Wouldn't I be in the way?" the waitress sat down her vanilla iced coffee and she stirred it relentlessly, because she was determined to believe waitresses were incapable of mixing the vanilla correctly.
"Nah, it's just me and one other guy and the boss. We usually get about two jobs a piece; I can teach you how to hook up a car. And besides, this might sound crazy, but you make life fun." He was being honest.
"You just like my hot passionate sex sessions. I guess, I'll just call in with car trouble." She winked at him and called her boss.
When they were done with breakfast they went to the shop. It was a small blue building with a low-rider type car painted on one of the outside walls, and had lots of bright neon signs hanging in the window front. Inside there were rims of every size, wires of every color, and bags of cables and dash kits hanging on peg board all over the place. The floors definitely needed to be mopped. There was a long counter with tool boxes on one end, and a cash register on the other.
"Looks easy." She glanced at him to see his reaction.
"Good, because now your putting in the first stereo we get today." He looked amused.
"Fine." She said. Of course she would do it; she loved messing with wires anyways.
He showed her what everything was, pointing with enthusiasm. She could tell he really loved working on cars...and he was very knowledgeable.
"How long have you worked here?" she asked.
"My mother couldn't take care of me when I was younger. A couple wanted to help her out, but I had to agree to work for a place to stay. They weren't mean; they just wanted to teach me to take care of myself. Frankie was a mechanic and would teach me how to change the oil or put new breaks on. He let me do these little jobs for about two years and I really liked working on cars. I liked working in general, it helped me pass time and get over a lot of things that happened in my childhood. I also loved music, and would take apart tape players just to see how they worked and then put them back together. I just fell into it, and I've done it every since." He held a smile of confidence.
The first car pulled in, and he turned and gave her a huge grin. "Ready to get your hands dirty?" he asked.
She let out a sigh and walked over to the car. She could barely tell you the make and model, let alone the kind of cabling it needed to adequately produce sound. The man gave Chris his keys and he told him it would be ready by five-thirty. That gave her five long hours to mess up an entire system.
"Ok, what are the year, make, and model," he said.
"1996 Chevy, Impala." She smiled.
"Good, ok first you need to know whether it's a single din or a double din."
She had no clue what he was talking about, but had a fifty-fifty chance on being right. "Single." She guessed.