The Spawn
Better Than You
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I overheard a conversation...I'll condense it into third person narrative:
Sonia works at the local CVS. Her boss is named Tina. There's a new kid, named Joshua who works there. He's cousins with Stephanie, a girl who worked there 2 years ago. So, there's some sorta relationship...albeit vague.
Anyway, Saturday was Joshua's first day, he's some geeked out kid with glasses who downs tums like skittles. Sonia was closing manager and was walking towards the front of the store, where Joshua had been ringing, when out of nowhere, Tina says:
"You'll take him home right?"
Sonia stops. Caught off guard she says...
"W-what?"
"You'll take Joshua home right?" is Tina's response.
Now, the kid is like 5 feet away and just looking at her.
Sonia couldn't say no, right?
So, at the end of the night, she drops him off.
Now, Tuesday, last night, comes, same crew with a few changes. At the end of the night, Sonia is walking to the parking lot behind a very slow paced Tina and Joshua*. So, she speeds up and cuts through the two of them.
She notices Joshua do the same thing. She unlocks her car, sits in the driver seat, and sees the passenger side door open.
Joshua sits down.
Mind you, he didn't ask if he could get a ride home prior to doing this. Sonia asks, "I'm giving you a ride home tonight?"
"Could you, please?"
The ride to his house is awkward and silent.
Except for him singing the songs that play from her Ipod. She keeps changing the song, and he keeps assimilating.
My question is, would you have given him that second ride?
Sonia works at the local CVS. Her boss is named Tina. There's a new kid, named Joshua who works there. He's cousins with Stephanie, a girl who worked there 2 years ago. So, there's some sorta relationship...albeit vague.
Anyway, Saturday was Joshua's first day, he's some geeked out kid with glasses who downs tums like skittles. Sonia was closing manager and was walking towards the front of the store, where Joshua had been ringing, when out of nowhere, Tina says:
"You'll take him home right?"
Sonia stops. Caught off guard she says...
"W-what?"
"You'll take Joshua home right?" is Tina's response.
Now, the kid is like 5 feet away and just looking at her.
Sonia couldn't say no, right?
So, at the end of the night, she drops him off.
Now, Tuesday, last night, comes, same crew with a few changes. At the end of the night, Sonia is walking to the parking lot behind a very slow paced Tina and Joshua*. So, she speeds up and cuts through the two of them.
She notices Joshua do the same thing. She unlocks her car, sits in the driver seat, and sees the passenger side door open.
Joshua sits down.
Mind you, he didn't ask if he could get a ride home prior to doing this. Sonia asks, "I'm giving you a ride home tonight?"
"Could you, please?"
The ride to his house is awkward and silent.
Except for him singing the songs that play from her Ipod. She keeps changing the song, and he keeps assimilating.
My question is, would you have given him that second ride?