Empire Records; Monday [ 01/08 ]

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad was still having trouble waking up today. Not even his grande supercharged espresso latte seemed to be helping much, which he sipped idly as he lazily went about his tasks through the store. Inventory, stock, helping customers, so on, so forth. He even tried playing peppy music to get himself a little more into things, but it was definately a slow and sluggish Chad day. The frequency of "Hey Mickey" on whatever mix this was he was playing really didn't help, and earned a lot of glares at the speakers whenever it came on. He wondered if Pippi would accept that he reconsidered the whole thing and would let him back out of it.

There were other things to consider, too. In his downtime, leaning over the counter, Chad held out two tickets. Only two. He was going to have to decide who the heck to take with him to the concert. It...wasn't going to be an easy choice to make...


[[ empire's open ]]

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[robotboyfetish.livejournal.com]

Cassie wandered into the Empire, and smiled at Chad.

"Hi!"

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad turned his head and gave her a dull look. That was way too bright and cheerful for someone who made Teddy cry.

"...Cassie, right?"

[robotboyfetish.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, Chad, right?" Cassie said. She noticed the dull look. "Something wrong?"

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

The arch of his eyebrow was hidden by the hair in Chad's eye. She really had to ask? "Other than the fact I wanna hit you right now?" Chad asked, knowing that he probably never would be able to hit Cassie anyway, for a number of factors, including but not limited to her being a girl, him being a pascifist, and him being at work, but violence was the only way he could think to express himself right now. "Nah. Nothin' wrong."

[robotboyfetish.livejournal.com]

"Wha... why?" Cassie stammered, in complete disbelief.

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"Ya made Ted cry the other day," Chad said with a deep, injured sort of frown. "S'all the reason I need."

[[ disappearing for class for a little bit, just so you know why i'm dropping of the face of the earth for an hour or so ]]

[robotboyfetish.livejournal.com]

"Wha... when?" Cassie said. She was still in a bit of shock.

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

After Dr. Wilson's class, Annette set off for town. She wanted to do a little shopping and maybe pick out a new cd. She would eat lunch later.

Entering Empire Records, she blanched slightly at what was blaring from the speakers. Heading down the first row, she began to look over what the store sold.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

After Dr. Wilson's class and lunch, Pippi flounced down into town with her drumsticks.

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"Uhhh...the other day." Chad couldn't quite remember exactly when.

"Sometime last week..."

[robotboyfetish.livejournal.com]

"Cause... well, stuff is better now," Cassie said. "And he made me cry!"

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Hey, it wasn't blaring...Not really. But it was keeping Chad awake.

"Need help findin' anything?" Chad noticed Annette scanning the rows and, trying not to seem all looming and stuff, which was hard for him, went to go say hi, under the pretenses of being a good employee.

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Pippi," Chad said. "What's up?"

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad's frowned deepened a little. Teddy shouldn't be making girls cry, either, but then he was just wondering about who made who cry first, and how he really was pretty clueless on the whole situation, and just knew that he didn't want anyone crying. "I dunno what's going on between you two," he admitted, hands lifting slightly in a gesture of defense, "an' I don't wanna know until Ted's ready to tell me. All I do know is I don't like him feelin' like that. I jus' hope things stay worked out, 'cause I really don't want to hit you if it happens again."

And he didn't. And he probably wouldn't, either, but, hey, he figured Cassie didn't know that, so it could still seem like a threat.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Music!"

[robotboyfetish.livejournal.com]

Cassie really didn't like getting threatened.

And this showed.

Cause her sweater was now threatening to rip, and her jeans were about to bust at the seams, cause she'd grown up a foot and a half or so to look Chad in the eyes.

"Stop threatening me," she said.

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

The whole growing thing was a little off-setting, but Chad looked Cassie steadily in the eyes as he responded, "Don't give me reasons to threaten you, an' I won't."

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad nodded. "That's very true. I see ya got your sticks with ya."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"I do! Doooo you have your base?"

[robotboyfetish.livejournal.com]

"Teddy's my friend," Cassie said, calming down and shrinking back down to her normal size.

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"Not today," Chad shook his head, in a vaguely forlorn way. "Had a rough morning. Didn't think to bring it."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"You did? What's wrong?"

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad nodded a little. "He's my friend, too," he said, "which I why I don't like seein' him like I had to the other day..." His voice still held the tone suggesting that he really, really better not see it happen again and find out Cassie was the one behind it. His eyes would say it, too, if they weren't hidden behind the curtain of hair.

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad shook his head. "Nothin' wrong. Jus'...wanted to stay in bed."

[robotboyfetish.livejournal.com]

"...what did he say?"