Groovy Tunes - Friday [August 28th]

[knight-fatali.livejournal.com]

Seifer was the boss now, which was still a bit strange, so he spent most of the morning figuring out just what the boss did around here. He felt like Alice had just gone a bit easy on him when telling him what to do, but it turned out she hadn't. Things were really as simple as she said.

Of course, that meant he had only one 'boss-type' job to do. So, while rock music played loudly throughout the store, Seifer stuck a help wanted sign in the window. Then he went to the back room to start breaking CDs.

Groovy Tunes
Help Wanted
Must like Music
Must like breaking CDs of hated music

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[onapalebicycle.livejournal.com]

George didn't remember for 100% sure what day her roommate worked. George didn't remember if her roommate actually worked at the music shop, or if she just thought he did because her old roommate had, and some part of her brain locked information like 'roommates' and 'music shops.' So she was hoping to see Seifer when she stopped in on her way back to their room (was it still their room? he might have moved out) and if she didn't, she was just going to buy an Our Lady Peace CD.

She might buy one anyway.

"Hello?"

Someone was breaking shit in the back. That was pretty cool.

[knight-fatali.livejournal.com]

Seifer was working his way through annoying teenage pop singers. It was cathartic or something.

And then there was a voice he recognized.

He came from the back room and blinked. "When the hell did you get back? And where did you go?"

Hello doesn't exist for him, apparently.

[onapalebicycle.livejournal.com]

"Home?" George managed, sounding every bit as awkward as she felt. "And ... now?"

She shifted her weight from one foot to the other. "I had a thing."

[knight-fatali.livejournal.com]

"Things can be problematic." He paused and then frowned. "Crap, I guess this means I have to clean off your bed."

Because he had totally been using it as storage space.

[onapalebicycle.livejournal.com]

"My parents are getting a divorce," she announced. That wasn't why she went home, but no one back home listened when she wanted to talk about it -- because she wasn't supposed to care -- and, well, fuck that. "It's kind of all fucked up. And I can clean it off."

Well.

"If by ... clean it off, you mean ... shove things into a pile on the floor."

[knight-fatali.livejournal.com]

Seifer winced, and then pointed to the back room. "Feel free to dump my shit on the floor. Wanna break some CDs? I'm up to crappy teen pop stars."

[onapalebicycle.livejournal.com]

"I think I'm okay," George said, shivering a little. "I mean, I'm not okay. I dunno. It's weird. My dad's gay."

There was an awkward pause before she managed to blurt out, "That's not a ... some kind of a weird slur? I mean he's gay. Or bi. Or something. He's banging some guy who's like twenty-one."

Congratulations, Seifer, on being ground zero for George's thought-vomit.

[knight-fatali.livejournal.com]

This was awkward. Seifer really had no idea what to say.

So the most unlikely and probably the worst thing for him to say was going to be said. "Is the guy at least cute?"

Really. Was the guy worth breaking up a family for?

[onapalebicycle.livejournal.com]

Okay. That was entirely unexpected. And ... completely legit, as far as George was concerned.

"Seriously hot," she allowed. "Probably out of my dad's league, levels of hot. I really can't fault him there."

[knight-fatali.livejournal.com]

"You realize, it's your duty as a good duty, to point hot guys your mom's way now. It's only fair her new guy is hotter than your dad's."

It was. That was the way the world worked, according to Seifer. "Or a chick. Either one. Maybe both."

[onapalebicycle.livejournal.com]

George was just going to stare at Seifer, now.

"My mom is way too much of a control freak to get laid," she said. "Some of her circuits would fry and smoke would pour out of her ears."

Clearly, George had not seen Season 2 yet.

[knight-fatali.livejournal.com]

It was a close thing, a very close thing, but Seifer managed to censor himself before asking if George's mom was hot. Some things you just did not ask your friends or roommates, and he realized that.

"Okay then. So, you're back for the semester? Want a job?"

[onapalebicycle.livejournal.com]

That probably spared Seifer from seeing George froth at the mouth.

"... Seriously?" George asked. "I mean, I just came in here to bug you."

Well.

"Really?"

[knight-fatali.livejournal.com]

"Seriously. I know for a fact that Alice is gone, since she made me the boss and told me that she was leaving. So, we've only got three people working here now."

No one had mentioned to him that Ariel and Lindsey were gone as well. "So, that means you have the weekend, Tuesday or Thursday to choose from."