You and me together.

CHAPTER 30.

Sarah's POV.

Food is good, for the heart and for the mood too. It helps you ease the stress.

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"For a girl, you eat way too much?" Zack commented eating his cereal and my dad laughed at him.

"You bet!" My father hollered with a laugh.

I don't eat that much now. I just love food. And you don't share what you love, do you?

"What do you want me to eat? Salad dressing?" I commented back rolling my eyes as I stuff my pancakes.

LITERALLY NO.

Apparently, I never thought of my figure. I loved my food way too much for that.

"High five Nick." Zack lunges forward. Nick Adams, my father one and only.

Whatever.

"Hey look up. There are 3 vacancies. One is in pizza delivery. One in theatre and one in General store." He told as I leaned my chin on my palms.

"Tell me again, why aren't you both working in the companies that both your parents hold?" My father raised his eyebrows.

"Umm, let's just say its too much for both of u." I replied before Zack could really give a comforting reply.

No. This debate never ends. It's practically impossible for our parents to understand.

"Look where we can have 2 vacancies." I gave a big smile.

"Why?" He gave me a perplexed look.

Seriously you're asking me that?

"Because we will work in the same place doofus. You and me together!" I motioned between us making me understand like a small kid.

A bunch of butterflies crawled out in my stomach.

Why?

Hold up. Let's not go through the possibilities.

"There are 2 vacant spots in the  general store but it's a little far to the other side." He told me finishing his last bite of cereal.

"That will work!" I nodded at him.

Around 12 when Zack was really above his sleep, we sped down to that store.

We parked at the small store that had a decent board hanging. It said "THE FULL CART STORE".

That's about the creative names I have read here.

Seems cool.

"How can I help you?" An old woman asked as we entered.

"Hello ma'am, we are here for the vacant spot." Zack said warmly.

"Yeah. I.. uh.. that's available for a month. Are you still interested?"

"Yeah. Yeah, we are!" I answered her, giving her a small smile.

From what we learnt, that lady was the owner and her name was Heather too.

I may personally not like that name.

But no hard feelings to anyone.

From what I discovered from Heather, Zack and I will be working with Lisa and Leo. I think she said they were twin siblings.

"Hey, you must be Sarah." A platinum blob cut girl came behind me.

"Yeah I am and this is my best friend Zack."  I shook her hand.

"Hello. Welcome. I'm Lisa and he is my dumb twin Leo." She shrugged.

"So Zack you would be staying on the cash counter and Sarah you'll be behind the counter. Is that fine for both of you?" She asked and kept slapping her brother's hand whenever he neared it to her hair.

Ouch.

Imma Liking her feistiness already.

Mhmm...

Boys are stupid. No offence though.

Leo smiled at me and hugged Zack. Maybe just a manly hug.

Zack wouldn't hug anyone. As Leo hugged him, he seemed to land in some discomfort and seriously had a very awkward face.

No Sarah don't laugh.

Hmmph...

But I couldn't control. I laughed at his awkwardness.

In the next hour, Lisa got us through the system and the working where I and Zack clung onto it like a leach. Every time I looked up, I found Leo smiling warmly at Zack.

Is something wrong? Or I am just hallucinating?

Whatever.

Sometime around evening, when I was too tired to walk Zack scooped me a piggyback to his car and then we went back to his home.

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It was fun working in the store even when people knew who was Zack. We anyway worked there.

Ding. Ding.

Ding. Ding.

My phone and Zack's phone was constantly bussing.

Nate: I will hunt both of you down S and Zeee.

Nate: Answer me biaaaaaaatch.

Nate: Are you both Ignoring me?

Nate: Princess you too?

Nate: I have fake friends. *Cries in corner*

Annoying Idiot: Bimbo shut the fuck up.

(A/N: IN THE LAST TEXT CHAIN BETWEEN ZACK AND SARAH, SARAH SAVED ZACK'S NAME AS "ANNOYING IDIOT")

Nate: You just want to avoid me. *Pouts*

Sarah: *Rolls my eyes*

Nate: It's very bad. Both of you have broken my heart.

Sarah: Did you just call him Bimbo? Lmao.

Bimbo: Princess not you too.

Sarah: Shut up GOOFBALL.

Annoying Idiot: Suits you.

Bimbo: Is that a new nickname for me princess?

Sarah: Yes it could be 🤷

Annoying Idiot: Smh 🤷

Goofball: Romeo in distress alert.

Sarah: Lmao.

Annoying Idiot: We gotta go. Bye Nate.

Sarah: See you soon Goofball.

Goofball: l miss you both Romeo in distress and Princess. See you.

"Where to?" I asked letting loose my hair and then putting them back in a high ponytail.

"I don't know." He revived his engine and we took off to somewhere.

My stomach rumbled.

"I'm hungry!" I stated the very obvious.

"By the looks of the sound, I know you'll eat 2 people's meal!" He guwaffed.

"Asshole."

"Still your's cherry!" My heart skipped a bit there.

Teeny weeny skips.

And just like that, his smile enlarged 400% and my heart skipped beats like it was normal.

"You good?" He asked me but he didn't look at me.

C'mon Sarah, don't stick with your theory.

He made a pit stop at McDonald's and we got ourselves a large meal.

I swear we were hungry other than that I usually eat one person's meal.

Tad bit lie.

Okay, a whole lot of lie here.

But they were cheeseburgers. See even with the name my mouth started to water.

I savoured each and every bite of the meal until a school guy passed us a warm smile.

Okay, he did that to me but it was still a smile, just minus Zack's hard glares.

"Hey, c'mon in, there's a summer party in next block by Reese.

"What do you say?" Zack asked me gulping down his milkshake.

"I thought we wouldn't see people from school for the summer." I shrugged and sighed.

"There won't be a lot of people, most have flown down to another country." He grins.

"Fine. If you say so." I ate the last piece of my burger.

I was in a tank top that was overlapped with a maroon jacket and jeans with my Jordans.

Makeup? No.

I care? Oh hell no.

"I knew my charm just works every time. Who can resist me?" He winked he we threw our waste in the trash.

"Cocky much?" I dipped my head to take a look at his face much rather looking at his dimple.

"Oh cherry, just for you!" And then he winked at me flirtatiously.

We reached in no time and I already had girls giving me a dark look.

If you break it down it kind of said DORK-ATLEAST-DRESS-UP-FOR-A-PARTY-NICELY.

Hell no.

I gave Zack one last look and he flashed me a full happy smile.

"Let's go. You and me together." I nodded at that.

The loud beats could be felt from outside the door as we stood there. Zack squeezed us both through the crowd in the safe place. The rhythm of the music set the entire atmosphere in a buzz inside the house. It was a massive place and lots of familiar faces. Changing pleasantries and smiles we both land inside the kitchen, both ending up with something that's not alcoholic and on the other side of the door I could see James in a very- let's just say he was in a compromising position.

What a fucking asshole.

He smirked at me when he understood that I was glaring at him. Not fathoming what was smirk worthy here.

His hands were lingering on that blonde's bare waist. She had worn a sick pair of a mini skirt and high boots and a top that barely covered her upper body.

Exposed much.

He was clearly using it to rub in my face but why? I averted my gaze from there and led Zack out from the kitchen to the place we previously had been standing.  Was it still a good option to be here? But now that we were here, was it even wise to go away because of that one boy.

I think James had been wanting to come up to me because as soon as Zack excused himself to use washroom James came too close for my liking.

"How have you been?" He sneered to my face.

"Much better than your pick for the day." I gagged.

He stepped closer if at all there was any place left and he sniffed my hair.

He. Sniffed. My. Hair.

In a second, he was yanked off before my hands touched him to push back.

"You better stay away from her, you lousy piece of shit." Zack said in a dark scary voice. The one I have never heard before.

His was angry. Very angry.

And James? He scurried away like a lost puppy.

He is such a piece of shit.

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