Chapter Two - Beach

The rain was hard now, and was very cold.

I made a cup of coffee and turn the tv on. I was almost sleeping when the phone rang.
"Hello?" I said with a lower voice.
"Dan?"
"Hi mum."
"Did I wake you up?"
"No. Is everything ok?"
"Yeah, and with you?"
"Pretty fine..."
"So... I was thinking if you wanna come here sunday, I was thinking we can go to that beach we used to go when you younger, remember?"
"Yeah mum! Ok. Gosh I almost forgot that beach!" And that was true. How could I?
"See! I still have to take care of you" She said laughing.
"Yeah!" And we both laughed.

We talked for almost ten minutes and then she hang up. I wake up and took a shower and went to bed.
It took me a long time to sleep. In the midle of the night I woke up to drink water, and I started to think about the juice boy. What it mean "See you soon"? I mean of course if I liked the juice I'll came back, but that wasn't the meaning... Or maybe I was going crazy for wake in the midle of the night to think about someone I only saw once.
I came back to bed. I set the alarm to 6:30 and sleep.



I woke up and made the daily routine. I grab my keys and drive to the Lou's Diner. I'd my breakfast and went to work. Richard's Store - "Where you can find everything". Richard came up with this logo after he saw What a girl wants and don't ask me if that makes sense, but for him does. I work in the department of eletronics. Kristen is the temp there. Richard said I would be the vice president there as the old one got married and moved to another city.

"Hey Dan! Good morning! How are you?" She asked as she always does. With a enthusiasm.
"Hey Kiki! Good morning to you too. I'm fine and you?"
"Not so good. See that boy I told you about is a completly jerke! Can you belive I saw him with another girl yesterday?"
"Really?" I tried not laugh as she always gets the jerke ones.
"Yeah!"
"Don't be sad... he's a idiot."
"Thanks Dan!"
"So I was thinking saturday I want to see a film... wanna come?"
"Well of course Kiki! But this time I pick the film, I don't wanna see another dead came to life"
"You're sooo scary!"
"I'm not... I just don't like scary movies..."
"Right!"

When I realized was already luch time. And I spent the morning talking to Kirsten and forget to do my job. I hope Richard don't make a visit later.
I thought with myself to go again to that juice place. And so I did.

©Leonardo Martins