Chapter 14: Earning an honest buck

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CHAPTER 14

EARNING AN HONEST BUCK

it was late at night and G was finishing up with some of the cleaning in Mrs. Vitello's Flower shop, in G's opinion that lady wasn't too bad after all.

Earlier today when G showed up after school Mrs. Vitello was excited to get some extra help. She explained that her other employee wasn't showing up today due to personal reasons, and that she needed some deliveries to be done quickly

G deliverd them with ease, her sharp memory of Hillwood did a big help, after all the deliveries were taken care of, Mrs. Vitello eagerly trained her on how to use the cashier, to take an order from the phone, and how to take care of the flowers, G picked up quickly and in no time was at it on her own after a few hours.

Mrs. Vitello stepped out for a few, and that's when Wolfgang came in with his supposedly charms to buy a bouquet for a certain special lady, he asked G which one she liked, G just looked around and told him that she liked the white roses with gold strings around it, she wasn't all gaga for it but just pointed it out because it was one of the most expensive ones in the store, he eagerly took her advice and purchased it.

Wolfgang took the bouquet and stepped out the door, he then came right back in giving them to G

"sooo Mr. Touchy wants to buy me! oh well he might as well spend it on me" and with a smirk, she took it and put it next to the cash register.

Not long after Wolfgang left, Sid came in asking G if he could buy her some flowers, that's when it hit G, she sold him the same bouquet that Wolfgang bought her, pocketing the money.

She sold the same bouquet three more other times to some more guys from school, she even got a meat sandwich with a rose on top from Harold. It surprised her that pink boy didn't even bite it! "How stupid do they think I am, I know they have girlfriends"

At night G was cleaning up some petals off the floor then felt her pocket full, she threw the petals away and leaned in the counter to think.

"Guess that earning an honest buck ain't so bad after all, why didn't I just get a job before?" G put her head down trying to think back "yeah cuz no one would hire a 11-year-old" she touched her pocket again "well it's not much of an honest buck, and what has Mrs. Vitello ever done to me? I mean she's a pretty decent person, and an honest person, I don't think I remember ever seen her doing something bad" and then the name Arthur popped up in her head, it echoed like crazy, "Arthur Arthur ARTHUR AHH No!, Shut up you stupid conscience" she then put her hands in her head hoping that it would help but it kept pounding "URRRRRRRRRR"

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The Next Day...

Arnold was walking to work again, the shop still had bike, they told him that they ordered the wrong parts and that they needed to reorder them so it would take him a while til finally gets his ride, it really upset Arnold that it wasn't ready because it would be useful for him at work.

"I can't believe that I even took a day off from work yesterday to pick it up, I'm just glad that Mrs. Vitello didn't get mad when I told her that I could'nt get it over phone last night"

The boy kept walking and the shop was coming to view, he spotted G's bike just outside of it, he didn't think of it much and that probably she was buying some flowers or something, when he stepped in he found G behind the counter with a furious Rhonda on the other side

Rhonda was yelling and pointing a finger at G "STAY AWAY FROM HIM!"

G just crossed her arms, "you're tellin' me? girl, it's not my fault! he's the one who's stalking me and buying me bouquets" said the Dark-Haired Girl as she pointed at the largest bouquet in the shop

Pulling on her hair Rhonda yelled, "WHAT! He bought you those? All he gives me are a bunch of chocolate bars"

G really wanted to mess with Rhonda's head, and knew perfectly well that she was dating Harold "I mean Curly may be a maniac but he's kind of Romantic"

Forgetting about Harold and with wide eyes Rhonda couldn't help but be a bit jealous "what? Curly? nooooooo that can't be possible, Curly gave you all of those?" she then walked up to the beautiful flower set up and touched it "this can't be true, he stalks me, not her, he's mine, she can't just come and take him away from me!" noticing that there was a long silence Rhonda nervously said "what makes you think that Curly was my boyfriend?" she shook her head quickly and crossed her arms "I was talking about Harold, HE'S MY boyfriend"

In fact, Curly did not buy anything for G, but she was having a blast just sitting around and messing with Rhonda "Harold, Ohhhhhh you're Harold's girlfriend? hahahaha the boy who gives me sandwiches hahahaha" laughed G

Rhonda was just plain mad... she wasn't mad because of Harold, what bothered her was that Curly bought that bouquet for G, she just didn't want to accept the real reason of her anger

"hahahaha got you princess" thought G evilly, and in a sarcastic voice G said "oh Curly's not your boyfriend, I just thought that" she paused for a minute and said "Good to know, maybe I should give him a Chance"

Rhonda let a huge gasp escape "A CHANCE? NO, YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO GIVE HIM A CHANCE, YOU BETTER STAY AWAY FROM HIM! UNDERSTAND!"

G just kept laughing almost falling to the floor "uumm, yeah no problem, I wouldn't want to even stand near that Harold guy, EVEN if you paid me"

Rhonda couldn't help herself and yelled again "NO! I MEAN CURLY! STAY AWAY FROM CURLY GAAAAAH!" she left the shop almost knocking Arnold and slamming the door.

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G just kept laughing, not even noticing the Football-headed boy in the shop, she ended her laughter and sighed from all of it, she then pulled out the sandwich Harold gave her from behind the counter and started to eat it.

Seeing Rhonda all angry for Curly made Arnold chuckle, it was pretty funny

G took a bite of her sandwich and as soon as she looked up saw Arnold standing there, right in front of her, this unexpected visitor shocked her immensely, her throat began to swollen and she started to choke.

In haste Arnold came from behind and slipped his arms around her waist, he then made a fist and grasped with his other hand, he quickly placed it in her abdomen pressing until whatever she was choking on popped out.

Falling on the ground breathing heavily for air G patted the ground for some water, Arnold saw, ran to get some and came back to hand her a bottle as fast as he could

G took it and began to drink it like no tomorrow

Arnold eyed G with concern, "are you ok?"

G replied "wh... what are you doing here?"

Arnold looked at her and said, "I work here"

"What Noooo? and I thought this was gonna be easy"

"How about you?" asked the Football-headed boy

"I do too" said the Girl in a dreaded tone

"This is good" thought the Blonde Boy "now this is great opportunity to know what youre really up to"

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