Communication [EPON...OPEN]

[David Gentry]

"But I thought you were supposed to be in charge of the Five Finger something thingy's new merchandise?" Dave asked as he arrived at work at around 10:03 a.m. as his manager seemed to be almost on the point of pulling her numerous piercings out.

"I told Skyler to take care of it! What are we going to do now!?" Jordan screamed out in her goth rage.

"Say it was a shipping error? I mean that stuff happens all the time, its not like the bands that good..." David retorted as he looked outside the chains that separated the store from the rest of the mall.

"They're having a concert tomorrow!" Jordan said as she rolled up the chain barrier, "You know how much we were supposed to make of that?"

"20-30 dollars? C'mon, what metal head would enter a Hot Topic?" David asked laughing, she was over-reacting.

"You work here!" Jordan yelped, as a couple of black clad junior-highschoolers entered the store. David moved to the counter and reached under the cash register turning on the store's IPod to Shuffle the Store playlist. Weird lyrics and distorted guitars burped out of the speaker.

"Welcome to Hot Topic. Looking for anything in particular?" David said looking up at the two young girls.

"Yeah, we were looking for some Five Finger Death Punch T-Shirts. We want some, but we don't want to pay for them at the arena," one of them said as she looked around.

Jordan glared at David then at Skyler who took an exit into the back room.

"Funny Story," Dave started then turned to Skyler right before he entered the back room.

"You need to work on your communication."

[Harlequin Powers]

The Mall. A great place to venture too when the world was coming to an end. Well, it wasn't really coming to an end, Leaf just felt like it was. Her head hurt like hell and she was in some desperate need of retail therapy, unfortunately she'd have to endure it by herself.

Blowing her brown fringe out of her eyes, the guitarist made her way into the mall. She was dressed in purple skinny jeans, a ninja panda t-shirt and a black and white striped hooded jacket. On her wrist was a bunch of gold bangles and her eyes were adorned with a pair of prescription glasses, not her usual clothing choice, but she hadn't been able to find anything else, not even her usual Glamour Kills penguin shirt and checkered jacket.

Vans slapped the sidewalk as she moved across the pathway with slow deliberation, a small smile crossed her pale features as she entered the mall and searched for her usual store of choice. Hot Topic; very nice.

Her smile brightened a little more as she entered the store. Green eyes scanning the area, settling on the front desk where two teenage girls were standing with a few men of older age.

You need to work on your communication.

Leaf laughed slightly, surprised by herself. Shaking her head mass of brown hair, she made her way over to the counter, then changed her mind and moved to the centre of the store. Listening to the friendly banter that was between the store workers. She filed through several clothes racks.

outfit

[David Gentry]

"Yeah, no, we don't have any, our shipment hasn't arrived. You can have one of mine though, still has the blood, sweat, and tears from a mosh pit a couple months ago," David ended up saying. The girls giggled uttered a no thank you and decided to browse the other t-shirts. But, another customer had wandered in while he was talking to the two girls. About his age, glasses, casually dressed. David liked this opportunity.

"Hey Jordan, you don't mind taking Register do you?" David said as he walked over to where the girl was looking.

"Excuse me miss, but do you require assistance," David said looking over the rack.

"Hey David While your there! Put these shirts up!" Jordan yelled kicking a box his way. Jerk, intruding on his bizness and whatnot, so forth, and furthermore. Bah. David grabbed the box and swung it next to the girl, he began taking out the shirts, and hanging them on the rack. Reading them subconsciously. Really weird shirts. Pink, black, and other colors.

((Sorry, Haven't been in a Hot Topic since I got fired from one... don't know what those t-shirts say anymore...))

[Harlequin Powers]

Yeah, no, we don't have any, our shipment hasn't arrived. You can have one of mine though, still has the blood, sweat and tears from a mosh pit a couple months ago.

Harlequin couldn't help but laugh at this statement about the shipment and the handing over of a personal t-shirt. She snickered gently and as quietly as was possible whilst moving away from the counter and over to a rack of t-shirts.

Hey Jordan, you don't mind taking Register do you?

His voice was louder now, clearer than it had been the first time she'd heard it. Mostly because he was now walking over to where she was browsing amongst the racks.

Excuse me miss, but do you require assistance?

At that moment in time, Harlequin had been rather lost in her own world, looking through the shirts and deciding that she'd liked only a few of them. Some were genuinely funny, whilst others were just plain weird and she understood nothing of what they were supposed to say.

"I, erm.. oh. Er."

[/i] The brunette raised a slender hand to her head and rubbed her scalp gently, trying to remember if she needed help or not. Unforunately she couldn't remember; fortunately though, a distraction in the form of... Jordan arrived, pulling the one called David from her.

Hey David while you're there! Put these shirts up!

She snickered again, turning back to the t-shirts in front of her and ignoring the looks the younger females were shooting her as she flicked through the rack very slowly. It was done on purpose.

"Oh, hey... uh, David, is it? Yeah, do you have this in a smaller size?" The guitarist picked out a bright yellow t-shirt with a picture of a mosh pit on the front, in black and showed it to him.[/size][/blockquote][/blockquote]

[David Gentry]

"Uh... yeah... lemme... here we go!" David said as he rummaged for a mirror copy of the same shirt, except, smaller... He held up his prize.

"It should fit you," David said as he returned to tossing things onto the rack. Then he thought for a minute... wait... what if she could read his mind? He'd have to think of random stuff just to throw her off! Or just speak without thinking! Yeah!

"So... what brings you to Hot Topic today, you don't seem to be the brooding, angsty, vampirey, tacky black underwear clad, upstanding citizens that usually roam these aisles," David said as he looked up at her. Skyler poked his head out and looked at Jordan, as he had apparently found the shirts. After Jordan entered, muffled angry shouts emitted from the back room.

"Don't mind them, you shoulda been here the days before the Avenged Sevenfold concert,"David said laughing.

[Harlequin Powers]

Uh... yeah... lemme... here we go! Harlequin rubbed the side of her nose as she waited for the man called David to find the t-shirt she had found, in a smaller size. Once he found it, she looked over at and tilted her head to one side, slowly taking it in her hands and looking at it, carefully.

She smiled at David and pushed her hair out of her eyes with her free hand, moving her glasses up to the top of her head at the same time.

So... what brings you to Hot Topic today, you don't seem to be the brooding, angsty, vampirey, tacky black underwear clad, upstanding citizens that usually roam these aisles.

Harlequin laughed. Actually laughed. She shook her head and opened her mouth to speak back to him, her tone slightly cheery and sounded as though she were about to giggle. "Haha, I'm just bored of looking through all the other stores; my usual ones, so I thought about a change, y'know." The brunette took a tiny step backwards and held up the t-shirt to her eye level.

There was a scuffling noise and the sounds of muffled shouts from the back room. Don't mind them, you shoulda been here the days before the Avenged Sevenfold concert. Harlequin nodded her head and looked over at the gothic girls from earlier.

"You oughta be careful with those girls, they like the stores with five finger discount." Yeah, she'd seen them plenty of times before, stealing stuff from other stores just because they could. "And, this shirt is perfect, thank you."

[David Gentry]

"Yeah, it doesn't really help that we don't have those, uh, detector thingys... but it comes outta Jordan's pay check since he's manager, and supposed to be watching everything," David said as he cast a glance at the two girls. There was an odd bulge in her sock.

"Glad I could be of service, newcomer," David finally said as she thanked him, "you need anything else?"

David was going for the helpful helperton approach to good business. The girls passed them as they headed for the door.

"Whats that in your sock?" They froze as David asked them.

"Um... nothing... uh..." one of them said.

"It looks like a wallet wrapped in a bra from this angle... with the tag still sticking out," David said as the one with the odd bulge grabbed her sock out of instinct. She accidentally slid the sook down, revealing a key chain and wallet, wrapped in a bra.

"Put it on the counter and get outta here. I don't really wanna search you further," David said grimacing, then returning to his work.

"So, what exactly do you do, you know besides stalking shoplifters?" David asked grinning.

[Harlequin Powers]

Yeah, it doesn't really help that we don't have those, uh, detector thingys... but it comes outta Jordan's pay check since he's manager, and supposed to be watching everything. Harlequin nodded and looked at the shirt for the fourth or fifth time; it really was a nice shirt and she wasn't sure as to whether or not she should actually buy it. But, she was in need of a new shirt and it was there, in her size and a reasonable price, too.

Glad I could be of service, newcomer, you need anything else? She thought for a moment as her green eyes flickered over to the two girls that she'd accused of being shop lifters. "Nope, don't need anything else at the moment, darling." she smiled at David and turned her attention back to the rack of shirts, looking through them as the girls passed.

Whats that in your sock? Harlequin grinned, she looked up from the rack of t-shirts and watched the girls being confronted by David; whilst she was mean and had once shop lifted a popsicle; she couldn't and wouldn't steal anything else/bigger.

It looks like a wallet wrapped in a bra from this angle... with the tag still sticking out. The brunette cocked her head to one side, that sounded really strange from her point of view. Put it on the counter and get outta here. I don't really wanna search you further.

Well, that was rather strange, the brunette shook her head at the younger girls as they ran as quickly as they could out of Hot Topic. David came back over to her, grinning.

So, what exactly do you do, you know besides stalking shoplifters?

Leaf grinned back. "Oh, you know... I just stalk shoplifters." she laughed, then shook her head and walked over to the counter, placing the t-shirt on it. "Actually, I'm in a band and I work at the Java Hut."

[David Gentry]

David sprang up as the girls left. He had finished the box and set it by the back door, then walked to the counter.
"Oh, your one of the local bands, which one?" David asked as he grabbed the shirt and scanned the tag. So, unlike the other guys, he'd been the social one. He met ASAG!, Icarus, and now some other band member.

"Me and my mates moved here from Jersey City a month or so ago, you know looking for gigs and work and stuff like that," David said as he rang up the shirt. Skyler emerged with the box of merchandise and proceeded to stock the shelves with the black shirts. Jordan came out and changed the music on the IPod to play some even weirder music, then took a box with a mix of Harry Potter and Twilight T-Shirts and went to help Skyler.

[Harlequin Powers]

Harlequin took her own sweet time in walking over to the counter to pay for her purchase. Once she was there, she leaned against it and pulled her penguin wallet out of the pocket of her purple skinny jeans. Oh, your one of the local bands, which one?

Leaf shook her hair out of her eyes and looked up at David. "Because We Can - we kickass, but absolutely loathe all the boys of All Systems Are Go!" the last part, she mumbled slightly, looking down at the floor. Normally she wasn't so social with everyone she didn't know, but she seemed to like this David guy. He was pretty spiffy.

Me and my mates moved here from Jersey City a month or so ago, you know looking for gigs and work and stuff like that. Again, she nodded and undid the zip of her Penguin wallet, pulling out a couple of bills so that she could pay for the shirt. Handing over the money, Harelquin watched at the other co-workers came out of the back and started to rearrange stuff and put stuff out on the racks.

"Thanks, man." she smiled at him.

[David Gentry]

"Because We Can huh?... the Guys I was hanging out with were bitching and moaning about you guys, I think they were part of that band you loathe" David said laughing and emphasizing the last word, "I just gotta say its gotta suck to be one of them... you know... not even trying to get to know girls like you."

David took her money and typed the amount into the cash register. Well... a couple dollars more than what she had given him. He pressed the changed button and took out a bill and some coins.

"There you go," David said giving her the money and the receipt, winking. He grabbed a bag from underneath the counter and placed the shirt inside.

"You should let me know whenever you guys have another show, I'd be happy to come check it out," David said as he handed her the bag.

[Harlequin Powers]

Because We Can huh?... the guys I was hanging out with were bitching and moaning about you guys, I think they were part of the band you loathe.

She heared his laughter and shook her head in dismay, slightly disconcerted by the way he had to emphasize the word 'loathe' after she had used it against the boys of All Systems Are Go! It wasn't that she didn't like the boys of the rival band... no, wait. It was that she didn't like those boys.

I gotta say its gotta suck to be one of them... you know... not even trying to get to know girls like you. The brunette shrugged her shoulders and pursed her lips together. "I don't really care, to be honest." She handed the money over; he took it from her and rang it up in the till; she didn't notice what he'd done with the money and the change, Leaf wasn't paying much attention.

There you go. David handed her the change and Leaf shoved it into her pocket without looking at it. She smiled and nodded. "Thank you." Taking the bag from him, Leaf turned around to look through the store, then he spoke again.

You should let me know whenever you guys have another show, I'd be happy to come check it out.

"Cool, maybe I'll let you know if and when I see you again." the brunette winked.