Ignorance is Bliss [Prologue]

The next day I decided to meet up with my friend Jayla because she wanted to go shopping. What we were shopping for was a great question. We walked around downtown for a while before we finally went into a thrift store. Jayla immediately set off for the women’s clothing racks, and I followed her, not knowing what else to do.

“This isn’t it. That’s not right,” Jayla said while working through the racks. “That’s just….ew….no.” I looked at what she was holding. It was a full length coat made out of beaver fur and had some strange fringe around the collar and cuffs of the coat. It had to be the ugliest thing I’d ever seen. Besides that, I’m totally against any harm to animals, and that coat had slaughter written on it in red letters.

We shopped around for a while until I was thoroughly sick of looking at clothing racks. If I never had to see another hanger, I honestly wouldn’t mind. So, we headed over to the music store. If you didn’t know this, music was pretty much the biggest passion in my life. We walked into “Lyrical Laments”. The name also made me laugh, because who wants to have a negative word in their advertisements?

When we entered, the bell above the door made a little ding, signifying our presence. Jayla and I quickly headed over to the rock section, being the hardcore rock lovers we are. Every two seconds Jayla would shove a CD under my face saying, “Have you heard these guys? They’re amazing!” In Jayla’s opinion, everyone is amazing. As I was looking at the new CD Yes, Virginia by The Dresden Dolls, I noticed that the price was missing from the CD. Plus, this was the last copy, and I really wanted this CD forever.

I told Jayla that I would be right back, and I started to head towards the counter. As I got there, the bell tinkled again, and the guy behind the counter bolted from the cash register and out the door. I continued to approach the counter, figuring that the new arrival was another employee signing in. I looked up to see the new worker putting his name tag on. Would you guess who he was? It was the beautiful stranger from yesterday.

“Well, look who we have here,” the boy said. I looked closer at his name tag which read “Davin”.

“Yeah, whatever,” I said. “I just need to get a price check on this CD, so could you do that?”

“Um…no. I don’t think I can do that. You see, I only do that for customers that give me their phone number,” Davin said. Oh great, not only is he conceited, he’s also hitting on me. Well, I know a lot of people would ask me why I was being a jerk and not giving this guy a chance and not to judge him, but come on. From what I know about him, he’s everything I’m against.

“Well, that’s too bad, because I’m guessing your employer isn’t going to be very happy with you after they find out that you lost a sale due to your stupidity,” I told him, and with that I walked away with Jayla to never return…or so I thought.