"Travis, where do you want to be in the future?"
"With you, of course."
"I know, I know. Stupid question. But what do you want to be?"
Travis sat down on a new stool he had pulled up to the checkout counter.
"I don't really know. You didn't give me time to answer this."
"I gave you like, two months. (sORRY) Haven't you graduated college like, twice?"
"Yeah, but it means nothing if I can't do math."
Ethan hopped over the checkout counter and started to mess with Travis's jacket.
"Where did that come from?"
"It's yours. I just haven't given it back to you."
"Could you not steal my stuff without me knowing?"
"That's the point, dumbass."
"Sorry, dipshit."
"Skirt runner."
"Dirty slut."
"B-bean whore."
Ethan looked down at Travis and smiled.
"What the fuck?"
"I don't know, it slipped out."
"Bean whore? I don't even like beans!"
"Me neither!"
The boys doubled over laughing before a familiar adviser walked over to the counter.
"Sir, why are you behind the counter? Travis, you know you can't bring friends behind the checkout—"
"He knows how to work the register. He can help me if I need to carry stuff."
"You don't carry imports, and you know that I won't let you.
The man beckoned to Ethan.
Come out from behind the counter, would you?"
Ethan smiled at Travis and gave him a light kiss on the forehead.
"I was just leaving."
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Short StoryREWRITING! "Where are you getting all of this money from anyways?" ••• In which a boy goes into a bookstore every day to buy a copy of Romeo and Juliet and attracts the attention of an employee. ••• 07SS 10/29/16 Cover by @formulate
