Takashi and Toryn met each other when they were five.
Became best friends at ten.
Were inseparable by time they were fifteen.
Built an indestructible bond at twenty.
And now at the age of twenty five, after twenty years of friendship, due to the...
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"TORYN AT CHECKOUT. TORYN AT CHECKOUT."
Toryn looked up at the loud speakers built into the ceiling when she heard her name. She quickly slid the last book back in it's place and sped walked to the front of the bookstore. Laura hadn't been playing about her getting a job and making sure she stayed busy. So the very next day Toryn landed a job at a bookstore called, Renown.
She's only been working for a month, but she worked hard so she wouldn't let Laura and Takashi down. Her life had been going good and she hadn't had an incident for the past month. Laura made sure she stayed on top of her medication and that she was still responsible. The medication wouldn't completely stop her from having another episode, but it did prolong it for a long time until it happened again.
"Take these back to their aisles." Mickey, the coworker who had called her to the front said. Mickey was a cashier. The kind of worker who always had an attitude. She was very nice to Toryn but rude to customers. Mickey was the type that always complained about her job but was still working there. "These people annoy me. They always picking things up but would never buy it."
"Thanks." Toryn said, taking the stack of books to return to their proper aisles. Toryn worked as a sales associate. She stayed in the aisles fixing shelves or assisting anybody in finding books they were looking for. But she was also a back up cashier in case someone called out or the store was busy.
Toryn looked at the tags on the side of the book that had the authors name and the genre of the stories so they could be placed in the right location. Once she did, she continued browsing through aisles to make sure books weren't on the floor and everything was in order.
In Renown, they had uniform policy and no piercings, tattoos or crazy hairstyles were allowed. Box braids and weaves were allowed but only black and brown. Their shirts were a dark navy blue and their name tag was clipped into the right side of their shirt. They had light brown Dickies pants and black or white sneakers. Toryn didn't mind though, she always preferred uniform.
"Excuse me miss, where is the mystery and thriller aisle?"
Toryn turned around, screwing her face up as she pushed the rim of her glasses higher up on her nose. "Just follow me..." Toryn said to a Caucasian woman. She took her a couple aisles over to the section she was looking for and the woman thanked her before she walked off.
Renown wasn't as big as places like Barnes & Nobles but it was coming up. It was a very nice place. They had a snack bar on the second floor, a lot of tables and chairs throughout all three floors for people so sit and read or eat, and computers. It was like a café and library all in one. And the store sold all kinds of books. Toryn loved it because she was a book head and because she was an employee, she got employee benefits like discounts and half off certain items.
"Okay, break. Fifteen minutes." Lenard, the manager of the store said tapping Toryn's shoulder as he passed by.
Toryn gladly nodded her head and walked upstairs. She went to the café, glad it was empty. She got a bagel and cream cheese and an apple juice and went all the way up to the fourth floor. The building technically had four floors but the fourth was closed off because it was where the employees went. Their lockers were up there to put their stuff along with the employee bathroom and their lounge.
