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Appetizer

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Mended. Chapter 3.

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Chapter 1 Chapter 2

I woke up Friday morning to a call from Zenith Theater. I had an interview with Rob at noon, he obviously didn’t know that Audrey already told me I had the job. I got dressed and mom let me borrow her car again so I could go to the interview.

I walked into the theater and saw that it was in full swing. People were everywhere and all the employees were busy helping them. I probably should’ve looked to see what Rob looked like… just as I was thinking that, a man came up to me with a tie on.

“Ari?” he asked.

“Yes, that’s me,” I replied, holding out my hand to shake his. “Are you Rob?”

“The one and only,” he replied with a smile. “Come with me to my office, Ari. We’ll talk about the job and what it entails.”

I nodded and followed him to a room off the side of the lobby. He shut the door before sitting down behind his desk with me in a chair in front of it. We did the usual interview stuff and he told me I was hired, then we talked about hours and the days I could work.

“I just moved here so I don’t really know anyone or where anything is. I can work whenever,” I replied, sitting my hands on my thighs. “Except this Saturday night.”

Rob raised his eyebrows but said nothing. “Do you mind coming in Monday at one? I’ll have someone here to train you.”

“Oh, I’m already register trained,” I told him anxiously. “I worked at a grocery store for a while in New York.”

“That wonderful, one less thing to teach you,” he replied with a pleased smile. “Make sure you tell Audrey on Monday.”

“Audrey’s doing my training?” I asked, my excitement bubbling to the surface.

“Ah, I had a feeling you two knew each other judging by the way she was talking about you,” he said. “Yes, she’s going to do your training. She does all the training of new employees.”

“She was who brought me my application,” I told him, hoping my voice was more even and my face wasn’t as bright as I knew it was. “But I can totally come in at noon on Monday.”

“Before you say that, I’m required by law to tell you about what happened here last year,” he announced, his mood instantly becoming solemn. “I’m sure you’ve heard of the Lakewood murders by this point, one of the attacks happened in theater 3. No one died, but there was another attack in the lobby.”

Knowing about the murders and knowing some of the attacks happened here were two completely different things. It might’ve been stupid to be freaked about it, but I felt my heart beat a little faster. I wiped my sweaty palms on my shorts and decided to put on my big girl panties.

“I still want to work here,” I told him decidedly. “I know how to deal with baggage, trust me.”

He seemed satisfied with my answer and stood up, shaking my hand. “Welcome to the Zenith family, Ari.”

I left the theater and drove to the mall. Even with all the clothes I owned, there wasn’t the right outfit for tomorrow night. It was my first date with Audrey, it had to be perfect. I wanted to look good because I knew she’d look amazing.

After I parked, I sent a text to my mom telling her where I was and went inside. It was bigger than I gave it credit and had more stores inside than I thought. Maybe I’d judged this little rinky-dink town too quickly. It seemed to have a lot to offer me so far.

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I bought a new dress and a pair of flats before going back home to find my car parked in the driveway. An excited noise left my mouth as I ran over to it. I had a lot of memories in that Camry and was very happy to finally have it back with me. Leaving the only life you’ve ever known was hard, and it was nice to have a little piece of home here with me.

I ran into the house with my purse bouncing against my hip and my shopping bag trailing behind me. Mom was sitting in the living room with a proud smile on her face. She knew it was here already and didn’t say anything –I loved her.

“How long has it been here?” I asked, flopping down beside her on the couch. “Why didn’t you tell me?”

“It got here about twenty minutes after you left this morning,” she answered. “I wanted it to be a surprise. I know how much you love your car.”

I flung my arms around her neck and rocked from side to side. “Thank you so much!”

“What did you buy?” she asked after I sat back against the couch arm.

“After I left the theater, I got the job by the way, I went to get an outfit for my date tomorrow night,” I told her, slipping the detail in coyly.

“That’s wonderful, honey!” she cheered. “I also want to see what you bought, go put it on and show me.”

I hurried upstairs to put on my new outfit, slipping the dress on and tying the string of my flats around my ankles. Then I went back downstairs and modeled it for my mom.

“That dress is so pretty! And the shoes are perfect,” she complimented. “And hopefully I’m allowed to borrow them…?”

My mother was only thirty-three, she was seventeen when she had me so that mean the two of us shared clothes and shoes a lot. Well, we shared shoes a lot –she had boobs and I had a clavicle. It was kind of cool having a mom to share shoes with, but sometimes I had to reprimand her for not putting them back.

“Don’t you always?” I teased before going back upstairs to change and finish unpacking the last of my things.

I turned on music and hummed along to the song playing as I hung my new dress in my closet. I was dancing around the room when I heard my phone go off. I had a snapchat from Audrey, the two of us exchanged names this morning while I was getting ready for my interview.

I opened it to find a picture of her in her Zenith uniform, her eyes closed with the caption: So bored. Send help. I laughed and sent her a picture of me pouting playfully back that said: I’ll be there Monday to rescue you. Then I tossed my phone onto my bed and went back to breaking down all the boxes I’d already emptied.

My phone dinged again as I was walking downstairs with all the cardboard in my hands. I laid them in the kitchen with the others before rushing back upstairs to see what she said. I nearly tripped over a stack of shoe boxes by my door in my haste to get my phone off my bed.

Audrey had a hand in her hair with a blinding smile on her face, so radiant that it made my heart skip a beat. The caption said: That and our date tomorrow makes today livable. Knowing she was as excited about tomorrow night as I was made happiness bubble in my belly. I couldn’t remember the last time I was looking forward to something this much.

I pursed my lips out in a duck face and crossed my eyes, typing: Happy I can help. Then I sent it with a kissy face emoji sticker on the picture as well. I laid in bed waiting for her response, thinking about how I was going to wear my hair and do my makeup tomorrow night. I wanted to look perfect so she’d be as nervous around me as I was around her, even if I knew that was never going to happen. She was so calm and collected all the time, it was a little intimidating.

My mom called me down for dinner a little while later and I left my phone upstairs, knowing she’d reprimand me if I was on it while we ate. It was one of her rules, dinner was technology-free so we could talk about our days. I knew exactly what they’d ask me about, but I seriously didn't want to talk about it.

There was pasta and bread sitting on the table, homemade pasta by the look of things. Freddie was already sitting down and mom was grabbing a pitcher of water from the fridge. The woman officially had too much time on her hands, she never cooked when we lived in New York much less made things from scratch.

“Mom, you made dinner?” I asked, cautiously eyeing the food.

She glared at me playfully before sitting down the pitcher and pulling her chair under the table. “Yes, stranger things have happened, Arianna.”

She meant business whenever she used my full name so I let the subject drop. I knew she had no idea what to do with herself now that she wasn’t in New York decorating people’s homes and shopping for décor.  

“What happened at the theater today?” Freddie asked, trying to change the subject before a fight started brewing. “Did you see your girlfriend?”

I rolled my eyes, but I knew I was blushing. “Shut up, she wasn’t there whenever I was. I definitely have a job, I start my training on Monday.”

“That’s wonderful, honey,” mom complimented as we filled our plates with food. “So, do I get to meet this girl tomorrow night?”

That was the question I’d been dreading. It wasn’t that I was embarrassed of my mother or of Audrey, I was just nervous for the two of them to meet. The only other girl she’d met was Delia and that was a total trainwreck.

“I guess if you want to…” I replied reluctantly.

She smiled happily and turned her attention to my brother. I knew for a fact she’d meet Audrey tomorrow night whether I wanted her to or not, it was just easier now that I’d agreed to it. Freddie was raving about the friends he’d made today at a skate park I didn’t know existed and I was glad the attention was off me.

As soon as dinner ended, I fell into my bed and fell asleep pretty fast. I guess the day had been more exhausting than I realized.

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hey guys it's ivy and today I'm going to show you my top five favorite shopping apps who don't know about you guys but I really into online shopping which means that by the time you're 35 all max down on my credit card and be big the reason why I'm showing you these apps because i think that you get really good deals with anyways let's go ahead and get started so the first app that I really really like is this app called mural and I've talked about it in one video before and a lot of people actually know about it now so basically its own little world because you get free stuff but there's the catch you have to give away stuff to get their currency and with their currency you can buy things and it works like real money but it's exclusively within the app where you can get the currency and you can't buy the currency because what's the point of giving and getting credit for it if you're gonna buy the currency from the app if that makes any sense here's the app urinal and you can just scroll through a bunch of different things there are different categories for items that you can choose like men women unisex as you can see on this screen and you just have your euro dollars here and if you refer enough people actually you get a free shipping credit that i still have not used so yeah it's a very great app if you have a lot of stuff that you don't want to sell but you don't mind giving away yeah so from this app I've actually gotten a lot of decent things more so in the past when i used to use it more but I mean if you're looking for gift bags or something like you could probably find it on this app there's a lot of random things that you could find that are really good and of course you could give away your own stuff because that's really the whole point of it's sort of like an exchange and all you really have to do is pay shipping so actually let me scroll through what i got from this ok so a long time ago i got vitamins i got cardboard speakers brandy melville shorts that I ended up I don't even know bourbon decay eyeshadow that someone stole from a lululemon tank a nike tank another lululemon here at leggings books Tom stickers uh-huh running metals and once I even got a dog loafer so you have this app is very worthwhile and I i like this app so you definitely should check it out and i'll have the link the down below yeah okay so they're moving on next I really like this app called wish here i am on this app called wish and I'm just scrolling through a bunch of items and just whatever catches my eye I'll try to look at it and these emoji pillows can be kind of deceiving because the actual product might not actually look like that but no just depend on the ratings whether or not you should buy it and since this one has good ratings I'd probably buy it and down below it says the estimated shipping and it's five dollars i wouldn't really trust that they're really big burly five dollars and yeah just pay attention to the ratings on this site and just know that will take a little while around two weeks to receive your item but you get very very good deals so yeah and I mean this is kind of anything's gonna X out of that is it but yeah you get the point and I'm sure that you'll have a fun time shopping on wish but yeah they're just a lot of different things that are really cute on here and I guess the one catch about is that it takes a while to come because it's shipping from either China or Korea or like an asian country so yeah but I mean it's really funny because like some of the photos can be kind of deceiving like this one but overall I think it's very worthwhile isn't a lot of their stuff which is really really cheap and yeah if you guys want i'll make a review on it cuz I didn't know about it until friendship me so happy next appt that i think is very worthwhile and you do find very good deals with it is this app called well pop this app while top is very convenient if you don't want to shop online and you just want to shop locally because it searches for items that are super close to and the default is point five miles and when you keep scrolling these get further and further away but meeting up is good because a lot of people want to get stuff rid of quickly but the only problem is that it might be dangerous so just make sure that the person's legit before you buy on this so it's sort of like craigslist but it searches for nearby listings instead of what you're looking for but there is a search bar where you can look for stuff like I have before snack is this app that I really love i love this out I said that already but people on here are so nice is this app called d pop whoa d to the pop now called d pop and I love this app so much because I just love strolling through everything and if you go to the explore button which is the second button I know it's hard to see you get to see all the teacher items and all the future items are usually really really cool so yes for example this is a really cute iphone case and this iphone case goes for 25 which is that bad is yeah the future items usually cost a little more but you can always use the search bar and look for items that you love ya the search bar is up here and you can always post your item on this app and sell your items but this is my favorite after browsing not necessarily selling if you want a video on how to sell your clothes let me know i think that compared to other apps like mention a posh market you ever heard of those d pop would be sometimes the cheaper one because people want to get rid of stuff faster there for some reason like I found that and i found that there's more variety and apps like hash mark and vented but you could get lucky and find a really good items on here and I have before so let me I guess scroll through items have gotten from d pop so I've gotten american apparel riding pants for twenty bucks on there like it's great and the thing about d pop is that a lot of people like it when you use Paypal friends and family and people friends and family doesn't have any buyers like insurance i just like there's no like really protection for buyers so if you screw off and pay with friends and family and they'll ship your items and you're pretty much doing because they won't do anything about it so that's kind of dangerous about it and my camera's out huh that's really bad anyways so yeah about you pop it's a good app if you want to find like broader things I guess the like if you just want to get a shirt from brandy melville or you want to get something from topshop like a and then the last app that i would love too much it's poshmark a lot don't really like this app because the flat rate shipping and it sees the same unless your packages over 5 pounds is five dollars which can be a lot if you're looking to buy really small item but i still think it's worth it because you do find a lot of good deals on here just randomly just have to look periodically like this one lady she fell in this coach bag wait that's not it wait no that's mine huh 4 35 bucks and it's pretty cute i say but I have enough tote bags we add i love this app just because I just like to browse on here and just look for deals because there are many people who want to get rid of stuff quick thing about this site though is that when something shape it sells out really quick so you just have to beat everyone to it and it's pretty easy to shop and there's actually a lot of variety plus there are some brands that I've never heard of so I've gotten too many things are here so one of the things that I've gone is a kate spade sunglasses case for ten bucks it's really cute gone bra like shoes and I've gone a lot of longchamp bags from poshmark and if you want the most variety and good deals I'd say check out poshmark because it's a great app so yeah hopefully this video helped in some way shape or form and yeah i'll talk to you in the next video bye guys