Break the Distance

Chapter 21

Wednesday 31st of August, 2016Wellington, New Zealand

Richelle Smith

"Hello," someone says all of the sudden and I look up and see awoman. "Hello," I say and put my phone away, "how can I helpyou?" "I want to pay," she says and lays all the clothes on thecounter.

"167 dollar please," I say after I scanned everything. She getsher credit cart out and pays like it's nothing. "Have a nice day," Isay when she walks away with her bags full of clothes, but I doubt if she evenheard it.

My job is awful. The people coming to this store are nothing more thanrude, rich and ridiculous. It's my third day today. The interview Sunday waspretty easy, basically they were so desperate looking for some help that itbasically wasn't even an interview.

Here's how it went: I walked in, shook hands with a woman and said down."You're Richelle Smith  right?"she asked. "Yes," I said. "Are you dependable?" she askedlooking on some paper. "Yes?" I said not completely sure of what kindof question that was. "Good," she said, "you're hired."

Literally that, nothing more nothing less. After that she gave me the timesI had to work and I went home. It all wasn't even 5 minutes. I mean, I've neverhad an interview for a job before since, you know the reason, but I can'tbelieve they all go this quickly. I bet that I was hired too if I would've saidthat I was undependable.

I'll work every day 4 to 8 pm and 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday and Sunday. Ireally hope it is enough to keep ourselves alive and to pay the bills, but I'velittle trust since I'm getting nothing more than just the minimum wage. Afterthis month I'll see if I can work there longer or not.

"Dad I'm home," I yell through the house when I come home."Hi," he yells back, "I went to bed early, see youtomorrow." "Okay," I yell back. Great. I love my life.

I can literally burst into tears right now. When I went to school thismorning my dad was still asleep, the school day was just way too long and wentto work right after it. Now finally after more than 12 hours I'm back home andhe's already gone to his bed. Luckily he did cook supper today. It's cold bynow, but at least I don't have to cook.

I don't really care about eating so just eat the cold food without warmingit up. Definitely not recommendable.

After that I grab my bag and walk quietly upstairs. In my room I start myhomework which starts to get more and more now the year comes slowly to an end.It's a lot of study work and literally nothing stays in my head, it's sofrustrating.

I give up on learning my science and start one of Dan's assignments. He hasto write something for English before this Friday and English isn't exactly mystrong suit.

When I'm finally happy with the work I've done I go to my bed, but before Ifall asleep I see the clock turn 4 am.

Just 2 hours later my alarm wakes me up. This is the moment where I wouldreally love it to throw my phone out of my window, but I don't think it will bea smart move.

Even when Katie picks me up my dad is still asleep. If this is how the nextmonth is going to be, it's going to be a very lonely one. "Goodmorning!" Katie says cheerful when I open the door. "Morning," Isay emotionless. "What's up with you?" she asks confused. "Justdidn't sleep that well," I say and close the front door behind me."Okay then," Katie says and we walk in silence to school.

"See you at lunch," she says before we both go our ways."See you at lunch," I say and fake a smile.

Katie kicks against my leg after I felt for the umpteenth time. I'm sothankful Katie is in this last period with me. I almost got myself detentionwhen I fell asleep last class and I really can't use detention."Thanks," I whisper and try to stay awake again, but it's English andjust really boring.

Finally after 2 times falling asleep again and probably 2 more bruises thebell rings. "YAS," I say and sigh relieved while I put my books in mybag. "Seriously you have to get more sleep tonight," Katie laughs,"this isn't healthy." I laugh slightly. "Of course," I say.

I wake up early Saturday morning. Unfortunate, I had hands down one of thebest dreams ever! I grab my diary from under my bed and start writing.

'I woke up in his arm from the sun shining through the curtains. Icarefully turned myself around and kissed his cheek. "You missed," hejoked and I smiled. "You're awake," I said. "Yes," he said,"but you still missed." I laughed slightly and pecked his lips.

"Good morning beautiful," he said. "Good morning," Isaid and laid my head down on his chest. "So what are we going to dotoday?" he asked. "I don't know," I said, "I'm fine withdoing this." I looked into his eyes and he smiled. "Me too," hesaid and kissed me again. The rest of the day we cuddled. Talked about nonsenseand laughed about stupid jokes.

We were so happy, we didn't have anything to worry about. Nothing couldruin our happiness, as long as we were together everything was fine.'

I have to say that my dreams about Noah keep getting better. Yes,unfortunately it does makes me feel more and more lonely too. I'm not loved asmuch as I wished I was and I probably never will. I only have my dad.

It's nice to have a good dream after a terrible week.

All this week has been, is a pain in the ass. I hate my life right now, butthankfully there is Noah to get me through it. Some conversations we have evenmore random than others. Like yesterday, I really had to finish one of Dan'sassignments so I ended up not sleeping at all. I fell asleep in the library thenext day, but that's beside the point.

Noah and I had a conversation of more than an hour. It started prettynormal about dance, but somehow we ended up talking about rainbows andunicorns. Honestly it was a pretty good conversation.

Or Thursday when we had a small talk when I came home from work and I hadto eat alone, again. We ended up talking about Disney movies, don't ask how.

Our conversations get slowly longer and more often. This last week has alsobeen the best week of my life for sure. I'm falling in love with him every daya little more, but I'll get over it. I have to. He doesn't like me.

I'm so looking forward to meeting him in less than a month. I keep a littlefrom what I earn from my job and I've the assignments for Dan and his clan.Right now I'm on 1/3 so I'm for sure going to have enough in time.

I look on my phone. It's a little over 8 so I've still plenty of time beforeI've to leave for work. I'm starting to appreciate my job more and more. Sinceit's such a high-class store I can easily say that nobody ever knows me there.Because come on, I don't think anybody should know I'm working 34 hours a week.

I told Katie I have a job, but I just told her I work on Saturday's andSunday's. She would never approve with me working so many hours. My dad stillhasn't found a job and I doubt if he's even looking for one. I literallyhaven't seen him all week. When I left for school he still was in his bed andwhen I came home from work he was already asleep. Luckily he did cook supper,but that was literally the only thing he did. I didn't have time to clean thehouse so this week it became such a mess.

But I'm also one week closer to finally meeting Noah. I literally can'twait, it will be the best day of my life. I know he'll never like me like Ilike him, but I still really want to meet him.

There's something special between us.