I woke up a bit earlier than usual, opening my blinds to watch the sunrise. As I was about to close it I took notice to ashtray sliding on a hoodie. Damn. I quickly shooed away my thoughts as I closed the blinds.

I took a thirty-ish minute shower blasting my Mac demarco playlist. I always liked to listen to calm music in the mornings. Since there was a literal fucking heat wave outside I dressed in a pair of black biker shorts and my favorite rug rats tee. I paired it with some white air forces before strutting downstairs.

"Morning." I say to Ray and he nods his head in response. "Someone's in a shitty mood this morning." I mumble and Ray laughs. "You know them people were meeting?" Ray asks and I nod. "One of them is like your age, if not like a few months older," he says and I give him a thumbs up in response .

They better not have bitchy attitude.

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"Why the fuck are we here?" I ask my brother as we walk into fezco's store. He ignores my question and walks over to the register where fez is, dapping him up. "This is my little sister Mari." He introduces me. "I already know him dummy." I say and fez nods. "Yea she's chill." He states.

"Well then ion gotta introduce and shit. He's our new partner." Ray says and my face drops. "Wait. Please tell me that the kid you said was my age isn't.." I begin to say. "Ashtray." Ray says nodding and I mumble every curse word I know. There was a lot.

We then make our way to the back room which was in a freezer only to be found by ashtray who was sitting in a roller chair, manspreading. "Yo, ashtray." My brother says dapping him up. He then turns his glare to me and I roll my eyes taking a seat. "Bitch." He mumbles.

"Aight y'all stay here and Mari help him out with shit. Me and fez should be back in a few hours." Ray says before walking out of the door we came in. "How are you doing today?" I ask trying to make conversation. "Not really wanting to talk to your bitch ass that's for sure." Ash says and I stand up.

"Where are you going?" He asks. "I don't have time for your shit, so it's either deal with me or I'll walk out, and you'll have to deal with what fez and my brother say." I tell him, looking dead in his eyes. "Fine sit yo ass down." He says and I plop down on the couch.

He moves a stack of money towards me and I look at him. "Count it duh." He says and I snuck my teeth before grabbing the stack, counting it in a minute. "How old are you?" I ask ash. "16." He deadpans turning back to his phone.

"You?" He asks not once looking up from his phone. "15." I mumble and he nods. After a miserable hour, a pretty looking girl walks into the back room. She had nice long blonde hair, skinny frame, looked like every other who would be in the plastics in mean girls.

"Hey ash." She says dragging his name. "Sup." He asks, expecting her to tell him what she wants. She doesn't. The girl looks over my way then walks up to ash rubbing his chest. Ew. "Um can I get some weed?" She asks and ash looks at her as if she's dumb. "That's literally the shit I sell." Ash says as if he's dumbing it down to her and I accidentally laugh, quickly covering my mouth.

Soon the girl left and I busted in to a quiet laughter. "How do you deal with those type of people?" I ask him and he shakes his head, running his hands up and down his buzz. "Just deal with it I guess. Have you never had someone hit on you while you were dealing before?" He asks and I laugh.

"A few times." I shrug. "I would've been surprised if you said no." Ash mumbles, to which I can't hear. "Do you want something to eat? I'm fucking hungry." I ask ash as I open Uber eats. "Yeah, anything's fine." He mumbles. "Dude just choose something, I'm the one who asked." I say and he rolls his eyes. "I don't know McDonald's?" He shrugs.

"Alright." I say and scroll through the app. Soon the food gets here and I walk out only to see someone standing by the register. "You work here?" The deep voice asks and I nod. I ring up their beer and look at them. I had no fucking clue on what I was doing. "Id?" I ask and they hand it to me. 'Nathaniel Jacobs" was written on it. "Your only 17." I say and he rolls his eyes.

"The legal drinking age in cali is 16." He says. I wasn't stupid. I knew it wasn't but I couldn't give any fucks. I handed him his beer, in exchange for the money. So that was the famous Nate Jacobs. I quickly grabbed the food and went back to the back room. "The fuck took yo ass so long?" Ashtray asks once I enter. "Customer, Nate Jacobs." I say and place the the bag down, digging for the things.

"Aye, I fucking hate you, but don't mess with people like him Aight?" He asks. "Wow, just when I thought you were warming up to me." I say rolling my eyes.

I never had the best relationship with food. Times I'd be starving and would eat anything, then the next second I'd be disgusted by even looking at a slice of pizza. "You go ahead, I'll eat later." I say and ash nods. "You Aight?" He asks and I nod, taking a sip of my drink.

I knew he's think something because not even a while ago I had said I was starving but, oh well.

Soon ray and fez returned and I was ready to go home. "Bye fez." I wave as I walk out. Ash then comes, leaning on the register counter. "I don't get a bye?" He asks sarcastically and I flip him off before walking out of the shop. "Bitch." I hear him say before the door fully shuts.

God kill me now.

A/N: y'all they're giving Ian and Mickey from shameless....
Love that show btw even though no one asked🤭
Anywhooooo👁👄👁