I wake up to my alarm going off and my head still on Frank’s chest. I sit upright away, blushing, I look around it looks like Ray moved during the night because he is on the ground. Stretching out everything I look over at Mikey and poke him awake. He shuffles a little then falls off the bed onto Bob.

“Ow!” Bob yells.

“Fucking hell?” Frank groans and sits up all sleepy like.

“God damn it,” Mikey mumbles and gets up, “Why did you wake me up?”

“Well we have this thing called a job that we have to go to.”

“Ugh, fuck I forgot.”

I noticed Ray was the only one that didn’t say anything so I look over at him. I guess I wasn’t the only one because when I turn to look at everyone else they were looking at Ray.

“Well I’ll be damned, he’s still asleep!” Bob acknowledges.

“Yup,” Frank yawns. I look down over at him and he turned on his side then fell right back to sleep.

“Well come on Mikey let’s go.” I get up, but move carefully not to wake up Frank. I walk over to my dresser and pull out a green shirt that says B&N in the corner, and then I pin on my name tag. Once I finish I walk into the kitchen to grab the car keys, but I see on the kitchen table my Grandma has left out two blue berry muffins.

“Mikey,” I say as I hear him walk down the stairs, “could you grab these for me?”

“Yeah, sure.”

Once we pull up to Barnes and Noble I moan, I really rather be sleeping right now. I’m too tired for this shit; I sit there for a little until Mikey finally gets out of the car. I head into the store just to hear shitty elevator music playing in the background. I could really go for a drink right now, and I don’t mean coffee either.
There is one thing no one knows about me, I’m an alcoholic and I just can’t seem to stop myself.

“Gerard!” I look over my shoulder to see the manager coming up to me, his name is John.

“What’s up, John?” I ask with no enthusiasm at all.

“Great to know you are awake, I just wanted to tell you; that you will be working at the help center today.”

“Okay, sounds good to me.” It means I’m closer to Mikey today.

“Alright, well do me a favor and lighten up your attitude a little?”

“Turn off the damn elevator music.”

“You know I can’t do that.”

“Then no promises about attitude change,” I reply as I walk away towards the service center. On the way I grab a couple of music magazines and books to keep me occupied. Mikey sees me and looks at me like ‘what are you doing over there’ I just shrug and sit down on the stool. I can’t wait for the guys to get here with the coffee; I’m starting to think it will take a few hours. Until then I will just have to survive.