This choice: He waits until tomorrow instead. • Go Back...Chapter #7He waits until tomorrow instead. by: Saracen1187   Somehow, Steven managed to resist the undeniable urge to use the device, and decided to wait until tomorrow to use it. After all the shop would be full with customers too and so he would have even more people to use it on, not just his friends and co-workers. He knuckled down to his job and got done and then everyone went home as usual at 9:45pm. Steven was the next to last person out of the door, and then after Liz set the security alarm she hurried out of the store and locked the doors as normal.
"See you tomorrow Steven, and don't forget, 9:00am start, and we're working through until 9:45pm" Liz reminded him.
"Yep, its gonna be a long day" Steven sighed, though he was still wearing a smile because of the device he had hidden in his pocket. He had a sudden urge to whip it out and test it on Liz as she was walking across the street towards her car, but he once again resisted that urge, deciding instead to head straight home and to bed. "Night Liz!" he called across the road, and his friend and supervisor smiled back and waved. "Bye!" she chirped, before getting in her car and heading home.
As planned, Steven headed straight home, and once there he fixed himself a little something to eat and took the device upstairs with him to study a little more. It really was a marvellous piece of technology, and somehow...because of the earlier inrush of knowledge into his head...Steven knew exactly what it was capable of. The next couple of hours passed by quickly, and Steven decided to have a quick browse on the Internet before going to bed. It was past 2:00am before he got his head down on his pillow.
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Steven was awoken at 8:00am by his rather annoying alarm clock, which he swiftly put out of commission with a thump of his hand. "Oh...shit!" he grumbled as he put his glasses on, he wasn't used to waking up so early in the morning. He grunted as he got out of bed and had a good stretch and a yawn, then he spied the remote control on his computer desk. A wry smile quickly replaced the look of exhaustion on his face.
He then went into the bathroom to freshen up, and he got dressed ready for work in his usual black trousers, red company sweatshirt (that all the employees of the store had to wear) and his black work boots. Once he was dressed, he went downstairs to have a quick bite to eat, then he grabbed the remote and slipped it in his pocket and headed off to work as fast as his legs would carry him. Arriving outside work, he saw Liz just getting out of her car and he waved at her, and also Tracey ("Waggy") was just exiting her 4x4 vehicle further down the street and he also waved at her. Liz was wearing a red, button-up company blouse (with WILKO emblazened on the back), a pair of snug-fitting trousers and her usual pair of black, lace-up shoes. And Waggy had on a company sweatshirt like Steven, and was wearing a pair of boot-cut trousers and some flat, slip-on, black shoes, keeping with the company dress code of 'sensible' footwear. "Morning!" he greeted his two co-workers, as the three of them headed inside to join their friends up in the tea room.
By this time the store was already open, and a couple of members of the day shift (Leanne and Donna) were serving on the cash registers. And of course the acting manager Elizabeth was up in her office dealing with the paperwork and the phone calls, and coming onto the shop floor when she was needed. Elizabeth was anxious to get Liz and the rest of her team on the shop floor to get things moving.
"Time to go to work!" Steven muttered to himself as he stared at his reflection in the mirror in the gents toilets. He then got the remote out of his pocket and held it up, admiring its tidy, functional appearance. He then headed out of the toilets and followed his co-workers downstairs, ready for a long...and hopefully exciting day!
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