Fancy Seeing You Here (standard:romance, 1162 words)
Author: makepeaceken	Added: Jun 20 2022	Views/Reads: 963/666	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Rosie runs into her friend Emily. Emily tells Rosie about this boy who likes her and wants to go out with her. Rosie doesn't believe Emily. Then something amazing happens, even after Rosie and Emily fall out with each other.

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the warpath. She didn't want that. What a pain he was. He had such a 
bad temper. All the other staff were frightened of him. She just hoped 
that one day he would get the sack. 

When Rosie finally did get up, she showered, dressed and dragged her way
to the bus stop. She was lucky. She nearly missed it, but fortunately, 
the driver knew her, so he pulled up next to the stop and waited till 
she got to the bus. 

When she got off at the stop she usually got off, she saw Ryan. 

‘Oh, Hi, fancy seeing you again,' he said to her. 

‘So what you up to?'' Rosie asked, wondering if he was still going to
ask her out. 

‘Just getting something from the shop before going to work.' 

She then left him and carried on to the shop. She knew that he was never
going to ask her out. 

When the weekend came, Rosie was going to a party. She knew Emma would
be there, but she wasn't going to take any notice of her. 

That night Rosie set off to the party feeling sad. She had no one to go
with. She nearly braved it and was going to ask Ryan to accompany her. 
But she lost her nerve. 

Once inside she saw most of her friends, but no Emily. Emily must have
got upset and decided not to come, but Lee was there, and how she hated 
him, but he came straight up to her. 

‘What do you want?' she said to him. 

‘Charming, I'm sure. Do you treat all your friends like that?' 

‘Lee, you have never been a friend of mine and you know it. Where's that
girlfriend of yours? My former best friend.' 

‘If you must know, she is at home with the flu, and she told me you hung
up on her on the phone. She's done nothing to you.' 

‘You are a liar, Lee, telling me that Ryan was going to ask me out. I've
seen him twice and he never said a word.' 

‘Rosie, I know you don't like me, but I'm not lying. Ryan does want to
ask you out. Ain't my fault he has bottled it.' 

The next morning as she was making her way to work, she was hoping she'd
see Ryan again, but there was no sign. How disappointed she felt. 

When she got to work she ran into the manager. 

‘I want a word with you, young lady. My office now!' 

But what had she done? She looked at her watch and knew she wasn't late.
She just hoped she wasn't going to get the sack, but what for? You 
can't get sacked for doing anything wrong. But He wasn't like other 
managers. He seemed to be a law unto himself. 

‘Right, take a seat,' he said to her 

After taking a seat, he looked at her. She knew this was it - she'd be
looking for a new job and probably sooner than she thought. 

‘Right, Miss Richardson,' he said to her. ‘It hasn't gone unnoticed that
you are one of my best workers.' 

Was she hearing things? He liked no one but himself and he was saying
that she was one of his best workers. But why? She soon found out when 
he started to lead her towards the shop floor. 

‘I have a new trainee starting today,' he said to her as they were
making their way, ‘And I want you to take him under your wing. I trust 
you totally, so I'm leaving him in your capable hands. Is that OK?' 

Of course, it was OK if he happened to be good-looking, but with her
luck, he'd probably have spots and spent most of the weekend 
train-spotting just for fun, but when she got on the shop floor. She 
stared at him. He stared back, then she said: 

‘Hi, Ryan. Fancy seeing you here!'

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