twinningit (twinningit) wrote in genome_project, @ 2010-01-25 18:09:00 |
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Entry tags: | january 2010 |
Who: Jaz and Frank
When: Monday evening
Where: Twisty Treats Ice Cream
What: Reading on the job
People really didn't seem too fond of ice cream in the winter. Even if the weather was mild, the simple idea of ice cream in winter. And it was freezing out. Jazlyn leaned behind the counter of the small ice cream parlor, eyes drooping a little. An eight hour shift in the dead of winter? Usually she didn't mind, as she spent the time studying the trickle of customers and doing homework. But she had spent all of last night realizing she could put her dream the way she wanted. And she kept waking up because of it, it was such a pain to control when she fell too deeply asleep. A few years ago, she may have been unsure whether she had come across a power or whether she was just having a good daydreamy night, but she didn't take anything for granted now. So she didn't sleep last night. At all.
At least her manager was out on lunch, so she couldn't feel guilty about reading something that wasn't homework. She'd gotten a tenuous agreement to do homework when it was slow - so long as she got everything nice and clean, which she often did. She didn't let things get dirty enough for it to matter. So she had spent fifteen minutes tidying, took care of one customer, and started homework. But once her manager disappeared into the back, she pulled another book out of her bag. She laid it open across her notebook. It closed nicely inside the thick notebook - kind of like that kid who read comics behind their textbooks. She waved her latest customer out as she set up, and really appreciated the quiet and solitude. She was too tired to multitask.
She read intently, eyes soaking in every word. Get Anyone to Do Anything. Oh, she was trying, she really was. Jazlyn needed to become more forward to make any use of her powers later on down the line. She had to stop being that wallflower. But the words sounded great in theory, and she had no ability to use them in practice. But it didn't keep her from reading a wide range of books on the topic. She found herself completely absorbed in one of the book's "Power Points." She didn't hear the bell on the door clink as it opened. She wasn't really expecting many more customers.