Melody Koenig (sg_melody) wrote in supergleerpg, @ 2011-10-13 18:07:00 |
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Entry tags: | !type: thread, -2011: october, character: quinn fabray, former character: melody koenig, ~complete |
Thread: Melody and Quinn
Date: Oct 13, after school
Characters: Melody and Quinn
Location: Carlotta’s Corner gift shop
Warnings: not likely
Summary: If only there was a better way of making money, Melody wouldn’t have to be here on the one school night a week when she didn’t have swim practice.
Melody sighed and pushed her long hair back behind one of her ears, wondering if today was the day she was finally going to get a customer. Carlotta assured her time and time again that the gift shop made money, but only during certain “seasons.” As Melody had been working there since June, she really had to wonder what “seasons” Carlotta was talking about.
Oh, it wasn’t like Melody had never seen a customer before, but nine times out of ten they left without buying anything, or were just there for stamps after the post office had closed. Melody didn’t want to sell stamps, she wanted to sell something exciting, like that gargoyle lawn ornament or the life-sized replica of Abraham Lincoln’s head. Since June, Melody had sold hundreds of stamps, dozens of refrigerator magnets with stupid sayings like “I woof you”, maybe ten wind chimes, and thirty-seven real-live hand-crafted friendship bracelets (made right here in the US of A!).
Yeah, ever since Carlotta had seen Melody making a friendship bracelet for Leslie (her best friend on the swim team and in dance), she’d decided that Melody’s long, boring hours behind the cash register could be filled by making as many friendship bracelets as possible. Melody wasn’t sure her if old brownie-scout troop leader would applaud her for taking advantage of a skill she’d been taught at day camp, or yell at her for making money off a time-honored tradition of making accessories for one’s friends.
Sadly, at six-fifty a pop (a two hundred percent mark-up over material costs), the friendship bracelets had been one of the biggest selling items to date at Carlotta’s Corner. Melody wondered how long it would take her to craft a noose out of brightly colored embroidery floss and then spent a few minutes calculating in her head that it would only take two shifts, since she tied those knots so quickly that she was up to about ten inches per hour (one and a half bracelets).
Melody was weaving a bracelet out of black, red, and white (Go McKinley!) and trying not to get her hair tangled in the floss again, when the bell above the door chimed, signalling a customer to end her monotonous shift!