Morgan (morgancorner) wrote in tinworth, @ 2009-10-20 23:18:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, character: morgan corner, character: padma patil, character: theodore nott, date: october 2003, place: tinworth |
Characters: Morgan/Padma/Theodore
Locale: Tinworth Teas
Date: 20 October 2009
Warnings? None yet!
"Have a good afternoon, Miss. Mayfield." Morgan said with a sweet smile as the elderly lady shuffled out of the tiny tea shop. She let the fake grin fall from her face as the door shop closed.
She earned her meager salary by serving customers their tea and sweets but she took the job because there was loads of time to read or write. Today was one of those days when customer trickled in one after another. It wasn't busy but there was always someone popping in for it like they knew exactly when the most exciting part of her book was happening. It never failed, just as things got most interesting on the page, that annoying little bell would ring to signify another
Grabbing the dog-eared copy of To Kill a Mockingbird off a shelf under the cash register, glancing at the broken spine and pages that were falling out. It was time to buy another copy. The book had always been one of her favourites and she'd been through a half dozen copies of it.Morgan perched on a stool and propped her feet up on the shelf. It was only a few moments before she was completely immersed in words of Scout Finch, shutting out the world around her.