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While Elijah truly did love his job, he found that working on colder days like these really slowed down the workflow. Suddenly an hour felt like it took twice, or even triple as long as usual. Elijah always loved being busy, especially with customers. Interacting and chatting with customers was his favourite part of the job. Even with some of the bad apples, Karen’s, Elijah still found joy in his job, and could easily look past the rude ones to make eye for the nice ones. Usually it was easy to forget about the rude people that came in, but on a slow day like today, the rude people stuck around in your mind more, and sometimes even in the store. Throughout his work day Elijah had to deal with a total of five rude customers, which didn’t sound like a lot, but in a six hour work day, with a break of one half hour, and maybe only twenty customers that he had to serve, five was still twenty five percent, which was quite a lot. At the end of the day, Elijah was just happy to be able to take his apron off and leave the ice cream shop.
As he walked out through the front door of the store Elijah was hit in the face by a chilly breeze, sending shivers down his spine. Perhaps he should have dressed more according to the weather. It was rather cold, but nothing Elijah couldn’t deal with for the day. While his original plan had been to get something to eat before leaving home, the wind started to become worse enough for Elijah to completely change his mind. He had food at home anyway, he shouldn’t be spending money unreasonably. For a short moment Elijah stood still in his tracks, chuckling softly at his own thoughts. He never fully realized how adulthood made him more like a parent until that moment. He did have food at home. He would almost apologize to his mother for not being this reasonable as a child. Elijah loved his mother, a lot. They still frequently spoke. If it was up to Elijah he would call her daily, but she had a full time job, and he felt like she deserved some time to rest and relax without any disturbance like Elijah calling her. His mother wasn’t his biological mother, neither was his father. When he was ten they told him he was adopted, which had been a rough time for Elijah. He had truly never expected him to not be his parents’ kid, but in hindsight it made sense. Where his hair and eyes were a very dark shade of brown, both his parents had bright blue eyes. His mother had beautiful ginger hair, and his father’s hair was such a light shade of blond it might as well be white. They were beautiful, but Elijah looked nothing like them. Where their skin was nearly white, Elijah held a lot more colour, especially after sunbathing for a little bit. How he had never realized this as a child was a big question mark, but perhaps he was just a lot more stupid than he had hoped.
As Elijah made his way to the train station he took place on a bench at the platform his train would stop at. To his surprise Elijah was surrounded by a lot of other people his age. Usually he would share the train with a bunch of older people who returned from work, not a bunch of students who would usually still be at school. While it was weird, Elijah didn’t think much of it, perhaps they were just a bunch of senior highschoolers on their way for a school trip. Just because he was always surrounded by older people, didn’t mean this was such a weird or strange thing that something had to be up. As the wind that rushed by started to get a little more out of control Elijah pulled his jacket closed. He wasn’t one to handle cold well, but his train should be there any minute, he wouldn’t have to suffer much longer.
Much to Elijah’s dismay, the time his train should have arrived past, and there was still no train. As he looked over at the board, it showed there was a ten minute delay. A deep sigh rolled over his lips as he shook his head just a little. The wind was getting worse and worse, while Elijah thought that there had been no storms expected. Perhaps he should pay more attention to the weather channel, then these mix ups wouldn’t occur this often.
The ten minutes had passed, and while the train hadn’t arrived, rain had. Elijah was lucky enough to be standing underneath a little roof, keeping him mostly dry. With all the students also trying to find shelter, a lot more people gathered around Elijah, seeking for a place to stay dry. While Elijah didn’t really like small spaces, he found himself not minding this situation. These people just wanted to stay dry, he couldn’t blame them for it. He genuinely just hoped the train would be arriving soon.
@Layla06