A customer walked into the store and since TJ was the only unoccupied employee, he had to help the girl.

 

She had blonde hair down to her waist, blue eyes, sparkly eye shadow, and lipgloss on. She had tight faded blue jeans on and a tight red Abercrombie shirt on with a pooca shell necklace. She had on some red flip-flops and big silver loop earrings. Her name was Beverly.

 

Beverly was Emma’s least favorite person at school. She was in her homeroom class and was considered one of the ‘popular’ kids. She was going out with the captain of the football, baseball, and basketball teams at Sunrise Mountain High School, on the freshman teams. His name was Jake.

 

While TJ helped Beverly, Emma went to check out the beanies. She didn’t really need one in Arizona, but she wanted one anyways. She eventually found a black beanie that had red stars trimming the bottom of it. It was only $10.00 so she decided to buy it. Since TJ was still busy with Beverly, Emma decided to look at the skateboards.

 

When she glanced up to see if TJ was done yet, she saw Beverly laughing flirtatiously and batting her eyes at TJ.

 

“Oh my gosh, stupid blonde!” Emma thought.

 

She couldn’t stand to see this girl flirt with TJ any longer so she walked up to the counter and cleared her throat loudly.

 

“Excuse me, I’d like to buy this.” she said waving her beanie at TJ.

 

TJ smiled and excused himself from Beverly as he walked up to the counter. Beverly gave Emma a nasty glare and walked out of the store.

 

TJ and Emma started cracking up.

 

“Dude, can that girl talk or what!?” TJ said between laughs. “And, she was wearing a crap load of perfume! I’ve got a headache now.”

 

“Awww.. poor TJ. Yeah, I hate that girl. Anywhoo.. I really do want to buy this.” Emma said holding up the beanie.

 

“Oh, right.” TJ said, ringing up the beanie. “That’s $10.13 please.”

 

Emma handed him the money and grabbed her bag.

 

“I wanna dye my hair.” she said out of nowhere.

 

“Umm.. ok?” TJ said with a confused look on his face.

 

“I don’t know what color, but I wanna dye it.” Emma replied. “I’m sick of my hair. I want to cut it too!”

 

“Well, we could do that instead of going to a movie. I get off in five minutes. We can go pick up Samantha and buy some dye! She good at cutting hair.”

 

“Umm.. I don’t know if I trust a sophomore in High School to cut my hair! I don’t have enough money to buy hair dye either.”

 

“Hmm... maybe some other time then. Me and Sam could pick you up from school one day or somethin’.” He said using his girlfriends nickname.

 

The trio (Emma, TJ, and Samantha) was always hanging out together when TJ wasn’t working. They were Emma’s only true friends. They would be the only part of Arizona that she’d miss.