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_{[You know how most workplaces have those ridiculous, seemingly-arbitrary rules concerning things like cell phones and mp3 players that make sense in theory but really don't in practice? Well... turns out Johto's no different.]}

[The feed flickers on and off a few times so anyone who's looking at Heather's channel is being treated to a sort of trippy view of the ceiling of one of the many floors in the Goldenrod Department Store, jiggling around as though the 'Gear is the subject of a tug-of-war.]

[And uh... judging by the voices that are conversing in heated tones somewhere off-screen, it is.]

I'm telling you for the last time, Temp! NOOOOO PokeGear use during your shift!

It's my break! I'm not even DOING anything right now!

DON'T you backsass me, young lady! I know your type! Traveling trainers who want to make a quick buck-- you're all the SAME!

Wh-- jeez, calm down! I'm not like-- trying to question your authority or something!! Take a chill pill!

YOU ARE OUT OF LINE!

The guys on the fifth floor said they could use their 'Gears during break!

WELL. This isn't the fifth floor, IS it?!

_{[There's a pause, and then a low, almost inaudible mutter on Heather's part of:]}

Oppressive tyrant....

_{[... But apparently it wasn't inaudible enough.]}

BACK IN MY DAY WE HAD TO TIE OUR MESSAGES TO PIDGEYS AND HOPE TO DEAR ARCEUS THAT THEY DIDN'T GET EATEN BY ARBOKS ON THE WAY THERE!!

E-eep!

I HAD TO WALK TWENTY MILES TO WORK EVERY DAY IN BLINDING SNOWSTO--

_{[The feed clicks off.]}

_{[A very resentful-looking Heather slumped in her seat at the cash register, smoldering darkly and glaring at the file cabinet in the staff-room where her PokeGear had been dumped, locked, and left. The words 'AND YOU CAN HAVE IT AT THE END OF THE DAY IF YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'VE DONE!' were still ringing in her ears.]}

[Jutting her chin out resentfully, she planted it on one palm with her scrawny elbow on the counter, plucking uncomfortably at the fairly-silly-looking Department Store clerk's uniform she had to wear. Yes, there was even a cutesy little hat and a popped collar.]

God, it's like high school all over again....

_{[ooc: Video replies will be answered later in the day when Heather gets off of work and has her PokeGear returned to her!]}

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... ... That was the scariest lady I've ever seen.

[and he's seen Maleficent.]

Her mustache wants to eat my soul.

[he had just taken a swig of the Moomoo milk he bought from the café, too-- growing boys need their calcium! but now Sora performs a fantastic spittake and ducks out of the pokégear's view to just about die laughing. good show, Heather! he now has Moomoo milk up his nose.]

... What, I'm not even kidding!!

_{[She is laughing though. Because.... that was an incredible spittake there. GOOD JOB KID.]}

It's not even funny!!

I can't-- I can't breathe--

[Sora's hiding his face in his arms on the table he's sitting at. people are staring. he does not even care. he finally looks up at the 'gear after a few minutes after he's (somewhat) recomposed himself.]

That's what your high school jobs were like?

_{[Now that she's back in her hotel room and not being crushed under the iron grip of Psycho Bitchmonster's pastel-pink nails, Heather can see the humor as well.]}

Sort've what high school in general was like.

The jobs were usually okay... most of 'em anyway.

Mm, I haven't had a chance to go yet.

[Sora's only 14, after all. his islands were probably destroyed right in the middle of the summer before high school.]

Maybe I should be thankful I'm training animals to fight each other instead! Who needs math, anyway?

It's nothing special. Just a whole lotta BS and opportunities to get yourself in stupid situations.

And math.

Lots and lots of math.

N'less you're gonna go on to be the next Einstein, I'd say you can afford to go without!

_{[That said, she's not gonna deny that some of the stuff she learned even in her tenth grade chemistry class of all things hadn't come in serious handy later on, but... well, she hoped Sora would never be in a situation where he had to remember how to set things on fire with the power of chemistry in order to save his own life.]}

BS, huh? Doesn't look like I'll be going back to school anytime soon, anyway.

[nah, Sora doesn't need chemistry to set things on fire. just his Keyblade! heck, he'd even learned how to cook with it.]

Though I should probably go talk to the center here about getting my job back. I kinda missed my last few shifts last week.

_{[Her tone softens a little.]}

... Well, yeah... that wasn't your fault. I'm sure they'll understand.

_{[As much of a grudge as those nurses had against HER, she knew they weren't a bad sort.]}

It was my fault, though. I could have... reacted better than I did.

That was a crazy week, man. No one blames you for reacting like that. 'Sides, no harm done, right?

Right. Everyone's still in one piece, and Johto's put itself back together again!

[beams. Sora learned the hard way not to punch the blocky MissingNo.]

Yep!

And that's what's important.

_{[As far as Heather's concerned, bad shit can happen... but as long as everyone's alive afterwards... it can be considered a win.]}

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