The random ramblings of a wanna-be author.

Oh My God.

So Audry was sick yesterday. Ryan went to her house and left her a little envelope; in the envelope was a bullet casing with something like, 'Remembering happier times ~ Ryan'  engraved on it.

Well...

Audry's mom called the lady who manages the salon next to DQ. Lady orders food and asks Audry to bring it over, then questions her for like an hour, leaving me to cook alone during the lunch rush. Next thing you know, the salon lady had called the cops and Audry was talking to them in the parking lot.

They wanted her to press charges, but Audry is Ryan's only friend and she couldn't do that to him. She managed to talk them out of a restraining order because if she asked for one, Ryan would lose his job and have to change schools, not to mention that it would all come crashing down on her in some way or another.

The cops then went to Ryan's house and talked to him for like an hour. According to texts he sent Audry later, the spent the entire time telling him how socially inept he is and blah blah blah. It really wasn't anything we didn't know already, we were just amazed that he didn't.

The next text Audry got said something like, 'I never thought that I'd be a much of a freak in High School as I was in Middle School, today I found out that I was a stalker.'

We just couldn't figure out how he didn't know.

A few minutes later, the phone rang, since Ryan's number was on the caller id, Audry didn't want to answer, so Ryder did.

It was Ryan and he wanted to talk to me.

"Sam, can you do me a favor? Go into Mike office's and take a piece of paper from the printer. Leave Mike a note telling him that I'm putting in my two weeks. I don't want to come in and see Audry."

Well naturally, Audry and Ryder wanted to know what I was doing, so I explained. They were excited, amazed, shocked...take your pick.

Right after Audry joked about Ryan changing his mind and taking it back, he called.

"Sam, can you take my two weeks down? I'm going to think about it for a while."

Then the cops came back and told us that Ryan's not supposed to be making any type of contact with Audry and blah blah blah....

Other then that, work was boring.

But Ryan almost quit.

WOW

Last night, I was working with Audry and Lexie. Later, Ryan came in, not surprising as he tends to follow Audry everywhere and if she's working, he'll come in at least once.

Ryan keeps to himself all shift. If he's working, he's always cooking, so he'll hide in the kitchen - even if we've only had like six orders all night - and won't say a word. He stalked Audry to the point the past several months to the point that she refuses to work with him and I always do.

Anyway.

Last night we were working and Ryan came in. He ordered food, then went in back and made it while Audry hid from him. After he made his food, he went out into the lobby and took his time eating it in one of the booths along the back wall, well out of sight of any of the cameras.

A little later, while I was in the back, cleaning the grill, Ryan asked Lexie a question. She couldn't understand him, so she had him repeat. This time, she heard him, or she thought that she did. What she heard was, "Is it all right if I read my math book?" Bewildered, she said yes then came in the back.

"Sam, Ryan just asked me if he could read his math book...that's odd even for him."

A little while later, Audry, who was still trying to avoid Ryan, decided that she wanted a blizzard, but didn't know what kind. So, we went up front to look at the menu and Ryan's sitting there in the same booth that he was earlier, CLEANING A RIFLE.

We didn't know what to do. Finally, after the lady from the salon next door and a couple other people came in, ordered, stared at Ryan the entire time and left, Audry kicked him out. "Ryan it has to go in your trunk, you're scaring people."

"Oh...well can I clean my little one?"

"Just leave 'em in your car and get out of here."

So, he made a blizzard and left.

The rest of us traded looks. "Call Mike?"

"Why didn't we do it before?"

"I don't know."

So we called Mike and about gave him a heart attack. Apparently, Ryan can get arrested just for having the gun on the street and he brought it in to a Dairy Queen!

We should have called the cops, but we were too confused to do much of anything, and it wasn't like he had any bullets or anything with him, he just wanted to clean it.

And I have to work with him tonight!

True story, Honestly!