The Hunt

I'm sitting at the kitchen table drinking my morning coffee as I look at the morning newspaper in the job wanted area.

I found three jobs so far that I can tell that is walking distance from the house. I can start with the pizza place then try the other two.

I finish my coffee before putting the cup in the sink. Don't want to waste amazing coffee. Nick cooks, cleans and garden too around the house it explains why the house still looks the same since the day I left.

I grab my bag and jacket before walking out the door. "Wait." I hear someone says behind me. I turn around to see its Nick.

"I'm not nick. I'm his twin brother Shane. Your father asked me to walk you around for the day." The nick look-alike says as he walks closer to me.

"Alright then let's go," I say walking off to the pizza place because it's like a two-minute walk.

As I'm walking someone bumps into me making me look up at the person to yell at them to watch where they are going but it's someone I know. "Mr. Jason, is that really you?" I asked surprised to see him.

He looks at me confused then realizing who I am. "Nora is that you? You've grown up so much. You're beautiful as blooming flower." He says greeting me as he kisses both my cheeks.

"What are you doing here?" He asks me. "My mother got married to a man who doesn't like kids so she sent me to live with my father. But I think she made a good choice as to sending me back here and I missed my big family." I explain to him.

"She never really liked it here." He says as he smiles. "How's everyone?" I ask smiling back.

"The family is great. My wife will be happy to know your back in town and my son Richard is going to take over the business for me soon. But I hope you come around to visit. I have to go to a meet. It was nice seeing you again." He says hugging me bye before I could get a word in.

"Well let's get going," Shane says as he holds the door open to the pizza place.

We walk into the place to find it fairly busy. "You hungry?" Shane asks me. "Just a little but get a medium sized pizza well I talk to the owner," I said before walking over to the cashier person.

"Hello, how may I help you?" The women asked me with a smile. "Um yeah, I would like to talk to the owner," I say smiling back.

"Sure, I'll go get him for you." She says before walking off to the back. I wait a few minutes to see an elderly man walk out in front of the women I just talked too.

"How could I help you?" The owner asks me. "I'm looking to apply for a job you are hiring for," I say being serious now.

"What is your name?" He asks me. "The name is Nora Rizzo," I say smiling. I watch his face go from horror to fear before covering it up. That was weird.

"I'll have to get back to you since my wife has been doing the interviews and she had to go home early. Come back later today when she should be here." The owner says before walking off to the back with the women trailing behind him.

I listen to them argue about me. I hear 'we can't have a Rizzo work here or her father is going to ruin the place like how he did with her mother.'

'But why not talk to her father about the job?' The girl asks in a whisper yell. 'I could but that means I would have to set a meeting with him and it could be a while too.'

'Just do it, father, because I think the girl should be able to work without her father trying to control it.'

I walk away after hearing the rest of the table where Shane is sitting and already eating the pizza. "How the talk go with the owner?" He asks with a full month of food.

I scrunch my face up to see him talk while eating. It's a nasty thing to do. "It went fine till he heard my full name. He looks scared before covering it up." I say taking a slice of pizza from the pizza pan.

I take a bit but not before seeing the look on Shane's face of shock, and fear mixed in one. "I guess its nothing," I say to him as I eat the rest of my pizza to see his face of no shock or fear in it.

"Let's go check the other places," I say to him. I need to find out why he and the owner of the pizza place are scared of my father.

It's time for my investigating skills to come out to see what's going on.

Later in the day I finally gave up on finding a job because each place I went to would clam up with fear and say we aren't hiring anymore that the ads are old.

We got home to find my father not home still. He left really early this morning because I thought he would eat breakfast with me but nope. I'm kind of disappointed that he isn't here.

"Shane I'm going to go to my room," I say before walking to my room for the rest of the evening.

I close my door as I walk farther into my room. I think I'll start tomorrow with the investigating skills I'm really sleepy.

I change into my pj's for the night before going to sleep for the night.