“There you are!” A tall, slim Asian girl waved at us right in front of the store. “Johnny, I’ve been waiting for a half hour now what took so long?”
“Sorry, we had a couple of issues leaving the house.” Jon scratched the back of his head and flinched. “Jason, meet my cousin Suzy.”
“Hello Jason!” Suzy was about an inch taller than me with long black hair and glasses that accented her deep blue eyes. Her loose white sweater accentuated her perfect tan skin. She finished her outfit with some perfectly fit black jeans, a large black leather handbag and black platforms. Money was good enough to make all of the Hans look good or they were raised to take care of themselves, probably both. She walked over swiftly to get a closer look at me. “You’re just as Johnny described you! I already know what I want you to wear. Come come! We don’t have much time to waste.”
“Uh what’s going on?”
“He didn’t tell you I was your personal shopper today did he?” Suzy turned her head and gave Jon a glare. “That’s Johnny for you, always likes to leave out the details.”
“I was afraid he wouldn’t come if he knew about this ok?” Jon turned around flustered. Suzy had some kind of effect on Jon. He had gone from confident and cheeky to shy and confused. They began conversing in Chinese as I stood there still very confused.
“Whatever. Sorry sweetie allow me to explain, Johnny told me to come here today so we can get you some clothes for this weekend. Johnny doesn’t know the first thing about fashion so he asked me to help you out. Don’t worry this is literally my job.” Suzy was just as chipper and upbeat as Jon usually was. Something about this family really confused me. “Jon has to go get something apparently so it’s just you and me! Now come, I have to get back to New York by tonight we don’t have much time.” She took my hand and quickly dragged me away from Jon and into the store. “Ok Johnny, see you in an hour!”
“Hey woah stop for a second. I appreciate the help but what is going on?” She continued to drag me to the back towards the shirts.
“Johnny is so stupid sometimes. He wants to take you to dinner tonight at some fancy place and then you’re supposed to enjoy AC or something. I don’t have the full details because he didn’t bother to explain them to me. I’m just here to help you out with some clothes.” Suzy finally stopped in front of the button downs. “Now I want to find some solids and some patterns for you. What size shirt do you wear? Small right? Hmm…maybe a medium.”
Suzy had a way of drowning you out while she did her thing. Realizing I wasn’t about to stop her from shopping for me I gave up and waited as she moved shirts in front of me seeing what she liked. After being thrown several outfits and lots of projected emotions Suzy picked out 3 for me.
“So you’re going to wear the blue striped long sleeved with the white slacks for dinner tonight. After that the black shirt with the jeans should be perfect for Saturday and you wear the grey shirt with this hoodie and these dark grey slacks if you end up at the beach. Any questions?” Suzy handed the cashier the card told her she didn’t care about the cost and brought back her focus to me.
“You work fast.” I look at my phone and realized it had only been about forty minutes so Jon wasn’t due back for a bit. “No, no questions….thank you very much.”
“Not a problem! I have to wait on Johnny too, let’s go get coffee!” Suzy took the receipt and walked out of the store at a brisk pace, I was getting exhausted imagining spending a day with her. I thanked the cashier and ran out to catch up to Suzy. After about 30 seconds of running we walked into a local coffee shop and waited in line.
“Ugh, work.” Suzy took looked up from her phone to glance at the menu. “Sorry hun, one second then I’m all yours.” She swiped something on her phone then put it in her purse as she walked up to order. We got our overpriced coffee after about 3 minutes and sat down by the window. “So who are you, how did Johnny find you and how did you manage to be so special to him?” Suzy still in her face paced attitude bombarded me with questions I wasn’t really prepared for.
“Uh…I’m Jason. We go to the same high school and I don’t know.” I answered quickly trying to match pace with her.
“Calm down. You’re so timid for some reason I can’t imagine why. Are you nervous about this weekend?” Suzy was fairly oblivious to the affects her personality were having on me it seems as she glanced around the coffee shop and sipped on her latte. “Honestly I’ve never actually met any of Johnny’s girlfriends so you must be really special to him. I didn’t even know he liked guys before this week!”
“Uhh it’s just you’re so fast that i…”
“Oh sorry that’s what happens when you live in the city. Fast cars, lights, lifestyle and all that wonderful jazz. I do miss the suburbs though. When I need a break I spend a few days here or on a nice island and god knows I need those. Ah sorry I’m doing it again I’ll stop tell me how you and Johnny met and take your time I swear I’m not as intimidating as I seem.”
“Well, he started talking to me in detention last march asking for a date.”
“Wait, he has been trying to date you for six months and he didn’t give up? Aww Johnny’s in love! I have to text Karen about this oh my god this is just too cute.” She swiped her phone and started typing rapidly. “Keep going I’m listening.”
“After that date I kinda kept my distance but this week was different…so here we are going to Atlantic City this weekend…”