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Refried Dreams - A Story Shares Original
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    Cute Boy

    “Do you seriously smell your locker?!”

  • Melanie

    he smirked.

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  • Chapter 2

  • Fast Food Tragedy

  • Melanie

    My future smelled as stale as cold fries and old salsa.

    Profile Picture of Melanie in Refried Dreams - A Story Shares Original
  • I stopped by Koala Gelato to ask about my application—

  • for the seventh time.

  • Melanie

    First, I spent $4.16 on a medium-sized scoop of coconut breeze.

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  • Then the manager told me they had no openings.

  • Actually, he asked me to repeat my name, then glanced at a note on my application.

  • Then he told me that they had no openings.

  • As if to say that they might have had an opening if I were someone else.

  • Melanie

    I couldn't accept defeat.

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  • This was my dream!

  • Everybody’s first job had to be food service.

  • It was like a rite of passage.

  • But Koala Gelato made the food court look stylish and cool.

  • The teen employees there acted like they had already started careers and just did school on the side.

  • Melanie

    One day, I planned to be an engineer or an architect.

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  • But for now, I was going to work at Koala Gelato.

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