Javaughna Williams, “The Deli Mishap”

THE DELI MISHAP

Javaughna Williams

Once upon a time, back when I lived at my old house, I was sent to the store for my mother, and she didn’t want me to go alone, so she sent me with my two favorite primas, Emma and Bree. Emma was a dark-skinned girl who usually had two puffs in her hair that were always nappy. Bree was a light-skinned girl who wore braids. As we were leaving we got interrupted by Emma’s little brother Xav. Xav was a mischievous little boy with gray and black hair. We tried to ignore him, but he kept on going asking and asking, “Let me go with you guys?” We kept telling him to “GO BACK,” but he wouldn’t listen. As we were walking to the store, the three of them were goofing around playing. I kept thinking to myself, “We should hurry up,” but then I just joined in the fun. We were laughing and joking around while walking to the store. As we arrived at our usual deli, which I always come to, they had LED lights that spelled out, Sutter Deli Store. There were stairs that lead up into the store. The store looked small, but when you walked in, it was a little bigger. As we walked in we saw our local deli store worker, Alex. Alex was an old, bald-headed Puerto Rican guy. Alex said hola to us. We said hi back. We stayed in the front of the store for a while, laughing and joking and dancing. As some time passed, I realized that my mother didn’t want me to stay out so long. So I told them, “I’m not playing with you guys anymore. I have to get what my mother sent me to get.” They ignored me and continued to play. As I started walking to the back of the store, I could still hear them giggling, and then I heard Xav say, “Hey Alex, look at this.” Then I hear a BOOM.

Shocked, I turned around and saw the shelf broken on the floor. We were all standing there with shocked faces. I walked back to the front to ask what happened. As Alex, Bree, and Emma all talking over each other, not really being able to hear much. Then Bree shows me the video she was recording. It shows them dancing, and Xav says, “Hey Alex look at this,” as he hangs on the shelf like a gorilla and then boom the shelf comes down. My mind was flooded with thoughts of Is he gonna kick us out? Are we gonna get banned from our local deli? We were all still standing there in shock. When realization hit Xav, he ran out of the store, dashing. I knew I was gonna get in trouble, so I called my mother and father. “Xav broke the counter shelf.” “He broke what?” she said. “Stay there, your father is coming over there right now.” From the outside camera view, I saw my father walking up to the store. As he walked in, he walked up to the deli worker, and they started talking. I couldn’t really hear what they were saying since I waited outside. We stayed by the store for a while. I could still hear my heart beating, thinking about How much will we be in trouble? As they were finished, we left. As we got home we kept hearing them say, “You should of never took Xav with.” From that day I learned my lesson, or did I . . .?

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