The Friend of a Friend

Candy hung up her phone with a sigh. I feel for her, I really do but I am getting kind of tired of listening to Jessica complain about her mother Candy thought as she walked down the sidewalk. Also just because she isn't interested in phone games does she really have to dis them all the time.

I like playing games on my phone. You don't have to buy some expensive console or computer and many of them are free. Okay maybe free isn't the right word since a lot of them still try to get you to spend money on them but you don't have to. Maybe if she didn't blow all her money on so many games she could afford to move out of her mom's house.

Candy's internal rant was cut short as she herd a loud whistle. Turning towards the construction site she was passing she saw a couple of construction workers staring at her. “Hey baby” one of them shouted at her. “How much for a good time?”. Rolling her eyes she flipped them off and stormed off continuing on her way.

Long since used to such behavior she crossed the street closing in on her destination. Jessica thinks she has problems she questioned to herself. At least she hasn't had to deal with idiots like them all her life. Stopping to look at her reflection in a store window she once again sighed. Not that I can fully blame them looking like I do.

Her reflection showed a fairly tall woman with large breasts and long legs both of which were being shown off by the small shirt and small shorts she was wearing. Damn revealing uniforms. She had long brown hair cascading down her back. Dying that from blond didn't help as much as I would have liked but it does seem to have worked a little.

As if my appearance wasn't bad enough my name definitely hasn't helped matters, that's for sure. What were my parents thinking? What kind of morons have the last name Walker and decide to name their daughter Candy? I've heard so many streetwalker and stripper jokes in my life that I could scream.

Ending her internal rant Candy glanced at her phone. She only had a few minutes left before her shift began so she trudged the last block to her place of employment. Staring at the building before her she thought to herself It certainly doesn't help that this was the only place willing to hire me. Before her stood a building with a bright orange roof and HOOTERS sprawled across the front.

Looking through the windows Candy was surprised to see it completely dark inside. Odd. I'm pretty sure we're open today. With that thought in mind Candy entered the building only to immediately walk face first into a mirror.

What just happened? Holding her forehead in pain Candy looked up to see what she had just run into. Before her was a big mirror but as weird as that was what was even weirder was the person saw in the mirror. Waving her hand back and forth confirmed that the reflection was following her. Why does my reflection look like that one character Jessica showed me a picture of to explain that she was girl and not a guy in that suit. The reflection before Candy showed the most famous female bounty hunter in gaming. One Samus Aran.

Seeing a girl peeking out from the behind the mirror Candy decided to ask “Hi. Do you know what happening? I was supposed to be heading to work and now I'm somehow here.”

“What's happening is you just got a lovely makeover. Oh I just love Samus” Sally gushed. Looking down Candy began to freak out as she realized that it wasn't a trick mirror and she was indeed now wearing the blue suit in her reflection.

“As for why your here” Sally continued. “You're here to become one of the lovely members of Bruce's harem over here. Candy looked up to see Bruce awkwardly wave at her.

“Bruce? As in Jessica's friend Bruce” Candy asked. “What have I got to do with him? I've met the guy like one time before.”

“Unimportant.” Sally responded. “What is important is getting your introduction out of the way.” Pressing a button she watched as Candy's body took over for her.

“My name is Candy Walker and I'm 23 years old. I'm a waitress at Hooters and only know Bruce through our mutual friendship with Jessica. I mostly play cellphone games but occasionally play others when visiting Jessica at her place.”

Regaining control she Candy turned back towards Sally to ask more questions but paused when Sally jumped back from her like she had burned her. “Cellphone games?” Sally yelled. “What do you mean you only play cellphone games. You're supposed to be a gamer.” Sally was staring at her like she had just murdered somebody.

“Cellphone games are games too” Candy defended.

“NO THEY'RE NOT” Sally screamed. “I GAVE YOU SAMUS. HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME. YOU,YOU,YOU FAKE GAMER.”

Before Candy could defend herself Sally continued. “Alright, fine, whatever. Go sit in your chair. We need to keep moving.” Like the others before her Candy was **** to sit next to Jessica and couldn't speak. “Sorry about that mix-up Master. I promise everyone else is a real gamer.”

“There's nothing wrong with cellphone games” Bruce said. “And why is Candy here? I've met her only once before.”

“I'll ignore your first statement and as for the second we'll get to that later.” Sally responded. “For now we'll be bringing out someone you're really familiar with.”

(I'm trying out italics for thoughts since I realized using quotes for both thoughts and speech was probably confusing. Let me know which you prefer. Also not much longer on the vote. https://strawpoll.com/GPgV6k2K3ga)