— who: @gemma-devereux— where: Deverocks Records
The good thing about being handy was how many people wanted to hire you for quick jobs they needed done. The bad thing about being handy was when your friends called you at seven am because they arrived to work early and the office’s air conditioner was broken in the middle of summer in Tennessee. How fast can you get here? His friend - a producer over at Deverocks Records - asked a still pretty much asleep Hayes without even trying to figure out if the blonde could. To be honest Hayes very rarely said no to jobs, he was getting paid and he was helping a friend so what was the harm? But he really considered it today. Getting out of his bed was a struggle. But after the promise of free coffee and lunch if the fix took that long, Hayes was across town, sitting on the floor behind the front desk of this record label, fucking around with their air conditioning unit when the security system announced someone at the door. “Hey, can I help you?” He asked on reflex. Maybe in his heart he thought he’d be mistaken for the receptionist, given where he was standing. But the receptionist had disappeared for a few meetings or whatever while he worked, and also who would believe this person behind the desk in a band tshirt with the sleeves cut off and a backwards baseball hat covering the tousled hair he didn’t comb before he left, was working in a fancy office like this one? No one. “....sorry the answer to that question is no regardless if you needed help or not,” Hayes laughed, finally turning to see who was standing there. Gemma Devereux definitely didn’t need his help getting around this office. “Oh hey. How's it goin?” He asked, giving her a quick nod before going back to the wiring in his hands.