The Deucalion Restaurant

🌮Chapter 3🌮

Once the Crows finished their lunch, they headed out to leave, but as they did so, Morrigan looked around one last time for the hot waiter. When she finally found him, he was drying some glasses with a tea towel, alongside a lady who also worked there. The woman was on the larger size of people and rather curvy, with poofy, silvery-grey hair, pulled back into a bun on the top of her head, large amber eyes. She looked rather grumpy, as if she really didn't like her job... or was having a bad day.

The waiter turned around suddenly, meeting Morrigan's gaze. He looked slightly startled but quickly recovered, sending her a cheeky smile accompanied by a wink, causing Morrigan's cheeks to burn as she sent a small smile back before running to catch up with her family.

When they got back to Crow Manor, Morrigan felt like she was on Cloud Nine. The hot waiter had winked at her. Boys never winked at her, nevertheless hot ones.

Her family had noticed her mood, shaking their heads fondly at the obviously lovestruck teenager.

Morrigan tried to spend the rest of her afternoon doing homework as school was back tomorrow after the weekend, but found that she couldn't concentrate. All she could think about was the boy from the Deucalion Restaurant.

She was lying in her bed when she heard someone knock on her door and called out for them to come in.

"So, this boy from the restaurant, hey?" Ivy said, sitting down in the bed next to her stepdaughter, who couldn't hide her grin.

"Yeah?"

"You seem rather... infatuated with him."

"Mhm..."

"Did you catch his name?"

Morrigan sat up suddenly, feeling her stomach drop. No, she hadn't caught his name - she had been too busy looking at his face... and avoiding it.

"No? I didn't think so... I did."

"What is it?" Morrigan asked, shuffling closer to Ivy, desperate to know the name of this hot guy.

Ivy laughed, "hmm, no. I think you'll have to go back to find that out."

Morrigan shook her head, "nuh-uh, not happening."

Ivy pouted, "then I suppose you'll never know his name..."

The two girls sat in silence for a few minutes before:

"Fiiine!"

Ivy looked to Morrigan, confused, "'fiiine' what?"

"'Fiiine', I'll go back and find out his name."

Ivy's face broke out into a huge smile.

"Excellent, maybe even get his number?"

"Don't push it..."

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As Morrigan ran out of the Deucalion Restaurant, the waiter chuckled as he turned back to the glasses he was supposed to be drying.

"Playing with yet another girl's heart, I see," his companion - the grumpy-looking woman - said.

"What? No!" Came the waiter's indignant response.

"Sure, sure, Jack."

The waiter – Jack – rolled his eyes.

"I'll probably never see her again anyway - I never do."

"Uh-huh, she was pretty cute, though."

Jack felt his face heat up a bit as he turned away from the amber-eyed lady.

"Yeah... she was," he murmured, holding up a glass to check for smudges.

The woman let out a low chuckle.

"So, you like this one then?"

Jack whizzed around, nearly dropping the glass.

"What? Fen, no - not this again!"

She laughed, maliciously, "John, it was so obvious that she was different from most girls - you flustered her so much that she couldn't respond to your flirting. And you weren't much better - don't think I didn't see that look you had when you came to the kitchen with their order; Martha saw it too."

Jack sighed, "even if I did like her, she's probably never going to come back here, and even if she did, the possibility of it being on my shift is-"

"Possible," Fen interrupted, rolling her eyes, "so you have thought about seeing her again?"

"...yes."

Fen chuckled again, "well, come on now, lover boy - there's another family waiting to be seated, and no one else is there."

"Why can't you do it?"

"Because as much as your uncle likes to think he runs this place, I do. And you will do as I say, or I'll cut your pay."

"Oh, you wouldn't dare - I'd rather get the sack!" Jack said, voice full of mock horror.

"You know full when I say something, I mean it, now hurry up, or you'll be sleeping outside tonight."

Jack huffed and rolled his eyes as he walked over to the entrance to welcome in the next family - two daughters, a son and their fathers - to the Deucalion Restaurant.

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Written: 28 June, 2021

Published: 18 September, 2021