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A teaser for chapter 1

Hi, I am writing it now and I will try to do a chapter a day but this is what I got so far, its not the full chapter but its something!!

   I walked down the dirty sidewalk, with my head down watching the rain hit the pavement. I sighed and looked up and saw that I was almost to my job at the pub. I am a waitress and I happen to dislike it. I want to use the word hate but I won't because hate is a strong and gross word. I don't like that i get cat called and flirted with, I have always been the type to put my head down and just do my job and i still do that but it gets so draining when people only look at your body. I go by the name Lena because my real name is confusing and hard to say, but it's a perk because when the customers call me Lena it makes me feel safe like that they don't know my real name.

I put my head up and see the pub ahead, it's not too packed today, thank God because I barely slept last night and the last thing I want to deal with is flirty people. I take a deep sigh and open the door of the pub, the old bell rings notifying everyone that someone came in. I look ahead and see Mellisa cleaning the counters. I head straight to her.

"Good Morning girl" i say, she looks up at me with a smile

"Oh thank goodness you are here lena, the owner is coming in today and i have been trying to get this place clean", she tells me looking worried

I inhale a sharp breath. Whattt, why didn't you tell me earlier? I would have come sooner, oh my okay i will help you now," i say going around the counter taking my scarf and jacket off and putting on a black apron. I go under the counter and pick up a mini towel and start cleaning the dirty tables that I find.

After about 1hr of cleaning the tables and the floors, I went to go find melissa and trade shifts so that I could wait on people. Fun fact me and Mellisa like to change jobs every hour to make the time go by faster.

I put the mop away in the gross supply closet and and head to the doors of the kitchen,

"Melissaa", I slightly yell.

She pops up out of nowhere from the floor,

I get slightly scared, i hold my hand to my chest, "Ooof melissa, what were you doing down there"

"I have been trying to clean the little crevices of the floor clean so that those rats don't show up for today", she saying looking stressed

" I look at her with a laugh, hahahaha girl, i highly doubt the owners care that much, im sure they already know how gross this place is and probably don't care, because if they did it would not still be open" I say to her

"Lena, the owner hasn't been here in 3 years, Mr.Collazo has no idea how this place has turned into a dump" she yells, fixing her hair bun

"Ohh I say his name is Mr.Collazo, what kind of owner doesn't show up to their own place in 3 years," i tell her while rolling my eyes

"Lena, this is a chain Pub, there are so many. Plus i heard the owner is really mean, I've never met him but apparently he is some old, mean dude" she says

"Oh my Goodness, you've never met him before", i say looking at her in shocked

"No girl, I have only been here for 2 years and you just started a couple of months ago" she told me, throwing her hands up, and turning to walk out of the kitchen.

We see the cook walk back in and we both smile at him, he is a nice older man who doesn't speak english only italian,

"Ciao, Bellas", He says

Mellisa and i say at the same time "Ciao, Chef" and we all chuckle

As mellias was walking our manager walks through the door,

"Hi, my sweethearts!" he says looking at both of us with a smile

Mr.Lopez is a sweet older older man, he has 2 kids and 3 grand children and he runs the place in a comfortable way.