𝓓𝓸𝓷'𝓽 𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴!

Chapter 2|| Café

L o r i a n n e N e w t o n
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I woke up tired with a huge headache. I got out of my bed and walked into my bathroom, undressing out of my pajamas and turning on the bath. I poured some soap in and get inside. I relax myself when I feel the warm water hit my skin. I sighed to myself and quickly washed myself up. I got out of the bath, draining the tub and put on my work clothes for the café.

I pulled my apron over my outfit and attach my name pin to it, I put on my visor cap aswell. I walk out of my room and go downstairs, making myself a quick piece of toast before walking out of the front door, locking it behind me. I start walking to the café which was at least a ten minute walk from my home. When I reached the café I unlocked the door and walked inside, going to the back and setting all of my things in my locker.

I walk behind the cash register and unlocked it to make it functional. I turn on everything and walk back to the door, flipping the sign to open and standing behind the counter and waiting for customers. The café was a very quiet place so customers came, told me their order, waited, got it and left. I heard the bell to the door ring again and looked up. I saw him. Mario. I look back down as I see his eyes look in my direction.

He walks up the counter and waves his hand in-front of my face. "Lorianne?" I look up at him and smile. I show him the paper that I had to show to everyone because my name tag said I was mute cause I couldn't—no. wouldn't, talk. He looks down at the paper and smiles back up at me. "Can I get a croissant and a vanilla latte please?" I smile and nod at him placing his order and making it.

I take it to the other side of the counter where the customer waits and give him his drink and croissant. I smile at him and wave. I show him the card with have a good day on it and turn to leave to serve the next customer. I feel his gaze on me and turn to look at him. He motions for me to come over to him. I go in the back to find Mariam and tell-motion-her to take over my position. Mariam knew sign language so it was much easy to communicate with her than most other people.

I go and find Mario but don't see him, I feel to pairs of arms wrap around me and pull be back into the storage closet. I was about to scream, well most likely shriek because since I don't talk much I don't scream or yell or anything like that either. So I mostly make small noises in situations like this. I turn around and see Mario, I let out a relieved sigh and punch him on his arm. "Ouch! What was that for!" I glare at him and cross my arms.

"Sorry for scaring you! I didn't mean too!" I squint my eyes at him and pull out my phone. What do you want? I typed and showed it to him. He smiled. "Well I just wanted to talk about yesterday, and apologize again." I roll my eyes and smile, shaking my head. You don't have to apologize again, you already did twice and it's fine. It'll heal in time. He smiles at me. "Yeah yeah I know that, but I did want to apologize again. For running into you and scraping your knee." I smile you weren't the one who scraped my knee you know. And you were the one who healed it so you didn't really do anything wrong. He smiles. "So you forgive me?" I nod. Maybe he isn't all so bad. He pulls me into and hug and looks down at my jeans. "Does it still hurt?" I nod and he sits me down on the chair behind me. He kneels down again and pulls up my pants leg to look at my knee.

Although he cleaned up the blood the band-aid turned red because blood started coming out again when I got home. He grabbed a first aid kit he found and gently took the band-aid off of my knee. He threw it in the trash and took another one out of the first aid kit along with some cleansing tissues. He ripped open the small package and pressed the tissue against my wound.

I'm guessing it had alcohol on it because it really burned when he pressed it to skin. I bit my bottom lip as he cleans the wound and adds on another band aid to it. When he's done he gets up from kneeling and put the first aid kit back. I smile at him and he smiles back. He helps me up and picks up his coffee and croissant. "Hey, how about you give me your number so we can talk!" I raise my eyebrow and snatch his phone from his hand. I add my number in his phone and pull out mine. I save his number to my phone and give him his phone back. He smiles at me. I send him a text before patting his shoulder and walking back to the counter.

Mariam smiles at me and wiggles her eyebrows. I look at her confused. What? I sign and she smiles before signing back. I saw you with that really cute guy. Is he your boyfriend!? I roll my eyes and shake my head and she looks at me not convinced. I only just met him yesterday because he accidentally made me fall and scrape my knee. I look up to the next customer and see Mario walk out of the shop waving to me. I wave back and smile to myself. I look over and see Mariam smirking. You have to at least have some sort of liking for him. I roll my eyes and smile. Mariam was amazing, I'm glad she was one of my best friends.
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Gentleman Mario 🫶🏾

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