𝕎𝕚𝕝𝕓𝕦𝕣 𝕊𝕠𝕠𝕥 𝕩 𝕆ℂ "ᴀ ᴅʀᴀᴍᴀ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ꜰᴜᴛɪʟᴇ ᴀ ᴍᴇᴀɴꜱ ᴛᴏ ᴀɴ ᴇɴᴅ."

VIII

WiLBURS POV
After I parked my car, I stumbled into my home tired from everything we've done today. I went to my room and fell onto my soft mattress, resting my head onto my pillow. My eyes felt heavy and I could feel myself slowly drifting to sleep, but then I remembered I have to text Michie. I quickly shot them a message informing them I got home safely. I smiled at myself at the thought of the time I spent with them, and fell asleep happily.

TiMESKiP - 1 WEEK LATER

THiRD PERSON POV
Michie was at the register stressing out, they had multiple orders to do by themselves seeing as Iris was out with a cold. The café was full, the line getting longer by the second, the number of orders were piling up. Drinks were hitting the floor, people were getting the wrong things, people began getting angry and Michie was on the brink of a panic attack. Then they heard a familiar voice.

"Michie, are you okay?" The voice said. Who was the voice, well it was none other than Wilbur Soot, Michie's close friend.

"Will! Hi, I can't talk sorry have orders, uh fuck what did they want, shit!" Michie said as they dropped their seventh drink of the day. 

"Hey man, I'm gonna be late where's my damn drink?!" Someone yelled at Michie.

"Sorry sir, what was it that you ordered? I'm terribly sorry." Michie answered the man frantically.

"Forget it, you suck at your job if you can't remember a simple order!" He yelled back.

Wilbur witnessed the exchange in disgust. 'How could he yell at Michie while they were obviously freaking out?! The café was full and Michie was the only person behind the counter. And this man thought he was entitled to get his drink before anyone else?!' Wilbur thought. Wilbur was going to confront the man but he got a better idea instead.

"Michie, you do orders I'll take cash, I've worked with a register before I know how to work it." Wilbur told Michie.

"Oh, you don't need to I'm fi-" Michie started saying before they were cutoff.

"No, you're not fine, let me help, please?" Wilbur said.

"Uhh, okay!" Michie said. They opened the employees only door to let Wilbur behind the counter and threw him an apron. Wilbur quickly put on the apron and began taking the orders, while Michie made the drinks. Michie was quite skilled with the drinks and barely understood the register, that was Iris' job. Michie has used the register in the past, but on slow days, never on a time like this. Wilbur was great at customer service, he was kind, patient and understanding when it came to the customers, something that Michie wasn't good at since they barely had contact with customers.

The two swiftly got everyone their orders, as well as complimentary cake pops for the wait. Michie has never experienced such a surge of customers. The café has been that full before but with Iris there it was 10x easier. But with just Michie, no way we're they getting anything done alone.

The two finally finished for the day. Michie dropped a total of 10 drinks but even with that, they thought it was a successful day. The two sat down after cleaning the spilt coffee and reorganizing the café.

"Wilbur, thank you, really. I couldn't have done this without you. Iris is out with a cold and she promised it was going to be a slow day, which is why she kept it open." Michie told Wilbur.

The two sat in a booth sitting across from eachother as they ate cake pops. The café was now officially closed for the day.

"Dont mention it, I've worked in a supermarket and I know the feeling. Trust me. If you ever experience that again, call me. Okay? Don't over work yourself." Wilbur said as he took the final bite from his cake pop.

"Yeah I will, and again thanks!" Michie smiled towards Wilbur. Michie got startled by their phone ringing, which made Wilbur slightly laugh. Iris was calling them.

"Hello? How are you feeling?" Michie said, they had their phone on speaker.

"Hi Michie *sniffle* I'm going good. How was the café? Empty, right?" Iris said all nasally.

"Empty? This shit was fuller than Fuller House! Jesus Iris, you need to close it if only one of us can come in! If it wasn't for Will I would've died!" Michie yelled into their phone.

"Hey, don't blame me, I'm bedridden right now! And Will? What do you mean by Will? Omg did he help out?! I'm fine with it seeing as he's youre cr-". Michie hung up before Iris could keep talking, they knew exactly what she was going to say.

"Whyd you hang up? She was about to say something about me." Wilbur said confused.

"Yeah I know what she was gonna say...she was going to say a very cringey among us joke, she's been saying it none stop. Heh." Michie said lying through their teeth. They were half lying actually, they knew what Iris was going to say but, she was going to say how Wilbur is their crush.

WiLBURS POV
Michie sat infront of me fidgeting with the straw wrapper. I ignored the fact that they frantically hung up on Iris, I figured they were telling the truth, why would they lie to me? The rest of the day we spent talking about random stuff until I brought up how I formed a band. Lovejoy! (This is so out of order)

"Lovejoy? I love the name! So you have any songs I can hear early? I mean I am like your best friend." Michie said jokingly.

I actually didn't have any songs written and I need to write them soon to show the rest, they're all counting on me to create some amazing songs and lyrics, but I have no idea what to write about.

"Well I uh, I actually don't have anything...written." I said, my last word more quiet than the rest of the sentence.

"Well, since you helped me out today, let me hand out a helping hand. Meet me at my place tomorrow? I'll send you the address." Michie said as they got up to go to their car.

"Really?! I would love the help." I started getting up and held the door open for them. "Send me your address when you can. Does 10 am tomorrow sound good?" I asked as we walked to the parking lot next to eachother.

"Sounds great! I'll have coffee made by then." We both reached their car, they got in and we both said our goodbyes as they made their way out of the parking lot, leaving me alone standing there.

Now what the fuck just happened?