WAR||Chris Sturniolo

IHOP

It's 9:00pm and I am about to get off my last shift at IHOP. I am taking a break from the job when senior year starts, in two days. I had my job to make some money in the summer, but now with school I'd rather spend time doing work than serving pancakes at 11:00pm.

I was nearing the end of my shift when three boys walked in and sat at a booth. The three boys looks identical except they each had different style and haircuts. I went to their table to get their order. I looked at the boy with shorter hair and asked what he wanted to order.

"Holy fuck I love your shoes" The boy said looking down at my feet.

My lips curved into a visible smile as I uttered a genuine "thank you!" 

"What is your name?" he said looking up at me

I was startled by the kind gesture as during my whole waiter experience people just wanted to get their food then leave me alone. "Oh um I'm y/n. What is your guys' name?" I asked

"I am nick" "i am matt, i love your name by the way" "and im chris" they all said looking at me. I noticed one boy the most, chris, he has longer messier hair than the others and deep blue eyes. He was looking at me with a sweet smile and my stomach instantly got butterflies.

I spoke a genuine "thank you!" as I chuckled at matt's kind words, sending him a genuine smile. "okay so what do you guys want to order?" They all ordered some form of waffle and I walked away to go the restaurant kitchen.

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The next day
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I woke up early the next day and went to work my last shift at IHOP. At around 1, the same boys as yesterday walked in.

"y/n!" Nick yelled at me walking over and sitting down at a table i was near. I smiled and noticed that they were with another boy.

"Hi, I am Nate" he said with a genuine smile I returned a smile and a quick "hi!"

"it is so nice to meet you considering your the only reason we came to IHOP today." I noticed Chris slapped him hand from under the table. I tried to hide my blush asking them what they want to eat.

Once I got their order I came back with the food. As soon as i set it down a women in her 40s walked over to me. "uhm excuse me I ordered my eggs sunny side up and why is the yolk runny?"

I tried to hold back my laughter as I told her "oh! that is what a sunny side up egg is, i can get you a new egg scrambled if you'd like"

"thank you, I would also like refund on my whole meal and the egg for free" she asked with a mean tone

"i'm so sorry but you will still need to pay for the existing meal since it is not our fault you ordered the wrong egg." i said as it got harder to contain my laughter.

"shouldn't you be at home bathing in your daddy's money?" she snapped at me. I was shocked by her audacity, she was clearly not mentally okay. I had never seen something like this, it was funny but also odd at the same time. The lump I had in my throat from laughter vanished and my expression changed. I had an amazing dad, but he wasn't exactly "rich". My parents were divorced and while my mom was wealthy, life for my dad was hard financially. Which is why I worked all summer, to help pay off my dads rent.

"I'm sorry but you have no right to speak like that, so you can sit down with your credit card and pay for your damn eggs and risk paying an extra three dollars or leave now and pay for the meal we spent time to make. okay?" I snapped at her. She scoffed and walked away, paying for her current meal.

Once I cooled down a second i turned over to the triplets, who looked surprised about what just happened. I laughed a little thinking of the encounter over some stupid eggs.

"That was totally badass, we need to hang out soon." nick said, I chuckled and asked when he wanted to do so.

"Tomorrow?" he asked me

"ah I cant tomorrow because I have plans with my boyfriend, but any other time I'm totally free." I replied looking over at chris, who suddenly looked slightly defeated.

"great, give me your number and we will find a time." He smiles at me as i handed him my phone. They left the restaurant after we exchanged a few "goodbyes".

A few hours later my phone went off and I looked to see I was on a group chat with nick and three other numbers I didn't know. I assumed they were matt, nate, and chris. I smiled looked at the group chat named IHOP SQUAD🥞.
I think I finally made new friends.

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A/n
Sorry this chapter is short, I hope you like it!