Not just a teacher (18+)

Chapter 16

"Nat! Wake up!" Julie exclaims. I slightly open my eyes to the sight of her waving her arms right in my face. "Julie, I prefer being woken up to by the sound of an actual alarm." I say, with a hint of annoyance in my voice. Rolling over to my right side, I reach over to the night stand and grab my phone. "Get your ass up because it's evaluation day!" I have no idea why she's excited about that, why would anyone be excited to be evaluated by their boss. The only good thing that might come out of it would be proving to Mr. Valentino that I deserve the job that I earned.

It's been three months since he gave me shit about it, well, technically not to my face... but still. I honestly try not to think about it because Angelo constantly tells me I'm a quick learner everytime he see's me. I honestly love the job, one perk being the flexable hours and I getting to be around my best friend, well... kinda. Half the time she's either talking to the many guys that come up to her or she's handing out the most delicious drinks you can imagine.

"Julie, we are literally getting judged on everything we do at the club, doesn't that scare you at all?" Julie gaves me a puzzled look, she doesn't seem fazed at all by my comment. "What's the point on being scared anyway? We are good at what we do Nat, there's nothing and nobody that can say otherwise. Andddd it's not like you will be alone, you will be evaluated with the other servers too." I scrunch my eyebrows at the thought of being judged by Mr. Valentino. Thankfully it'll be in a group setting, he might not even pay that much attention to me. I just can't stand that he already judges me enough by giving me strange looks during lectures. Sometimes it's a weird lingering eye contact. I shake my head at the memories of him looking at me, I don't even want to admit how much I like it...

I reluctantly got out of bed and started my morning routine. I rather start getting ready now for my shift instead of waiting until last minute, because lord knows that can be dreadful. I grab the toothpaste and smother a pea sized amount onto it, before putting it into my mouth, Julie comes walking in, holding my phone. "Hey Nat, your phone is buzzing like crazy." While holding the toothbrush in one hand, I grab my phone in the other and look at the name that's causing my phone to go off. "It's Angelo." Right away, I answer the call. "Hey Angelo, what's up?" A long pause meets the other end of the call. "Hey Natalia, there seemed to be an issue." After hearing those words my heart begins to race. "Would you mind if we started your shift at 8pm rather than 5pm? It would just makes here a little easier." Oh? "Yeah of course Angelo, that would not be a problem." I smile as if he can see me. "Well, that will be all Natalia. See you late- wait just a second." The other end of the line goes silent, I don't know whether to see if he's still there or continue to wait for him. As I continue to wait, I hear another voice. "Also tell her that it's just going to be her getting evaulated. Nobody else." Who's voice is that? "Uh hello?" Angelo says. Pulling my attention back to him, I answer "Yes?"
"Sorry for the wait Natalia." He says with a slight chuckle. "Just wanted to remind you that today will be your evaluation day. I know that we said we would evaulate all servers and bartenders together, but like I mentioned, there was an issue. It will just be you today. I hope that's okay?"
You have got to be kidding me.
"Yeah! Of course." I say, hopefully not sounding fake. "Okay Natalia, bye now." I put my phone down and look at myself in the mirror. Fuck.

Dante's POV

"Angelo, what happened?" I say, with demand in my voice. "She was okay with it. But why make it more complicated?" I look at him, not sure what to say. To be honest, I don't really have a good reasoning as to why I made him do that. Three months ago one of my students was hired at the club I work at. To this day, I still find it weird. She is an adult and can make her own decisions, but it just doesn't sit right with me. Especially after the encounters we've had.

"Listen, you are my best friend and everything, but some things are just better left unsaid. Just follow my orders and things will turn out, trust me." Angelo gives me a long stare, with a slight twitch to his eyebrow leading with an unpleasant scratch to his head. "Alright boss, I will get out of your way then. If you ever want to tell me, I will always be here." I nod my head and off he goes. I wish I could have given him a better explaination, I could not even think of a simple lie to cover. This doesn't even matter, what matters is that I have to conduct these pointless evaluations, owning the place is one thing, but having to do this is a fucking headache in itself, especially knowing that I will have to deal with her. I've honestly tried hard to deal with it, sharing the same workplace and all. But it's just too fucking weird. I am strictly suppose to be a professor figure in her eyes, my private life should not even involve any students of mine. I have never in my ten years of teaching had anything remotely similar to this situation. Fuck, thinking about this is not productive at all whatsoever.