◇*Krystal*◇

Working at Danny's

Chapter 3

The next day came so quickly like I expected, I woke up early and cleaned the house, made breakfast, I was sure everything was perfect before I leave to the Danny's restaurant. I told my step mother about the job she said. ' It's okay for as long as I do my home chores before leaving'. It's not like she cares about what I do and what danger I indulge myself in.

Before ten, let me say twenty minutes to ten was at Danny's.

Uncle Danny's was excited to see especially when I was early at work, it gave him a good impression about myself. He assign a lady as my tutor to teach me, It wasn't hard like I thought it was, It was easy for me to manage it well. And I was sure that I am ready to be a waitress. Am so excited about It!!

The day went on with less customers who came in and out, it was really so boring for my first day, I just ended cleaning the tables but not serving any customers.

"You know you have been cleaning that table for three times" a young lady named Joyce said to me.

"Have I?" I looked back at the table. "It looks dirty to me" she chuckled.

I gazed around to see how many customers are left ,but only one customer sitting by the back booth eating. Soon this restaurant will be left empty, until when? Am not sure that I know.

"Does it always be this empty?" I asked her, she too gazed around and shrugged.

"Not really but this week business is bad, it worries Mr. Danny alot . Especially when other waiters are leaving, you are lucky to be here" she replied to me.

I forced to smile and tell myself it was okay.

"You know the news of the billionaire coming here in Mafia?" I nodded in respond. "Its our hope that he come here and become a regular customer this will attract new customers "

"What's stopping that hope?"

"Because he hasn't showed up yet, I haven't seen him anywhere around. Am starting to think the whole thing was just a lie"

I smirked, but it's the truth, I can tell her . I can't tell her that Judas is in our school and my classmate, moreover he sits three desks away from me, and Hey!! I bumped on his hard body yesterday. Gosh I hate this!!

"Let's just wait, give him sometime to walk around the island, he will notice us" I winked at her picking the napkin that I was using to clean and walked to the kitchen.

Since it wasn't busy, the kitchen was calm and quite , no up and down movement like I imagined in a movie. Infact they sat chatting to each other. The chef and the other few waiters and waitress. I placed the napkin on the counter and ignored ignoring their conversation since it didn't concern me at all.

"Little girl" the chef called me, I gazed back him. "Is there a new customer?"

"You would know by now" he nodded appreciatively to me and smile. I loved the way everyone treats me here like a human.

I walked out of the restaurant and I breathed in the oceanic smell, I crossed the road to other side to see the clear view of the ocean. From far, I could see nothing but the ocean itself, I wonder what it's like to be on the side of this ocean. And how is it like to speak with its accent fluently like Judas, he was there, No, he actually lived there is whole entire life as a rich kid in that side, richer than my father. Speaking of my father how is he in heaven, does he even regret to marry Florida as my step mother. Does he want reap off his grave so he could change my life once again to a miracle, because I need the miracle. And my mother? I barely remember her voice, her smile, her face was on the pictures in my room and how does she feel up there?. Surely she must be blaming my father for everything that is happening to me, blaming him for marrying a heartless woman with her wicked daughters, but am sure he isn't blaming him for leaving me early because it was all destined.

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I cried calling out for my mom, on a empty ocean it was just me, the ocean the fishing inside ocean. Mom was gone and I was alone on the boat, a five year old me.

I walked up immediately from my dream my face drentched with cold sweat, the fear still eats me it runs in body like a boiling blood. I could still see that day vividly like it was just yesterday. When mom was eaten by the shark only because i wanted to go for boat riding, untill today I have never been too close with the ocean. I stay close to the ocean but I do not step into it, this is the reason why i never went to Dar es saalam. The ocean scares the creepy out of me, I usually have this nightmare when I miss my parents.

I looked at the time, it was only five minutes left for my usual time to wake up . Like always before I leave going to school, I make sure that everything is well arranged and cleaned in the house.

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Later when I reached at school always I would use the same transport with my twin sisters, but today was a different story. I used the bus to avoid their unfairly taunts toward me. I walking toward my class, I called by Betty.

"Yes girl! Wait up!" She screamed running towards me like a happy kid running for her mother. She wrapped her arms on my shoulders and hug me tight while giggling on my ear , It ears felt trickling.

"How deaf are you Krystal " she exclaimed when she pulled off the hug. I smile at her nuisance character, sometime.

"You barely called ten times for you to complain so much , Betty" I defended myself.

"Whatever " she wrapped her hand on my elbow and start walking together to the class. "So you wrote a message about you working at the Danny's, how is it?"

"Its cool, but over this weekend it actual dull you know. Less customers, low income which stresses out Uncle Danny's" she glance suspiciously at me for calling the owner of restaurant as uncle Danny. I grinned before saying. "Its actually along story, he was friend of my father and he suggested that I call him uncle Danny"

She listened attentively to my story about how my days working at the Danny's restaurant. We got into our class and placed our backpacks onto our desk, I glanced around the class with hope of seeing Judas but he was not there. The classes started soon eventually, but no sign of Judas around the class . I have never seen my class been so dull before today just because he wasn't at school.

Later after school I changed my clothes to Danny's worker's uniformw before walking into the restaurant. The spirit inside the restaurant was good, not too many people but it was unlike the weekend. I smiled at Joyce who brightly smiled back at me.

"Back of from school little girl?" I chuckled at her calling me 'little girl'. It seems like the chef's nickname that he gave me was loveable to her, to the point she started calling me wit that nickname.

"Yeah, its little busy today and hot outside ofcourse " I said walking to her at the bar counter.

"I don't know, but we aren't making enough money" she said and shrugging.

I went to the kitchen and greeted everyone I can't imagine how I grew fond of this people and they actually like me. I remember of my first day when the chef mostly instructed me to come in the kitchen before do anything and greet him as the way of showing respect to an elderly person.

When I was done with a greetings I went back to the main restaurant, I served a certain table I was pretty good too. The day went on until it was 6pm when I called it a closure for me. After i drop off the bus and walk in my street searching for my house, I saw kids running and playing on the street I didn't know there were kids in this street.

I reached at home, when getting inside the house I sensed something so unfamiliar and unusual in here. I started hearing disturbaing noises upstairs, I climbed to upstairs slowly without been noticed until when I reached to my step twin sister Beatrice's room where the voices were too much to ignore. A voice of a male or boy groaning that could hear and her voice coming out as... God! I wished I didn't know what was happening inside here but I know. Beatrice was doing something she shouldn't do at her age.