"What are you doing over there?! You're spilling coffee all over the place!" JJ scolds Gabi. "You're just going to leave it there and I have to clean it up! Look at the mess! Get out of here! Go! Go!" He huffs and sighs.
"JJ!"
"Ah, huh? Guliz?" JJ looks at Guliz now looking right at him, having rushed over from the bridge after seeing Can leave the coffee bar just before Sanem.
"Mr Can was looking for Sanem, did he find her?"
"Why are you asking me? Huh? How should I know? I don't know. I don't know whether I found out anything or not. I don't know," JJ rambles. "You can only ask questions if you're asking for coffee otherwise leave me alone, don't ask me anything!" JJ gets up and walks around the counter to the kettles and cups.
"JJ," Guliz follows him closely, "now I know you're hiding something. You only behave like this when you know something you're not supposed to tell."
"I'm not hiding anything. Really, I have nothing to tell, no secrets."
"What were you whispering about with Sanem then? Hm? Why is Sanem in such a strange mood lately?"
"We were talking normally. We didn't say anything about her mood, uhm, we just talked. She asked about coffee...We talked about that, yes." JJ turns to the kettle, his hand shaking.
"Tell me what happened JJ, I won't say anything. Tell me."
"Nothing happened." JJ backs away.
"Tell me what happened, I can see something happened. Tell." JJ tries to sidestep her but she stops him, staring him down. "Yes? No?"
"Sanem - " JJ slaps his hand over his mouth.
"What? Sanem what?"
"Nothing! Nothing's happening! I have to keep my mouth closed!"
"No JJ, you can tell me. Tell me please?"
JJ shakes his head. Guliz turns him and he gasps. "Ah! Sanem - "
"Yes?!" Guliz grins.
"Be quiet, leave me alone! Don't ask questions please." He looks away, still shaking. "There's nothing."
"JJ - "
"We're all under stress. Under stress of possible dismissal. That's what's happening. That's all, that's all."
"JJ! Tell me what's going on!"
"Sanem - " JJ takes Guliz's arms and lowers his voice. "Sanem - " He stops again.
"JJ?"
"No....you're trying to make me talk..."
"JJ?"
"No! Devil! Leave me alone! Don't ask me anything!" JJ runs past Guliz towards the bathroom.
"You're hiding something! You'll talk soon enough!" Guliz calls and he yells out a gasp before closing the door.
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Osman slams down the meat hammer again and sighs, shifting the steaks over to pack them when he's done.
"Osman, I'll take half a kilo."
"Of course," he nods, smiling at the girls. He was already finished with the one's order. They've been watching him work since they came in, but he didn't pay any attention to them. His mind was on Leyla.
He glances up to look towards her house down the street, only to see Muzaffer peeking in through the window. He looks from the girls to Osman, then mumbles to himself, then points at them and back at him.
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Early Bird (Erkençi Kus)(Part 1)
Fanfiction* (A Turkish Series Translation) A young woman named Sanem Aydin lives with her overbearing but loving parents, who have certain ideas of how she should be living - and it doesn't involve her working at her family store full time. They thinks she s...
