It was a dark, cloudy Sunday night, it was about to rain, I was at work and my body temperature was boiling...!
"Could it get any worse ?!" I screamed internally.
"I think I'm catching a cold."
"Why is my body hot??,,,, please don't tell me it's fever!!" I shrieked
I was sitting on one of the chairs set apart at my little restaurant, regretting why I had even thought to come to work today and why I even stayed this late. "Oh!" I remember, my friends girlfriend is having her birthday party at my restaurant, and oh well, my friend requested I showed up to make Barbeque for their mini event.
"At least I'd get to eat cake" i thought to myself.
One of my staff...the one responsible for handling the barbecue, Malibu, sprinted towards me, and squatted close to my ears and whispered "the cooking gas has been exhausted ma'am"
"There's no gas ?!" I responded with terror in my voice
"Nothing ma'am"
"Well have you made the barbecue sauce?" I asked sternly
"I can make that on the grill, but they ordered for noodles too, and I can't cook that on the grill"
I let out a heavy and frustrated sigh, what was I going to do now?!!! I hated disappointing my clients, and it was already too late to get cooking gas, so that would mean the end of cooking for the night...and I had about two more hours to go! What If I had more customers wanting to eat ?! Geeez !
"Call Jerry for me please." I instructed Malibu
He rushed to the grill stand to call Jerry.
I thought to myself, 'Jerry would know what to do'.... 'He's got charm, to divert the customers attention, and sooth their worries, somehow.'
Given that he's also my younger brother, it's his sisters business, he'd do a perfect job!
"What do we do about the customers, Reina?!" Jerry raced towards me screaming loud enough for just us to hear
"I was thinking you'd have an idea"
"What? Me?!"
"Yeeeaaah..." I responded a little less confidently
Jerry let out a heavy sigh, "okay, I'll go talk to them and...."
Right when he was talking I noticed two tall men walking towards the restaurant from outside... one was slim and tall with short dreadlocks, the second, equally tall but a little chubby.... The slim dude really caught my eyes, like 'how can someone be this....fine!'
"Reina!" Jerry cried
"Huh?!" I responded, quickly snapping out of it
"Oh shoot! Now we have more customers, and there's no food, and the fish being grilled are all sold out!" Jerry growled
I just sat there quietly and confused, following the new customers that just arrived at the restaurant with my eyes...
"Ohhhh Reina, you're handling them!" Jerry insisted "can't talk to two angry sets of customers tonight" he added and walked towards the party group to deliver the sad news.
In less than three minutes, I saw Malibu approaching my table
"Ma'am those men want to talk to a manager or the owner." He said pointing at their direction "they requested"
"Okay, thank you"
I walked toward them, and for some weird reason, my heart began to thump... as I was approaching... I kept mouthing the words 'he's just a customer, relax Reina' under my breath...
I got to the table and he looked piercing at me, his eyes are so beautiful.
" Hi, how can I help you?" I managed to utter before my heart dropped
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Who is this man ?!
RomanceRina had barely any luck in love, managing her little career met a very handsome, feet sweeping and sophisticated Kyle...she tries to resist him because of her poor romantic luck, but he blows her mind at every turn, how could she possibly handle he...
