Early Bird (Erkenci Kus)(Part 3)

25. No longer 'friends'

The waitress leads Sanem to the bathroom, and lets her enter first. Checking for some napkin paper, Sanem rips a couple off and goes to the mirrors, dabbing her dress.

"I'm so sorry again."

"It's really okay," Sanem assures her  with a smile.

"Let me see what I can find to help with that, okay?"

"It's not necessary, I'll handle it."

"Still," the waitress lifts her hands and then walks to the door.

"Thank you," Sanem says and dabs a wet piece of napkin against her dress.
"Ooff," she groans. "It's ruined."

-

Aylin stands just outside on the steps leading out of the bathroom, watching the girl she bribed coming out and closing the door and locking it.

"All done?" she whispers when the waitress walks over.

"Done."

Aylin takes out the money promised. "Thank you honey." The waitress nods and then leaves one way while Aylin goes the other way.

-

"You made a smart choice taking this job on, Can, the agency won't work without you and you won't work without it. Your father will be proud."

Can glances around the room before smiling at Mr Hidayet. On his way back he ran into this old friend of his father's in attendance as an investor. "Thank you Mr Hidayet. Emre and I do our best for the agency."

"Let me go and say hello, speaking of your brother."

"By all means."

"See you later."

"Okay." Can watches him walk over to Emre's table where he stood with Leyla and Ayhan.

Where is Sanem? He cranes his neck a little, frowning.

"So, can we leave now?"

He turns to Ceyda and Gamze, coming from the bar. "We can," he nods, "let's just wait for Sanem, then we can go." He looks for her again, not seeing the blue dress.

Ceyda and Gamze look around boredly, waiting while Can starts fidgeting with his stones, his eyes on every unoccupied space imaginable.

-

Inside the bathroom, Sanem does her best to try and save her dress as fast as she could. She looks at the door of the bathroom, and frowns.
"She's probably not coming back," she says and sighs. It's been ten minutes. Finding cleaning supplies can't take that long. She gives up and walks to the door. The dress was as good as it was going to get.

Pulling on the doorhandle, Sanem realizes that it's not opening. She tries again, pulling harder.

What the heck?

She tries again and then knocks on the door. "Is there anyone out there?" she calls, slapping against the door, yanking on the handle. "I'm in the bathroom! Hello?! Anyone?! Help!" She tries to peek out of the small window but seeing as the glass isn't seethrough, she would only be able to see shapes. "What is going - Hello! Anyone out there?! I'm locked in the bathroom!"

I have bad luck sometimes but this is just ridiculous! Come on!

Sanem turns and looks around the bathroom. "What am I going to do?" she whispers and walks back to the mirror side in front of the stalls, pacing in front of the doors and trying to think of what to do and how she was going to get out.

-

"Can, come on, just leave Sanem to be wherever she is," Ceyda huffs annoyedly. "Let's just go."

They were still in the same spot, waiting for Sanem. Can hasn't spoken, just tapped his fingers on the table, his eyes flying across the room. He was getting more restless with every passing second.