A Heart Caught In Crime

Chapter 3 - Night Out.

Claudia comes around the corner with a smile. She's got grayish-brown short hair, like a pixie cut, wearing a blush pink sweater paired with some worn jeans and black sneakers.

The interview goes really well and I start Monday morning next week. She will be training me herself and told me that she wanted me to do well here. Seeing as it was only Thursday I had a few days to wait.

After the interview, we say our goodbyes and I start going back towards the hotel. I notice that's it's now around 7:30 so i decided to take a quick shower once I got back and lay in bed for the rest of the day until I fell asleep. And I did just that.

***Monday morning***

I am woken up by the alarm blaring in my ear and I excitedly rolled over to shut it off. I jump out of bed and make my way to the bathroom, I put my hair into a high and tight ponytail put on some light washed high-rise skinny jeans, black turtleneck T-shirt, paired with a black leather jacket, and a black purse along with some gray and white running shoes. I make my way downstairs and grab a quick light breakfast and a coffee. On my way out I think to myself driving to the diner only cut out about five minutes so I decided to walk seeing as the streets were incredibly packed right now.

Once I get to the diner, Claudia greets me with a large smile on her face. She said that she was scared that I wasn't gonna show as that happened to her in the past. I reassured her that I was very excited to be here. She had then told me that the only other server had quit yesterday so I would be the only server now.

"Well, Miss Claudia. I do like a challenge."

" I could almost cry hearing you say that." She said excitedly

"Let's get started shall we" I motioned towards the back so I could have a brief run down of everything.

I picked up on everything rather quickly and I got Claudia's full attention for the first 2 hours that I was there before she had actually open the diner around 10:30. The seats started filling and I started taking orders. The lunch rush wasn't too bad and neither was the dinner rush other than some guests that has some odd requests.

6pm hits and the dinner was slammed. It was a lot for my first day but I powered through. I started putting diner rushs orders in and I get to a table with a couple I assume. The man was dressed to the heavens with a 3 piece suit in navy blue and hair was perfect, the woman looked as if she had just rolled out of bed her hair was a mess and makeup running down her face.

"Hello how are we doing today, I am so sorry about that wait I really appreciate y'all's patients, my name is Natasha and I'll be your server tonight." I say all in one breath, with as many times as I've said it today it's already almost second nature.

"Oh don't worry about it miss, we see how packed this place is. We were barely waiting anyway." The man had said in a reassuring tone.

"That is so wonderful to hear, you have no idea thank you so much."

"Oh yeah we know what the job is like, it's no big deal." The woman piped up

"And we're going to be easy for you today, we are only getting dessert" the man chimed in

"Great! That is to easy. What can I get for you?" I ask while looking to the man first seeing as he is the last to speak

" I'll take the peanut butter pie with extra whip cream, please."

"Excellent choice, and what can I get for you?" as I turn to the woman.

She looks at me and looks down at her menu. She clasps her hands across her chest, as if she was holding her own hand and that's when I knew this was not going to be quick and easy. "I'm going to be a little bit difficult." She said in a very short tone.

'Great...' I thought to myself while still keeping that same customer service smile.

"What? Why are you looking at me like that?" She said while looking up at her partner.

"Huh? Oh nothing I'm just curious as to what is about to come out of your mouth." he replied back to a very breezy tone.

"What, you think I'm crazy." She replied back to him

' we did just go over the fact that this place is packed and I'm really busy right?' I asked myself in my head

"Okay, okay so last time I was here, it was probably oh I don't know like a year ago, or something. Well anyway I got the strawberry cake, and I loooove strawberry cake, it's always what I get, it's always what I get. I love strawberry anything." She looks to me as if to make sure I'm keeping up with her little tangent. As she hasn't ordered anything yet but I'm assuming she wants strawberry cake I'm not sure why but just a hunch.

"So you want the strawberry cake?" I ask.

"YES." She drags out. "Oh my goodness the strawberry cake..." she trailed off.

"Any drinks to go with the dessert tonight?"

"No, thank you" they both said in unison.

I'm not entirely sure why she said that she was gonna be difficult if she just went strawberry cake, but I don't judge.

Later that evening, after the restaurant clears out, I sit with Claudia to count the drawers and my tips. I walked away with $400 that night not including what I got paid.

I walked back to the hotel get to my room and take a shower by this time. It was around 10:30 to 10:45 PM after my shower. I lay down in bed just feeling lucky that I don't have to be there until 9:30 tomorrow morning. Just after I lay down on the bed I pass out very hard.