"Mel ? I wasn't expecting you today" my coworker smiled at me while she brought out a cup of coffee for one of our regulars
"Yeah I wasn't supposed to be working, I'm covering Mr. Football is more importants shift" I went to the back and opened my small locker, taking out my apron and wrapping it around my waist
"Oh"
"Yeah it's fine though, I can use the extra money" I laughed to play it off, but I really did need it.
The shift went by pretty quickly, I was done with 3 out of my 6 hours in the blink of an eye
"Hey can you take the next customers ? I need to run to the back real quick"
"Yeah of course" I walked up to our register and smiled at the first customer, she was an elderly woman who came by once a week to get her slice of cake "Good day ma'am, what cake can I offer you today ?"
"I would like to try the cheesecake today please"
"Of course, I'll get that packed up for you" I smiled at her, placing the cake on the paper plate and wrapping it with packaging paper "that will be $3" the woman passed me a $5 bill smiling at me
"Keep the change and buy yourself something nice sweetheart"
"Thank you ma'am" I smiled back typing her order into the register and putting the money in before getting back to the next customer "Hello, what can I offer you today ?" I let my eyes wander to the guy who was standing in front of me, he seemed so familiar yet I couldn't make out where I knew him from, he had beautiful blonde curls and piercing blue eyes
"Uh, what do you want tan ?" He asked the smaller guy next to him
"I'd like a hot chocolate and a piece of that one right there"
"Is that for here or to go ?"
"Here" the taller guy answered me as I clicked the buttons on the register "what cake would you recommend ?" I looked up at him from the register
"I personally really like the red velvet one, but honestly all of them taste great" he nodded moving his eyes from me to the cake stand
"Alright, then I'll have a piece of the red velvet one and also a hot chocolate" I nodded putting his order into the register too "that would be $10" the guy paid for both of them and they sat down at a table further in the back
I went to get their hot chocolates done while still thinking about where I could possibly know him from, maybe I was just mixing him up with someone ? Or maybe he was someone from school... he looked around my age, or maybe even older
I let my eyes wander over to him to find that he was already looking at me, he moved his gaze away when he saw me looking at him
I got their order done and brought it out to their table, starting to clean a little in the back
"Hey, weird question but do you recognise that guy sitting in the back" i asked Alex who was washing some dishes
"Not really, no. Why ?"
"Just asking"
"He looks cute though, huh ?"
"I guess" she looked over at me with a grin on her face "Alex"
"I didn't say anything"
"Yeah but you're giving me that look"
"What look ?"
"That one" she shrugged keeping the grin on her face, I rolled my eyes at her and went to the front seeing a customer coming in "Destiny"
"I can't decide if pizza or Chinese is better for tomorrow"
"I would say pizza, it's quicker and like everyone likes pizza at least a little"
"True, can you pass me a cupcake ?"
"Can you pay for a cupcake ?" I joked back as she sat down at the table right in front of the counter
"My best friend works here"
"Really ? I haven't seen her before who's that ?" I gave her the cupcake and leaned against the counter since it was pretty quiet at the moment
"I bought a bunch of ice cream for the sleepover so we can do a rom-com marathon"
"I'm sure Cole will love that"
"Who cares about him ?" She looked through the café for a bit stopping at a table, her eyes widened and she grabbed my arm to pull me closer to her "dude why is Walker Scobell sitting at one of your tables and you didn't tell me ?!" My head spun towards the table in the back when I heard the name
"Oh my god that's Walker Scobell" I could punch me for not realising that sooner, I had stared at him on my screen for so long how did it take destiny saying his name for me to realise
"Girl"
"Walker freaking Scobell is here ?! At daisies ?!"
"How did you just notice that ?"
"I don't know I didn't realise it was him- stop staring Des you're gonna creep him out"
"He looks even better in real life"
"Destiny"
"Okay okay calm down I'm not looking"
"Mel ?" I stood up straight and turned toward the counter where Alex was standing now "Oh hey destiny"
"Hiya Alex, how's it going ?"
"Pretty good what about you ?"
"Same old you know ?"
"Yeah the usual, Mel can you sweep the floor while you're over there ?"
"Sure-"
"I can sweep" Alex and I both looked to destiny who shot up from her chair "what ? It's not like it's the first time"
"Yeah you've just never been so enthusiastic about sweeping the floor before" I laughed at my best friend who shrugged and went to grab the broom "I'll clean the tables then, maybe we'll be out before 9 today. That would be awesome I have to do this stupid presentation"
And while I kept going normally with my shift I couldn't help my eyes moving over to the famous actor just casually sitting at the table a few feet away, I even locked eyes with him a few times
Authors note:
Whoop whoop Walkers hereee
Omg did y'all hear what's about what's going on in Vienna ?? Humanity is shit why would anyone take that amazing experience away from someone 🙄
Well I hope you enjoyed the chapter 🫶
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The Bolter | Walker Scobell
FanfictionIf you asked the people around her they would all describe Mel in the same way : happy, funny, helpful, selfless, smart and so much more, so would Walker Scobell. What could possibly go wrong with a girl whos THAT perfect, right ?
