Persigue tus sueños (pursue your dreams)

♡ Restaurant ♡

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Charlie
I make my way to work, I leave Olivia with Marie who absolutely adores her, she says that Olivia reminds her of her daughter when she was that age. My daughter is four and Marie teaches her spanish and tries with me but i struggle to pick it up whereas Olivia doesn't. She's my little spanish girl, i couldn't imagine life without her.
The restaurant is beautiful I've always dreamed of owning one myself, crowds come and go, it's placed in the heart of Barcelona. I love working here, it pays my rent and I meet so many people. However, my Spanish isn't always the best, I try my hardest but because it's Barcelona they speak Catalan too so it's so hard for me to learn two. My manager is very nice to me about it and if she sees me struggling with certain customers she will help or intervene but that's only happened twice. i feel like today's different, there's something in the air that feels like today is going to be different from yesterday.
I'm working my regular shift taking orders and serving customers, I'm doing my rounds collecting glasses and handing out menus. My boss points to a group of women and smiles at me, I take my note pad out of my black apron and i make my way over to them. I grab a couple menus from the counter, "hola, aquí" I point to a table just across from the door to the restaurant. The woman all sit down and as the last woman walks through the door I'm caught in a transe, she is so beautiful, the sunlight reflects right to her eyes they're a beautiful hazel. "Hola, lo siento" she speaks to her friends. She took a seat just in front, I'm nocked out of my transe. "¿Ummm..bebidas?" i say in a mix of english and a spanish accent.
They all look at me funny and giggled, and then they began speaking their orders. "Limonada" "café" I wrote two of each in my notepad. Lastly to tell me was the beautiful woman who walked in last, "water" she said in a very Spanish accent. It made me wonder why she said it in english it felt like she knew my spanish wasn't good but i chose to ignore it. I said gracias and walked to the bar and popped the note in front of Sofia. I cleared another table while she was pouring the drinks, i took the glasses and plates to the kitchen and came back through . I could hear the group laughing and talking in spanish, i looked over and the woman who caught my eye wasn't talking she was rather zoned out. I look back over to sofía behind the bar and sigh while dramatically fake wiping the dirty cloth near my face. "how's your hija?" Sofia asked me. "she's good, she's with my neighbour" i reply.
"her spanish still better than yours?" she laughs. "si, Maria teaches her knew words through art somehow."  i told her. "aquí" she said as she finished the last coffee. i take their drinks from the counter to their table and set them for each person, i leave the water for last. "gracias" she smile at me as she thanked me. i smiled so much sofia questioned me as i got back to the bar. "ummm,que es eso?
"nada, de nada" i'm still quite flustered. "hmmm" she gives me a look. "what she's pretty?" i spoke to her.
Hours later my shift ended, i was only doing six hours today. i was walking through the streets too my apartment, it's down this cute yellow road. liv is with my neighbour Marie so im going to pick her up and then take her for a walk around town.
i knock on her door and it opens instantly "hola Marie" i smiled to her she's sitting on her chair. "hola, ha sido muy bueno."
liv is hugging my leg, "sweetheart, have you been good for Marie today?"
"si, si" she smile and jumped at me. " we coloured and i wrote my name." i smiled at her, "gracias, Marie." with that we left the apartment. "where do you want to go as you've been a good girl? hmmm?" i asked her. "i want to go to the zoo!!!" she said exactly. "we will do that soon but something else bugs?" i felt so awful but i can't take her their today. it's too much tight atm. "can i get a toy, por favor,mama?" she asked me with her big brown eyes so wide with happiness. "we can most certainly do that." i let her skip to the end of our little street. i tell her to always stay near me and she usually holds my hand. she's my world.

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Alexia
This morning I went to a cute restaurant with a couple of my teammates, they felt like celebrating our win from yesterday, i wasn't feeling fully up to it but Mapi insisted that I needed to get out. They gave me the address of this cute restaurant and told me we're only going for a morning drink.
I was running a little late, that's unusual I'm always on time. I walked into the restaurant, the rest of them are just being seated and then the server turned back and I make eye contact with the most beautiful deep brown eyes, they looked tired I wonder why. Her hair was also the perfect shade of brown, I was nocked out of my thoughts as I sat down. She asked us for drinks I could her an accent as she spoke but I was just focus on her - how beautiful she is. Mapi nocked me out of my thoughts, I hadn't yet ordered and everyone else had but my mind was elsewhere. "Water" is spoke, everyone looked at me confused including the woman, I don't know why I said that in English. But I said gracias to the beautiful woman after she walked away. Mapi gave me a look after the interaction, she began asking questions in spanish. "¿por qué está tan nerviosa la reina" and she gave me her childish Mapi look. That's when i looked at her and if looks could kill, mapi would be dead. "nada" is all i say to her, she chose peace and began talking about her and Ingrid and where they want to visit next on the off season. A couple minutes later we get our drinks, she left my drink last and as she gave it to me i said gracias and smiled at her, she went so red in the face as she left the table i watched her walk away back to the bar. She was talking to the barista she was shaking her head and looked down. i began listening to the team talk about the game and they asked me what im gonna be doing as we have no training. i might take Mapis advise and go for a walk with Nala. of course i dont tell her that "i might watch tv."
i had a shower after the morning out with the girls getting drinks. i was sat watching the games on my ipad and i realised Nala needed to have a walk and i needed some fresh air.  I got Nala ready for a walk i thought i would take a walk around the city instead of walking around the park. I have a hat on and some sunglasses to make sure nobody can recognise me, i much prefer it that way. The shops are filled with locals and tourists im just walking along the cobble street. A little girl no older than five came running from a crowd happy as she looked at Nala.  "por favor?" she asked as she pointed to my dog "es amistosa" she smiled at me, she looked like that woman from earlier but i thought nothing of it as i watched her pet Nala as i began to wonder where her mama was. that's when i heard a woman rush from the crowd " oh my godd, Livy you can't be doing that, lo siento" she looks at me and i smile, it's the woman from the restaurant earlier that day. "hola" i spoke through the silence. "hola, lo siento" she smiled and apologised. "está bien" i say to her. i can see her brain trying to make more words. "your daughter just asked to pet my Nala." she bends down to kiss her daughters head. "thankyou" she said back to me with a very english a accent witch caught me off guard.
"mamma can we get un perro, por favor?" she smiled up at her mum, she made me smile from her switching between languages.
" i've told you before,we can't our apartment can't have dogs in them. sorry bug"
i smile at their interactions. "did you want to hold her correa? i asked the little girl. she squealed "por favor" i passed it too her. this gave me time to speak to the woman. i look to the woman, " soy Alexia" i go to shake her hand. "charlie, im charlie." she leans in for a hug i felt a spark as we hugged. it feels so surreal because she has no idea who i am, by now most women are asking for an autograph and leaving me but she's not like that she carries on talking to me this time about her daughter who i haven't yet caught her name. "This means so much to her you know? " i wonder what she means by that i just smile the kid's cute. "your spanish, what the deal" i questioned her in my very broken english. "ahh long story, i live here but haven't for long and im not the fastest learner, Olivia however she picked it up before english, i'll give that to our neighbour Marie" she started waffling. Her daughter is called Olivia that's cute, i quickly cut in " oh so your not from here?" we're walking along the street and her daughter is just in front. "no im from London" i'm shocked but i wonder about her daughter "oooh and your hija?" "she's spanish she was born here" she smiled at me.  this women makes me feel like life has a purpose and i've known her for what five seconds. i wonder if she is with someone and the dad? i thought to my self, "oh, so her dad?" she returned to me "she doesn't have one, it's just me and her" as she smiled and tapped her daughter head.
"mama, toy " she pointed towards a doll shop. her mum smiled, Olivia went running into the doll shop. i picked up Nala and went in with them both Charlie looked around to see where i was and smiled when i was still there. "este" her daughter pointed towards a doll that had a little perro. i noticed Charlie checked the price, and she looked to her daughter, "demasiado caro, im sorry bug" i pick the box up and take it to the counter and pay for it my self before she could notice as her daughter ran to another part of the tienda. i walked over to them bag in hand, i smiled at Charlie who was holding Olivia in her hands telling her she would buy a different doll just not that one. We were by the door of the store " i have a surprise outside" i smiled at Olivia and both of them followed. Her daughters eyes lit up as i took the doll out of the bag " para ti " i looked at the little girl. "you didn't have to" Charlie said to me. "it nothing besides she's happy" i look at her daughter " ella es como yo." 
she smiled at me as she hugged the doll and dog. seeing her happy and her mum not having to worry about the expense makes me feel better about everything.
"is there anything i can do to repay you, that doll was expensive." Charlie tried to insist on paying me back. I didn't need repaying, i have enough i thought to myself, however i do want to get to know this lovely woman and her daughter more.  "a walk with me tomorrow, por favor?" i decide to risk it and ask her. I give her a a moment to reply, i look toward her daughter who is playing with the doll on a table.

Authors note -
Hello everyone, this is my second try at a story I am still working on my Leah book however my brain collected thoughts for an Alexia Putellas one too, so this is my first draft, I will post the next part hopefully tomorrow or as soon as possible as I have coursework due.
I haven't been in the right frame of mind to keep my Leah story up to date due to a break up and shit college life but life goes on we move. But with this Alexia story I'm in a new frame of mind and I hope to carry this one on as I began the process of the story line last week. I finally felt comfortable posting this ;) I hope ya'll enjoy.
Tell me if there any errors or if you have any questions, Spanish isn't my first language so I do try.
Sorry for the cliff hanger but felt it was the best way to end the chapter.
Gracias