Are You Afraid of Musicals?

Chapter 5.3: Crossing Paths

Gabby's pov:

Exhausted, the word is exhausted.

I've been working nonstop since Friday and even if it's just been a week, it felt like a whole year.

Jess covered for me last week so I could help Dani, so when she asked me if I could take the weekend shifts I instantly agreed, but what I did not remember was that she told me that she was going on a vacation and that I was going to have a new coworker.

When I arrived on Friday morning I didn't give it much of a thought, I mean at least I wouldn't be alone, but now I swear I would rather to be.

I know that's wrong for me to think that and I feel bad, but my new coworker is a complete disaster.

She's trying and I really appreciate that she is, she's super nice and hardworking, but she always manages to cause some kind of disaster. A disaster that I have to deal with.

Her first day she managed to trip over and ruin a client's shirt, the coffee stain was so big that his white shirt would have to go straight to the trash and let me tell you, he was not happy.

He started yelling at her and I had to step in and then he yelled at me so... I ended up paying for his shirt and his breakfast.

Definitely that was not a good way to start and since then, it only got worse.

She's incredibly clumsy and after dropping her tray three times and helping her clean the mess, I ended up putting her on taking notes duty. It was going well but she felt bad cause I was doing my job and part of hers, so she tried to help by preparing the coffees and she ended up breaking the machine.

So after that, I tried to be as understanding as possible and instead of talking to the manager I decided to let her help the cook on the kitchen during the lunch shift.

I knew it was a bad idea, I really knew it, but she just wanted to help and to be honest, Ronnie's been the cook of this place for years and he assured me that he could handle her and put her on "non dangerous" duties, so I trusted him and he ended up with a first degree oil burn on his arm.

So basically, I'm doing my job, I'm doing hers and now, I'm doing Ronnie's.

To put things even worse, the manager decided that it was time to do a couple of repairs to the cafeteria, changing the tables and chairs, painting and stuff like that, so all the stuff the workers needed arrived yesterday and now everything is sitting on the storage room in a million different boxes.

I'm... well, we're supposed to organize all the boxes so the guys that are going to do the reforms can work faster, so yesterday Maria and I stayed for four hours after our shift ended, but we didn't finish organizing.

We're not even halfway through and we're supposed to have it ready for Monday.

So yeah, I'm completely exhausted and this whole disaster of a week started literally after a restless night, waking up laying on a roof next to Dani, which I wouldn't change for a thing, but definitely didn't help with the being tired part.

That night I didn't even sleep, after my talk with Dani and after being able to calm her down, we both laid there, watching the stars until Dani fell asleep as I held her, but I couldn't sleep.

I just laid there, not having in me the guts to wake her up and go back to her room, so the only thing I could do was let her sleep and try not to overthink too much.

That last part was impossible and it only ended when the sky began to get brighter and the rays of the morning sun started to peek through the mountains.