Shameless Love - Park Chanyeol

19 ~shocker!~

Emma

- Saturday December 10th

Last night, I decided to head home. Chanyeol insisted for me to stay over to fully recover but declined his surprisingly caring offer, still in my feverishness state. Ever since Chanyeol made me that chicken soup, eventually finishing that delicious bowl, lending me some Tylenol and other care methods to help, my fever slightly went down. The sinuses started to unclog a little, my sore throat didn't have the harsh tone to it anymore, and the sweating wasn't so constant any more. Plus my stomach ache wasn't aching ever so often like it was yesterday. It's funny how a high fever could only last like 24 hours.. maybe it wasn't so bad after all, thanks to Chanyeol. Luckily, Yoora dropped off my car last night which I'm glad she did, much love for Yoora.

My dad was notified that I wasn't feeling well yesterday, so he understood why my presence had to stay at my 'friends' house. Today there was a big convention on dentistry that he needed to go to, so I'm going to be home alone for quite a while, not so surprising.

Coming down stairs, knowing that there's no one in sight, my direction went straight to the fridge, roaming my eyes to find some food to eat until all of the sudden, my ears heard a repeatable vibrating sound on the counter, coming from my phone, indicating that I'm receiving an upcoming call. Grunting in response, the weak legs of mine walked towards the phone on the counter, releasing a brief yawn before accepting the call, forgetting to look at the caller ID

"Hello?" a female-pitched voice answered with a worried but fast dictation, barely recalling what she's even saying by the loud noise in the back

"Hey Emma! It's May, where are you?! I need you at the restaurant now!"

"Wh-what do you mean, I don't work tod-?" rudely interrupting my explanation by instantly reminding me by saying

"It's the job applicants, Antonio told us we're in charge of the interviews. Hurry!" right when those words released from her mouth on the other line, my hand instantly landed on my heated forehead, a sigh was in the air while running my fingers through my autumn messy hair in realization.

"Ah fuck I forgot, uh- I-I'll be there in a bit!"

"Kk." then we both hung up at the same time, as my body swiftly rushed upstairs to get my work clothes on, not even going to roam through the fridge like I was doing before the call. Knowing that I'm going to be late if I wasted a second.

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Right when I parked the car in the parking lot, my body rushed out of the car, speed walking over to the restaurant, adjusting my ponytail tight as I burst through the door, with my free hand pushing the door to open. The bell rang indicating that someone entered the restaurant, May got notified when my eyes saw her from distance, noticing quite a lot of people in the restaurant, which indeed are job applicants. From the sea of job seekers, May spotted my presence when she immediately rushed over to where I'm currently walking, asking by my side in orotund for me to hear over the noisy restaurant "Thank god you're here, where were you?"

"I-i didn't know we had to do those interviews today." while I was busy recovering from my unexpected high fever. Still feeling some sweat roll down my back. She then says in understatement "It's cool don't worry about it."

While walking back over to a separate room to do our personal interviews of the new job applicants, she probably noticed that I wasn't feeling my best today when she questioned in a sincere worried tone "Are you doing okay? You look like you're boiling." instantly placing the palm of my fingers on my forehead to realize the sweat that's beaming on my head. I reassured her, pushing aside my symptoms of stoned down fever "I'm okay." sending her a gentle smile, which she slightly smiled back, still having a thought that she doesn't believe the words that come out of my mouth.

She was about the say something until we both were alarmed by Colt, who is another waiter of the restaurant, slightly opening the door with his head out the creak to notify us by asking "Guys are you ready?"

We both vigorously nodded, indicating that were ready as my back leaned backwards against the leather chair, hoping these interviews will go well.

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"And why should we hire you?" May curiously asks Owen, the nerdy guy with the dorky glasses and a buttoned up short sleeve turquoise flannel with suspenders all the way up to his torso with his fucking tight skinny jeans, even tighter than I'll ever wear. Not trying to be stereotypical at all, it's just that Owen has mentioned earlier that he still lives with his parents in the attic, watches the history channel everyday for more 'knowledge', has never had a decent girlfriend, is just socially awkward, and to add the cherry on top of the icing, he's 24. Twenty fucking four. If I were him, I would've moved out right when I turned 18. He answers in a strident tone, making me cringe for the seventh time just by hearing his unpleasant voice.

"W-well, I'm really responsible, not too clumsy, can clean, cook, and wait. I hope you guys except my job employee skills that I would love to offer." he slightly bows down, before heading out the door, May calls out "We'll see about that!" then he nervously waves towards us in farewell before Colt sent him out of the room.

Right when they left, my back automatically slants back to the leather chair as my fingers rubbed my eyelids over and over again, feeling the tired sensation rumble in my brain, already exhausted that Owen was about our 50th applicant that we interviewed. We've both been interviewing for hours now, but still only found like 3-4 possible employees that we will get back to later.

In a whining dictation, I say to get May's cursory attention as my dark blue spotted herself looking a bit tired as well with an additional yawn "Mayyyy, do we have more?" Grabbing the clipboard of applicants while checking off Owens' name, her dull eyes skimmed down the list to reveal "Uh-just a few more." leaning my head back as a groan released from the tip of my mouth, feeling like my heads about to explode any moment.

All the sudden, Colt opened the door, gesturing a girl to walk inside the separate room as our eyes trailed up to the girl in 'woah', in my opinion, her appearance caught my attention in a heartbeat. Her black hair with the vibrant blue tips fading to match her vivid gray eyes. I was honestly mesmerized, even if I'm indeed straight.

May and I both say in unison in a formal greet "Hello ma'am." she slightly waves back with a tight smile plastered on her face, probably feeling a little timid over us. May then asks politely, noticing her manner as well "Would you please introduce yourself before we get started on the upcoming questions?"

She quickly cleared her throat before answering in her thick-huskily female tone, making my eyes widen in shock of how a girl like her could even sound so deep like that. The deepest voice I've heard was Chanyeol's, but there's no doubt in my mind that she got Chanyeol beat to it.

"H-hi, I'm seventeen years old and I-im a junior, b-but I-uh I'm homeschooled." hesitating a little on the last part, even sounding unsure which got me confused. She didn't even say what her name was. Still leaving back with my arms crossed, squinting my hollow eyes in addition to an eyebrow raise while biting inside my cheeks to create pursed lips, having a risky feeling about her. Which made me say to let her know before May could ask the next question "I'm sorry miss but you didn't say your name."

She shyly grinned a little with a slight chuckle, placing her index finger in between her two glasses piece to lightly push back from falling forward, acting like a nervous wreck before saying "Oh right my bad, well my name Lila Skilton."

Mind fucking blown guys! Lila actually got a job interview to work at the restaurant with Emma, shits about to go down. Sorry for making that chapter so short, I just had to make this chapter so sudden,, teehee