The Bartender

OH MY GOD!

I open the green heavy fire door to the back entrance of the bar. I'm pretty sure that we aren't supposed to enter through here but it's what we've always done. I take my signing in card out from my jacket pocket and swipe it along the machine placing it back into my pocket.

The loud road of music comes echoing from the bar room into the staff room.

My eyes drift over to the floor where I had fallen and Harry had landed on top of me, it's been a whole 6 months since then. He's hardly come in since then and if he does he doesn't come to me to order, he won't even look at me. The kiss was a huge mistake on my behalf... As soon as he pulled away he ran away.

"Hey Lad" Mikey says snapping me out if my day dream "what up with you recently?" He asks he folds his arms and leans against the door frame

"What do you mean?" I ask him looking at him baffled... But in all fairness I know what the matter with me is, I don't take rejection well. But am I going to admit to that? The answer is no.

"Your just very distant" he bites his lip

Perrie soon walks in shouting at us " I need all hands on deck, I can't run this ship solo handed now can I! I know I'm very talented but I think you two can swivel on this-" she puts her middle finger up "if you think you can stand here and chat the night away" she says walking out the room

Mikey laughs "time of the month ain't it" he walked off humming tune which somewhat sounded like 'Santa baby' for some peculiar reason you've just got to love this goofball

I walk to behind the bar and smile and Perrie she shoots me evils her eyes narrowed in on me shit, she's scary when she's annoyed I wink at her and then sign into my till it soon asks for my password I type in 'HUGHJACKMAN123' and then press enter yeah I know cringe. But come on him in The Greatest Showman just amazing.

"Hey" a voice says from behind my till I look up and am taken aback by the person who is speaking, he looks at me almost apologetically his green eyes sparkling in the haze of the dark dull bar "was wondering if we could talk?" He asks biting his lip, gosh why do you have to do that, making me fall harder even though I know I can't have what's right in front of me.

"Not really, I don't finish until 3am and I've been told I've got a 30 second limit with each customer as I've got to keep it strictly professional sorry" I say making up that whole sentence... It's been a whole 6 months why does he want to talk now? It's over and done with now he obviously wants nothing to do with me so why bring it back up now.

He sighs "he takes a piece of paper out of his pocket and a pen and quickly scribbles on it "here, meet me tomorrow at 11 am, I'll buy you some food, here's my number if you get lost" he passes the paper it reads his number and the place he wants to meet me "please come"

"If your not ordering I'll have to ask you to leave, it's been longer than 30 seconds" I say to him not answering whether or not I will meet him there. He looks at me with his little puppy dog eyes and then turns around and walks off back into the shadows of the night leaving through the door

Perrie and Mikey run over to me jumping into me making me stumble "what was that about?" Perrie asks me smiling talking the piece of paper out of my hand "OH MY GOD" she screams "you've got his number!!! He wants to  be with you Lou!"

"Yeah right, more like just telling me what a huge mistake that night was" I tell her crushing her dreams she frowns

"Your such a pessimistic, always got to put a downer on every situation" she looks at Mikey

"Yeah have a little optimism, he might tell you that you are everything that he's looking for... Or it could just be him telling you that he's moving a thousand miles away because because you've ruined his life" I look up and him "or it could just be the first one" he looks at Perrie who I'm guessing was giving him daggers