More Than Neighbors - JM

Big Blue Eyes|3

"One iced coffee with caramel please" I smile to Reggie. When I notice Reggie eyeing me up and down from the other side of the counter, he drops his work and throws his apron behind him.
"I'm going to take my break, mind to join me at the back?" He smiles kindly and I nod. His fellow worker finishes my drink and I step outside, only to walk around the building to find Reggie. He's smoking a cigarette and in the other hand he's holding a bottle of water. He eyes lit up as he sees me walking towards him and his arms open. When my head hit his chest, I break down in crying, loud and ugly sobs escape my mouth and I feel his shirt getting wet from my tears. Reggie's chest is ripped and I feel the muscles underneath his shirt. He works out almost every day, and sometimes I join him in a workout. That way I keep my body the way it is, after having carve nights with Aubree. It always amazes me how he can be so muscular and still he's smoking 50 cigarettes in a fucking day.

"If it's Archie you're crying about, I swear I'll break his neck, shave him bald and let him eat his own cum" He muffles in my hair. I let out a laugh. He pulls me away and wipes the waterfalls off my cheeks.
"He broke up with me last week, but he probably wants to be with that Bella bitch" I say sadly. Reggie never liked Archie. Aubree once said Reggie might like me, but he's always flirty with everything that has boobs. But he never forgets to have respect for women. Especially not his two best friends. Because your best friend can me a straight male.

"I'll have your back Rub, everything will be fine" Reggie rubs my back to comfort me and I smile up to him.
"I heard your neighbor left the other day, do you know who's gonna live there now?' He asks me, paying fully attention to me.
"Miss Thompson? Yeah she left her apartment. Now it's free and I hope someone of my age will take her place. The woman was past her seventies" I giggle and Reggie squeezes my shoulder.
"Maybe a cute boy? You never know Rub" Reggie smirks and I laugh. What if?
"I would love that!" I tease him and poke his chest. Reggie groans and kisses my temple.
"I need to go back to work, I'll see you tonight at Aubree's" He smiles and throws his cigarette on the street, using his heel to make it stop glowing. I wave at him and stick my hands in my pockets. What if a cute boy would live next to me? Wouldn't that be awesome!

I have a shift till late. I ask Aubree to take some drinks to table 16 and I quickly run to the toilet. When I'm done, I was my hands. I gave a quick glance into the small mirror above the sink and see my hair being a mess. Archie really fucked up my sleeping schedule, I look like a ghost. I spash some water in my face, hoping it won't affect my waterproof makeup and I walk out of the bathroom. I run into a chest and when I look up, I meet two big blue eyes. Two pair of colour explosions, staring deeply into me and I feel a shiver creep up on my back. An amazingly good looking guy walks into me and I feel my cheeks rose heavily.
"I'm sorry" He mutters and I see he's blushing too. I nod and back away, making room for him to enter. I stroke my apron straight as I walk into the kitchen of the restaurant. Fuck, he was hot as hell! I finger cross that he isn't here with date, I would loose my shit right at the work floor. After a year being in a relationship, I can check out hot guys and I'm liking it so far. If I keep bumping into people like him, I definitely wouldn't care that I'm single.

Aubree takes an order at a full table. They're people of our age and I see Aubree smiling kindly at the good looking guys. There's four of them and I can't look away. Their clothes, their hair, everything is styled in perfection and I see Aubree is having the time of her life slightly flirting with them. I roll my eyes with a laugh and walk back into the kitchen. Aubree probably already made the order for that table, she's just standing there talking to the group. So now it's my chance to check them out. I grab food for table 18 and walk with three plates out of the kitchen area. I practically run through the tables, something I always do. Working in a restaurant as a waitress was wrote on my body. I'm a quick worker with a good talk and a pleasant smile. My boss loves me, although I have a love hate relationship with him. He's 26, a lot older than me. His name is Austin and he's a far friend from Reggie. That's why me and Aubree have work here, Reggie did a good word for us. Austin always seems to flirt with me, what I always reply with a laugh and a smack on his arm. But that never stops him from being all over me.

"One pasta Carbonara" I say as I arrive at the table of the four guys. They all sign to the blonde dude sitting right across from the table and I place his plate in front of him.
"There you go" I slightly whisper, feeling intimidation all around me. When I place the other two plates in front of the other, them thanking me with a drop dead cute smile, I turn around. I bump again into someone and when I see those blue eyes again, I facepalm.
"I'm honestly sorry this is happening again" I awkwardly smile up to the boy in front of me. I hear a snicker escaping his mouth and I feel some kind of explosion in my stomach.
"I'm not" He says and I glance up to him. I hear scoffs coming from the table and I realize he's flirting with me in front of his friends. So I wave smallish what he probably didn't see and walk back to the kitchen. I grab my cold glass of water I have there in a little room for us staff and I finish it. Gosh, I'm glowing.
"Yes you are, what happened to you girl, one week single and already catching hot ones at work!" Aubree snickers as she grabs her glass. I roll my eyes because I said something out loud and cover my face.
"He probably has a girlfriend and don't live nearby, leave it" I mutter irritated. Aubree looks at me with her 'Girl you're fucked' eyes and I push her side.
"Let's get back to work, Austin will kick our asses if we don't return within 2 minutes" I say, quickly glancing in the mirror, fixing my hair.
"No, you're definitely not fixing your hair on purpose!" Aubree teases me and I smack her arm. We laugh and walk out the kitchen. As we both go back to work, serving drinks and food, I notice the boys are gone. They just left, and their table is empty. I walk over to Austin and pull him to the side.
"Where are those guys from table 18" I ask him in a whisper.
"They left and Eva cleaned their table, what about them? Did they touch you? I swear to god Ruby if they touched you!" Austin's frown deepens and I grab his arm harshly.
"No, Austin they didn't do anything, I was just maybe interested in one of them" I feel my cheeks rose as I say so and in the corner of my eye I see Austin's face drop.
"I thought you were interested in me?" He pushed his hip against mine and I laugh.
"Not in a million years you pervert!" I say as I start walking away from him to serve another plate of drinks at our bar.
"Language Ruby! I'm still your boss!" He yells after me but I hear the playfulness in his voice. Someone get him a girlfriend and quick please!

im going to try to publish ever night (Europe time) so that every morning when my people from other continents wake up, they'll get welcomed by another chapter of this book. It's currently 5:58pm in my country, i hope you like the idea of it!