What If?

"So. What do we do now?"

"Josephine, you're on shakes today!" my general manager calls out me as I clock in for my shift.

"why am I not on drive thru?" I ask...slowly putting the headset back.

 "Because we already have a drive thru operator, Ally..meet Josephine, J meet Ally" My manager says, introducing us. I shake her hand and wonder to my station for the day as I put the rest of the pieces on for my work uniform. I head over to stock up the milkshake station and I see my co worker, Didi walk over "Nice butt" she says, smiling...I just giggle. I decided to wear my nice, skinny work jeans today and they DO make my bottom look good. After I get everything stocked up and ready to go, happy hour hits...so I plug in my earphones and start spinning the shakes. 

After what it seems to be at least a few hours that went by, my phone buzzed and it was a text message from Jacob. 

Jacob: Hey! I'm in the drive thru line, you're in drive thru right?" 

fuck. Of course I would be put on a different station other than my primary one on the fucking day he wants to come to Steak n' Shake. 

Me: Apparently not today, the wicked witch of the west put me on shakes...why are you in the drive thru?

Jacob: I live in PA. We don't have a Steak n' Shake up here and I'm dying to get my hands on a steakburger! Maybe you can stop and say hi in the window? :)

Why now?  Is what I think to myself. After I clear the milkshakes off of my screen, I  go in the back and tidy myself up a bit. 

Me: are you close to the window yet? 

Jacob: No :( there's a long line.

Suddenly I hear a bunch of servers call for me, before I could respond back, I tucked my phone away in my pocket and walked back to the fountain, asking why they're shouting my name. "We need those shakes done!" Angela tells me, "What shake...s?" as I look up....the screen is lit up with shakes for Dine in and for Drive thru, the whole screen filled. Oh my God. Is all I can think of  and then my mind wanders to Justin. Before I can think anymore, I found my hands cleaning the cups of the residue of old milkshakes and started scooping  ice cream back to back, popping them on the spinners and pouring them into cups and glasses. I lost my train of thought, My mind wondering on the stress of getting these shakes done, just shake after shake popping up after another, it was me VS. 200 shakes. 

 I can hear my phone going frantic, text message after text message. My thoughts go back to Jacob again. I could've seen him. I could've met him, looked at him, said hey to him. But I missed it. I know I did. When I finally put the last 5 shakes on each individual spinner, I walked to the back and pulled out my phone. 6  unread text messages. 3 snapchats. All from him. I opened them up and had to accept the fact that I missed my chance to see him before tonight. 

Jacob: The line is speeding up! yay, I finally get to see you :) 

Jacob: I'm a car away from being at the window!!

Jacob: I don't understand why I'm so excited to see your face

Jacob: I'm here..where are you? 

Jacob: :( 

Jacob: Well I had to leave the line haha, I got my food...she forgot my coke but I saw you, you look so beautiful and adorable making those shakes. 

I feel so bad. 

Me: Hey love, I'm so sorry and quite sad that I didn't have a chance to come say hi to you in the drive thru. It's happy hour so it gets quite busy over here, at least we have tonight. I'll text you when I get off of work. 

I sent the text message and not even a minute later, he responds back

Jacob: No, I understand. You're a beast, You got this :)

I don't deserve him...

Hours pass and I've arrived at my second job, the movies. Me and Jacob have been non stop texting ever since I got off of work, I don't think I've ever been on my phone this much before if I'm being honest here but I don't mind it. My boss put me on door, which consists of me ripping customer's tickets, it's a pretty easy job..I like it a lot. It even gives me more leeway to text Jacob some more. 

Time went by really quickly, and soon it became so dead which was pretty unusual for a Friday night but considering that there were no movies playing, it made sense. Matt, my manager gave me curiosity to go home early, which I took advantage of. 

Me: Hey, so good news :) my manager let me go home early. I texted my friend Mckensey if I can leave my car at her house and stay with her until you pick me up, is that okay? 

I send the text and drive to Mckensey's house, my phone buzzes and I wait til I'm at red light and I view the message real quick. 

Jacob: Sounds good to me :). I'll be on my way soon!. 

I cannot believe this is actually happening. 

I pull into Mckensey's driveway and started to get my stuff together, "Okay, so I have shorts, underwear, a bra, my work clothes for tomorrow morning, shoes. What else?" I ask myself. Wait. Am I even spending the night?  I think to myself, pausing. "Well might as well pack just incase" I say, I put everything in my bag, shut the car door and walk to the front porch, being greeted by my best friend. "Hey darlin, it's nice seein ya again" Mckensey says, greeting me by giving me a hug. 

"How have you been?" I ask her, hugging her back.

 "Pretty good" She responds back, When I follow her into her room, it still stands the same...filled with quotes written on the walls by famous authors and movies and also superhero drawings. 

"So, who is this again that you're spending the night with?" Mckensey asks me while I put my bag down and take a seat on her bed across from her. 

"His name is Jacob, we kind of met last night...like officially on the phone" I tell her, 

"That's nice, and from my understanding you're spending the night?" She asks  while looking down at my bag filled with clothes and other unnecessary items.

 "I packed just in case, You never know" I tell her, chucking. 

"Oh I do haha, You just be careful, okay? and let me know when you're there" She tells me, I nod my head in agreement and we just talked and played with her puppies until my phone buzzed...suddenly, I hear a loud noise coming from the front of her house. 

Jacob: I'm here

My heart dropped into my stomach. This is actually happening. This is actually happening. Calm down. Calm down. My thoughts flood my head with butterflies as I stood up to grab my bag and hug Mckensey, "Well he's here" I say. "Be careful okay?...I'll walk you to the front door" I follow her to the front door and hug her again "Thank you" I tell her, "No problem darlin, be safe okay? Love you" She says.

 "Love you too" and with that, she closes the door and now it was just me being less than 100 feet away from his car. My mind went blank and I felt myself quickly pacing to the passenger side of the vehicle, with a swift move, I open the car door, I see a hand reach for my bag and set it in the back seat and I found myself sitting right next to him. 

 "Come here! give me a  hug beautiful!" I lean over to give him a hug and I sit back down in the passenger seat. "God you're so breathtaking" is all hear from him. I feel the redness filling up in my cheeks and I find myself becoming a little too flustered to find words to even speak english. 

"Thank you, you don't look so bad yourself" I say, taking in every detail of his face. He giggles "Thank you" and puts the car in drive. I feel the car whip around and I feel his hand find mine, intertwining our fingers together, and the only words that came out of my mouth were "So...What do we do now?".