Under A Dark Cloud

Chapter 5

" Keira. Yoohoo! Earth to Bad Ass to Keira? Have you at least swung a metal bat at Cupid's face yet? "

I blinked as Ashlyn waved a hand in front of my face, now gaining my attention towards her.

" Swung a metal at who? " I asked, confused with her question.

Ashlyn waved off my question and looked slightly worried,

" Finally, some attention. You better be happy that you're early at this hour where no customers would come in yet or else you'd miss out a lot of orders. What's going on with that awesome head of yours? If something's troubling, you could always come to me, okay? "

Ashlyn is far by the first awesome friend I have made here in this city but i can't help but feel a small pang of guilt for making her worried and making her think that something's troubling me but to be honest, I was dozing off, thinking about him.

" I'm sorry. It's just that on the way here, I was looking up the sky to check if dawn is starting to set the skies gold and there was this honk and it startled me and I though I was gonna die- "

" Who was the moron who honked at you and possibly nearly killed you? Did you swing a bottle at him like last time? Did you stab him later with the broken bottle? I'm surprised there's no blood on you," Ashlyn asked, looking at me expectantly. I just don't why she would think I would do that or imagine what kind of person I am.

" Uhm, no. "

" Oh. " Ashkyn looked down, slightly disappointed but she faced me with a smile.

" So, proceed. What happened next? "

" Well, there was this- "

I was cutted off by the chime of the bells as a customer walked in towards the counter to order something.

" I'll tell you later when we have our short break, okay? " I whispered to Ashlyn.

Ashlyn snorted with a grin as she whispered back,

" You better be telling me. I want to know what you have encountered today. I don't care if you encountered a fat guy eating a donut but tell me anyways. "

Ashlyn gave me a small bump in the hip as she went back to her station as I catered to the customer in front of me, ready to start my first day of work.

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After a good shift serving and taking down orders, we finally have our break. As promised, I spilled everything about my encounter with the tall hottie I met earlier this morning to Ashlyn who squealed, causing some of our customers to look at us, when I mentioned the time he asked me to ride his car and how he spoke to me when he mentioned about other men.

" So, what was his car? A Maserati? Chevrolet? BMW? Anything? " Ashlyn asked, clearly interested in my encounter.

" I don't know any of those cars or any for the matter but I saw the symbol on the back of the car when he dropped me off and left. I think it was a running horse, " I answered, Ashlyn's jaw dropping.

" Holy fudgeballs, Did you just say a running horse? Like a running running horse? " Ashlyn asked, getting closer to me. I shrugged but nodded anyways.

" You are one damn lucky woman, do you know that? You met a hot guy and I mean hot guy after that description you gave me and he just gave you a ride in his car that happened to be a Mustang. You just took a ride from a damn freaking Mustang! A 'Stang, Keira! A freaking 'Stang! " She emphasized some words i didn't quite catch since she took hold both of my arms and begin to shake me as if trying to get some sense into me.