My Strange Addiction

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LILY GREENE

Remember, Lynnea's name is pronounced LEE-NEE-YAH

When I saw Lynnea, I went through a series of emotions. The first being exasperation. The woman literally entered shouting, "Where the fuck is the culinarian! She thinks she can run away from me after stealing my man! She doesn't know what's coming for her! She thinks she can just steal anybody's man? I'll show her what death truly means today! Where is she?!" As she spoke, Junior who had been trailing behind her finally caught up to her and grabbed her hand. She turned and looked at the spot where he held her and it seemed like he burnt her with his touch because she quickly pulled her hand away and glared at him.

When I saw the manager run towards her direction, the second emotion came; Fear. I was scared that I would lose my job for condoning such. This was worse because the big boss was right in front of me.

The next emotion I felt was bitterness. Bitterness to all the customers who looked at me –it was a given seeing as I was wearing my chef coat with my name tag on it- like I was a whore who broke families and stole their husbands for a living. Sone women with kids there covered their children's ears and while that was okay, what I hated was the way the women with men by their side changed their sitting position to one where the men wouldn't be able to properly see me.

The next emotion I felt was pride. I always knew that I had a killer body and perfectly contoured face, not to mention the way my hair brought out my eyes and made my skin pop. It made me proud to know that this women saw me as a threat to their relationship even without me trying.

The emotion that followed was elation. My best friend was here, in New York! I squeaked in excitement before I quickly stood and ran towards her. I'm sure the customers were weirded out because it was obvious that she was just shouting about me stealing her man and a few seconds later, were hugging and fawning over each other like long lost sister who were only recently united – which wasn't exactly not true seeing that since we met each other, these two months away from her is the longest that we've ever been separated.

"I've missed you bitch! It feels like it's been forever even though we skype all the time."

"I've missed you even more! I feel like I'm going to cry from excitement." As we continued to bootlick each other in our own world, I suddenly heard the clearing of a throat, my boss' throat to be more specific! I quickly pulled away from her and the last and final emotion came down on me.

Embarrassment!

I blushed furiously and Lynnea seemed to have noticed because she made that ooouuh sound and slipped into the seat directly beside him. I turned to the customers who were looking at me in a strange way and apologized for the abrupt and unanticipated drama that just happened. My manager, the workers and even Junior were glaring and it made me so uncomfortable that I sat down immediately and ignored them all.

I sat down and glanced between the two bodies beside me and I felt like I was going to melt with the way the two were staring at me. I looked at Lynnea to try and understand what her expression meant but I didn't take me seconds to do so. With the way her eyes were childishly yet suspiciously narrowed and her thumb which although was somewhat hidden pointed at him, I knew she suspected I had something to do with him. I rolled my eyes at her before turning to Mr. Corner.

The only word I could think of to explain Big Boss' face was SCARY. His eyes were laced with anger and I could see his fists clench and unclench by his side. It was as though he was angry with us and in all honestly, of course he would be. It just came as a surprise to me that he could feel this angry because since I met him this morning, he never showed any form of hostility towards me. Even now, it was pretty obvious he was holding back from showing his anger. He was practically gritting his teeth and forcing his words to have a gentler tone although it was to no gain.