Chapter 1
"Hey guys, It's still early. It's just 8. Let's eat dinnerfirst." Mike suggested. We all agreed cause they told me they haven'teaten anything yet and I'm starving!
"Where do you want to go?" Ralph asked eyes straight onthe road.
"We can eat at Lolita's." Hanna said. Lolita's is one ofour restaurants.
"Alrighty then. We can have free delicious food. Yum!" Alishashrieked. This girl... she's so selfish on money. She doesn't want to buyanything for anyone. And if there's a sale, she'll go for it.
"Right." Ralph turned on a U-turn since we already passedLolita's. As I've said, Lolita's is one of our restaurants. It's a seafoodresto.
After 10 more minutes or so, wearrived. Everyone got out of the van and headed towards the resto. I've beenkeeping an eye on Ralph. He became part of the gang just a month ago becausehe's Mike's officemate.
He's very mysterious. I haven'tgot to know him well and I want to know more things about him. I'm kinda intohim because he has that mysterious aura that I love and he has this pretty boyface and I'm also curious. He doesn'ttell us anything about him and he's so silent. But, he's a chick magnet, that'sfor sure.
We four girls walked ahead ofMike and Ralph. Boys were glancing at us, checking us out. And I can hear theslutty girls giggling and eyeing the two boys behind us. I looked back andthere's a chick in each of Mike's arms. Such a man whore. Ralph, being himself,is just silent. He doesn't give any attention to those girls flirting with him.
Once we reached the door, thecrews all lined up as they saw me. Of course they know me, since I'm themanager. The families, couples, everyone inside the resto glanced at ourdirection like -who-the-hell-are-they look.
"Good evening Miss Smith." The crews bowed their headsbefore me.
"Gosh, this is amazing. I wanna have my crews bow their headsbefore me, too." Hanna whispered.
"Good evening." I told the crew and gave them a smile.I'm not a bad person towards my crew. I'm actually really friendly to them.Most of the people working for me are my friends.
"Ladies and Gents, may I present to you the manager and the onlydaughter of the man behind Smith Hotels and Restaurants, Miss Jodi Smith."the head chef announced in the whole room. I blushed, this is embarassing.
Eyes were glued on me, amazed.They all clapped their hands and I waved them off and smiled. "Hey, don't treat me as a royalty. I'mjust an ordinary person. Please, continue and enjoy your meals." Itold them, my smile never leaving my face. They all went back to eating. Iheard others talking about me about me being so humble as I passed them.
One boy assisted us to a VIPtable on the second floor. After sitting down, we were handed our menus and theboy left giving us time to pick.
"So what'd you like?" I asked.
"Hmm.. I'm really in the mood to have scallops." Hannasaid.
