Love cafe

9

Ivy's POV

I was in between a rock and a hard place, Kelvin seemed to be doing what he knew best, he was drinking booze and trying to force himself  onto me, I did what I knew best...I ran, I ran very very far away.

All I could hear was his sloppy voice "Ivy... You bitch, get back here" he towered as I reached the staircase and the next thing I felt was a shoe hitting my head as everything went pitch black.

I woke up panting heavily, it felt so real, I was running - running late for my first day at work, I hopped off the bed and ran into the shower, I came out and wore a pair of jeans and topped it with a hoodie.

"Ivy, late on your first day...come take some  food for the road" my aunt suggested as I picked up the paper bag she had laid out for me.

"Thanks aunt...I'll call you later as soon as I'm free" I said as I pecked her cheek and ran out.

I looked at my watch it was 6:43 am, I had about 17 more minutes before I was officially late, lucky for me I got a cab and we reached my new workplace bonmarché at 6:59 am.

I sat in front of the store for almost 30 minutes, before I saw someone standing in front of me, I couldn't make out his features since the sun was obviously preventing that.

"I guess you're the new girl," he said as I stood up from the spot I had almost carved my keister onto.

"I'm Lauren," he said sticking out his hand

"I'm Ivy" I said shaking his hand

"What a nice name..." he said while I took note of the brunette who stood in front of me, he had icy blue eyes, a pointed nose, pink lips and to top it all, he had a nice physique, I'm gonna love working with him, he seems nice and I know for one that my bestie would love to meet him that's for sure but I guess a picture would be enough.

"Enough with the chit chat, we have some work to do" says the guy who just came out of nowhere

"That's Michael, you both share a shift...good luck " Lauren said as he gave my hand a reassuring squeeze

"Oh Lord help me" I said in a quick prayer.

"Are you gonna keep standing there?" Michael asked as he had already stepped  inside the store,

"Coming" I said as I went in.

The place had wraps of bubble gum, lollies, you name it, the place looked like hell had spat up some of its content into the store.

As I was taking all this in, Michael walked up to me with a broom and dust pan,

"y'know staring at this pigsty won't make it any cleaner, so I suggest you get to work" he said as he dropped it at my feet and walked over to the back.

I stood there speechless, was I employed as a maid or what? I decided to sweep since I hadn't been assigned a task yet.

After sweeping the main shopping area, my boss came into the store

"Hey everyone, sorry for coming in late..." He said as he paused mid breath as he saw me sweeping the store, "Ivy, why the hell are you the one sweeping, we have staff for that, you on the other hand shouldn't even even be seen touching a broom, you're meant to assist customers in making the right choices of clothes" he said as he face palmed.

"I know who gave you this task...hand the broom over" he said as I gave it to him

"Michael!!" He almost yelled as Michael appeared not so long after,

"Hi Dayton..."

"Why the hell did you tell her to sweep?" My boss, who I just found out his name was Dayton asked

"Uhm...." Mike stammered not knowing what excuse to give

"That's what I thought, call Rita to take over her duty , meanwhile Ivy come with me" he said as he walked to his office, I followed him closely behind trying to avoid as much death glares as possible.

"I'm sorry about Michael, he's just going through a phase I think, he'll warm up to you sooner... Meanwhile, you'll be in charge of helping customers choose clothing" he said and I nodded.

"Thank you so much sir" I said and he smiled a little.

"Also, your pay would be 4000 this month,"

"Uhm...I won't be here for long," I said as I scratched my head,

"Whenever you want to leave lemme know" he said as I nodded and left his office.

"This should be easy," I said to myself as I stepped out of the office.

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Thank y'all for being here up to this moment, I love every single one of ya, we're #66 in trip and its all thanks to you guys, I really appreciate all of you who make out time to read, vote and comment and even message me, thank you all.

For those who didn't understand the beginning of this chapter, Ivy was once in an abusive relationship.

I know some of you wanted to see Liam😉 don't worry he misses you too, next chapter will be posted soon.

Question of the day
If you could change one thing about Ivy what would it be?

My answer

I love her like that, so nothing.

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