Angel

.Chapter 4

Sunday 9:45 a.m. Im sitting in the back parking lot of Wings. I tend to get here a little early because Im always scared I'm going to be late. Now that I think of it why am I always scared im going to be late? Its not like Daniela or Angel is ever here on time and I can't get in the place because they are the only ones with a key. This sucks. As I begin to start taking videos and selfies with my music blaring which is usually the routine when Im early, I see two cars pulling in. Its Daisy and Jenna! Yay finally someone to talk to. I get out of my car as they get out of there's. "Hey guys" I say happily. "Hey girl! Why you sitting outside?" Daisy asked. "Oh Im still waiting for Angel to show up. or Daniela. You know to open the door" I laugh nervously. "Are you and Angel a thing?" Jenna asked.

I froze. Why would she think we are something? Does she not know he has a pregnant girlfriend? Or had I guess according to the conversation I overheard yesterday."What? Oh no no we aren't anything" I say laughing a little. "Really? I thought y'all were together" Daisy says surprised. "Yeah y'all are always flirting and he's always staring at you" Jenna says. Flirting? Staring? "We do not and he does not stare at me" I say laughing some more. I laugh and smile when Im nervous and this whole conversation is making me nervous. Why do they think that? Have we been flirting? Oh my gosh if they think that I wonder what Daniela and Vanessa think. " Oh my bad. I really thought y'all was a thing" she says laughing too.

Daisy asks Jenna a question but I don't hear it as I start over analyzing the conversation we just had in my head. My thinking and their conversations was cut short by the sound of tires squealing into the parking lot. So Angel is the one we are waiting for today. You always know when he is coming because he drives extremely fast and his tires are always squealing. He doesn't have is white car anymore. He traded with his mom for her grey minivan. Something about it being cheaper for him right know with everything going on. 10:15 a.m. Always late.

He gets out of his car and we all walk to the door. Once inside we disperse to our own duties. I go to start unstacking the chairs. Daisy and Jenna head to the kitchen to grab the stuff for the pop machine and the table with the straws, lids, forks, napkins, and etc. Angel goes straight to the fryers and begins to turn the on. Once you turn on the fryers and they have warmed up, the cook for that shift has to rinse and wash all the baskets. Since I've worked here every cook has asked the cashiers to do it for them while they do the other things they need. I don't really mind cause they have more to do then us cashiers do. When I finished the chairs, stocking the boxing station, the ranch cooler Daisy and Jenna were done with their stuff too.

As of now the only people who have been talking is Daisy and Jenna. Angel didn't seem mad or anything just some days he is in his head more than others and he doesn't talk much. Ive worked enough shifts with him to know that he has these days sometimes and we when he does we will sit in silence some of the shift. Its never awkward though. More like a peaceful understanding silence. "Hey Mia. You wanna wash these baskets for me?" he said breaking me from my own head. I look up to see him looking at me. "Yeah" I say with a soft smile. He hands me a basket and when he passes it to me it drops a little but I quickly pick it back up. "You got it" he asks with a little smile. " Oh yeah. It was just a little heavier than I was expecting. Just caught me off guard I guess". I laugh a little when I say that because the truth is it wasn't heavy at all. Our hands touched a little and that's what really took me off guard. God im weak.

I finish washing the baskets and Angel finishes the rest of his stuff. Angel assigns us a draw and we grab ours and begin counting the money in each to make sure we all have the same amount. This was the last thing we need to do. Now we are ready to open. As we are waiting for the first costumer Daisy and Jenna start having a conversation. Im just looking around at stuff. Not really paying attention to anything. I start look at all the sauces and the bowls. We have so many. Sometimes when its just me and Angel he shows me how to do the cook job. How they flip the bowls and mix the sauces. I then start to think of one of the first times he tried to teach me.

*Memory*

"I kinda wanna try cooking. It looks fun" I say watching Angel flip some chicken in a bowl. "Its ight" he says looking at me while still flipping the chicken in the bowl. It was Angel, Kj, and me on shift tonight. Kj was out back as usual on break. " You better look before you spill some of it" I say to him laughing. He scoffed. "Im Angel" he said with a little smirk. Now its my turn to scoff. He always says that. I love it when he says that but i'll never admit that to him so I just roll my eyes and laugh. He boxes up the chicken. I pack it up and give it to the guy. When I turn around I see Angel putting some ice in one of the empty sauce bowls. He walked backed over to me.

"Here. Take this" He said. "What's this for?" I asked confused. "To get used to flipping chicken we sometimes use ice. It helps teach the new cooks" He says. "Ohh okay. Wait so how do I flip it?" I say laughing. "Just use your wrist". "No wait I can't I need you to show me first" I say laughing some more. God I can't help but laugh and smile around him. "Okay fine. Give it here" he says laughing a little too. He starts to show me the movements to flip the ice in the air and back down into the bowl but in a circular motion. "Like that. Its easy" he says with a smirk. He hands it back over to me. I try to mimic the same motions as him and I start to move the bowl but some ice spills out and lands on the floor. "Oops" I say giggly. I look up at him to see him staring at me intently. The way he's staring at me has me feeling tingly down south. He nods for me to go. "try it again" he says. His once hard sexy look turned softer and he smiled a little. I swing it about two times and some more ice flings out. " Dang it. Okay hold on I can do it". I laugh and look up at him. He gives me a reassuring nod. I start again and this time no ice falls out of the bowl and Im swinging it perfect. "I did it" I say excitingly.

I look up at him waiting for him to say good job or yay you did it. Something shit. "No good job or anything" I say jokingly. "What you want a cookie or something" he said. He smirked. Normally I would get mad at someone for saying that and think that they were rude but I could tell he meant it in a joking way. "Yeah actually I would" I said with a smirk. "I could give you some else". He smirked. "Like what?" I said confused but with a smile. He looked at me with an intense stare for a full five seconds without speaking. It was only a couple seconds but it felt like hours. Holy Jesus was he talking about his dick? Oh my gosh I really wished I wouldn't have said like what. I mean he's with Lorena. But I was kinda curious what he meant. "Nothing" He said laughing a little. "No come on. Tell me" I beg. Okay sue me. I just want to know what he was gonna say. Just then I hear a ding meaning someone walked in the store. I turn to see a woman and two kids walking to the counter.

*Memory over*

I smile at the memory but then I begin to frown. I shouldn't have flirted with him like that. No matter how much he acts like he doesn't want to be with her I shouldn't have crossed that line. But now they aren't together....God help me with this man. "Mia" I hear Jenna calling my name. "Yeah" I say snapping out of my thoughts. "After our shift we were gonna go to that frozen yogurt place do you wanna come?" she asked. "Oh thanks guys I would but I live an hour away and I have school tomorrow so I have to drive home after the shift" I say. "Wow. I did not know that" said Daisy. "You have to drive back tonight?" Angel asked. I looked over at him. "Yeah". "Your parents let you drive on the highway at night" he asked. "Well yeah they kinda have to but if I leave right after I may make it back before dark. Im a big girl I can drive in the dark" I say laughing. "Yeah okay" he said scoffing then laughing a little.

Then Daisy starts singing big girls don't cry while Jenna joins and laughs. I start laughing too while Angel rolls his eyes. Then a costumer walks in and with Daisy being the closest to the register she takes his order. While she takes his order the phone begins to ring. "I got it" I say walking to the phone. "Thank you for calling wings. What can I get you" I say. The rest of the shift pretty much goes like this. We were pretty busy and had a lot of people coming through due to it being a Sunday afternoon and church being let out. When things would slow down we would all stand by the fryers laughing and talking about all kinds of things.

3:45 p.m. It had slowed down again and we all had an hour left of our shifts. Well except Angel. He was staying the rest of the night. Daisy and Jenna were sitting in the back eating some wings they made. Angel and I were up towards the front waiting for the next costumer. "Hey Ive been meaning to get your number so I can send the schedule in a group text" Angel said to me. "Yeah sure" I say. I wish he was asking for my number to text me. I give him the number and he types it into his phone. "Okay I got it" He said. The last hour went by fast and before I knew it I was on my way home. The whole drive I had a certain someone on my mind.