Teach Me Your Ways

Chapter three

Monday

My uniform consisted of a yellow tee with the print: Coffee Cravers, the name of the store, black jeans, black booties, and an apron. The day had been slow with little to none customers.

My co-worker was Louis. He is an
Black, average height, male. He had a temper, so I kept my distance. Although, he seemed like a pretty fun person once you became friends officially. If the boss got snappy with him, you know he returned that energy.

"Miss Ma'am, get that table over there, I'm taking my break early." Louis hangs his apron on the hooks before leaving out the back door. He had a brutish accent that was unexpected.

I walk to the back table with my notepad and throw a smile onto my face.

"Hi, my name is Noel. How may I help you guys today?" I wait as they slowly put down the menus revealing their faces; their familiar, handsome faces. It was the guys, Carter, Mateo, and De'Vante. They all were wearing black suits and shades. Kinda sus to me if I say so myself.

"Get me an black coffee." Carter says first. So rude.

"I want that too." De'Vante answers next. Rude also.

"I would like a vanilla bean frappe with caramel drizzle on the top and a bagel with strawberry cream cheese please." Mateo smiles big as they stack and hand me their menus.

They give him a weird look.

"What? It's the shit." He mumbles making me smile.

I bring them their orders pretty quick. They had ordered their stuff to go. I hand them their bill and Carter pulls out his card.

"I'll be right back." I take his card to go pay. His card was golden, like actually golden. It screamed "Fatass Bank Account."

I return with his card and they begin to leave. I look on the table to see a tip of three one hundred dollar bills stacked on top of each other.

Part of me wants to just shut up but the other half wants me to decline it.

I stop Carter before he closes the door. "I can't take this." I whisper to him.

"Just take it." He tried to leave but I stop him.

"Am I a charity case to you guys?"

"No Noel, just shut up and take the fucking money. You're welcome." He close the door in my face and leaves.

I shake it off and get back to work.

"CMD?" Louis comes back inside.

"Huh?" I furrow my eyebrows confused.

"The call me daddies?" He says and I still look at him not getting it.

"Carter, Mateo, De'Vante; C, M, D; Call me Daddy cause they are so sexy." He explains making me laugh.

"What do you know about them?" I question as I begin to wash some dishes.

"Oh honey, I have the tea on everyone. Carter, De'Vante, and Mateo, some sexy sons of bitches if I do say so myself." He says making me laugh. "Millionaires. Carter is the richest of the bunch. He has a younger sister and brother: Taylor and Tanner, they are twins. Mateo and De'Vante live with Carter. They've been best friends since the world began. Tanner and his girlfriend are drug addicts and that's why Carter and Taylor take care of the baby. The little girls actual mother overdosed. Crazy shit, thank you TMZ."

"Wow." Was all I could manage to say.

"They are dangerous though baby, you might want to keep your distance." Louis warns as I wash the last dish.