Lily’s point of view
“Emma today is the day.” I said as soon as I entered the kitchen.
“After eight years, I’m so excited.”
“If you hadn’t told me, I wouldn’t have known.” she kept moving around trying to finish cooking breakfast.
“Are you gonna eat breakfast?”
“No, I have to go open the shop and I am already running late.”
“Okay, just take care and please, don’t expect too much from him.”
“I know. Love you, see you in a little bit.” Even though she still doubted him, I couldn’t, my heart felt happier than usual and I couldn’t stop smiling. I never thought meeting him again was going to be possible.
“You know if you still don’t want to marry him, I can help you.” Anna said from the living room while I walked by.
“What?”
“I mean, your family has done so much for me, so I was thinking I could repay you.”
I shook my head
“It’s fine, but have you seen Oscar? I need to go to the shop.”
“He is outside in the garden” she said before walking away.
She sounded mad but I decided to ignore it一 I didn’t know her that much so maybe that was just her一 After walking outside I looked around for Oscar, The chauffeur, since I never wanted to learn how to drive after my mother’s accident, I needed him. Before I could even call his name, he was already coming to the front door where I was standing.
“Hey, Lily, where are you going today?”
“I need to go to the shop, can you take me and then pick me up?”
“That's my job.”
How should I talk to him? What if I mess up saying hi? Is he even going to like me? How does a person even act cool?
The more time I spent in the car, the more I thought about what kind of conversation I could have. I am not the most exciting person and I barely know how to make friends. Emma was stuck with me so she had no choice but what if I make a mistake? What if I say something he doesn’t like?
“Lily, we are here, you must be really worried about something with the face you were making.” feeling embarrassed I could not say much and just got out of the car.
My mood had changed from happy to worried now. Letting out a sigh I opened the shop and started to put everything in its place to open.
What if he doesn’t like me? No, I can’t get discouraged. He is not like the rest.
Everytime I looked at the clock it went slower, only thirty minutes had passed and my heart could not settle down.
“Why do you keep looking at the clock?” asked Michelle, while coming out of the staff room — she was one the first people I hired when the shop first opened— and after she finished tying her apron she looked at me.
“I am meeting someone important today, that is why I am closing the shop early but the time won’t even budge.”
“Is someone meeting their boyfriend?” she wiggled her eyebrows and i couldn’t help but roll my eyes.
“It’s not like that, now get back to work because there is a customer.” I handed her the menus and shooed her towards the people that had come in.
Little by little people started to come in and it got busier so I stopped looking at the clock.
“I am so tired, it’s saturday, people should be sleeping in.” Michelle said, taking a seat at one of the empty tables.
“I think you don’t mean that if you want your paycheck.” I started to clean up since there was only five minutes left.
“Right, I wanna see my cute girl, Let’s clean up and get out of here.” She stood up and went back to the staff room to grab the broom. When the bell on the door rang signaling that people had come in.
“Welco…” I stopped speaking once I saw who had come in. Three older ladies had walked in and they were too busy gossiping among themselves that they sat themselves at a table without looking at the hours.
“We can fina…” before Michelle had finished her sentence she looked stunned and turned to look back at me before letting out a sigh. Feeling bad for her, I decided it was best if she went back home.
“You can go home.” I took the broom from her hands and she looked shock for a minute,
“Really?I can? You’re not lying?” I shook my head and saw her walk into the staff room while I went to take care of the customers.
“HI, my name is Lily. Is there anything you would like to drink?”
“Give us a minute.” said one of the ladies and kept talking to her friends while I moved away.
A minute? yeah,right.They were just going to talk.
“I will be going.” whispered Michelle and started to walk towards the door.
“Have a good time with your kid.” I said and let out a sigh knowing that I was not going to be out in five minutes. After waiting for three minutes I saw one of the ladies waving her hand.
“Yes, are you ready?”
“Well,that’s why I called you. Anyway, can I have two strawberry shortcakes, one peach cake, and three coffees.”
“I’m sorry but we only have one strawberry shortcake.”
“Well, just cook another one. This is a bakery, right?”
“Yes, but we only make a certain amount and…”
“That’s so incompetent.” said one of the ladies to her friend, ignoring that I was still standing in front of them.
“Just bring me the pineapple cake then.”
“I’ll be right back then.”
“I bet she just ate them all.”
Ouch
“I can believe that.”
Ignoring their comments was hard.
Don’t get affected, Lily, They are just old rude people, don’t cry.
“Enjoy.” Not receiving even a thank you, I walked back to the desk and waited for them to finish
Forty freaking minutes, that’s how long I have been waiting. I put the bill down five minutes ago and they haven’t even looked at it. I was only glad that I was able to start cleaning up.
“Have a nice day… not.” I said as soon as they had finally stood up and gone out the door.
I am so late.
After cleaning the rest of the store, I ran out of the store to meet Oscar. As soon as he saw me, he opened the door and started to drive. The whole drive my leg could only bounce up and down.I was not even going to have time to change̶ I was already an hour late̶ the dirty jeans and the shirt I have been wearing the whole day.
“Oh, Lily, Emma told me to give you this.” He said handing me a black plastic bag, and after looking inside, I saw clean clothes.
She is the best
After Oscar parked I said thank you and started to run to the backdoor that led to the kitchen, I still needed to change. After entering, Emma also came into the kitchen.
“Lily?! You are so late.” she said, putting down a tray with plates.
“I know, some ladies came in and stayed way longer than I expected.”
“Just go change. I told you that you should have just not opened today.”
“Well, I can’t do that. My dad gave it to me as a present and I have to make it work. You should just quit here and come work with me as my partner.”
“He gave you an unwanted present, and you know I can’t do that, I can already hear my uncle and aunt judge my parents about how they didn’t raise me right because I just take things without working hard for it and that I should just be like my older cousin. I swear if they talk one more time about my parents, I will end up in jail.”
“ You mean take money from your hard working little cousin? I can’t believe you had to leave college to pay for his debts and if that ever happens then I will just bail you out.You should just shut them up and tell them the truth.” I said opening the door of the bathroom with the black jeans and off shoulder loose shirt she had packed for me.
“You mean tell them that their perfect son still has debt from gambling,No, thank you, I just don’t wanna fight and you look perfect, just let me get some lip gloss.” she walked towards her purse.
“You should really think about becoming my partner.I think you have work more than enough for them”
“I will think about it, now put your lips out, and don’t speak.” I could only look at her while she put on the lip gloss on me.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Flashback~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After walking into my bedroom I saw that Emma was sitting on my bed, she had her head down and her shoulders were slumped.
“Hey, you okay?” I said walking closer to her.
She shook her head and she let out a sniffle, which made me walk faster to her side.
“What happened?” I said panicking since it had been a long time since she had cried.
She let out a bitter chuckle,” My… my aunt and uncle want me to leave college... and start working.”
“Why?”
“My cousin got into gambling and he now has a debt to pay. They said I should help them pay because they have done so much for me.”
“But that’s not your responsibility, you were excited to go to college, I will help you pay.”
She shook her head
“But why? You have always studied so hard and let me help you out.”
She shook her head
“Then can you just give me a job here, I will leave school until he pays all of his debt away, so can you just give me a job?”
“I can give you a job, but that’s not fair.”
“ In my house nothing is fair for me, but I have to help out.” she sniffled and wiped her tears.
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