Two months back.
"Why don’t you go take a seat old man," one of the employees at Blue lantern restaurant said, "we’ll handle the rest."
"Are you saying I’m getting too old for this?" The old man said with mock anger, "back in my day, I used to run this place all alone."
The employee chuckled as she replied, "back in your day, people were patient enough to wait for good food Grandpa."
"If people these days can’t wait, then they should just go ahead and leave," the old man said, "cooking is an art, and art is not to be rushed."
"Fine, fine, you win old man," the girl said with a smile, "I’ll go wait the tables."
She looked no older than eighteen and was usually supposed to be at school, but today was a weekend, plus her grandpa had employed her at the blue lantern restaurant as a part-time employee and she wouldn’t miss the chance to make some cash.
The girl’s name was Julia Harper, daughter Audrey Harper and like her mother, she was quite the ball of anger, only controlled when she was around her favorite grandpa.
Her expression changed from a genuinely smiling one to a fake one as she approached the customers one at a time.
Most were polite and didn’t dare cause a scene, so her job was going pretty well.
She ran from table to table, either taking empty plates, putting full plates or taking orders.
She did it with so much grace that one would think she had been doing it her entire eighteen years of life, which was far from the truth, since she only started a month ago, but was just a really quick learner.
Now, Julia was undeniably beautiful, especially her curly black hair tied into a ponytail and sapphire-like eyes.
So there were obviously attempts from some of the customers to gain her attention, but it was nothing that couldn’t be fixed with a tray to the head when they went too far, so she was mostly fine....well, until a certain trio walked in.
The bell above the door let out a ring as it was pushed open, letting in three people.
The first was a man with brown hair and eyes, his frame immediately screamed body builder or maybe just someone who took jyms a bit too seriously.
The second was a man that had obviously dyed his hair to bright red, making him look like some type of delinquent, but Julia wasn’t one to judge....she just silently watched them.
The last of the three looked a lot calmer, between the two, he seemed like the odd one out as he looked a lot calmer, even the suit he had on screamed high class and definitely not someone who would be seen hanging out with those two.
The third man had neatly combed black hair, that, coupled with his olive green eyes made him look handsome, definitely someone that was Julia’s type.
Slap!
She clapped both hands on her cheeks to physically erase that thought.
’What the hell are you thinking?’ she scolded herself, ’you’re here to work, not have crushes on Grandpa’s customers.’
She watched them walk to an empty table, a dark frown was on the face of the buff one and they immediately started discussing something, definitely not something good.

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