Friday, February 10, 2017

5:42 PM

Chatpter 1: Him.

Ready, and open for business. Never thought my dream would come true of owning my own… small café, I already made plans to hire other people other than Josh and Nathan, my two elementary through high school best friends, which in fact are pretty good cooks if I do say so my self. Cleaning up after a long days work is sure hard on you when you're the only person there to clean, bit its worth it. I stared out the window thinking of who to hire and then my mind ran through all what could happen to my café, like if it would get noticed by someone important or even can help donate to a random cause, I don't know what I was thinking. Josh shook my shoulder," Are you alright Little Ann?" he whispered not to make anyone notice, except for Nathan, of course he noticed.

I nodded my head and smiled at him," Just good as can be."

"Just making sure, you were staring out the window for quite sometime and you barely spoke a word."

"Oh sorry, just was letting my mind jump around on thoughts…." I looked back out the window and looked at the café and started spraying down used tables.

{Josh & Nathan}

"You sure got pretty close to her…" Nathan said in a pout.

"I was just making sure she was alright, you gotta admit she was stiff as a board staring out that window." Josh jokingly said making Nathan a bit aggressive towards his word choice.

"Whatever…." Nathan looked at Ann cleaning around.

I cleaned about every inch of the table still in thought, until I heard the bell ring on the door, I heard foot steps towards me.

"Excuse me…." The voice said.

I almost jumped out of my socks and I let out a little yelp. Nathan came a running out from the back looking around then scrambling quickly to me.

"Are you alright? Are you hurt? What happened Ann?" Nathan asked over and over.

"Im fine, Nathan. This gentle man just scared me a little." I laughed and looked at Nathan and the tall… handsome…. What am I saying?! Hes gorgeous! Well…. Ahem…. Anyways. Nathan gave the man a short glance and slipped his hand around my waist. I looked up at him and didn't think to much about it.

"Im so sorry about that miss, but I was wondering when you were closing…." The man asked looking at Nathan then to me.

"Oh we were just about to but I can keep it open since your probably hungry and you look worn out." I smiled and went to go get a menu. Nathan followed right behind me closely.

"Oh you don't have to do that…" The man said looking at the ground.

"Nope, Im going to, by the way you can call me Ann." I gave a bright smile.

"Well, thank you, Im Mark." He smirked and looked around and had a seat at the front.

I looked at Nathan which was staring at the ground leaning on the counter with his legs crossed, I flicked him on the head, he took a quick turn and slapped my cheek.

"Ann! I didn't know that was you! Please forgive me, I- I didn't mean to!" He cupped his hands over my cheeks and pleaded.

"Uh…. Its okay Nathan…." I simply said looking at him then removing his hands, I quickly walked to the back in the bathroom. I washed my face with some warm water, I looked up into the mirror and saw Nicks imprint of his hand on my face. I softly touched it and felt it go numb, I shook my head and went to check on Mark.

Mark took a quick glance up at me once, then twice before he coughed and asked about the imprint.

"Oh, it's nothing don't worry about it.." Softly said I took his order and gave it to Nathan.

I sat down at the counter chatting away with Mark, " How did you get the hand mark on your face?" He said in a serious manner, I brushed it off and shrugged my shoulders at his words.

"I don't know…" I said looking around at the pictures around the café.

"You gotta know Ann." He said reaching over to my face, I shifted around uncomfortably, of course. His hand almost traced around the hand print when Nathan came in. Nathan then stopped seeing Mark leaning over near me, he slowly put the plate in front of Mark and as he sat it down he tugged on my shoulder. I looked up at him and shrugged my shoulders and followed right on his heels. "Whats up? Ever since Mark came in you've put your hand on my waist, you accidently slapped me, you've been jumpy, and you just tugged on my shoulders, and may I add that you kept your eyes on him the whole time!" He simply shrugged and looked at me.

"Are you listening Nathan?!" I glared at him.

"Yes, little Ann…" He looked up to see that Mark was gone and let out a sigh. "He's gone, I'll clean up in the kitchen and you can clean up out there." I took a long glance at him and put my hand on his shoulder, he looked at me and held my waist, I blushed for a split second but quickly turned around, I don't know why I did that but anyways I cleaned up shop and headed back to my house when I remembered Mark left a note, I quickly hid the note in my pocket then said my farewell to Nathan and ran to my car and went home.