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I have been working at this diner for over a month and literally nothing has happened in my life, after over 20 auditions later I'm still working here with no career and no opportunities whatsoever. For some weird reason I got this feeling on my stomach telling me something is about to change, still don't know if it's related to work or what. Berry has been bugging me to finally audition o try to get into NYADA but that is just not my thing, even if she doesn't understand how, she just keeps repeating "NYADA is perfect, it's everyone's thing!" God she never shuts up about it, but like I said something is about to change, I just know it.
I've been daydreaming for so long that I didn't realise my co-workers had already opened the doors of the diner this morning. Who is awake by choice at this time anyway? At least I have the afternoon off which I am deliriously happy about.
I hear the first customers coming in so I guess its time to get to work, but as I turn around I'm left speechless, this beautiful girl is not a customer since she's wearing our awful, uncomfortable and rather cute uniform but I've never seen her before though, trust me I would remember that face. She's changing her bag for our regulatory notebook and pen and when she turns around our eyes met for the very first time, and I swear to God the Earth just stopped moving and every single beautiful thing just combined in front of my eyes and turned into the gorgeous human being that's standing right in front of me. I can't really tell how much time has passed since we started looking at each other, but I think it's been a couple of minutes because the next I know the rest of our staff is back into place and there's already enough people on my section to start my shift, I avert my gaze from the mystery girl and get to work even if my eyes betray me and stare at her every five minutes, not that I complain much since she's always catching my eyes and blushing whenever I look at her.
It's finally the end of my shift and I've probably spend ninety percent of it looking at this girl, she must think that I'm a creep by now sure she isn't even gay, another platonic love to add to my endless list of "my beautiful but straight women crushes" I've had all over the years. Just as I'm about to collect my things Rachel comes in wearing her own red uniform and a look on her face that tells me she wants to be here just as much as I want to break my arms.
"Hey sunshine, you're looking particularly annoyed about being here today" - I tell her with a curious look.
"I haven't heard from the director of Funny Girl, it's obvious they didn't pick me for the part so of course I'm mad Santana" - She snaps at me.
"You don't know that yet, you're just assuming that because you are as patient as a hungry cheetah" - I try to reassure her.
"Whatever, sorry for snapping at you by the way" - And that's the longest she has ever managed to stay mad at someone.
"It's ok, umm… can I ask you a random question?" - I ask her looking around for miss mystery girl.
"Sure" - She answers with a little smile.
"What do you think of that girl over there?" - I ask her nodding my head towards the unnamed girl. "I've never seen her here before". She looks to the newbie and stares at her with a questioning gaze.
"Neither have I but she's really cute, what's her name?" - She says looking at her rather interested.
"How would I know?" - I snapped at her even though I am truly mad at myself, I should have at least introduced myself during our shift together, you know, be polite to the newbie and stuff, at least I had a pretty damn good excuse you have to get to know your co-workers, right? Rachel smirks at me with her I-know-something-you-don't face
"You are nervous, you totally like her!" - She's jumps a little bit with a truly smile this time. "Why don't you go talk to her, she's piking up her stuff so pick yours, introduce yourself and walk her home or something" - She doesn't give me a chance to answer when she pushes me toward the still mystery girl making me bump directly into her front.
"I'm so sorry, my friend just pushed me and I bump into you… but you already know that... but I didn't want to I just can't control physics so If you think about it is not really my fault or anyone's fault is more like a…" - I started to ramble without even realising. "Hey it's ok, I didn't see you either" - She cuts my off with the most beautiful voice I've even heard and a hint of blush on her cheeks. I look around to see that everyone is working and we are standing looking at each other in the middle on the diner.
"I see you finished your shift as well so may be you know… I think I'll be better if we just.." - I motion for the door. "Yeah, we're kind of in the middle of everyone's way" - She says laughing, and I know I will be able to wake up every morning to come to work just to hear that laugh. We take our stuff and head for the door, when we are finally outside we start to walk to the same direction side by side without even realising it. I really wish she doesn't think I'm a stalker or something, she's probably straight and on her way home to her boyfriend but I don't really care at this moment, I just want to be close to her for as long as I can.
It's been a while since we started walking and yet neither of us has said a word, I'm nervous to start an actual conversation but you only live once so…
"I haven't introduced myself, my name's Santana, Santana Lopez" - I smile sweetly at her suppressing the urge to caress her face when she smiles at me.
"My name's Danielle, Dani for friends" - She says giving me a flirty smile, and I think I may die 'cause I've seriously never felt what I'm feeling just by talking to girl.
"So am I allowed to call you that yet?" - I am really trying to be witty here, but it looks like I'm way too nervous for it to work.
"We'll see.." - She's totally flirting with me, right? I mean she's looking at me with this flirty smile and I can't help but think she may like me for real. Or may be is just my head messing with me for wanting that to happen so damn much.
We continue to walk side by side through the different streets of New York not talking much, just saying random phrases to each other every once in a while.
"Did you move here recently? 'Cause I can swear I've never seen you before at the diner" - I start
"I've lived here for a little while actually but I started today at the diner, I was working at this clothing shop but It wasn't really my thing, serving food is not how I want to spend my time but now I get to sing every once in a while at least." - She's starting to tell me about herself and I can't help but wanting to know more and more.
"Yeah, it has its perks"- I'll never tell anybody but despite the low salary I kind of like working at the diner, I mean at least we get to sing and be around people who works for the music industry, and that's not very common in New York, so even if I have to spend the day serving people I could have done much worse.
"What about you?" - She asks me
"I've been living in New York for over a year now, I live with two friends from high school while trying to make my way into the music industry, and in the meantime I had to work somewhere, you have to pay your bills you know..." - I don't know why but I feel like I could talk to her for hours and not be mad at her for wanting to know about my personal life.
"So look I live here" - She point at the door of an apartment block "But since we have the afternoon free I was thinking if may be you wanted to come inside and join me for a cup of coffee or something" - She's starting to look nervous and so am I, but at the same time I'm really happy she wants me to spend time with her alone.
"Sure, I'd love that" - Really we just met twenty minutes ago and it may seem a little rushed, but it doesn't feel fast or wrong so…
She guides me inside of the building and I gotta say it looks really good for a cheap apartment in Manhattan, we take the elevator to the 5th floor and stop in front of the door marked with 5C. She turns around and a little nervous and for a moment I think she's going to tell me this was a mistake and to go home, but instead she just says
"Look, I never bring anybody home so I'm sorry if it's a little messing in there. And one thing, do you have any allergies?" - Ok I wasn't expecting that.
"Don't worry, I'm the definition of messiness myself" - I try to calm myself down a little bit. "And no, I'm not allergic to anything, why?"
"Because if you are then you may have had a problem with this" - She says opening the door
I gotta say I am not an animal person at all, I've never had any kind of pet just the goldfishes they basically pay you to take home at the fairs, and those usually die within the following week, even if I tried to take care of them, it was futile really. So the reaction I would be expected to have when seen a puppy is not one of happiness but I'm discovering a new side about myself with Dani, so I guess one of the changes is the fact that this dog is one of the cutest puppies I've ever seen in my life and I actually want to hug it.
"Let me introduce you to Ron" - She says happily while bending to pick up the dog
"It's really cute, how old is him?" - Did I just really call a dog 'cute'?
"He's two weeks old, he was lost in the streets and he looked famished so I took him to the vet, gave him his shots, bathed him and now he is mine forever!" - She says with the happiest voice ever looking at the puppy like he's been with her for years. I like this girl more and more every minute, she seems to enjoy life as much as she can and has pretty good thoughts and her priorities are in check. We seem to have things like that in common, so even if she's not interested in me at all I know we can be great friends, even if I want more, so much more than that.
We walk inside of her flat and it screams Dani all over it, really minimalistic with little furniture, the colors are dull but alive at the same time, she has a lot of things related to music, shelves fill with CDs and vinyl, a couple of guitars, an amplifier who looks like it's had better days and a little TV in front of a sofa with a love seat on the corner.
"Let us give you a tour" - She says looking at Ron while he was resting his head on her shoulder and looking happy to see her owner.
She starts guiding me towards the corridor on the right side of the living room "Here's the kitchen" She points to the first door on the left. Inside there's the typical kitchen stuff, a fridge, a table with six chairs, a sink… We continue through the rooms, the next stop was the guest room which she turned into her own music studio soundproofing the walls and adding some recording devices, I think that's the coolest room so far. There was a small bathroom on the following door and finally her bedroom. I didn't think she was actually going to show it to me but I was very wrong, she opened the door and now I changed my mind, this is the best room of the house. It was really big, It had a king size bed in the middle and a couple of closets at the sides, a chest of drawers at the bottom of the bed, a small table with a chair and a mirror in front of it. There was a bigger bathroom on the right and it all had a music theme just like the rest of the house, you could find an electric guitar, books scattered all over the room about different bands and kinds of music, a gigantic bean bag... It was the perfect room, with soft tones and the best part was the balcony with an amazing view of New York at the left side. I went to the balcony and took on the size of New York, It was such a great city filled with skyscrapers and every kind of people with different likes, believes…
"It's amazing really, New York I mean" - She wakes me up from my daydreaming, she's standing by my side with a smile on her face and Ron cuddled in her arms.
"It is" - I don't know how to say that if she thinks New York is amazing she should look into a mirror and she'll see perfection.
"Do you want some cocoa? It's getting chilly" - She says going back to the kitchen. I take one last look at the city and went after Dani. "Yeah thanks".