"The Way It Should Have Been"
I've always been the kind of person who's never really had a "plan" everything that' happened to me whether good or bad has always happened by chance.
"Hey where are you going with that?" a loud familiar voice echoed from behind,
"Just thought that Cheryl might need a hand with the grand opening"
"So you're cooking then? But you work for me! "
"Yeah just lending a helping hand"
"Wait, wait is that mine did you get that food from my stock?"
"Look Tony I can explain!"
"Are you st… your stealing form me after all that I've done for you … You thieving Git!" YOU'RE FIRED!
"Cheryl, Cheryl please I need a job, your bright idea and my good nature just got me fired. What am I suppose to do I've got kids me? "
"Oh Ste you really know how to tug at my strings, How can I say no, what with your two wee children at home and me responsible for your state, Okay but you'll have to run it by "Bren"
"But I thought this was your club?"
It is but I respect Brendan's opinion he's mint at sniffing out hard workers, plus you'd mostly be working under him"
'Oh okay what ever it takes!"
Have you ever had that feeling you get the minute that your about to walk into something life changing, that eerie feeling or force," that's it a force!" that makes every inch of your body react and move within it's direction, that very thing that pushes you to your destiny. Well I do, and on that day I was led to Mr. Brendan Brady.
"Hey Bren, I'd like you to meet the newest member of the Chez Chez Family, Ste Hay!" Cheryl said to her big brother with that light up the room smile on full display.
Brendan Brady turned around and shot a look at Ste that could only be explained as that of "guns blazing"
A look that shook poor Ste to the bone and left him with a mouth agape
In all fairness it had nothing to do with the 2 seconds glance that Brendan had managed to give the boy who stood before him, but was a cause of the frustration that he felt with having to preview yet another one of Cheryl's 'New Relatives" He seriously wondered what his sisters deal was with hiring every scrubber that lived in Hollyoaks,
'Chez! Not another one, if I have to look at one more" Brendan vertically studied Ste's appearance with a disapproving eye
"Scrawny barman, I'll kill myself! Or…" still eying Ste "Somebody else for that matter"
"Chez you know how much I like people!" Brendan spat out sarcastically
"Well Ste, this lovable fella here is my big brother Brendan!"
Ste extended his hand towards Brendan and with an Adams apple dropping like the New Years Eve ball managed to spit out a shaky,
"Nice to meet you"
"Huh" Brendan said while sizing up the lad before him
"So… St… no Steven I like Steven better, what are your qualifications?"
"Well I've worked in a restaurant for over a year now, I was hired as a bus boy but I did a little bit of everything. I even started cooking I'm a proper cook me."
"Well that's good and all but what are your qualifications in relations to working behind a bar?" Brendan asked while still every bit the form of the hard arse boss man.
"I …I don't have any Mr. Brady but am a quick study me, when ever I have a job to do I try my best to exce…" Um Ugh "I try my best" Ste was almost a nervous wreck he had never been questioned like this for a job, let alone a job as a barman. He was becoming agitated.