CHAPTER 1: DIFFERENCES
Hello! This chapter is very much setting the scene so this is quite short but it will pick up! please enjoy!
"Thank you, sir. Have a good day!" Chloe said with a huge smile plastered on her face. She breathed a happy sigh and turned to her colleague Aubrey.
"You're very happy today, considering you've been on a ten-hour shift."
"This is just the best job isn't it! I mean, for a first job out of school, you expect to be washing dishes or making coffee for ungrateful customers, but this is awesome! People are friendly and always make me smile!"
"Somehow I think even if you were washing dishes you'd still think it's the best job in the world," commented Aubrey.
"I like to be positive, that's—" A man walked into the shop and Chloe instantly turned her attention. "Hello, how are you today?"
"Good thanks."
"Good, can I help you at all today? Would you like to try one of our samples?" she practically skipped over and picked up the sampling tray. "So, this is a milk chocolate praline, it's got a smooth hazel but centre and a rich milk chocolate outside. It's one of my absolute favourites! It's such a classic! The ,chocolate just melts in your mouth and then you get to the really subtle but lovely nutty centre." she said beaming at him.
The man took one of the chocolates and entered into conversation with the bubbly red head behind the counter. Chloe pointed out three different boxes of chocolates that would be "just perfect for his niece's graduation!" He bought them all.
"Thank you, sir, have a good day," Beca said with a false smile on her face. She sighed, it had been a long shift.
"You okay?" asked Jesse, her work colleague.
"I just really want to sit down," replied Beca, "and I don't like smiling for this long.
"Ah come on, this job is not that bad."
"I know, but—" and man walked in and Beca muttered under her breath before turning to him. "Hello, how are you today? Would you like to try one of our samples?" she reached over and picked up the sampling tray. "We have a traditional milk chocolate truffle. It's made up of three layers, the cocoa powder coating, the milk chocolate shell, and the softer centre. Let me know if you need anything else." She turned away. She wasn't in the mood to try to make the sale and she silently begged Jesse to take over for her. He was much better at the customer service side of things, sure she know the chocolates off by heart and inside out but somehow, she'd never got the knack of the customer service.
Chloe finished her shift, turned right, and began the cold walk to the bus stop. It was winter and it had been raining. On her way she passed Montague's Chocolates. "We're better than them," she thought to herself as she hurried past the glass window. Chloe was lovely and wouldn't hurt a butterfly, but she was also very protective of her shop and the home away from home that it had come to be.
Beca finished her shift and headed left out towards her bike. It was raining and she hadn't brought her raincoat. "Damn it," she thought. She passed by Choculates, the rival chocolate shop. "We're better than them," she thought to herself as she pulled her hoodie up over her head. Working in a chocolate shop may not have been Beca's dream, but she was very competitive and although she would never admit it, had become rather fond of her shop and wanted it to do well.
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