Yep. Another story...
Imagination is dancing around me in glee right now -_- Oh, and inspiration too. They're on a conspiracy of sorts when it comes to me...
Don't own anything familiar; just my meddlesome woman :3 Who makes lovely coffee mixed with hot chocolate~
One Mocha Please
Chapter 1
A Little Group
The bell above the diner door rang. I looked up and smiled, seeing my favorite small group come in. Well, they're not really small, but smaller than my usual groups that I serve.
At the front were the two best friends, Katsuya Jounouchi and Yuugi Mutou, followed by Anzu Mazaki, Ryo Bakura, Marik Ishtar, Duke Devlin, and Honda Otogi. Okay, so they were the biggest group. I might have exaggerated a little.
"Hello, how may we help you today?" Sandra, the other waitress that I worked with right now and absolutely hated, approached the group with her winning smile and bright cheery self. As fucking always.
Yuugi, of course, was the first to answer with a brilliant smile. "May we have the booth in the corner please? We have another group coming later." I grinned. Ah, so their Yamis were coming. Awesome! I love it when the entire group gets together.
Sandra nodded and skipped over to the table, gesturing to them and bringing out the notepad. "So, any drinks that any of you would like to start with?" Of course, I knew their drinks by heart. Jounouchi would have hot chocolate, Yuugi would have a pepsi, Anzu would have some flowery tea, Ryo and Marik would both get water, Duke would get coffee with three sugars and three cream, and Honda's would usually change. I think today was Thursday, so it would probably be coffee then water.
And of course, who was right?
I had half of the drinks done by the time Sandra sauntered her way over to the bar where I was currently working. I even labeled all of them with names so she couldn't screw them up. She probably would somehow... For some reason, Sandra hates me. She once dumped some ice cream on me. Since then, it's been on between us. I think it's because we both came from America, but who cares?
She hates me, and I will gladly return the favor.
They started chatting away over there while I gave Sandra the menus, not really paying attention to her as I started refilling some other guys coffee. He was already on his fourth cup. Must have a grueling day ahead of him. He laid down the correct yen, gave me a smile, and walked out the door with his coffee. I nodded and put the extra yen into the tip jar.
"Hey, Katherine, here's the orders for the corner table." I nodded, not trusting myself to say something stupid to Sandra, and sent it to the cook behind us.
"So, Katherine, how has your dismal life been? Horrible, I hope." I rolled my eyes. Did she have to speak to me today?
"No better than yours, I'm guessing." The usual. Of course it was. I think the manager hates me too, since he always pairs us together for shifts. "May I ask why you grace me with your voice today, Sandra?" I looked over to see her smirking. Oh, that's not good. "Whatever it is, no. I'm not going to let you get with any of those boys." She then pouted.
"Oh, why not?" She started eyeing Jounouchi. I wanted to feel so sick. "I'm pretty sure they are all single." Sandra wrinkled her nose, eyes landing on Duke and Honda. I looked over to see Duke landing a kiss on Honda's cheek. I smiled; they were a pretty cute couple. "Except for those two fags."
"Shut your damn mouth." I said, slipping back into Japanese. She turned to me in surprise. "Speak one more ill word of any of them and I will personally make sure that my dogs have a feast." Her blue eyes glared at me. She opened her mouth to say something to me but then got called to one of her other tables.
"I'm not done with you yet." She hissed at me. I only glared at her as she walked away. I mumbled under my breath about how much of a damn bitch she was just because someone else found love.
"Well, that was interesting." I spun to see the Yamis had arrived. Seto Kaiba was smirking, so I had to guess that he was the one who spoke. "Guess that proves that you really did come from America." Atem stepped forward and smiled apologetically. I looked over his shoulder to see Malik and Bakura arguing about something or other.
"Were you the only one who actually understood our conversation?" I asked, giving Seto his plain dark coffee. Man was addicted to the damn stuff. He shrugged, but I knew it was true by how his smirk twitched into a smile for a second.
"Well, you guys are seated over there with the rest of the gang." I pointed over to the corner table. "Food will be over in a moment. Any drinks?" Of course, Bakura and Malik wanted alcohol, but I gave them sprite instead. Atem wanted water, so I gave him a tall glass of that. Seto nodded in thanks, dropping several dozen yen into the tip jar.
I giggled. Was I really the only one that pleased him here?
"So who was tall, dark and handsome?" Lo and behold, Sandra was back and ready for round two. She was staring at Seto with a creepy smile on her face.
"Someone who is way out of your league and already taken." She pouted. Was today 'annoy-Katherine' day? Because Sandra seemed to take special care in doing so.
"That woman can't be as gorgeous and beautiful as me." She flipped her blonde hair over her shoulder. I could see a couple of guys drooling out of the corner of my eye. I rolled them. When did her fan club get here?
"I'm serious, Jounouchi! Grandpa really needs help with the game shop and I can't be the only one around him all the time." Jounouchi sighed and nodded his consent. Yuugi's face lit up as he took another sip of his Pepsi. "Thank you! I'm so glad that you can help."
"Ya, well, I'll help when I can." He mumbled, secretly pleased that another smile graced his friends lips.
"Well, look at that; the pup is shy." Jounouchi growled at the voice. He didn't need to turn to see Seto standing there with a jackass smirk and his coffee. Probably his briefcase too, if the man was a creature of habit. And, as always, he was.
"I'm not a damn pup, moneybags." The blonde growled back, scooting over so the man could sit down. He wasn't that much of a jerk to leave the bastard standing while everyone else ate or drank. He glanced over to see the permanent smirk plastered on Seto's face. He growled again and faced forward, sipping his hot chocolate.
"Is everybody ready to order?" The entire turned to see the perky blonde from earlier standing before them with her notepad ready and a smile on her face. Jounouchi shivered. Were her eyes raping him?! It felt like it.
Everyone around the table ordered a burger, fries, and some type of ice cream treat. The only one who ordered anything different was Seto; he got a shake.
"I'll be right back." Her blonde hair bobbed in the ponytail as she walked over to their usual server, Katherine. Kat (her nickname) looked especially annoyed today.
"So, Priest, want to tell us what the conversation between the two hotties were?" Bakura leaned forward, an eager smile on his face. Seto only took a sip of his coffee, typing something on his computer.
"Something about feeding Sandra to the dogs if she said another rude word." Malik rolled his eyes.
"Yeah, yeah, we all got that. What was the other language?"
Seto smirked. He was enjoying hanging knowledge over their heads far too much. "You'll find out." Both the tomb raider and tomb keeper growled, wanting to know more.
"Aibou, how has everything been?" Atem asked Yuugi, who was watching the exchange with wide eyes. Yuugi turned to his former Yami and grinned, proceeding to tell him all the wonderful things that had happened in the past week since they all got together.
"And I'm telling you, Sandra, that there is something wrong with doing what you want." All of the table turned, once again, to see Kat glaring daggers at the blonde, who was glaring straight back at her. "You can't do something like that!"
"And why do you care so much?" It seemed like the diner all quieted down as some of the patrons caught onto the fact that there might be a cat fight going.
"One, that's part of the rules here and I don't feel like being fired because of your idiocy, and two, he doesn't like you! Why can't you see that?!"
"You don't know that, Katherine, you don't know anything!"
"Three," Katherine went on, ignoring the fuming blonde. "They are my friends. I'll be damned if I let you ruin their happiness, harpy!"
"Call me that again!"
Katherine grinned, a little glint of malicious enjoyment showing up. "Let me spell it out for you; h - a - r - p - y. Harpy. Oh, and by the way, I'm pretty sure that more than half the diner can understand what we are saying, so it's useless to switch to English." Sandra growled again.
"Here's the orders for the corner." Katherine glared at her. "Don't do it. You will regret it."
"What, is that concern for the better-looking me?"
Green eyes rolled. "The only type of concern I would ever give to you is the type that I would give to your boyfriend if you ever get one."
Katherine then turned, black hair with green tips swaying as she turned to the customer sitting at the bar, completely ignoring Sandra as if she was never there.
Sandra growled and turned, grabbing the two trays and giving it to the patrons of the corner. "Have a lovely day." She purred, personality totally switched now that she was in the presence of Jounouchi. They all grabbed their food, eyeing her warily. Jounouchi went to take a bite out of his hamburger when he noticed a little slip of paper in his fries. He opened it up to see digits scrawled across it with Sandra's name on it. "Call me, handsome."
Suddenly, the conversation they were having made sense to the blonde. He groaned and dropped his head onto the table, ignoring the laughing Honda on his other side.
"Are you okay, Jounouchi?" Ryou asked, concern in his eyes.
"I don' know..." He muttered, not seeing the possessiveness make its way onto Seto's face. Fortunately (or unfortunately), Atem did catch it. He smirked, an idea forming in his mind.
But he wanted to watch how this would go first. Besides, he wanted to enjoy his burgers and ice cream.
It was the end of the day. Thank the lord for that! Sandra had to leave after her shift and I got to work with one of the people who work there that I can stand; Yumi. Poor guy, having a girlish name.
"Have a good night, Yumi." I said, taking off my apron and skates. He waved shyly back, having been stationed behind the counter while I took the floor. The large group from earlier left some hours ago, wishing me luck with the rest of my week. Really, most of them were sweet.
Bakura and Malik were just hilarious, threatening to kill and/or rape me with their eyes. Of course, when I promised them the same thing, they paled and hid behind their lights.
I laughed at the thought, giving the night a better impression than five minutes ago.
As I opened the door to my apartment, I thought about what I wanted to do. Maybe go to the park, get some ice cream. I only had a few hours before I began my shift again.
I smirked as another thought came into my head. I so needed to get Jounouchi and Seto together before Sandra screws it up with them. No doubt she completely ignored me when I told her not to put her number into Jounouchi's fries. Damn bitch...
I can't believe I went to high school then college with her...
Oh well, can't do much. My bed looks too inviting to think anymore anyways.
*coughs* Um, yeah, so another story :D I can't believe I'm doing this ^^U I have too many other stories to baby and nurture! Oh well, whatever...
So, I'm experimenting with starting a story in the middle of a situation, or in the middle of a character that already knows everyone. It might be strange, so this story and another (named House of Idiots that I'm going to post soon) are basically my experiments :3
Hope you all enjoy~! Please tell me what you think so I know what to improve upon :)
