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"Fiona could you take this to the couple in the window" said her boss it was now close 2pm and Fiona was hard at work in the pub restaurant she had changed into a long black skirt and blue shirt that all waitresses and bar staff were required to wear
"Yes sir" she replied forcing a friendly smile the boss naturally had a short fuse although working in a pub would work down even the most patient person but to day he was really getting worked up and sadly she was getting the brunt of it. Placing the meals down to the old couple she smiled and told them to enjoy there meal suddenly the door to the pub opened up and a tall young woman with long brown hair walked in.
"Hi Fiona you ready" charlotte was a local and the first new friend had had made a couple of months back a drunken tourist made gotten inappropriate with Fiona and charlotte brook his nose they were friends 15 minutes later. Fiona looked down at her watch
"5 minutes ok" charlotte looked down at her watch
"Come on your doing a double today the boss wont mind if you leave 5 minutes early"
"Yes I will don't you dare corrupt my staff!" Tim shouted back Charlotte smiled
"Ok I wont I will wait outside " charlotte moved up to Fiona "come on do you need to do a double tonight" Fiona smiled and walked away the truth was she didn't need to pull a double she didn't even need the job she had more than enough money to get by the truth was she needed to work 30 hours a week just to keep her mind busy to stop her mind thinking about what she had lost but she reminded her self that this was just a stepping stone next year she would reenrol in collage but until then she had to keep herself busy thankfully the last 5 minutes rolled by and Fiona grabbed her coat from behind the bar and walked out to meet charlotte sitting in her red ford ka
"Sorry I kept you waiting" charlotte smiled
"And so you should be come no we have what 5 hours to kill so lets go shopping" Fiona smiled back to her
"Can we stop off back at my house I need to check on Hewie and change I mean if that's"
"Of course" she cut back in pulling off the car park "I can't be seen with you looking like that" Fiona just smiled at the friendly jest just thankful for her new friend
Leon proceeded through the busy town he walked around the town looking through the lines of shops and businesses he seamed to be walking towards to town centre well that's what the signposts lead him to believe, he looked up at the afternoon sky the morning clouds were still holding on a combination of grey and white clouds littered the sky but the occasional out burst of blue could be seen on the horizon the weather was clearly undecided he could swear that he was feeling the occasional spot of rain on his head he was looking for something to eat his large breakfast had carried him through to the afternoon but now he was feeling peckish. he rounded a corned and came across a shop labelled 'news agents' he found no real food in there just candy and potato chips not really what he felt like but he did buy a copy of the local paper 'its might be nice to see if the locals are having a better day than me' walking a little further into the town he came across a small bakery with a sitting area 'Greggs' Leon contemplated looking around but suddenly the heavens opened Leon ran into the bakery 'someone up there is trying to tell me something' he walked up to the counter there was a middle aged woman with a warm smile on the other side
"Good afternoon what can I get you" she beamed warmly
"Well im not sure yet" he looked around the counter one side held a collection of hot food the other a collection of cakes and sweets.
"ooo your American well I would recommend the Cornish paste" Leon looked over to the semi circle peace of pastry
"What's in it?" he asked nauseously the woman looked a bit offended by his tone he quickly add "its just today I had my first run in with black pudding" she suddenly smiled
"Just pastry, mince and potatoes that it nothing nasty I promise" trusting the stranger he settled on the pasty and worked his way over to a seat looking out on to rain street this time his trust was well placed the pasty was delicious he finished it and opened the paper to kill time until the rain passed he was two pages in and suddenly realised how different it was here compared to back home the most significant crime he read about was a couple of cars being broken into. This was crazy if you excluded the want a be terrorists he help capture he hadn't seen any other significant crime on the news which just seamed weird. he looked up from the paper and to his surprise at was sunny now 'god dam it can this weather just make up its mind' Leon said goodbye to the lady and walked into town I still had a couple of hours before the shops closed so he decided to just go and see what there was he could see the main shopping centre but also noticed the sun had disappeared behind another big grey cloud
"Don't even think about it" Leon thought out load. 'Well excluding the weather I am still one bad thing short of my three.'