River Sisters Sugar Heaven

Chapter Four.

Open for business.

'BECCA IF YOU DON'T GET YOUR FAT ARSE OUT OF BED THIS MINUTE YOUR FACE WILL BE ON IT!' Rys screamed to her sister. Usually it was Becca who was up before her twin, yet, knowing that they would finally be starting work on the café today Rys had dragged herself from her warm pit earlier than usual.

'Wheresthefire?' Becca asked sleepily, shoving the pillow her twin chucked at her under her messy blond hair.

'It will be in your bed if you don't get out NOW!' Came Rys reply as she hurried from her sister's room and to the bathroom to clean her teeth. Moments later her twin wondered sleepily into the room, wearing only an oversized tee shirt with her hair a complete mess.

'About time,' Rys sighed, 'get dressed!'

Becca shook her head, 'shower,' she muttered sleepily.

'Be quick,' Ryleigh muttered, leaving the bathroom and hurrying down the stairs to get started on the café.

She had already, with magical aid of course, painted the whole of the café white (not including the kitchen) out by the time her sister bounced into the room.

'Gosh, it's a bit boring…' Becca mumbled, looking around at the whiteness.

'This is the undercoat, stupid!' Rys laughed, 'now what colour do you think?'

'You actually want me to help decide?' Becca asked in a mock shock.

'Yes, silly, now I was thinking sky blue, white and another colour…'

'…Mint green,' Becca said after a moment, her eyes wondering to her own top, which was a halter neck in a light minty green colour.

Rys nodded, 'ok, so I think the wall with the windows and door and the wall with that separates the kitchen should remain white, the one side blue and the other green…'

'Sounds good,' Becca agreed, she took one side and her twin the other. It took ten minutes for them to perfect their walls; neither of them had ever been especially good with decorating spells. However once they had perfected it to the right shade and even and neat they both stood back to admire their work.

'Hold up, got an idea,' Becca smiled, glancing around the entire café. Rys sighed but allowed her sister to try out her idea, knowing that she could correct it easily enough.

Becca used her wand to trace a blue wave going across the top of both white walls and then close underneath it she did the same in green.

'That's actually quite good,' Rys smiled, almost surprised that her twin impressed her.

'So now all it needs is too dry,' Becca smiled, waving her wand and blasting cold air at the walls, drying the pain almost instantly. 'At this rate we'll be open by this afternoon,' Becca smiled, letting her blue eyes scan the finished room.

'Now don't get ahead of yourself Becky,' Rys said sternly, although she too hoped that might be the case. If they worked hard, she knew there was a possibility that they could be open in time for lunch, it was after all early at the minute.

'Right, you do the kitchen and I'll sort out the tables and such, was it couple tables and tables for four?' Becca asked her sister who nodded and hurried into the kitchen, which she painted white and dried. She changed the colours of the tiles so that they alternated blue and green and she used a cleaning spell to clean all the equipment.

Both Becca and Rys agreed that cooking tasted so much better done the muggle way, and therefore their kitchen (both upstairs and down) consisted of many muggle items, including an oven, microwave, kettle and blender.

She conjured all the food supplies they had brought for the shop and were stashing in the back room and then put them all away in the cupboards, freezers and fridge's.

She entered the café to find that all the rectangle four chaired tables had already been laid with the ice blue tablecloths and the white and blue fake (but very real looking) flowers in the centre and that Becca was just finishing the lying the last round table.

'Just need to do outside,' Becca called, sensing her sister had just entered.

'Right you are,' Rys smiled fondly at her sister who was working hard, mainly because she didn't want her twin to change her mind about the barbecue. She then hurried outside and set up the round tables and placed the blue sun umbrellas in the centre.

She was just slotting the last chair in place when Becca joined her side.

'Everything except the menus done now,' Becca grinned, sitting down on a plastic chair under the shade of a sun umbrella.

'Right, I've finally mastered doing them, so give me a minute and I'll sort that,' Rys smiled. She had spent a lot of her free time for the last few weeks trying to master how to create a menu with her wand and had finally perfected it the night before.

'Place looks great, ladies,' Florean smiled, he had obviously spotted them from his shop (next door) and decided to have a nose. Both girls smiled politely.

'Thanks Florean,' Becca smiled.

'That's alright, say did you girls want your usual, on the house… I was a bit surprised that you didn't come and get any this morning.'

'Oh, are you sure?' Rys asked, surprised at the mans generosity and hoping there was no catch.

'Of course I'm sure, you two have been working hard all morning, least I can do,' and with that he disappeared inside.

He returned a few minutes later with two large sundaes and waited for each twin to claim theirs, having no idea which was which.

'Thanks, Florean, we should be open in about an hour, maybe we could sort a sandwich on the house, you know for a thanks,' Becca smiled as she spooned up a large amount of hot fudge and chocolate.

Florean nodded and hurried back inside to see to his own customers. Rys hurried into the café and pulled out the fifty blank menus from under the desk. She then sat down on one of the round tables and ate her ice cream while she turned each menu into the design Bex and her had decided on.

'Don't you think we should hirer help before we open?' Becca asked, joining her sister ten minutes later.

'While you were still in the land of nod I went and put out a load of fliers for waitresses, dear,' Rys smiled.

'Yes, but we still need help…'

'I met a nice girl, Louise Stewards, she was looking for a job, done some waitresing before, plus she had a friend who also wanted a job, they should be any minute-' the bell on the door rang and two girls walked in '-now' Rys finished with a smile.

Louise was a pretty red head with startling green eyes and her friend had short spiky black and pink hair and appeared to be chewing bubble gum.

'First things first, if we're to hire you, you need to lose the gum,' Rys said in a business manor to the raven-haired girl. She blew a large blue bubble and then spat the gum into a nearby bin.

'This is Charlie,' Louise muttered a little nervously, her green eyes watching her friend with worry. 'She's worked in lots of cafes and such.'

'Ok, have you got people skills?' Becca asked a little bluntly. Charlie smiled at her sarcastically (yet it was in a friendly sarcastic way) and hurried away from the group before walking back at them as if they were customers who had just entered. She smiled at them cheerfully and said

'Hello, welcome to River Sisters Sugar Heaven, would you like to look at our menu?'

'Not bad,' Rys muttered, almost completely impressed that the raven-haired girl had seemed so polite and professional. 'Ok, Louise, show me what you've got.'

Louise did the same tactic that her friend did, and if possible pulled it of better. Impressed, Becca and Rys continued to question the two girls for a further ten minutes before satisfied that they would do.

'Ok, change into your uniforms,' Becca smiled, conjuring two baby blue and white uniforms out of thin air. Both Louise and Charlie changed and Louise pulled her red hair into a high ponytail.

'Ok, so ready to open?' Rys asked the other three girls who nodded. With a large smile, Rys changed the sign on the door from closed to open and opened the door wide. She had pinned out several posters that morning to inform people that they would be opening today and so hoped that they would get at least a few customers.

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It seemed that the opening of a new shop had attracted more attention than the River sisters had expected. It seemed that lots of people had been shopping in Diagon Alley that afternoon and had spotted the new café and decided to give it ago.

'Right, one chicken and salad dish, one pasta and salad and one tuna and sweet corn sandwich,' Louise called into the kitchen to Rys just as Becca placed out three orders of ham and salad sandwich's that had been ordered last.

'Right you are,' Rys called and she started to work on the orders strait away.

'Coffee and strawberry milkshake!' Charlie yelled as she collected Becca's sandwiches.

'This is great!' Becca smiled as she glanced around the half full café. Charlie and Louise had already received about ten galleons tips for great waitressing and had been told to pass on compliments to the chiefs for excellent meals and drinks.

'Yup, I never guessed it would be this busy on our first day!' Rys called back as she started to fry the chicken fillet with a mixture of herbs and flavoured oils.

'I know! But its great!' Becca smiled, 'so you cant refuse to go to the twins tomorrow, and talking of the twins, erm… Fred, I think, has just walked in.'

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A/N: Sorry for the long wait but here's the next post. I don't think it's particularly good and I agree with anyone who says the twins have opened up and hired much too quickly but oh well, I wanted to get on with the relationships.

I'll try and get another post soon.

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