Waiting Game

The time was roughly 5:30 pm. Sam was wiping down the counters after a messy customer had spelled his plate all over. Today, was dragging on so slow it was like watching paint dry for the last two hours. Straightening up the salt and pepper shakers, Sam was still in disbelief that she'd spilled the beans to Austin. It was as if the light at the end of tunnel was finally insight.

"Sam, can you go in the back and grab more bacon for me?" Rhonda had asked from the register.

"Sure, no problem," walking to the back of the kitchen to grab the bacon and as she walked back to hand it to Rhonda it hit me. I haven't been this happy to be at work in a long time, I mean the people who work here are great it's just the fact that Austin will be coming here to spend time with me until I'm off tonight. With some luck Rhonda would let me go a little earlier, but that's one reason why I didn't tell her Austin was coming. I didn't want the diner to be short handed on my account, and plus what if Austin didn't show up? He probably will, but just until he did I'm not saying anything.

"Excuse me, miss?" A customer asked. Ending my train of thought. "Is it okay to sit anyway?"

"Yes ma'am, that's fine sit anywhere you'd like." The woman smiled after answering her question thanking her and then took a seat at the booth near the door.

"Okay, the counter is finally clean." I whispered. Looking up at the clock it was barely quarter til 6. The time was just crawling by, what to do with another fifth-teen minutes was the question?

What do you think Shelby would do if she found out that Austin and I could possibly become item? Since when do I care what she thinks? It's not worth stressing over, she's the biggest waste of space and is no smarter then the average rock. It was still scary to think about, I mean what if she tries to interfere with us? Hopefully, she'll just leave Austin and me alone, bad chance though.

She turned her attention back to what she was going to talk about with Austin. She wasn't sure of what they could talk about, even though we had never had problems before, meeting in person was a little difficult. Tonight has to go well or I don't know what I would do. the first actual face to face meeting of Nomad and PrincetonGirl would be the foundation of a possible relationship. The mystery of them not knowing who each other were was fuel of their relationship online. What if meeting in person kills the connection? What's going to fuel their relationship now?

"Sam, you look nervous about something, is everything okay?" Rhonda tapping me on the shoulder causing her to jump suddenly. "Sam?" She asked again.

"Yeah, Rhonda, I'm fine. I just can't thinking about last night," she sighed and continued her work duties.

"Well, is there something I could do to help?" Looking me straight in the eye. She could see right through no matter what she tried to hide. It was almost 6 o'clock. She decided to tell Rhonda everything.

"I talked to him before work today and told him who I was." Looking down. "I'm just a little nervous. He is suppose to meet me here in a couple of minutes, I'm just scared of how to go about keeping him interested in me since the mystery is gone."

"Sam, that's the challenge that everyone goes through when they start dating, the best advice I can give you is just be yourself." Placing her hands on Sam's shoulders to comfort her. "Isn't that the reason he wanted to you in the first place?" Rhonda was always the one who would pick her up when she fell, and this time was no different.

"You're right, I don't know why I was worrying so much." As she said that Austin walked in the door. She panicked, Oh my god he's here(thinking in my head), but the look on his face said it all. He was excited and anxious to talk to her. She smiled back wondering what she was going to say when he reached her. "Hey." Smiling even bigger as he pulled out some flowers from behind his back. It didn't even matter that he was two minutes late.

"Sorry, I'm a few minutes late. I didn't want to show up empty handed."

Grabbing the flowers from him and smelling them all her worries disappeared, even if it was just for that moment.