Work was just as bad as it always was, sleeping with a freezing cold, incredibly handsome man had been nearly impossible. working a zip's had potential to be fun, but Tessa's fellow employees were almost all stuck in a teenaged frame of mind. While serving the customers and interacting with the public was enjoyable (most of the time), the back room known as the prep room was like the gossiping hallway of a high school.
"so I talked to Sam this morning." Audrey gloated. " she told me you had a little sleep over last night. Who is he?" her girlish grin was ghoulish.
"order up!" jack called from the grill, saving Tessa momentarily. She rushed over grabbing the plate out of his hand. "your not safe till your shift ends." he teased.
"ha ha ha." she mocked turning away. Table five had ordered only one meal, hamburger, rare as was legal, and no drink. Backing out the door Tessa headed to the back of the dinning room, she turned to face her unusual customer, she came face to face with Demetri. His handsome face lit up with up with a smile. "I thought you were going to speak with Aro. What are yo doing here?"
"it was a fast conversation." she placed the plate on his table.
"let me know if you need any thing else sir." she gave him a cold smile and headed back to the back room.
"so who's this mystery man?" she was bombarded the second the doors swung closed behind her. Audrey, Lucy and Vikki were standing in a huddle obviously discussing her.
"it's none of your business." Tessa snapped feeling attacked. " if I let a friend stay the night, that's my business. He happens to be a good friend who needed a place to sleep." she had no idea why she felt like she needed to defend herself.
"well Sam said he called you princess. That don't sound friendly to me." Tessa thought to herself that she was going to kill Sam later.
"it's an old nick name from my child hood." she lied.
"you still haven't supplied the buggers name." Lucy demanded. "I heard he was a looker. If he's nothing but a friend to you maybe he can be something more to me." Tessa knew that her so called friends were tugging her chain trying to get a rise out of her.
"his name is Demetri, and he is sitting at table five right now. Go ask him out if you want, but I don't think you're his type. He tends to go for rich girls, you know the classy type." Lucy's face dropped.
"lets go meet Tessa's little boy friend." Vikki encourage her posse as she headed out the double doors. Not even stopping to check their own customers the heard of waitresses headed straight to the back of the large room to table five, and Demetri.
Tessa wanted to laugh, it served him right for coming to her work. She had asked him to stay away. He didn't look surprised when the girl surrounded his table. "is there something I can help you ladies with?" he asked, Tessa suddenly realized that his accent that she had thought peculiar before would come off as sexy to the other females.
"we're friends of Tessa, and since we love her so much…" Tessa could hear the sarcasm dripping from Vikki's words. "and she refuses to give us a straight answer about who you are we have come to find out for our selves."
"yeah, what exactly is your connection with Tessa." Lucy chimed in. Demetri cocked his head and gave an amused smile. His eyes moved over Tessa with a hidden smile.
"surely the princess has told you… we are old friends. Went to school together all those years ago. I'm new in town she offered me a place to stay till I can get a place of my own." he didn't mention that he had the money to buy plaza hotel never mind stay there. As a matter of fact his story mirrored hers, how could he have known that was what she told the girls.
"oh." was all Audrey could say. The girls didn't seem satisfied by either of their answers. When the girls turned to concur, as if reading her mind Demetri gave Tessa a wink.
"well if you jackals are satisfied my shift is over and I'm sure after that ambush Demetri would like to get out of here." at that Sam came through the front door prepared to take over her shift. Tessa removed her grimy apron handed it to jack who was standing at the kitchen door, punched her time card and walked past her room mate. "thanks for throwing me to the lions." she mumbled as she walked out the door Demetri hot on her heels.
"ready?" Demetri asked grinning again.
"for what now?"
"Aro wants to meet with you once more."
"yeah well we are all goanna sit down and have a nice long talk."
"about what would you like to talk? I'm just wondering."
"oh you'll see."
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This one doesn't have much I just wanted to give you an idea of the everyday life that Tessa has, all of the things she goes through makes her who she is.
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