New Job Rendezvous

Caroline found her new job as Bon Appétit patissier and new life among her co-workers, it was sort of like going from high school to college, Caroline got to start over and create whole new persona for herself with none of the bad memories associated with her past.

In her first day at the restaurant, Caroline was informed she had a Baker's assistant but she had yet to meet her, she tried to locate her among the staff but failed miserably, that is when petite young girl with a toothy smile appears in front of her, "Hi Caroline, I'm Anna your assistant" she flashed her Smile that will probably hurt her face-typical-, "Hallo Anna nice to meet you," She smiled politely at the her, "nice to meet you too, I believe I should start giving you tour around the place, shall we?" she beamed at Caroline enthusiastically, "we shall" Caroline said, "we are going to have so much fun." Anna added with the same cheerful voice, Caroline nodded and followed the cute girl, and indeed they had WAY too much fun I mean the girl was like a broken radio, she talked nonstop commenting about almost everything and everyone they pass by, she tidbit about each of Chef Alaric and Manager Lu. Chef Alaric (Rick) is also talented French-trained chef and Manager Lu seems to have some sort of personal relationship with Klaus. Chef Alaric oversees all of the food preparation and Manager Lu oversees everything else.

And finally there's the self-proclaimed captain of the wait-staff, Tatiana, aka Tatia, she doesn't like her name much but Anna doesn't know why, Caroline later discovered that Tatia was named after her late Grams with Bulgarian origin and her full name is 'Tatiana Penvilia Petrova'!, after second thought she could understand where her dislike to her name was coming, if that was her name she would despise it too, who wants to be named after some old dead Grandma from hell anyway!

Tatia is at the head of the pecking order for the single young women in Bon Appétit, due to her look and her rank as wait-staff captain. That is of course, until Caroline appeared on the scene. When Anna revealed that Tatia has hot and heavies for Klaus, Caroline is incredulous. THAT puffy wind bag of Arrogance! But Anna defended Klaus mayhap too quickly and Caroline wondered if Anna likes him too. Anna huffed away and said that isn't just her but all of the Bon Appétit women are in love with him.

Caroline wondered what kind of restaurant she got herself into. Is this Klaus's restaurant or his fan club!

Still let's get in line to defend Klaus.

He's good looking, dresses well.

He's passionate, intelligent and well-spoken.

He's likely polygon.

He loves his mom (though he got his own way of showing it).

He's good at sports.

Sometimes he got this cute puppy dog kind of sad looking face when he start reminiscing about the past…

Hey! Why are we repeating after Anna?

Ahem!, Back to the story.

After the much needed tour, Caroline opened her first day with joyful face; apparently she had to create a very special dark chocolate mousse cake (Marquis Au Chocolate) for costumer who wanted to surprise his wife with diamond ring. Caroline dropped the ring into 6 inch tower chocolate mousse cake, and the woman soon started to eat the cake.

Luckily, the woman found the ring on one of her first bites and was overjoyed at her husband's thoughtfulness. I say luckily because had the ring been at the bottom of the cake, the husband would have had to force his wife to eat maybe 3,000 of calories worth of sugar, saturated fat and cholesterol by herself in order to find the ring!

Caroline watched the happy couple wistfully until she noticed Anna beside her, "aren't they look adorable!" she pointed admirably, "who? Oh! That one, he used exactly the same trick, his girlfriend was this much thrilled last week" Anna informed her chuckling under her breath amusedly. This set Caroline off "what? How dare he to do that!" she grunted furiously as she made her way towards the couple, Anna was horrified at the look of pure anger on Caroline's face she glanced at Tatia who had the same look on her face as Anna's. the duo tried to restrain Caroline from approaching the table, "where you think you are going?" Tatia said between gritted teeth, "Caroline, don't do it, you're going to make a scene" Anna tried to reason her. But to no avail, Caroline was determined to give piece of her mind to another cheating husband.

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A yellow cap stopped at the gates of Bon Appétit and the one and only Klaus Michelson stepped out of it, wearing a dark jacket over white shirt with the two top buttons open and a washed blue jeans, he also wore the infamous trademark smirk which probably will make most of the female population faint, today he looked and felt rather excited he noted as he entered the doors that it has something to do with certain feisty little blonde, speaking of which, 'what on earth is she doing?' he sow Caroline standing over an irritated couple, she was giving them what he concluded as history lecture about the origin of some cake and not-so-subtle hint to the guy to stop freaking cheating on his wife! And then he noted the look she was giving the guy, the same look she gave him the other day right before she smashed the cake on his face, Oh no! this can't be good the poor guy was in extreme danger, Klaus had to act quickly before she spill the beans, he hurried to the table and practically dragged her all the way to his office, once they were inside and the door was locked then it was her turn to get lectured, "what were you thinking huh?, you can't just go and yell at the customers like that, not to mention accusing them and interfering their personal issues" he latterly barked at her the anger evident in his eyes, but Caroline wasn't backing down "well I can't just sit back pretending it's nothing and watch him lie to her like that" she shot back at him with equal manner, he looked at her in disbelieve "why do you care? You aren't a social worker you ARE a Chef, act like one, your job is serving them their orders not nagging them about their life details, it's not professional nor rational" he somehow tried to knock some sense in her, but Caroline wasn't having any of it, "professional! Excuse me but I was in my best behavior, otherwise that pig would be having serious medical conditions right now" she was trying to keep her voice low but that proved to be very difficult, Klaus had enough of this "you know, the people I detest the most are those who let their personal agendas overtake their duties, and I wouldn't allow such behavior under this roof, so get a grip and get back to your work" he exhaled in frustration and walked out. Caroline was standing there puzzled, what he meant with 'personal agendas', was he implying that he remembered her from the Christmas Eve Night of Thousand Horrors!, and the worst thing is, she can't confirm what he knows without giving it away, she thought to herself 'Oh God! I'm screwed…'

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The two women that were in the Airplane together are at the airport, the window seat woman has gotten on a bus and looked out the window were the aisle-seat woman was waving her goodbye and shouting "Good luck!", she waved her back and when the bus took off, she looked at her cell phone at a picture of her and Klaus together! She asked out loud 'you're not still mad at me, are you?'

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Hooo! Mad about what? I can smell something wicked in the air can you? Let me know what you think about this chapter, and stay tuned for the next chapter it'll be up later today.

Xoxo

Camille

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