Chapter 3

What a job! After Antonia went through the whole tour she was exhausted and stressed. Her job was going to be a lot tougher on her than she thought! How was she going to going to keep up with it all? PLUS she was going to have to get another job since the payment wasn't enough for her to keep up with rent. She was now at her new apartment in which was actually a nice size. It had a great view of the ocean and she saw that she pretty high up too, which was great since she that way only few people could see what she was doing. For the time being she couldn't afford much other than a few cooking supplies and dinner.

Antonia sighed. This was going to be tough but she smirked, she loved a good challenge.

" Yes! I'M GOING TO DO IT!" she said punching the air.

Later that night she made a phone call to Françoise. After a couple of rings she heard her best friends thick french accent on the other line. Antonia smiled " Hola its me!~"

"MON AMI! JULCHEN! ANTONIA IS ON THE LINE!" screeched her friend joyfully.

Antonia could hear the albino say ' NO FUCKING WAY HOLD UP IM GOING'

Françoise chuckled " Antonia!~ How was your flight? Did you see the school?"

Antonia nodded " Si!~ I had a good flight and the school was great! It's so big and pretty!"

" Ahhhh~ that's good Antonia, well we are just here with Arthur~"

" Eyebrows is there? Tell him to go fuck himself!" Antonia laughed

" Arthur, Antonia says hi~" Françoise told him

She could hear him reply " What a bloody lie."

Antonia liked to tease the British man. Mostly because they went to school together and back then he was actually popular. Which annoyed her because she was popular first and then he came in and just took it all from her. But pasts in the past and she didn't want to think about it. Plus she forgave him long time ago. Now she just teases him, in which he just gets annoyed or flustered. Her best friend is dating him now and she honestly thinks that him and Françoise are a perfect match.

After some small talk she hung up and was walking out of her apartment building to some nearby cafe till she saw a for wanted sign across the street at some run down restaurant. Antonia stared at it momentarily. Was this a dream? She made her way to it and walked through the front door after peeking inside it.

The bell rang and she heard

" I'll be with you in just a moment!"

She walked up to the counter. The place really did look run down as if they'd get only 1 customer a week, or something. She sniffed the air and noted that it was however tidy, which relieved her a bit.

" Hello! How can I help you?" said a young lady that looked about 28 or so. For one she was tall and she seemed to be curvy. The thing Antonia noticed first was that her hair was a pretty shade of blonde. Antonia admired it, of course Françoise's hair was also a pretty shade of blonde she liked how she'd pull it back with a white headband and it would make her look cute.

" Uhh excuse me?"

Antonia shook her head and blinked " Ah! I'm sorry! I was just admiring your hair it's actually very pretty!" the spaniard said blushing a bit in embarrassment.

The tall blonde blushed as well and blinked at her. She reached up to touch her hair and then said " You think so?"

Antonia nodded " Yes! You look really cute!" She said laughing a bit.

The woman blushed and scratched her other arm " T-Thank you.." she said with a small smile.

" So I saw your wanted sign and I was interested on getting a job here." The spaniard said with a smile.

" Oh! You want...to work here?" the blonde said almost surprised.

" Yep! It says as a chef and dish washer, right?"

" Y-Yes! I've been looking to hire somebody for some time now but nobody seemed to want to work in a place like this..." replied the blonde " You see I work here alone so I've got to work hard to try to keep it in shape but with no help, it's very difficult to keep up."

The spaniard grinned " Then don't worry about it, I'll for sure help you out!"

" But the payment isn't very high here!... You might just buy 2 dinners with the amount your payed a week.." Antonia noted on how disappointed she sounded. But when it comes with Antonia she always LOVED a challenge.

" That's fine! I'll take the job! I've already got a job somewhere else so I'll manage!"

" R-Really! My god! This is great thank you so much...oh! What's your name?"

" I'm Antonia! I live right across the street!"

" Oh that's great! My name is Katyusha! I'll be your new boss then!"

" Pleasure to meet you Ms Katyusha!"

Ukraine shook her head " Pleasure is mine, Antonia! So when would you like to get started?"

" Well I was hoping as soon as possible! If you don't mind..."

" No not at all! This is perfect because we will be having a lot of work to do tonight!"

" Oh okay!"

" Give me a hand with the bread over here Antonia." Said Katyusha who was already in the back of the restaurant.

" Okay!" said Antonia cheerfully.

Antonia was a little shocked by how rundown the place looked during the day but was more shocked how lively it was by night. The place was almost like a loud crazy party filled with lots of men! It shocked Antonia on how crowded it was at the counter. Most of the men ordered just some drinks but then some would food too. Antonia noted that they must be here because of Katyusha, she had a maid uniform and to be honest, she looked incredibly cute in it. It had to be the reason why there was so many men. Katyusha told Antonia she'll make sure to get her one too, but not until next month.

Most of the men seemed to be Katyusha's friends, and to be honest most of them seemed to be from all kinds of places! Some were from gangs, others were from politics, out of town, business men etc. And all of them ranged from Antonia's age. Katyusha did warn her on how much work this was. And for only two girls, it was an awful lot of work. Antonia didn't know if she could keep up!

" Hey Katyusha! Who's the new girl?"

" Her name is Antonia! Be nice okay?" She'd say.

Once it was really late and the people left, a few costumers would now just come for some coffee, or a late snack.

Then we'd close at 4 am and reopen at 4 pm.

Katyusha told her that she doesn't need to come everyday just on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays because thats when the place was busiest. Antonia agreed with that idea. She'd just have to get used to not getting any sleep on Wednesday night.

1 week has passed ever since she came here to Turkey, and Antonia has been tired almost everyday now. Heck! She was so exhausted all the time smiling was no longer a thing for her. Every moment she got she went straight to bed, by god she was so tired she couldn't even teach without falling asleep on her desk!

It was 3:30 a.m. and the restaurant was quiet. Like every night, many men showed up for some drinks then left late at 2 am. To be honest, this restaurant was weird. It didn't have a proper name! Their customers would just give it the name 4 chicks. Clearly before Antonia came along their were 4 girls which included Katyusha, that all worked here and wore maid uniforms. She also heard that there was a challenge that if a guy could make all of the 4 chicks fall in love with him he'd be the manager. If his prize were to be manger that meant this place was a pretty big hit back then. She also heard that one guy did it and he was given the opportunity to become filthy rich, but they say he declined and apparently he broke the girls hearts so bad that they could no longer work here. Antonia pondered on why would a guy reject on something like that, first not only would you get a ton of money, and some acknowledgement but you would have power on the girls who were in love with you, which would make them do whatever you wanted. She frowned.

He had to be an idiot.

" Antonia! I'm so sorry but I've got to run home! My little brother called saying my little sister was 'up to no good again'. Could you please close shop? I promise to pay you back!" Katyusha looked desperate. I mean, she was holding Antonia's hands as she said this. Katyusha also mentioned that her little sister was a bit crazy.

Antonia, with all her might, gave a small smile " Yeah no problem it's okay."

" Really! Are you sure!? I don't want to leave you here on your own!"

"Don't worry! It might be something serious with your sister. I'll be fine okay? I live right across the street too so there's nothing to worry about."

" Gah!... Thank you so much Antonia! I promise to make it up to you! You're the best!" And with that, Antonia watched Katyusha run out of the restaurant.

She sighed. Just a couple more minutes till she can go home and sleep. Antonia rubbed her eyes and when she looked at her hands she realized how dirty they were. She went to go clean them and as she was turning on the sink her eyes got foggy.

Shit.

She was getting too tired to even focus on washing her hands. She smacked her cheeks to wake herself up and took a glance at the clock.

3:49 a.m.

Antonia thought it was best if she just went home, it was almost 4 anyway. But...what if a costumer came? This place /was/ desperate and plus Katyusha wouldn't approve of Antonia letting a customer slip, besides Katyusha did this job everyday. If Katyusha could do it, Antonia could do it.

This was a challenge.

And Antonia loved challenges.

When the clock finally ringed 4 a.m. Antonia couldn't even stand. She was so tired she couldn't even stand up. She tried opening her eyes and the restaurant was still bright and her vision was foggy. She rubbed her eyes again but they continued to be foggy, she needed to get home. She stood up and limped all the way to the light switch and turned off all the lights.

Step 2, retrieve purse. She looked around the now dark restaurant. It was so dark that it took a long while for her eyes to adjust

Thanks to the street lights she was able to make out her purse that was on the counter. She walked over slowly and retrieved it, not even checking if she had all her things.

Step 3, lock up and cross street. With all the energy she had left, she walked all the way to the front door, opened it and then closed it behind her.

When she locked it she leaned her back on the door and looked in front of her at the street light and apartment building. Her vision, however was getting too foggy. Antonia could now only see a big light across the street. She shook her head and stared across the street.

Run all the way home.

It was the fastest way to get to her warm ever so lovely bed. She smacked her cheeks and with one step she fell to her knees. She couldn't run. She'd have to take this slowly. She got up slowly.

" Shit, I can't see." She smacked her cheek again and shook her head to try to stay awake but it was no use. 48 hours without sleep and doing the jobs she did was impossible to stay awake. At this rate even the sidewalk was comfy enough for her to sleep on.

She took step by step to cross the street. C'mon Antonia, almost across.

Once Antonia was halfway bright lights shined at her from her left. Slow to react there was a truck heading at full speed at her. Clearly there was not enough time for her the truck to brake. Antonia stared at the lights with widened eyes. The truck was honking at her to hurry up and cross but she couldn't move. It was chilly and everything seemed to freeze her to the bone.

Then something grabbed her arm. She was yanked back and the truck roared tires screeching. She now suddenly felt warm. Someone was holding her close, but it was black. She realized her eyes were closed and they couldn't open, but with the last drop of energy she had she slowly opened them to see a blurry face looking at her. She could hear that the other was saying something but she couldn't make it out.

How unexpected...

Then all was black again.