''Excuse me for a second.''
Brittany catches her executive chef coat Kitty throws in her direction the second they walk past each other near the kitchen entrance not noticing the group following her in confusion and walks out into the main room immediately hearing the commotion, she walks over to the table Marley mentioned and clears her throat.
''Is there a problem sir?'' She asks as she notices several of her waiters standing in line with their arms crossed and frowns clear on their faces.
''I ordered my steak medium rare!'' The man yells outraged, he slams his plate and looks at her. ''This is not medium rare, tell that stupid piece of scu..''
''Watch it sir.'' Brittany tells him her voice firm. ''There are several children around this restaurant that don't need to hear a stranger curse out someone innocent, you either keep it down or you can leave.''
''Tell that stupid kid that your boss hired, that she needs to learn how to listen!'' The man tells her face turning red in anger.
Brittany just looks at the steak noticing he didn't even cut it and grabs the plate, she touches the meat noticing immediately that it's perfect and grabs the knife laying on the table. She cuts the steak in half showing him the steak and raises an eyebrow. ''This is medium rare sir.''
''That is still bloody!'' He yells. ''I don't eat rare meat!''
She blinks hearing several snickers around her and sighs. ''Medium rare, is still rare.'' She tells him. ''The name says it all and the menu also describes all stages of the meat and how we cook it.''
''The waitress that served you has years of experience and is one of the best walking around here.'' She continues as he just glares at her. ''We can't help it that you didn't read the steak options we offer.'' She adds noticing the menu on the table still in the same place where they put it on tables that are reserved.
''So it's my fault that, that stupid bi..''
''Strike two.'' Brittany cuts him off firmly. ''Watch the language sir.'' She warns her eyes flashing knowing the group followed including Nicolas and Beth.
''This is stupid!'' He yells enraged. ''I want to speak to your boss, now!''
Brittany licks her lips hearing the waiters behind her snicker and smiles slightly. ''You are speaking to her right now.'' She informs him with a kind grin.
''You?'' He scoffs out laughing. ''You are just a cook!''
''I am a cook, a waitress, a barkeeper.'' Brittany lists up. ''Every position that is needed to cover in here.'' She informs him. ''Brittany Susan Pierce.'' She introduces while nodding her head to the wall covered with pictures of all employees and her own face above the placate with her title. ''Restaurateur of Young, Wild and Crazy grills.''
''No way, you are just a kid.'' The man scoffs out angrily. ''I am not crazy.''
''Not young and wild either.'' One of the waiters mumbles a bit too loudly, Brittany turns to him sucking in her lips and nods her head to the back as she hears the customer growl.
''Go take a breather.'' She tells them, she shakes her head as they open their mouths to object and winks. ''All of you, now.'' She turns back to the man standing in front of her as they slowly walk away and sighs. ''I can offer to cook a new steak for you, medium or medium well?''
''I won't eat anything in this fu…''
''And that's strike three.'' Brittany tells him, once again cutting him off. ''Sir I will politely ask you and your accompany to leave my restaurant.'' She steps forward and mentions her hand to the door.
''No way! Customer is king, you have to..''
''I don't have to do anything.'' Brittany tells him. ''I politely pointed out that this is a family friendly restaurant and that we don't tolerate your tone around here.'' She informs him calmly, she mentions her hand to the entrance while also glancing at the woman slowly standing up with a shake of her head and turns back to him. ''Will you please leave my restaurant?''
''You will regret this!'' The man tells her as the woman tries to pull him away. ''I will make sure your restaurant will go down!''
Brittany just nods her head following him to the door to make sure he leaves and keeps the kind smile plastered on her face. ''I will look out to the yelp critic, enjoy your night sir.'' She turns to the woman shaking her head as she mouths an apology and smiles kindly. ''Have a nice night ma'am.''
She sticks her arm out halting the door as she notices the force he used to throw it shut, biting back a wince as she feels pain shoot through her arm and gently closes it chuckling as claps suddenly fill the area.
She turns to Kylie manning the hostess booth and sighs. ''You have his name?'' She walks over to the book as she nods her head and glances at it. ''Blacklist it, he is not allowed in here again.''
She takes off her jacket as she just nods her head immediately writing the name in a different booklet placed beside the other and walks back to the private area nodding her head to several customers as she grabs both plates off of the table, she hands the untouched food Jay as soon as she entered the private room and sighs.
''Pack it up and hand them out to the two guys sitting across the street, they didn't touch it at all and I won't throw a perfectly cooked meal away.'' She walks behind the bar noticing the group watching her after sitting back down and holds up a finger silently telling them that she will be right back with them, she knocks on the door leading to the break room and stands back knowing Marley will come out.
''You okay?'' She asks as she walks out, she smiles sadly as she nods her head the tear tracks clear on her face and sighs. ''Clock out and go home.'' She turns to Kitty and smiles. ''Join your girlfriend, we will call Ann and Fran in asking if they can cover the last two hours.''
''No I ca..''
''Please go home Marls.'' Brittany breaths out. ''We can handle it tonight, I will stay in too.'' She tells her softly. ''Go home, watch a movie and relax.''
''What happened to that asshole?'' Kitty asks anger clear in her voice.
''Kicked him out and he is on the list.'' Brittany replies. ''I won't tolerate anyone calling any of you names.'' She tells the both of them. ''Change and go home, Jay is off the clock now too so he will guide the both of you just in case.''
She hangs her jacket up beside the door leading to the kitchen as they nod their heads and walks to the employee exit, she opens the door leaning outside to look at the three using the breather to smoke and smiles. ''He is out and listed, smoke up and come back in?''
''Will do Britt.'' Kevin replies after stubbing his cigarette out. ''How is Marls?''
''Off the clock same goes for Kitty, can one of you call Fran and Ann asking if they can cover and explain what happened?'' She thanks John softly as he nods his head pulling out his phone and sighs. ''I will return back to my table but if you need help, just yell.''
She closes the door as they nod their heads and walks back to the table, she sits down with a shake of her head and sighs. ''Sorry about that.''
Quinn just shakes her head and chuckles. ''No need to apologize, that was quite impressive Brittany.''
''You handled that with a lot of calm, I would have kicked his butt the first time he tried to curse Marley out.''
''I thought I had to jump in any time.'' Puck breaths out laughing. ''You definitely managed to handle your anger Britt.''
''I can't go off on customers like I did on several teens annoying us during high school Noah.'' Brittany breaths out thanking Jay as he walks over with their food already dressed in street clothes, she turns back to them after wishing him a nice evening and shrugs. ''I can't ruin my name just because someone tries to set me off with something, I learned to take a different path and noticed that staying calm annoys someone more.''
''To make sure everyone around here stays calm and still enjoy their work, they all have an area in their break room that allows them to take a few minutes and scroll through TikTok on a tablet or use boxing equipment.'' She adds chuckling.
''Isn't the restaurant seriously understaffed now that Marley, Jay and the blonde woman left?'' Puck asks curiously, Brittany shakes her head and smiles as the employee door open.
''No we called two women who only work a few hours a week in for help, they mostly are on weekend call and will jump in whenever we need them.'' She explains as she watches them walk in. ''I will also stay here until closing time, so we will be fine.''
''Hey Bo..''
''Don't she threatened with the jar, if one of us call her that one more time today!'' Kevin exclaims before Fran can greet Brittany with a teasing grin, Brittany groans dramatically and throws him a glare.
''You just had to ruin my fun.'' She pouts, she shakes her head as he smirks and stands up greeting both women with a hug. ''Hey Fran, Hey Ann thank you for jumping in on short notice.''
''No problem, where do you need us?'' Ann asks with a big kind grin after greeting the people seated in the same booth.
Brittany looks around noticing that several parents already left, only the family of the goalkeeper still seated and turns to them. ''I am sure Jason can handle it in here, one at the bar and one walking around will be fine.''
''Who will do what?'' Fran asks chuckling.
Brittany shrugs and laughs. ''You pick, if you can't agree on it just go with the old school rock, paper, scissors.''
''We will, return back to your accompany Brittany.'' Ann tells her as she pushes her sister towards the main room. ''Don't even think about staying around after finishing your dinner, we can handle it, right boys?''
''Yes!''
Fran turns on her heels before she can push the door leading to the main room open and shoots Brittany a wink as she rolls her eyes. ''Keep a bit of energy for tomorrow, you already had a long day yesterday.''
''Yes mom.'' Brittany calls out faking a grumble, Fran laughs and shoots her a wink.
''Good girl.''
''Long day yesterday?'' She turns back to the group hearing their simultaneous question and just nods her head with a chuckle.
''I didn't sleep at all.'' She tells them shrugging. ''After I went to the gym, I just went home to change, pack my bag for training and left again.''
''What?!''
Brittany covers her full mouth as they all look at her with wide eyes and chuckles, she holds up a finger taking a sip of her drink and smiles slightly. ''I have a third job that I only do on Friday or Saturday.'' She informs them.
''Wait.'' Puck breaths out frowning. ''So you own a restaurant, are a second division soccer star but you have a third job going too?''
''Only on the weekend.'' Brittany breaths out shrugging.
''That's a lot Brittany.'' Santana breaths out as Quinn nods her head in agreement.
''Mami, Beth and I are bored.'' Nicolas breaths out finishing the drawing on the back of the menu.
Brittany turns to him as Santana tries to take out her phone and smiles slightly. ''Hey Nicolas, did you open the big red door with the car on it last time?'' She stands up as he shakes his head and turns to Puck. ''Can you make place Noah?''
''Go ahead, it should be open.'' She tells him.
''Can I mami?'' Santana just nods her head as she notices the door not too far away from them and smiles.
''Go ahead.'' She looks up at Brittany and raises an eyebrow. ''Can he keep the door open?''
Brittany nods her head and turns to Quinn and Puck. ''Beth can join him too, I think she will love it just as much.''
''Come on princess.'' Puck breaths out. ''Let's see what aunt B hides behind that door.''
''Whoa!'' Brittany turns on her heels hearing Nicolas's squeal and laughs softly as Santana and Quinn practically stumble over each other to see what excited him.
''Holy F..'' Brittany slides behind Puck covering his mouth before he can curse and chuckles.
''Little ears.'' She slides the chair standing behind the door under the doorknob so it stays open and smiles as she watches Nicolas walk around the playroom, she turns to the three adults and snickers as they turn to her in surprise.
''We have one in the main room too, this room is mostly for celebrities and kids often get bored quickly so I build play rooms for them to keep them happy too.''
''This is amazing.'' Quinn and Santana breath out in unison as they watch Nicolas lead Beth over to a doll house in the corner of the room, Santana turns to her and chuckles.
''Why the hell isn't your restaurant known around the city?''
''Because not everyone visits a restaurant that just opened.'' Brittany breaths out chuckling. ''But we are working hard to make a name for us, we all keep an eye on yelp and immediately comment on critic so people know both sides of the story.''
''Now your comment about keeping an eye out for that customers critic makes sense.'' Quinn breaths out, she turns to her best friend and shrugs. ''The kids are happy, go back to our table?''
Brittany walks over to the bar as they walk back to the table and leans over it grabbing a bottle of coke, she walks back to the table placing it in the middle as she sees that Jason took the moment they left the table to clean it and slides back into her seat beside Puck.
''So what is your third job?'' Puck asks with an eyebrow raised.
Brittany chuckles pouring coke in her glass and bites her lip. ''Straight to the point like always.'' She smiles slightly as they just turn to her with an eyebrow raised and shrugs. ''You all heard of DJ Blue Diamond?''
''Isn't that the masked DJ that is the talk of Avalon and Exchange at the moment?'' Puck asks curiously. ''The one no one knows where he is from?''
Brittany hums softly and chuckles as they just turn to her in confusion. ''She.'' She corrects snickering, she raises an eyebrow a smirk slowly forming on her lips and laughs softly as Santana catches on first.
''No way.'' Santana breaths out in surprise. ''You are Blue Diamond?'' She asks softly.
''What?!'' Brittany winces as Puck yells and pushes him.
''Keep it down Noah.'' She breaths out rubbing her ear. ''I am sitting right beside you.''
''You are blue diamond?'' He asks with wide eyes. ''What the fuck Britt.'' As Quinn and Santana just look at her in shock.
''Jay's brother runs both clubs.'' Brittany breaths out shrugging. ''He approached me a few months ago stressed as hell asking if he could leave early because the DJ got sick, it was a relative calm night while it was in the beginning so I offered to drive him.''
''People were quite cranky and Jay couldn't handle their moods and the way they booed him out whenever he made a small mistake.'' She explains. ''So I jumped beside him after grabbing one of the masks laying around their and helped him out.''
''That was your first try?'' Quinn just asks with an eyebrow raised, Brittany turns to her and chuckles.
''First big one yes, I was mostly in charge of the music during college and some high school parties in the Netherlands so I knew what I was doing.'' She explains. ''One thing led to the other and since a month and a half now I join one of the clubs Friday or Saturday night depending on when I have a match and spend the night in the DJ booth.''
Brittany locks eyes with Puck and smiles slightly. ''That is also the reason that I bought a house in South Pasadena and chose a secluded neighborhood, I wear that mask so no one recognizes me and I can still work here from time to time, but the second I make a name for myself in the soccer world I need a place where I can relax without people finding me easily.''
''Makes sense.'' Quinn and Santana breath out in unison knowing how bad fans can be.
''So to put it all down, you are quite known without people knowing it's you.'' Puck breaths out.
Brittany nods her head and chuckles. ''Yeah kinda.''
''Bo..''
''Fran!'' Jason warns laughing, Fran laughs as Brittany just turns to her with an eyebrow raised and smiles sheepishly.
''It's almost nine and most customers left already, we will start cleaning up.''
''Did we just spend six hours here?'' Brittany asks in surprise, she sucks in her lips as Jason just nods his head snickering and turns to the three sitting around her noticing the surprise in their eyes too. ''Yeah we will go so you all can lock up.'' She breaths out as she stands up.
Santana calls Nicolas over as Puck jogs to the playroom to grab Beth and ruffles his hair. ''It's time to go home mijo.'' She whispers as he yawns, she grabs his jacket as he nods his head and helps him slide it on.
She thanks Fran softly as she wishes them a nice night after Brittany jogged off to wish her employees a nice day off tomorrow and follow her to the employee entrance after they all grabbed their purses, bags and jackets, she walks out unlocking her car immediately and kisses Nicolas's head. ''Jump in mijo.''
She smiles as he nods his head holding up one finger and watches him turn to Brittany thanking her with a big happy grin for the captain band, she chuckles as he climbs into the car after hugging Quinn, Puck and Beth and turns to Brittany after hugging her best friends and kissing the little girls head. ''Thank you for lunch slash dinner today Brittany, see you tomorrow.''
She slides into her car after they all wished each other a good night and starts her car, she waves at them as she drives off chuckling as Puck honks, Brittany's honking following right after and glances in the rear view mirror. ''Go to sleep mijo.'' She tells him softly as she notices his eyes droop. ''We will be home soon.''
Five hours later.
''Hey Santana.''
''Brittany?'' Santana asks in confusion as she watches the blonde walk into her bedroom. ''How did you get in here?'' She frowns as she notices the uniform the blonde wears. ''Did we sleep through your match?'' She breaths out in shock.
''No you didn't beautiful.'' She just blinks as Brittany takes off her shirt, squeezing her legs together as she watches defined abs ripple with every move and gulps thickly.
''Wha…'' She gasps as the blonde suddenly appears right in front of her, straddling her hips clad in a pair of laced lingerie. ''Bri..''
Her eyes widen as thin pink lips suddenly crash on her own, unable to bite back the moan and inwardly curses her hands as they immediately find the blonde's hips. She gasps into the kiss as she suddenly feels her naked skin against her own, pulling out of the kiss to look at her and gulps thickly as lust filled blue orbs lock on her own. ''Brittany.'' She whispers softly.
She arches her back moaning as long slender fingers cup her breast not even noticing that the hot blonde undressed her and digs her fingernails in the soft skin of her hips.
''Yes?'' She hears her breath out teasingly against her hammering pulse point.
''Don't stop.'' She just chokes out pushing her chest up into skilled hands.
''I'm not planning to baby.'' She hears her husk out as she feels her tongue trail a warm wet path down her neck to her breast, she moans loudly as a skilled tongue twirls around her nipple, her hands getting lost in silky blonde locks as she feels her bite her nipple and bucks up.
''Please.'' She just moans out as she feels her hands slide down her body.
She looks down as she feels her warm body slide down her own spreading her legs as she feels her slide between them and arches her back with a soft gasp as she feels a pointed tongue run through her folds. ''Dios Mio, Britt!'' She moans out as skilled fingers thrust into her, immediately finding her sweet spot and her skilled tongue circle around her clit throws her over the edge almost immediately.
Santana wakes up with a gasp, quickly covering her mouth to muffle any noise that might have slipped out and looks around with wide eyes. ''What the fuck.'' She breaths out as she notices that she is alone in her room.
She drops back down with a loud groan squeezing her legs together as she feels a hard throb and covers her face blushing bright red as she immediately notices the stickiness. ''It was a fucking dream.'' She breaths out groaning.
She drops her hand from her face and slides out of her bed, she returns back to her room after freshening up, the cold water she splashed in her face effectively cooling her down and sits down on the edge of her bed.
''What the hell does this mean querido?'' She croaks out as she eyes the last family picture they took, three weeks before her boyfriend passed away in a car crash.
she shakes her head as she gazes into his bright blue orbs, noticing his brilliant smile as he looks up at three year old Nicolas held above his head and drops down on her back with a sniffle. ''I fucking need you here with us Marcus.'' She chokes out.
She slides back under the covers playing with the bracelet he gave her the day he asked her to be his girlfriend and shakes her head. ''We need you here with us.'' She mumbles tiredly as her thumb runs over the birthstone she added to the bracelet after they found out she was pregnant.
I am always with the both of you querida, you know what your feelings mean, be open and allow it to happen.
''I don't.'' She mumbles in her sleep as his voice enters her restless dream the second she drifted off, she moves her head as she hears his soft hum and tries to look around for him.
You do know sunshine, you just don't allow it to happen. Stop holding back and be happy querida, I will be happy when you are.