THE GIRL YOU NEVER KNEW

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 2

Freya was jolted awake from her sleep when she heard the constant buzzing of her cellphone. She kept declining the call and realized that it wouldn’t stop until she picks it up. Freya answered the call while she was half asleep without even looking at the caller ID.

“Huh thank the Lord, finally someone decided to answer the call !” without even looking at the caller ID Freya could already guess it was Gemma by hearing a voice full of sarcasm and annoyance. Upon receiving a call from her annoying and friendly co-worker, Freya was shocked and checked the time and it was only 3:00 a.m. she wondered what was the emergency.

“Gemma are you crazy? Why on Earth are you calling me at 3:00 a.m.?” Freya started throwing the question at Gemma. “Nobody would practically be calling at this of the day or answering any call at 3:00 a.m.” she added with annoyance.

“Okay fine, I am sorry for disturbing you sleeping beauty. I just wanted to ask a favor. Could you please take my shift at the café today and I’ll replace you on Monday? Please.” Gemma said in a pleading voice “It’s just for 2 hours, please.” she added while trying to talk me into it.

“Okay fine, I’ll take it. But you have to give me a good reason first.” Freya uttered. “I have a family emergency that I have to attend to and I’ll explain it to you as soon I’m back,’’ Gemma explained. “Thank you so much for understanding my situation.’’ She added in a happy tone.

“No problem. Text me the time and don’t forget to inform Sofia (our manager) at the café” Freya reminded her. “OMG thank you much Freya,” Gemma said and ended the call.

Since Freya was wide awake by her friend’s call, she just decided to start her day early as she also has to be at work by 10 am. She got out of bed and did her mundane routine. After making her bed and brushing her teeth, she went to start with her daily revision. Soon she realized that it has been 3 hours since woke up when she felt her stomach making some weird noises. She laughed at herself and went to the kitchen to make some pancakes and waffles for breakfast.

 “Hey, little sis, what you making for breakfast?” George said while sitting at the counter. “I’m making some of my favorite breakfast, why not take a guess big brother?” I said while pouring some mango juice on the glass.

“hmmm it smells delicious, I smell something sweet like maple syrup, and some butter of course and not to forget some chocolates…” he said while sniffing all the ingredients from the batter. “so, I’m guessing, you are making some delicious chocolate pancake and waffles?” he said while smirking. “Sometimes I just couldn’t help but wonder if our ancestors had some amazing genes that I didn’t inherit,” I said while flipping the pancake.

After breakfast, Freya went to her room to get showered and all cleaned up for her shift at the café. She packed all the essential stuff and went downstairs and grabbed her car keys. Before heading out to the garage she went to the kitchen hoping that her mom will be there, but to her surprise, she wasn’t there in fact no one was at home. She couldn’t help but wonder where they went. She looked at the clock and it was almost half-past nine, so quickly grabbed a sticky note from her backpack and wrote her location and stuck it on the door, and left to her car.

It was exactly 10 am and she was glad that she made it on time. She went to the staff room and put away her bag and put on her apron and get all the stuff that she needed for her work.

As she was doing her job taking orders from every table and serving their meal and drinks, Freya couldn’t help but feel uncomfortable. She felt that something was wrong and odd today. She thought that it was just her mind playing tricks on her and pushed that thought away from her mind and continued with her job.

It was almost 12 and Freya could help but be excited that her shift was going to end soon. She has felt this happy to be off work and she was shocked herself. When the clock struck 12, she quickly went to the staffroom and changed into her ordinary clothes and packed her thing and left the café as soon as possible. On her way to the car, she bumped onto something very hard like a wall, she was preparing herself for the fall but it never came instead she was in an arm of a handsome guy.

“Are you okay miss?” he asked with a concerned look on his face. “Y..Yeah, I’m fine.. Sorry I .. never mind. “I said just while just walking towards my car.