Chapter four
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Sophia POV
“We have 2 plates of spaghetti Henry,” I say passing them the piece of paper while I go get the couple their lemonade for the evening, I pass a distressed Eve who is rushing with a drink in her hand am pretty sure the wrong one.
It's been 2 months we're still popping or successful as normal people call it, I hired 2 more staff Eve, Henry, and Lara my neighbor works full time. Our work has doubled since more people have heard about Rosie's and it has to do with the advertisements I put on the internet too.
Our prices also increased and so did our income thus Henry who helps Andrea in the kitchen and Eve who is an extra waitress, I serve the couple with a smile and walk up to mark our 19-year-old singer, he has been using our stage for a month now he comes 3 times a week to perform his songs sometimes he does covers but its better than a stereo and he does it for free cause according to him, he has nothing else to do but I’m pretty sure he's here because of Eve who is also 19 but only helps out in the evenings.
I tell him to play Perfect by Ed Sheeran he frowns
“Why?”
“That couple over there” I point to a blonde girl and a brown-haired guy at a booth in the center
“Uh-uh”
“The guy is about to propose and she should be finding the ring in her drink anytime soon” Play it I nod at him
He nods and starts and I head to the counter I watch from the counter as the girl shrieks when she almost swallows the ring making the guy laugh and every head turns to them, the guy smiles sweetly at her and goes on one knee grabbing the ring from her he starts professing his love and I see some people eyes filled with tears with the beautiful words his saying and the girl is full blown crying forgetting her make up, Johnny comes forward with his camera to capture the moment when she says yes making everyone in the restaurant clap before we all start moving again, it truly is beautiful.
When it's finally 10 pm we all get to cleaning and Mark is hanging around even though he was supposed to leave 3 hours ago.
I finish with my work when everyone is gone I close up the shop before walking outside into the night.
I stick my hand in my jacket since it is really cold, I'm whistling to myself, the streets are empty since I closed later than the others and it is currently noon, so imagine my surprise when I crash into a man wearing a black t-shirt which is weird if you ask me when its this cold at nights and jeans my hand immediately goes down to help him since he fell on the floor and he's groaning
“s**t!! s**t!! s**t!!”
“Oh my god I’m sorry” I grab his hand and hoist him up but he's in pain I can see that
I look at his hand and see, that he has a large cut on his arm and it's currently bleeding my guess is from when he fell something must have cut his arm
“Holy s**t, you need to stitch that up”
“You think?” He says in that accent again, God help me
It was dark so I couldn't really see his face, “my house is close by I can help you with it” Since I caused it I say hurriedly staring up at his eyes
He shook his head, “I can easily get this fixed”
I shook my head grabbing his good arm, “Come on let's go I caused this let me fix this, “what are you doing Sophia, he could practically be a serial killer my mind reminds me
But that accent I shiver
“You're taking a stranger to your home?” He says sounding so confused
I shrug my shoulders
“I could be a r****t and serial killer-"
“Are you?” I pause turning to him
“No” he replies immediately
“Okay” I shrug and lead him past the gates them up the stairs, I open the door and we enter the living room I turn to him and am pretty sure my jaw is on the floor and drool is dripping out of my mouth, the man in question is as tall as me maybe taller with wide shoulders but not too wide and a lean body with obvious abs from the now red T shirt he's wearing which is not black, and black jeans with his long legs, the black shoes his wearing looks expensive, I look to his face he has dark brown hair almost black, then down to his dark brown eyes, but its hazel colored when the lights hit his eyes, down to his perfectly straight nose, straight and sharp jawline, he has a little stubble making him even more handsome if I do say so myself and pink plump lips, which is pulled into a grimace probably from the pain, his tan skin is glittering with sweat like he just flew in from the Bahamas and he was drenched in water
“Are you going to help me or stare at me all day?” I hear a voice say
But I’m too busy staring
“Ugh hey lady” he calls out awkwardly
“Uh?” I answer dazed
“I’m losing blood Lady,” he says
Oh oh I snap out of my staring, “I’m sorry I had something on my mind” I rush to my bathroom grabbing my first aid box, and heading back to the living room where he has settled on the couch
I gulp, I swear, I’m close to getting naked and asking this guy to take me to bed but am pretty sure he will run away thinking am crazy.
I take a sit on the coffee table across from him and start to clean up the wound, “I’m Sophia” I say
He frowns for a while, “I’m Alexander”
“Well that's pretty long so I'll just call you Lex or Alex” I raise a brow at him
He frowns “You don't know-"
“Know what?” I say while passing the needle through his wound
“It's nothing,” he smiles a bit, but grimace when I pull the thread
When I’m finally done with wrapping the bruise we both stand up, “I’m sorry again”
He nods, “it's okay you did fixed it”
I smile and nod, “how about I give you a free cup of coffee or tea and a cupcake for free tomorrow, you could swing by Rosie's”
“Rosie's?” he frowns
Oh I walk to my purse and grab a sticky note writing down the address I hand it to him, “It's just an am sorry gift”
“I'll think about it,” he says before climbing down the stairs and leaving through the gates, I watch him leave before I enter my apartment heart beating wow, he was just wow, I don't know why I invited him to Rosie's, but maybe it has to do with the fact that I want to see him again but I quietly make it to my kitchen grabbing a cupcake eating it up with some milk before going to bed after a bath.
I wake up with a smile, and do my normal routine, but today I take extra care of my hair blow drying my hair and braiding it in two, I decide a little eyeliner and foundation won't hurt but I decide against the foundation, I apply mascara, filling my brows and brushing it up I apply a little bit of pink eye shadow then mascara along with my pink cherry lip gloss I don't know why I'm doing this but I think it has to do with the fact that I'm gonna see that hottie again even though he never said he would come and he just said he would think about it but who could resist free food.
When I’m done I head to my closet, I did a little bit of shopping so I grab my new pair of blue jeans with a nude long-sleeve sweater top, grabbing my jean jacket with small hand straps I put it on sliding in my new pair of white sneakers, combing my hand through my hair I know I might be a little late with the time am wasting so I easily make a sandwich and head outside walking to Rosie's.
Lara and I usually go together and when I don't see her on the way I know I’m late when I reach the front door, Andrea and Lara are waiting outside and I see their surprised faces when they see me, I know I would look at myself like that too
“I’m sorry am late guys, I got held up with something”
“What's the occasion?”
“It's not your birthday??”
I roll my eyes and chuckle opening the door, “What!! I can't look good anymore??”
“Did you get a boyfriend or something?” Lara ask
“No gosh guys” We head to the kitchen grabbing our aprons and get started on work, Rosie comes down the stairs to help
“It's not your birthday, is it? Oh my god am forgetting things, I am old!!”
“No Rosie, I just wanted to look good today” I reply
“Did you get a boyfriend?” she raises a brow at me
“No,” I say grabbing a bowl of mouth-watering cookies and head to the counter where Lara is cleaning a small scowl on my lips but a smile fighting through
Here I hand it to her going back inside to grab the pies, we always sell everything so it's no surprise we have to make new ones every morning, we are finally done and I open up the store, and I head to the counter.
It dings immediately and I look up with a smile expecting Lex but instead, river enters
He does this every morning for the past month comes in the morning and hugs a seat by the window to himself for the morning while sipping on tea and typing away on his laptop, he does not ever talk to me, just to ask me about the finances, sometimes I catch him staring at Lara and I but say nothing.
Lara grabs his normal and heads to him and he pays and does exactly what I just explained, the morning goes by and my smile drops each time the wrong person walks through the doors.
We lock up and get ready for the evening, henry and Eve comes in when we open up Mark takes his usual position and everything just goes by normally
“Hey, are you okay?” Eve asks me while we clean the tables, “You have been pretty quiet today”
“It's nothing” I send a fake smile her way which she believes when we finish she leaves and the place is empty I switch off the lights.
I have dinner with Rosie and Johnny before leaving, it's 11 pm and I am walking quietly on the streets when I feel someone following me, I pick up my pace, in the span of 2 months nothing like this has ever happened when I hear someone call my name
“Sophia!!”
I turn around speechless, its dark and I can't make out his face but I know it's Lex
“Alex?”
He nods and walks beside me
“You didn't come” I state
“I was busy” he bits his lips
“Oh” I replied staring at everywhere but him
“Yeah” he bounces on his heels
Well isn't this awkward, “You can come have the cupcake in my house but am not sure I have tea but I do have coffee,” okay now I just sound desperate, or not... “
“You could if you want to" I add
He laughs which sends sparks down my spine, “I'll love to”
I nod and we reach my house I open up the door and we both walk in, I switch on the lights and I see his eyes rake all over my body from my face down to my toes
I smile and walk into the kitchen removing my Jacket and laying it on the stool
“I don't think it's okay to have such sweets in the evening” he removes his brown jacket his muscles flexing under his light blue long-sleeved shirt, his brown hair is swiped back with gel and I swallow,
“please take me,” I say but I don't think he hears me
I chuckle, “Well then there's a first time for everything,” I grab the vanilla cupcake from the fridge, “Do you take coffee?”
He nods, “black”
I nod and start on the coffee his eyes studying my every movement
So Alex, “You're from London?”
He snorts “You have no idea”
“Uh?”
“Yes I am if it's not obvious” he replies a cheeky smile on his face
I chuckle “I have to ask to be sure,” now you just sound stupid my inner self laughs in my face
“And you Sophia?” he drawls out, my name rolling off his tongue like chocolate
“New York” I reply
“And you're here why?” he raises a brow at me, curiosity on his face
“Reasons Reasons” I shrug my shoulders
“So you own Rosie's?” he ignores my gauge answer
“No, I smile, it belongs to this old couple I just manage for them and I’m also a waitress. You?”
“Well I really don't have a specific job” he shrugs leaning on the counter and watching me surprise clearly on his face
I smile, “I know how you feel, to survive you have to do what it takes”
He chuckles and takes a sip of his coffee before tasting the cupcake, “this is nice” he says after a bite
“Just nice?”
He raises a perfectly plucked eyebrow, “it's perfect”
I smile “That's more like it”
He laughs lowly before finishing up his cupcake, “thank you” he nods
“It's no problem man,” really Sophia man soon he'll start seeing you as a guy I inwardly smack myself
He chuckles
“What?” I raise a brow at him
“You spaced out for a bit” he shrugs wiping the sides of his mouth
“Oh I space out a lot, its fun you know just spacing out in the space,” I say before realizing the stupid words am blubbering out
He smiles showing off his dimples, “Well I’m gonna go now thank you again”
It's no problem we move to the door, he stares at me for a while like he wants to say something but decides against it leaving with a wave of his fingers
I smile and close my door, dazed I go to my room stripping before falling asleep.
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