Her Sweet Vengeance

Chapter 6 (The Real Owner)

CHAPTER 6 (The Real Owner)

It’s been over a week since I moved to the rooftop room of Grey’s grandma. She’s really warm hearted but I noticed that she keeps on traveling like she said and goes bac after a few days so I really need to take care of her plants, not that I complain because I love doing it too. Anyway, it’s weekend already and I am here at HM Café again.

I sat down after a customer left since no customers are coming in anyway. I was massaging my legs when Mariah sat on the vacant seat in front of me. She was massively sweating and she looks like she ran out of breath. Did she ran going here?

“Hey… have you… have you heard?” she keeps on panting as she spoke. She clutched her chest and closed her eyes to pause for a moment.

“Heard what? What’s the matter Mariah?” I was curious too. She will not react like this if its just nothing. This must be something big or nerve-wracking.

“The whole Café is closed.”

“Eh? But it’s still…” I glanced at the green wall clock on the far corner of the café. “It’s still 6:30. It’s too early for closing.”

“I’ve heard from the manager that the boss is coming.”

“Is he not the boss?” I thought he really is the boss.

“Duh! The boss of the boss. The real owner of the HM Café. You see, there are about uhmm… a hundred branches of HM Café all over the world. They placed it on the busy cities and some sort like that locations. I heard too based on my research…”

“Heard or research? Which one really?”

“Well, I heard it at first then I did not believe the news so I researched to prove that it is true and it was indeed true. So, I heard that the owner of these café’s are sooooo rich. They even own hotels and resorts plus real estates. They are billionaires if my calculation did not miss a zero.”

“And then what?”

“Are you really emotionless Miracle? I just said some brain splitting issue here and then you just asked me ‘what’ really? Holy heavens! I really don’t know what will I do to you.”

“I’m not emotionless. I was asking what is the problem.” She looked at me with disbelief.

“The problem? Can’t you see that this is a crisis?” she asked histerically. Huh? Is it really? How so?

“You see this as a crisis? Is it not an opportunity that you will meet the person behind this successful organization and chains of businesses? It is a rare opportunity to be face to face with prominent people and not to mention that they too are billionaires.”

“I really don’t know what kind of brain you do have there Miracle. It is a crisis for us. You see, we are the only employees here so we need to serve them.”

“Then we serve them. It’s what we do always.”

“But thinking about doing so makes me nervous as fvck. It’s like I am going to have a dozen of interviews in a day in a duration of 12 hours plus 64 vaccine shots. Don’t you think you’ll be dead if you miss or you can’t impress them?” she looks so problemaatic this time or more like constipated.

“Why do we need to impresss them? Serving is not about leaving an impression, it is about letting them have what they want because they are lazy enough to get it from the counter…” my explanation was cut short when I heard a female voice interrupting me.

“Oh really? Do you think customers are lazy enough that’s why we hired servers like you?” I was facing Mariah and I saw her turn white.

I slowly faced the voice, my face still void of emotions. I saw a sophisticated lady and a tall and handsome man was behind her. They looked so regal on their outfits. Are they one of the regulars here?

“Oh! Welcome to HM Café Ma’am and Sir. I’m sorry to let you hear that comment. It was opinionated for me to say that. Yeah, I understand if it’s unacceptable and inappropriate but that’s my stand anyway so you can just forget about that.” The lady raised her eyebrow and then the look of her face was smug.

“Opinion. Inappropriate and unacceptable. If I fire you right now, does your opinion still matter?”

“Well, perhaps you are the owner of these chain of businesses. Sir, Ma’am… this way please. You can have a sit.”

“It’s a waste of time to sit.”

“I guess I cannot appease your anger. I’m so sorry about that comment you heard earlier. But, was I not right? Some people, most especially those who have silver spoons on their mouths prefer to have people by their side to serve them because they can afford to do so. They can waste money like it’s just water from the river and thus, our jobs were born. You know that enough since you are the owner of these businesses. You provide for the services so that they will be comfortable. While we servers, we don’t need to impress them that much. The one who works really hard so that it will leave a long lasting impression are the baristas since they are the ones who makes the tasty coffee servings and everything.” I smiled after I was done with my speech and I guess I went overboard since the lady looked more uhmm… okay, I can’t read her emotions.

She exhaled loudly and then spoke. “Let us have a table. I want to talk to you.” I bowed my head and lead them to a table where the view is great.

“Please wait for ten minutes, I will serve you the best seller of this branch.”

“No, I drink juice. Prepare me one.”

“Noted Ma’am.”

I walked to the counter and I saw that Jinny, Jimmy and Mariah were worried for me.

“Are you okay girl?” asked Jinny.

“Yes. I’m okay. Anyway, please prepare a coffee. What’s the best seller?”

“Oh! Caramel Machiato.”

“Two slices of coffee cake and the best seller coffee. Do we have juice here?”

“We have apple, pineapple and orange.”

“Please prepare pineapple.” It’s one of my favorites too. I don’t know if she’ll love it but I’ll just prepare her another one if she don’t like it.

Everything was ready after 7 minutes. I placed all of it on the serving tray and served it to them. I made sure that it was placed in the right places.

“Have a seat,” says the Madame and she motioned me to seat on the chair opposite to them. I smiled and sat there. I placed my hands on top of the table. They took a sip on the beverages. Even the way they move is so graceful. The Madame placed back the glass and she wiped her mouth with the table napkin.

“I heard that you are a part-timer here. The sales this month was quite good and there were good recommendations about you from our patrons. I heard them a lot. What did you do to catch their attention?”

“Nothing much Ma’am. I just make sure that their orders will be served in ten minutes time. You see, the people that comes here, some of them are in a hurry and so they want everything to be made instantly – well, not that instant but within a short period of time. I make sure that they will get the right orders and welcoming words are added to.”

“How do you serve them in ten minutes time if there are a lot of customers during rush hours?”

“Sir, in order to do that, I pull some tricks. I usually carry up to two serving trays at a time.”

“How so? Servers carry only one since the other hand will serve the orders.”

“I use my head.” I proudly said that with a bright smile on my face.

“Are you messing with us now? We are not that brainless not to know that you use your head always.”

“I mean, you misunderstood me there okay? I use my head like literally. I balance the second serving tray on my head so I can carry more orders at a time. I place the cakes on the serving tray in my head while I carry the beverages. It will greatly reduce the time spent in getting their orders served.”

“Impressive. You really are something indeed. I admit that you catched my attention. Your wit made me want to clap right now.”

“Then why don’t you do that?”

The guy boss laughed and his wife pinched his arm making him wince in pain. I smiled as I can see that the two of them are sweet towards each other. I envy them. I wish I find the right one for me too.

“You know that I can’t do that. The people expects us to be too formal at all the times,” said the Madame.

“I understand you Ma’am. Formality should be present. But to what extent? You should live the life you want, you know. When you live it according to the beliefs and how others want you to be then that will not make you happy at all. We live only once.”

She smiled bitterly. Was I not supposed to say that? Oh how insensitive of me! It’s not like we have the same ordeal afterall. I saw how her husband held her hand and squeezed it lightly.

“I can’t live like that anymore. I am not going to be whole and happy again. Some circumstances in my life made me cease to smile and I guess I am just using reasons to cover up my pain. Anyway, let’s divert the topic before I have a breakdown here. Congratulations on being the best server of HM Café. And because of that, you will receive triple amount of your salary this month.”

“Oh my God! That’s too much Ma’am.”

“I refuse to take back my words anyways, we have to go now. My husband has a meeting in Seattle in two days time so we still need to prepare.”

The two bosses left the café and I feel all my energy being taken away by a force unknown to man. Why can’t she be happy? Clearly, her husband loves her so much. I can tell that myself based on my observation on their gestures earlier. They have a lot of money to buy what they want. Back then, when the Madame Carlin has a lot of money, they are always happy and spends it on lavish things. I only snapped back to reality when Mariah tapped me on the shoulder. They all looked so woriied, you know, Jin and Jim.