Louisseena

Chapter 6

Nana

First day of work at my aunts’ diner. There are tables for 2 to booths for 4 and covers up to 8 people. In the morning, aunt Anabel starts on her baking. She is really good at baking bread, cakes, sweets, and anything related to dessert. She always put her own twist on them. I don’t really have the basic experience of baking but I can follow recipes really well.

I had made tiramisu before and the very first one turned out well, while the second time, my mom interrupted me, trying to be a know-it-all and put all the sugar into the egg whites instead of the egg yolks. It totally ruined everything and I just threw it away. Since then I’ve hardly ever stepped into the kitchen to do any cooking. 

Aunt Nora is in charge of cooking all the savoury food such as meats and more meats. We werewolves love meat in our diet. She too started early in marinating the meats and slow roasting them so they will be ready in the afternoon. There is a station for drinks only selling coffee or tea. A small shelf for the baked goods that aunt Anabel will make. We have a small menu for this place and my aunts hopes to expand it with my presence. Such as adding in desserts like ice cream to the menu or more caffeinated drinks like cappuccino and latte.

They have given me some time to get used to working here and then to come up with a proposal for discussion on how to expand the menu. They also taught me how to use the register as I’ve never worked in the front of the house before. I’ve worked in a fast food joint before, mostly cooking the different types of patties and assembling the burger but I was never chosen to be the cashier. Instead, the manager chose Kahley to be the cashier as she said Kahley looks more presentable to the customers. I was left to work at the back, burning my fingers multiple times on the microwaved heated rice buns. Luckily I’m a werewolf and we heal faster than humans but it still freaking hurts. It didn’t matter to me if I was put to be a cook but what bothered me was the reason the manager gave.

I tried to get used to the whole routine, learning the procedure from aunt Anabel first. My first whole week was following her making her baked goods for breakfast and brunch. Learning how to bake her standard 3 types of bread, setting up the coffee machine. In the afternoon, I would help serve the customers while learning from the side how to take orders.

I was standing on my feet the whole day everyday and it’s killing me. I wasn’t used to this as I was always sitting down at home. But after 2 weeks, my feet were getting used to it already. I know my way around the diner and it was like I’ve been working at this place for years. I felt so comfortable here working, except the part on facing customers, taking orders. As you know, I hate social interactions. Luckily my aunts agree to my request to just work in the kitchen .

My co-workers all love me as I’ve always been very helpful towards them, taking the initiative.

That table need another set of cutlery? Don’t worry I’ve got it here prepared for you to take to their table. ~ Because of my super hearing that someone had dropped their cutlery on the floor.

Need a top up on water? Don’t worry, I’ve already prepared the ice in your jar.

Customer spill water on the floor and the one working on the floor is busy elsewhere? Don’t worry, I’ve already got the mop in my hands.

Even though I am supposed to be working in the back, I seem to be always aware of what’s happening outside. I just love this place so much now and my co-workers are understanding of me not talking much. They usually like to say that if I were to be working in any other place, the people would badmouth me about not responding to their greetings. Because I hate to say “good morning” and never really answer them when they greet me good morning.

They said that I’m lucky to have them to understand my personality by not saying back the greeting to them. They know that I’m not a snob and that I just have troubles expressing myself. They slowly realized that my way to make up for that was in my actions at work, helping them in their work to ease their day’s physical activity. Working in a diner all day can be really tiring. 

Even though I’m exhausted everyday from working, I started to feel myself healing inside. I started to have this anticipating feeling that Raven might be coming back to me soon.