Remi was tired. Every part of her body hurt.

She’d had class from 9 to 4 and from there she’d raced to work. It was dinner time now and the crowd was huge and like always they were understaffed

She raced past her manager , Josh, who was sitting down “Josh we’re out of pepsi”

He just shrugged as he continued on his phone “Go call the soda distribution people and order a new shipment for tomorrow”

“I can’t” She said as she kept juggling the 2 huge plates of food she had “We have a rush”

He looked at her in annoyance “Okay then after you’re done, order it”

She wanted to snap at him that as the manager of the damn restaurant it was his job to order more supplies but didn’t instead she just walked away before she said something since she needed the job and the flexibility it had.

She mumbled under her breath as she ran around getting things done. She looked over at the two other girls who were working with her. It was supposed to be 6 of them on the floor and one on the register but ‘mysteriously’ three of the girls called in sick

Of course it's just a coincidence that it was Josh’s girlfriend and her two friends who called in sick…. Again

She hated her boss but she had to do what she had to do so she kept with it. As she was giving food to a nice family of 5 she heard someone whistle at her

Her shoulders tensed since she knew exactly who it was.  Quickly after she’d started working at Little Italy, she’d met the bane of most of the wait staff’s existence.

Timothy, was an early 20 year old man, who came into the store about once every week with his crew. They worked at the nearby accounting firm and had taken it on themselves to make everyone’s life a living hell. Instead of of calling out for the staff he’d whistle at them or shaking his cup until he caught their attention.After they came to him he’d be downright condescending to them as if they were children before complaining the whole time about the food and service all the while eating all of the speedily delivered food before leaving a 2 dollar tip. It didn’t matter if he ate 5 dollars worth of food or 100 dollars. He always left exactly 2 dollars .

Unfortunately for Remi he was in her section. Brooke and Mel, the other two girl on staff, had begged her to take him since they couldn’t handle him today especially with them being short staffed. Mel had even threatened to walk out if she had to hear his snooty voice

She composed herself before turning to smile at him “I’m sorry sir. Give me a minute I’m with someone right now”

“You’ve been there for more than ten minutes now” He complained

Her eye twitched at his exaggeration since she’d literally just came over to set their food down “Okay sir… Let me just finished up really quickly”

“I hope you’re not expecting a good tip with this kind of service” He mumbled as his friends chuckled

Her eyes twitched as she apologized to the family she was serving. She quickly completed her work and came over to him

“I’m sorry sir what can I do for you?” She said smiling even though it was tense

“I don’t even remember with how long it took you” He complained as he crossed his arms and scowled. His friends followed suit

“I’m sorry sir, we’re very understaffed an-”

“Excuses are tools of the incompetent and used to build statues of nothingness. ” He chastised “Those who excel in it seldom excel in anything but those excuses”

Her eye twitched and her finger itched to strangle him but she kept that smile plastered on her face as she said through clenched teeth “What can I do for you sir?”

He just scowled again before looking out the window while throwing back at her “My pasta is undercooked”

She mentally rolled her eyes as they started playing this game again. This was a tactic he pulled every once in awhile to get more food. He’d finish almost all the food then come and complain about it being not cooked well so that they had to remake the dish and he could eat more.

She looked down at his plate which literally only had 3 more spoonfuls left on it and nodded mechanically before turning to go ask the cooks to make more

As she was walking over , Marc Antony ,the head cook, was already glaring at her since he knew what was going to happen. He’d heard the tell tale cup rattling and had watched her go over to Timothy’s table

“Marc...” She said with a forlorn and pleading whine

“No”

“Please. You know how Josh is about this. If he hears Timothy complaining it’ll be my ”

“It’ll still be your if I make this another plate of food.” He bit out glaring at her

She understood why he was upset, especially after the last time Timothy came in and made the cooking staff remake the same dish 6 times before Marc came out and almost cursed him out and threatened to call the police

“Have pity on me” She begged “I have no control over any of this please. I’m the one suffering the most from all of this”

He scowled even as his eyes softened for the girl.

“Please for me?” She said with some cuteness to soften the blow

He just grunted out “He had an eggplant parm with spaghetti right?”

“Yes” She said with a smile as she threw him a kiss over the counter

He grumbled even as he caught the kiss and put it in his pocket

She giggled and walked away to help the rest of her customers.

She was still racing around when she looked over to see someone else being seated in her area. She walked over after they were settled.

“Hi I’m Remi and-” She froze in shock to see PK in civilian clothes with some other men all talking and joking

“Remi” PK said with a shocked but pleased grin since he’d hoped for her to be at work but hadn’t known her schedule

“Hi how are you?” She asked as she looked at him shyly

“Better now that you’re here” He said with a boyish grin that made her obviously flustered

“Stop that” She scolded before turning to the other men “Hi my name is Remi and I’ll be your server tod-”

As she was talking PK calmly just took her hand into his. She looked down in shock at the touch before looking at the smirking PK

She playfully glared at him again and turned to see all the men looking at them smiling

“So you’re PK’s girlfriend” One of the oldest men, a slightly portly white male in his late 40’s said with a chuckle “He’s always telling me and the fellas about you. I’m Michael”

She blushed before responding “I’m no-”

“Yes sir this is her” PK said before she could finish

She glared at him again before slapping his hand away and turning to them men “What can I get for you gentlemen?”

After she got their orders she pretty much fled to the kitchen to give the reports as she was walking out Mel came over to her

“So who was the guy holding your hand?”

“Apparently my boyfriend” She said a little confused

Mel hit her arm before glaring at her “We’ve been in this place together for 3 years and not once did you mention a boyfriend”

“I didn’t know I had a boyfriend either” She said while rubbing her arm

“Wait wha-”

“I gotta go; the food is ready” She said as she raced to get back to her job. If Josh saw them too at ease he’d make them clean something nasty like the bathrooms or the meat freezer

She handed everyone their food and was running around getting things done. Whenever she went to PK’s table they would joke with her as PK flirted and tried to hold her hand

Mel and now Brooke were looking at her and PK’s interactions with extremely amused eyes

Remi just kept scowling at them and telling them to get back to work but since the dinner rush was getting slower they didn’t have as much to do.

“Remi” The cashier and seater ,Bianca, called out from the counter

“Yep?” She asked as she walked over to her

“Remi. I gotta go pee. Like I really need to go pee. I’ve been holding it for like ing 2 hours. Josh said he’d cover me but he went into the ing back and hasn’t came back out. Help me ” Bianca babbled as she hopped around in frustration

“Okay I got you” She said with a chuckle as she went behind. She hadn’t even gotten to the other side when Bianca was rushing past her to the bathroom

Remi sighed as she leaned on the counter finally being off her feet for a little bit.

As she was relaxing and daydreaming, PK walked up to her “Hey Ms.Remi”

She glared at him “Officer”