"oh dolce ragazzo, you don't have to tell me the whole thing. I understand something's are personal." She reached over to squeeze my shoulder. (Sweet boy.)
"How many family members live here? You mentioned that you're from Italy. Are most relatives still there or are they here?" I ask trying to change the subject.
"Well My brother, his wife and the five kids live here. You met three of them; Temperance, Terrance, and Alexander at the restaurant the other day. My other family lives in Italy. So it's just the little pack here. I have my two sons and my husband though. So I have my own family." She smiles so big when she talks about her family.
"Do you have more siblings or is it just your brother and you?" I ask.
"I have another brother. I am the baby of my siblings so I am really sheltered but I am still close with all of them. I am closer with Lucian because he lives here, but Dom and me are still quite close." She admits.
"I'm sorry the distance separated you guys a little." I frown. I don't want her to be alone. I mean she has Lucian and his family and her family but still.
"Its alright. What about you? What is your family like?" She turns the question on me.
"My mom lives a couple of towns over. I'm going to visit her soon. I have a younger sister but that's it. My dad isn't in my life anymore. But my little sister, Meadow, lives in New York. She's away at college. I am so proud of her! I am more close with her than anyone else in my life. She is my first call when something happens." Now I'm the one smiling while talking about my family.
"Oh? I must meet your family. Who is your second call?" She smiles at me for the millionth time today.
"My best friend Alessandro. I have known him for forever. He has always been there for me." I smile again.
"That's good! I'm so glad you have people." Again Mrs. Russo squeezes my shoulder.
The rest of the way we keep up conversation.
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We get everything unloaded and situated. Eiffel left a couple of minutes ago to see the "competition" as she said. So I have just been making sure we have everything we need.
"Hey are you guys open yet?" I hear a voice behind me.
"We will be at 12:30. just a couple of more minutes." I say as I turn around the face the girl in front of our booth.
"Oh, you're cute. Are you new around here? Ive never seen you before." She complements.
"Umm, yeah. I don't serve her much." I say a little awkward trying to ignore the fact she is flirting with me.
"Really? You would get so much business. I'm sure your face helps get customers." She continues
"Well its not my business. So my face doesn't sell anything." I try to end the conversation. But she continues.
"Oh, really? Who is the owner then? What do you guys sell?"
"We serve Italian food. Today we are selling breakfast burritos though and some Italian pastries." I say once again showing my disinterest.
"Oh, wow, can I-" She start.
"Hey Nico, how are you?" I look behind the girl to see Temperance is the one who cut her off.
"I'm good, how have you been?" I see on the side of my eye that the girl started to walk away.
"I've been good. Long day." She ends
Once the girl is out of my view, I continue to talk to Temperance. "Thank you for saving me. She would not stop flitting with me. It feels weird. I mean I am working so I shouldn't flirt with consumers." I finish.
"Yeah. No problem." She ends. Mrs. Russo and I think Terrance come up behind her.
"How is everything looking? Are we all good to start selling?" Mrs. Russo asks me.
"Yep all good." I smile at her.
"You remember Temperance and Terrance. Temp is racing today and Terrance is here for support." She informs me.
"Oh cool. I didn't know your family races." I say
"Yeah they are all pretty good. But Temp is the best. She could race for Nascar but she doesn't. Says she doesn't have time. How crazy huh?" She turns towards Temp.
"Yeah no time. I already run my own business and millions of people. I barely had time for this today." She replies to her aunt.
They family continues to talk as I finish opening silverware, plates, and napkins. After a while Temperance and Terrance leave to set their stuff up.
"Are Temperance and Terrance twins? Or are your guises genes just that good?" I ask not meaning for the least part to slip out.
"Yeah they are twins, the oldest in their family. They are inseparable. Always have been." She always seems to smile while talking about her family. That's good.
I nod then continue to get everything sorted.
The day goes by fast. We had many customers and sold almost all of our things. About one of everything was left. No one else flirted with me. So that was a plus. From what I saw of the race, Temperance was always in the lead. That's good. I guess Mrs. Russo wasn't just hyping her up because she's her family. Girl has talent.
"Thank you so much again Nico. You're a saint. I don't know what I did to deserve you." She pulls me in for a hug.
"I'm no saint. I'm the one who doesn't know what I did to deserve you." I admit.
We ended the morning with loading up my car, driving back to Mrs. Russo's house, unloading the car, then me driving home after our goodbyes.
Today has been quite good. But all I want to do now is go home to Nala and eat some lunch. So that is exactly what I will do.
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A/N: His guys! How did we like it?
I almost got punched in the face by my coworker today. He was very mad that I asked him to do his job. #harassment
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