I'm going, to be honest, I completely forgot about the lunch thing. I take off my name tag and wave to Sam telling her I'm off for my lunch break and don't worry she had hers an hour ago.
I walk out but bump into someone. "Lorenzo? What are you doing here?" I say moving over to the side making some room.
"Lunch?" He mumbles, my eyes widen in realization.
"Oh! Right! Yeah totally..." I rub the back of my neck in embarrassment. We walked over to the diner I recently started to head over to for my lunch breaks.
But this time the walk felt longer than usual only reasoning being the awkwardness between us. "So? What are you going to get?" I say breaking the silence between us.
"I've never been there, so I don't know," he says to me honestly.
Why is he being nice?
I mean assholes can't change overnight.
"Hmm," I hum. We enter the diner.
"My favourite customer," Mr. Smith says to me as we walk over to sit.
"I better be" I giggle.
"The usual?" He replied.
"Yeah, please." I smile.
"And for the gentleman?" he questions. He shrugges his shoulders "same as her?" he says unsure.
"To stay, I assume?"
"yeah," I smile. "Is there a bathroom here?" Lorenzo questions.
"Down the hall" Mr. Smith replies. He nods and gets up from his seat, leaving his phone, accidentally unlocked.
Not even a second later as he leaves his phone dings.
I'm a nosy person...
I peek over and take a look at the message.
'Are you going to take her to dinner like I asked you?' read the message.
Oh.
so he didn't want to do anything like that.
"Make it to go," I yell out, grabbing my wallet. "You got it." Mr. Smith says.
"What's wrong?" Enzo questions.
"I have to head back, sorry," I say. "Not" I mumble. "Oh? I mean then-"
"no, sorry." I say. I walk over to the counter and got my food, and left $7.50 exact dollars on the counter. "Let me-"
"no need" I interrupt him once more. I walk over to the front door. "Oh! And tell your sister-in-law that we decided on lunch instead and it was perfect and went along smoothly" I give him a fake smile and left before anything else.
How'd I know that it was his sister-in-law... well the fucking contact name was 'sister-in-law'
"You're back way too soon. What happened?" Sam questions me. "He is an asshole" I scoff.
Sitting behind the cash register and eating my food. "What happened?" she asks me once more.
"He didn't want to ask me out for lunch, his fucking sister-in-law told him!" I scoff.
"Oh... wow" she mutters. "Amora, you're right he is an asshole" she rolls her eyes.
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"Good Morning," Sams says in a chirping voice. "Hey." I mutter. "What's wrong?" she questions me.
"Nothing. Don't worry" I smile at her.
"Are you sure?" Sam goes further.
I totally didn't stay up almost the whole night stalking Lorenzo or anything. Just doing some casual following up.
Stalker
Shut up-
"Positive" I reply.
"Alright then, would you mind if I ask you to fix the top shelves." she asks me with a cheesy smile.
"For sure" Sam's afraid of heights no matter what, so she doesn't really like to get on the step ladder.
I know, I know I'm an average height, why would I need a ladder. Because these fucking selves are like 7 fucking feet.
That's why.
I grab the stepladder and bring it to the end of the store. I like to go back to the front. Seems satisfying I don't know why.
Don't ask.
I open the stepladder and place it right, before stepping on it. Heading onto the top ladder step.
I start to fix it up, bring the books to a fair stack. Leaving the book spine to face the front so you can see the name of it.
These books are the extra ones that don't fit on the shelves, when it comes to restocking we grab the top ones first then make our way over to the boxes.
Yet again being on the ladder I still have to go on my tippy toes, and I do.
The ladder began to shake a little and as I was trying to balance back on.
I trip back, I had mentally prepared myself to fall on the ground, but to my surprise, I was caught bridal style.
I open my eyes slowly and made eye contact with some gorgeous brown eyes.
Lorenzo?
"You should be careful piccolo Angelo(little Angel)" He says. "What?" I question him.
"Nevermind" he replies. "Put me down," I tell him.
"Oh! Right sorry" he quickly says. Finally, I was on my own two feet.
"What are you doing here?" I scoff.
"That's not a nice way to speak to your customers, Amora," He says to me.
Holy fucking shit.
Him saying my name is so sexy.
Holy shit.
Fuck me now,
Aye yo, inner thoughts, shut the fuck up-
"Excuse me? You know it's rude to harass employees." I scoff before I walked off to the front.
"What's Lorenzo doing here!" I whisper-yell to Sam.
She shrugged her shoulders in response. "I'm here to apologize," He says from behind.
Oh, he heard me.
No shit dumbass.
"Oh really?" I roll my eyes.
"Yes. That wasn't my intention. Yes, I was going to take you out for dinner as a sorry. I was already going to do that, but then my sister-in-law asked me to do the same thing I was thinking. I didn't want to tell her that I was already planning that." Lorenzo tells me.
"Hmm," I hum. "If you're not buying anything then I'm going to ask you to leave," I say to him with a fake smile.
He scoffs lightly and rolls his eyes before leaving. "Asshole," I mutter under my breath.
"I heard that" he yells out.
"Good!" I yell back. And as soon as the door shuts Same burst out laughing. "Holy shit that was hilarious," she says in between her laughs. Since it was Saturday, the hours were half off.
I decided to head over to the cactus cafe for some iced coffee.
Although before heading out of the book store I bought a new one.
Wow,
I know Amora Dior reading!
Shocking.
It's called 'it ends with us' (A/N don't spoil the book for me, I still gotta read it!)
I saw it on TikTok, and I was happy when I saw it in the store. I order my coffee before sitting down and opening the first page to read.
And immediately I got hooked. "Amora?" I hear the man call out my name. That catches my attention, and I walked over to the counter, "thank you" I smile and walk back to my seat.
Reading and sipping my coffee as we go. Being almost halfway through the book, and being finished with my coffee, I decided it's best if I head home before anything else happens with my parents.
I get up from my seat, and exit the cafe and started to walk on the sidewalk to head over to the bus stop.
Since I don't have a driver's license. "Amora?"
A familiar voice calls out. I shut my eyes for a quick second in annoyance. "Enzo." I say turning around to face him.
"Don't call me that" he scoffs, telling me the same thing over again. "Are you stalking me?" I ask him in a whisper, leaving him to laugh.
"Funny." He chuckles.
"All jokes aside, but for real are you? I mean-"
"I'm not fucking stalking you." He cuts me off.
Right....
Imagine if he's a Mafia boss, and that's how he finds me everywhere.
Amora shut up there's no such thing
"What's up? I'm late." I say to him,
"Oh? Well. For one, sorry once more." Lorenzo says.
"It's fine I guess." I reply.
"Cool book." He says making small talk.
"Thanks? This is actually the first book I'm reading by choice." I giggle but instantly regretting it.
I started to cover that giggle up with the sound of me clearing my throat. "Anyway." I start. "I have to head out actually." I say before turning around.
As I was about to cross the road, Lorenzo called my name. "Amora!" He shouts before yanking me in fast, soon after a sports car speeds through the roads. Tripping on my feet, I bump into Lorenzo.
Damn,
I definitely felt a 6 pack.
Maybe even an 8 pack?
"How-" I question.
"How?" He repeats my words
"the car. How did you?" I say at a loss of words.
To be honest I would rather have gotten hit by that car.
Would solve my problems, if you ask me.
And my parents' problem.
AKA me.
"I have fast reflexives?" He says unsure.
"Thank you." I say to him, "no need to thank me." he slightly smiles.
"Damn now I have to repay you for that." I tell him.
"You don't"
"trust me I have to." I say shaking my head lightly. "Coffee?" he says in a questioning tone.
I take some seconds figuring out if I should.
"Sure"
We order coffee and I ordered the same one. And we sat down. "So" he starts.
"Why are you being nice?" I ask him being straightforward. "Huh?" He questions me.
"I mean on the many, and when I say many. I fucking mean MANY articles about you. Finally to find out you are a real asshole and a pain in the butt. Love to sleep around with bitches, and even faked a relationship more than once for more fame and money, and maybe even for a publicity stunt." I say all in one breath.
"Wow, you did your research" he says with A chuckle, "your coffee" says the man handing it to us and walking off fast. "I did." I say.
"Is this relationship even real? I mean with Hailey" I ask him, sipping my coffee.
"It is," he says.
"Hmm" I hum.
Usually do that when I have no idea on what to say next. "It's not" He tells me.
"What." I say with a blank expression.
"It's a contract relationship." he says to me, I hope he's being honest. "Huh"
Soon later Lorzeno's phone dings, and it's his brother. The phone automatically scans his face, and the phone is flat down on the table.
'Did you take her out for coffee?' read the text.
Holy fuck.
You can't be serious.
"So it's true you are a stuck-up asshole." I mutter, getting up. "Oh my god," He also mutters.
"I think it's best if you leave me the fuck alone." I say to him, opening my iced coffee lid, and 'accidentally' tipping it over.
"Oops." I say with a fake gasp. "That's for being an asshole." I give him a fake smile and leave the cafe shop.
"Asshole. Fucking asshole" I grumble as I walk to the bus stop. I know for a fact now he won't dare to show me his fucking face again.
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Damn he really do be messing up💀
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