The next day, Fiena was anxious to get out of school early.
Her last class was English and seeing she was Mr. Arthur’s favourite, she can be excused.
Her running makes her more anxious than ever to come to her workplace.
She glanced over at her watch her sister bought for her from Japan.
12.24 p.m.
“6 more minutes….” She thought.
And there it was the big, tall red building.
Fiena took time to take her breath, while that; she examined the café from outside.
It was painted red, bloody red, four windows, two on the down floor, another two on the upper floor. Each window frame was painted black, and had white lace on it. It looked ok for a café. The door, painted black, had a small window on it, and on the window written in cursive was the café’s name, Lolita Latte. Also, outside of the café, flower pots were decorating the shop and a little sign by the door saying the café’s name and the specials of the day.
It was pretty café. And Fiena also took time to watch the upper part. It had a balcony, the architecture being so beautiful, the balcony was also decorated with strings and pots of flowers. There were also chairs and tables up there if any customer would choose to dine upstairs and enjoy the scenery of the town.
“Alright, enough sightseeing, I need to get to work.” Fiena thought.
She opened the door and heard the little golden bells jingle.
The bells, gold and decorated with ribbons were placed up the door was a sign somebody came in.
“Hey Fiena, your outfits in the back, in the turquoise coloured locker” said Alice, who was seating on a table, eating a chocolate cake and Syaira was beside Alice, playing with some marshmallows placed in a bowl.
“Fiena-Chan!!!” Syaira giggled.
“Ah, thank you” Fiena said.
She went to back part of the shop, where the locker rooms, the kitchen and the back door was located. She immediately saw the turquoise painted locker. Each locker had its own colour and name. The red locker was Mia’s. The electric blue one was Zalia’s and the ocean blue one was Gwen’s. The white one belonged to Enyz and the yellow one belonged to Fazzy. Hers was located between a green locker belonged to Rita and Syaira’s orange locker. She tried to open it but the others hadn’t given her the number of the combination.
“Its 18-11-98” said Enyz who suddenly appeared.
“Oh, thanks.”
“Don’t mention it.”
“You’re Enyz, right?”
The brunette nodded.
“”Can I ask you something? But, if it’s very personal to you, if you don’t want to answer than that’s alright.” Said Enyz.
“What is it?”
“Why are you wearing an eye patch?”
“It’s because, I had an accident, then this doctor donated her eye to me”
“Oh, ok. So, when will you open it?”
“Next month.”
“I see.”
“Hello, guys!” Mia greeted them, who just came from the back door, wearing a black beanie and a jacket, she looked a bit wet.
“Why are you wet?” Enyz asked.
“Cus it was pouring just now.”
“But it’s not raining” Fiena exclaimed, seeing the outside world still sunny.
“Oh, did I mention raining? It’s just that this old lady who watered her plant’s next building accidentally sprayed me over with her hose. Eh- he he…” Mia said nervously.
“Oh, ok.”
Fiena was smart. She hinted a bit of something in Mia’s nervousness.
After wearing her uniform, Mia questioned her “So, does it fit well?”
“It does and apparently, there other uniforms in here. There are also bunny ears and cat’s ears here.”
“Well, I forgot to tell you that our uniform uses a schedule. Like for today, it’s Angel Day Tuesday. So, you have to wear the angel uniform. On Mondays, we wear the official uniforms. On Wednesdays, the kimono, on Thursdays, the flower uniform and Fridays, we dress as butlers. On Friday, only female customers are allowed to come in. And Saturdays, we open early like 9.00 a.m. and we wear the cat and bunny uniforms. And finally, on Sunday we wear the cute sailor uniform.” Mia briefly explained.
“Oh. Understand.”
“Good. Seeing it’s 12. 40, you can either have tea break or vacuum the floors.”
“I think I’ll be vacuuming the floors.” Fiena thought.
“Oh, the vacuum is in the store room.”
Fiena went to the little store room, next to the kitchen.
She opened the room, quite dusty.
There, she saw a golden casket.
Strange, indeed.
She slowly opened it.
In there, lay a bandaged body.
“What the….” She thought.
She ruffled the bandages to get a better look. The bandage on the body’s face shook a little bit.
The figure opened its violet eyes.
“Oh my god… Rita’s a mummy!!!!!!!” Fiena screamed, getting up and ran from the room and bumping into Alice.
“Fiena, you crack or something?” Alice asked who heard her screams.
“I- it was Rita. S- She’s a m-mummy.”
“You know Rita is only 17 and she’s too young to have kids?” Alice asked sarcastically.
“N- No! S- She’s a bandaged E- Egyptian z- zombie.” Fiena Stuttered.
“No way.”
They both went to the store room. Alice flickered the lights on, only to find Rita resting on a bed.
“I didn’t know there was a bed here.” Fiena exclaimed, quite puzzled.
“Well, this is the staff’s restroom. The store room’s upstairs.” Rita explained.
Fiena looked at the room. It was painted cream white, had two single beds, a big HD television, a sofa, a dining table with 9 chairs. And the floors were oak.
“Oh. Ok”
“You don’t need to vacuum the floor. The café’s already clean.” Said Syaira.
“Oh. I understand. Now what do I do??” Fiena questioned them.
“You….. go have tea-break!”
“But, I’m not hun-”
“Oh, yes you are. Just ask me what you want to eat, I’ll cook it. No charges” Rita said, cutting her off.
“Well, can you just make a simple sundae, instead?”
“Sure.”
While Fiena was having her sundae, the other girls we’re having a meeting.
“We need to be very careful not to spill our secret”
“Yeah, Rita… hides your casket next time…” said Alice.
“I will”
As they were to continue, the doorbell rang as a sign of a customer.
Standing by the door was none other than Dr. Serafina in casual wear.
“Serafina!” Mia exclaimed.
“Dr. Serafina, what are you doing here?” Fiena asked, wiping her mouth with a napkin, finished her sundae.
“Oh, Fiena, you work here, already? I eat here regularly.”
“Ok, then. I want to thank doctor for helping me in the hospital. So, I’ll be your waitress for today.” Fiena smiled.
“Oh, Fiena… it’s ok.”
“No, I insist!”
“Well…”
“Well doctor, take a seat.”
The young woman took a seat by the window.
“So, what is your order for today, young miss?” Fiena asked, handing a menu.
“Well, give me blood. I’m thirsty.”
“I beg your pardon?” Fiena asked, quite shock.
“What she meant was our new ‘Bloody- Sundae Float!’ It’s a new recipe. It’s actually thick berry juice with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top” Mia blurted out.
‘Uh... Right! Make it strawberry instead!” said the doctor.
“Ye-yes, madam!” Rita said, and then rushed to the kitchen.
“This seems so odd. They act as if they met a long time ago.” Fiena thought.
“Fiena, here’s the order” Rita said.
“Funny. This berry juice looks a lot like blood.” She thought, examining it.
“H-here you go” Fiena said, giving the dish to the doctor.
“Fiena, come here for a moment.” Said Mia.
“What is it? Am I in trouble??”
“You’re not. It’s just that, please open that eye patch. Wear this instead.” Said Mia, handing a black eye patch, the strings were black lace instead and there some ruffles on the eye patch. What caught Fiena’s attention was in the middle of the patch were sewn cross-stitches in the shape of a heart. And the thread was turquoise.
“Thank you. Doctor, is it ok if I wear this??”
“It’s ok, Fiena”
She opened her old plain eye patch and wore the Lolita one.
Much to her surprise, it was comfortable.
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“So, was the job awesome?” Dorothy asked.
“I don’t know, Dor…” Fiena answered back.
It was 8.00 p.m., Fiena and Dorothy were having a sleep over and both of them were doing their literature assignments.
“Urn….. Hey Fiena… how do I do this?? I don’t really get this poem from Shakespeare.”
“It’s easy….”
“Easy for you to say…. You always pay attention to Mr. Heracles… And when you guys are done… you both talk about cats. You should marry him.” Dorothy giggled.
“N-no way! He has eyes on Miss Sakura….. Remember?” Fiena shrieked, enraged and blushing.
“Oh, yea…. What about Mr. Arthur?”
“He’s going out with Miss Emily.”
“Bummer….. Mr. Ludwig!”
“Miss Felicia… that cute new attractive art teacher from Italy.”
“Damn… what about Mr. Ingi?”
“He’s move to Iceland“
“Mr. Lovino? Miss Felicia’s big brother??”
“Miss Isabella, our hot Spanish teacher…”
“Mr. Wang? That Chinese dude who looks like a lady...”
“Miss Anya, the scary Russian teacher.”
“Mr. Kaoru?? The teacher with the somehow cool emo hairstyle and has thick eye brow’s like your beloved Mr. Arthur.”
“Miss Xia Mei, the Taiwanese woman.”
“Wow… your really do love our teachers, huh?
“Yeah… so what??”
“Alright… alright...”
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The next day, Fiena discovered something horribly new at her workplace.
Blood.
She was mopping the upstairs floors.
And there were traces of blood.
“What the hell is going on!!???” She screamed.
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