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Chapter 3 The biginning of change

  • - By God, it should be illegal - Estefanía said - wipe your drool - he said when he realized that I was also looking at him
  • - that guy is unreal - she didn't even listen to me. She was already halfway to meeting him.
  • - Hello, neighbor - she said to get his attention - can I help you with something?
  • - Well - he said smiling with those teeth that seemed ordered to do - maybe so. I can see from the way you're dressed that you work here. I am looking for Mr. Rafael Farrel, do you think you can help me? – I could see Estefanía's panties leaving her body from the way he spoke to her. I think mine followed.
  • - yes, of course, I can help you - he took her hand - follow me - not that I had the intention of competing with Estefanía for this boy, but if I dared to do so, I would be lost. She was all hot, and I was not at all I've never had much luck with boys. I saw her return alone from the boss's office.
  • - By God, you hardly rape the guy in the middle of the cafe - I said to erase from my head the pathetic ideas I had.
  • – if he had left me, you can be sure he would have, that guy is fire. Or are you going to tell me that you wouldn't? I thought about it for a moment
  • - The truth - I paused - I don't know. I find it very sexy, but I don't know anything about men.
  • – but you like it – I'm not blind, the guy is scared.
  • – Let's go back to work, he's not going to support us and we have to pay the rent.
  • We both got up and began to fix the place for the afternoon, in a while the place would be full of university students, they always came here in the afternoon, or so Fanny told me.
  • "Give me a moment of your time, girls," Farrel told us. He came with Gabriel next to him – I present to you Gabriel Martínez, he is the new manager of the café, he is a university student like you, his shift is night so you should know each other.
  • – Well, Mr. Farrel, you are right, we know each other – Estefanía told him – but not from the University. We know him from home. He is our neighbor - Mr. Farrel looked at his watch.
  • - So they save you trouble - he told us - I have to go, I have an important meeting with a supplier - he turned to Gabriel - you're in charge, I have full confidence in your references, so I'm leaving in peace. He almost ran out the door.
  • – important meeting? Yes, of course, not even if she didn't know that she was going to see one of hers - Estefanía was saying and she stopped when she realized that she was not alone, she looked at us squarely.
  • – of their what? Gabriel asked.
  • – From his friends – answered Estefanía – he is a very sociable man – I couldn't take it anymore and I laughed.
  • - I think the best thing is to return to work and leave Mr. Farrel's private life in his hands - I opined, considering Gabriel's face, I had not been bothered by my friend's comment; but she was not willing to take the test, neither of us can be left without a job.
  • - Yes, the best thing they do is that - he smiled with those perfect teeth and headed to what would be his office from today.
  • "He likes you," said Fanny, when we were out of sight.
  • - To who? – I asked her why she had no idea what she was referring to
  • – Gabriel, he likes you
  • - who? I? - I told him making overacted faces with his hands
  • - yes silly, of course, you - he pointed his finger at me - do you see anyone else here?
  • - you're crazy - she was going to continue talking and the door opened, the bell warned us, we looked and there were about ten people. – Is this amount of people together normal?
  • - Is that many people? You haven't seen anything princess - she was right, that afternoon we didn't even have time to look at each other, people came in waves, and we barely had time to clean the tables before they filled up again.
  • - and I thought that the morning was complicated, this has been worse - I snorted and told Fanny
  • – Yes, it has been a difficult day, but we are done. I will prepare to go to university
  • - God, I'm falling from exhaustion - was the only thing I could think about
  • – You will see that it is only until you get used to it. – she repeated to me.
  • - Girls I need to talk to you before you go - Gabriel told us from the door of the small restroom where we were - if you can come to my office - Fanny and I got up and followed him. He came in and sat down and we stood on the other side of the table that he used as a bureau.
  • - what's going on? - I ask my friend, as always directly
  • - Well, now I was analyzing the day, I saw some complaints in the mailbox - he took out some papers from a folder and held them up for us to see, Fanny took them and looked through them - coffee on top of people, salt in drinks, and a lot more complaints; I was very conservative when I said that they were few, as you can see. – I lowered my head, each of the errors you mentioned was caused by me
  • - And what does that have to do? These are things that can happen in a cafe
  • – all of them in one day? I agree that these are things that can happen. But not all of Estefanía together, can you tell me what happened?
  • – I'm sorry Gabriel – I apologized – it was me, I don't know anything about work and I know I'm making your job more difficult. – Estefanía was going to speak and he raised his hand to stop her.
  • - I'll settle for you to admit it - he told me
  • - Thank you, Gabriel - I told him, Fanny and I prepared to leave the office
  • - moon, here tomorrow half an hour before - I stop dead - if you want to learn you have to make an effort - I just nodded, his words were too authoritative to say anything else. When I came out and looked at Fanny, she was with a smile worthy of the cat from Alice in Wonderland.
  • – And what is that face due to? - I paused - you scare me
  • - I told you that he likes you - you must be crazy, nowhere in the scolding did I understand that.
  • – It is not considered that you managed to discern that within his scolding
  • - Tomorrow here half an hour before - he said making a bad imitation of his voice - what do you think that means?
  • – I don't know, maybe he wants to train me so that I don't destroy the cafe and we love each other out of work. - I said sarcastically
  • - think what you want, I think he likes you - she walked out in front of me - let's go to the university, we don't have transportation, so if we delay, we'll be late.