New Girl ~ 6

CHAPTER 6

I woke up in the same café again. I had completely lost track of how many days it had been since I first got there. Sleepily I stumbled behind the bar and grabbed a glass of water. My eyelids weighed heavily over my eyes.

Still half asleep, a lady, a new worker at the café, tripped over infront of me, spilling two buckets of ice on the floor. '' Arrghh!'' she growled. '' Why does this always happen to me!?'' shortly after this she stomped away behind the counter and into the workers room, I could hear her fumbling through some drawers and cupboards to find anything she could to clear up the mess she had made.

In a split second decision I got down on my hands and knees and scooped up all the ice cubes. Carefully, without melting the cubes and making a puddle, I slid them all into the bucket.

They were cold,  my hand was numb with freezing, tingling feeling.

I walked back and twisted around a chair.

Sitting backwards on the squeaky, wooden chair I watched as she emerged from the back room surprised to see that the ice cubes were all back in the white tubbaware box.

"what.. The..?" she looked around herself to see if anyone else was there. It was early morning around 6 am and she was opening up the café so she was the only one.

"thank you the holy spirit!" she exclaimed to herself triumphantly. It was strange how she didn't question it. Although she was young, maybe around 19, she was bright and bubbly.

You could tell she was easily stressed and overwhelmed but the smallest things could make her day.

I sort of... Not followed but.. Watched over her that day. She had an eye for detail, you could tell she enjoyed the little things in life just by the way she sat outside on the benches and stared, thoughtfully up at the trees and the tiny branches it accomodated.

She obviously loved the seaside, I heard her talking to a friend on her phone about how far she had moved just to work there.

I'm not sure why I was just so drawn to her, something about her made me feel as though she knew how I feel.

She's the kind of girl you would always be good friends with. And I felt as though, spiritually, we  would become friends, I don't know why or how I thought that but... I did.