9. New Friends (The past)

Throughout the night, Ann went to and fro the VIP lounge, making the other waitresses for the night angry, envious and green with jealousy. They all wanted that particular lounge so bad because they will probably get a huge tip at the end of their shift. They began to gossip about her,”uhmmmp! I can’t believe it, she gets to serve those billionaire bachelors whilst we serve the commoners. How unfair is this, I dress up to work everyday for this kind of opportunity but look at how the wretch gets to be the one serving the executives”. Lola, one of the restrautant’s self made barbie and the most annoyed one amongst all the waitresses stated with pure undisguised anger. She was fuming.

The other girls nodded sadly, they were all not friends with Ann else they would have been able to ask her questions or even request to tag along with her and serve the young billionaires but alas they all hated her since Peter brought her to work in the restaurant with them and they made her know this from day one. They could only watch from afar as she walks up and down carrying orders upon orders to the room and coming out with big smiles on her face.

They were starstucked when they saw the four billionaires walking out of the lounge hand in hand with Ann walking behind the first three youngsters and chatting a young man smiling big at her as if he was living off the words coming out of her mouth. The angry looking and the most handsome guy amongst all of them left first with a huge frown on his face whilst the rest stood by Ann, chatting and laughing like old friends. The continued chatting lively but had to wave at her and leave after their phones began ringing non stop from the one person they knew too well.

Ann stared at the backs of her new found friends and smiled,” so nice! it’s been so long I’ve smiled so much and had so much fun at the expense of someone that wants to harm me. Oh how the table turned and I got a large tip and now I can’t wait to go to school and continue mocking him silently since he friends have pledged their allegiance to her.” She muttered to herself happily. She giggled loudly and continued counting her tips in high spirit.

“You seem happy, what’s the occasion kiddo”, a voice stated behind her as she panicked.

Turning to see Peter, she couldn’t help herself from jumping up and down like a child high on sugar, “oh! Oh! Peter I made a tip of three thousand dollars from just one room, the guys left me one thousand dollars each. Can you believe it?!”, she exclaimed happily.

Hearing this, the other girls were green with more envy and jealousy making it impossible for them to tolerate Ann’s presence anymore than necessary and hence they stomped off angrily. The two didn’t pay them any attention and that probably made them more angry, they stare at the pair from a distance.

Peter laughed happily before something occurred to him,”wait, they were four of them, shouldn’t the money be four thousand dollars if they all left you a thousand dollars each?”, Peter asked in confusion. Ann pouted and told Peter what happened,”......so he hates me now and he apparently brought his friends to come and torment me but it backfired and his friends like me now so he’s angry hahahaha”. Ann muttered with a loud giggle.

Peter was quiet and said worryingly ,”it’s not a funny matter Ann, his father is very powerful in the business world as well as in this country. Please be careful of him in the future and if possible avoid him at all cost”. He cautioned her.

Ann sighed and thought of what to say to put Peter’s heart and mind at cease,”I promise to avoid Rex and his friends at all cost and I promise to focus on my study”. She stated in reassurance. Peter scoffed and left her standing behind, he knew her too much to take her promise seriously.

Time left in her shift wasn’t much so after waiting her originally assigned tables for a while, her closing time was up and she left the restaurant in a hurry. The other girls wanted to bully her but their plans was ruined when Peter offered to take her home since it was late and he was heading in her direction. The car ride was an interesting one, Peter was like an older brother to her. He was the protective and supportive brother she never had. Getting home after such a long day and eventful day, Ann was extremely exhausted both physically and mentally, so after taking her bath and eating some reheated leftovers, she fell asleep like a log.