“What??????????? How could you say such a thing? I wouldn’t dream to make you sad.” It’s clear as day Matt’s amping up the dramatics here and it’s hard to take what he said seriously. But he pretends it’s serious business. All the way. “Next time I’ll order the tiramisu to go and sit outside, in front of the restaurant, and eat it with the biggest pout. Bonus points if it’s raining outside.” Don’t worry, his mun is shaking her head at him right now. “The competition doesn’t stand a chance when it comes to your place. The food’s great but you’re the heart of it and it shows, Lae.” he said with a big smile. “Besides, where else can you go and possibly see you trip over your own two feet?” This is a bit of a tease and he moves over to the other side of the table and gives Laela a playful hip bump. “How much more of these do you have left to hand out?” They’re packaged meals but he can’t tell if each container is one meal or if they’re grouped.
Matt looks at her and knows that question all too well as it’s one he asks himself. “It’s not easy. It’s also not easy to feel you didn’t help enough in a situation. Or how you could have done more but were unable to due to x,y,z reasons. But it comes down to this Laela, for me that is and maybe you’ll find your own peace over time. That you’re doing everything you can in your power. You need to recognize you’re only one person and you can only do so much. And with what you do you are helping those with it. But, it is also important to realize that it’s something you can’t do on your own, especially when you truly want to reach out to as many as possible. That’s why it’s okay to ask for help here and there.”
“Absolutely! I wouldn’t go as far to say I’m a foodie but I do eat at a lot of different places and yours is one of my faves! Aksel’s heard about it and all the guys at the station have, too. Which is why I think it’s only fitting if your place caters the fiesta. It’s in the summer and as soon as I get the date figured out I’ll hit you up. Figured you’ll need plenty of notice so you can do whatever it is that goes into catering. I only know to show up and eat whenever the food’s ready.” he said, laughing. He’s worked at restaurants when he was in high school but never did catering. “So yes. This is me asking. You down?”
“Now doing that would definitely hurt my feelings. How could you ruin a perfectly good tiramisu by eating it in the rain.” This time it was her turn to return the dramatics. To think that he would do such a thing just to make her feel bad was quite amusing. Now she could not help but turn bright red at his compliment, truly thinking that it was the food of her home that had people coming to Bella Notte often. “Noo.. It wouldn’t be what it is without the people that put their time and effort into the restaurant. I am lucky to have my team because I wouldn’t be able to do anything by myself.” While the place was hers, she owed it to so many different people to make it what it was today. She would never think that the customers came purely based on her effort alone.
“Well this is all that’s left.” She sighed as she looked at the last two packs of food left. The Italian still felt guilty for not being able to feed more, knowing that while she has made many a people’s day, she still thought only of those that she could not help. There was a man who seemed unsure if he could have some so she was quick to take one box and walked up to him, making sure that he knew that he could help himself to the food. He had been grateful, thanking her endlessly while she kept saying that she did not do much. The smile on her face when the man walked away smiling, probably relieved to not have to worry when he would be able to have his next meal, she turned to walk back to where Matt was and let out a soft chuckle. “You know, I’m actually one of the most helpless persons out there. I rely so much on my brothers really. I probably would not be alive if it were not for them constantly being there for me.” A tad bit dramatic but very much true.
The past few weeks, she had seen an increase in new faces at Bella Notte and she never knew why. Now she was starting to think that this cheeky friend of hers had something to do with it. “Well since you asked nicely and you know, you’ve been telling everyone about the restaurant, it would be a shame to not give them a chance to try it.” This time it was her turn to tease. “I am uhm.. down?” That was such an odd expression to the Italian so she ended up laughing just from hearing herself say it. “So, what do you want for the food? Tiramisu is a must, that I know.”
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