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It was Opal's last week at the cafe before embarking on her new adventure.
She was cleaning the counter as the door chimed, she looked up to greet the customer and her heart stopped as she saw a beautiful tall presumably European tourist stooping down as they entered the doorway.
Their complexion glistened in the sunlight and Opal lost her balance for a moment as their eyes met one another...
For that fraction of a second, Opal was elsewhere. She felt herself floating above her body feeling nothing but a mere spectator.
The girl walked up to the counter
"Scusi ...Do you speak English?"
Opal came plummeting down back to earth like a waterfall. Feeling bruised and nauseous she attempted to compose herself
"Uh...Hi yes! I can speak English, what can get for you?... " Opal froze again as she once again locked eyes with the customer, she noticed the depth of brown in their eyes through neat tortoiseshell glasses & the delicately placed freckles on their cheeks.
She looked away shyly and gasped for air while the customer had chance to respond
*come on Opal get it together!!* she commanded, pleading with her brain to switch on & whatever was in charge to drop it momentarily.
Opal had forgotten the kissaten she worked at had a good reputation online, part of the reason she got the job was her ability to speak English.
"One cappuccino please..." the girl paused to look at the array of cakes and sandwiches, then up at the specials board in deep thought
"And uhm, I'd like something sweet, what would you recommend?"
Before she realised her mouth had opened, still a spectator Opal heard her own voice immediately respond
Again her soul came crashing back to earth stunned that whoever was in charge of Opal in that moment had the audacity to be so confident
Opal unlocked herself from the eye contact in an attempt to regain control of herself
"Uh..... I mean, how about a waffle?
You can have ice cream & strawberries with it?"
"Sure that would be great" the customer responded in a friendly tone
Opal noticed how cute they looked as they smiled back at her, and became more flustered
"...pppp-Please find a seat, I'll bring it to you when its hot... i mean, when its ready!"
The customer beamed at her once more and Opal just froze with a dumb look on her face and holding an extremely awkward thumbs up 👍
As Opal began to breathe, she now had the accept the reality that this cafe did not infact sell waffles... or have any ice cream to place on top... it had strawberries used for some of the cakes at least.
She rushed back into the kitchen to check what ingredients they had, clumsily bumping her shoulder into the doorway as she entered.
As she ran through the ingredients in her head 'eggs, flour.. sugar...."
She realised the biggest thing was there was no waffle maker...
"I'll be right back" she shouted to the owner as she ran out the back door
There was a store a block away, she ran as fast as she could, it was a mini mart the chances of a waffle maker was slim
Opal quickly stepped through the Isles trying to find the random electronics section in the back corner of the store "Yesss" she thought as she saw a pokemon waffle maker with a pikachu on the front.
She grabbed it and ran, quickly throwing money onto the counter in the vague direction of the clerk "do you have any ice cream?" She panted..
"No sorry" they responded "but there's a ice cream stall a couple blocks that way" they pointed back towards the direction of her café. ".....Thank you" the dust of Opal echoed to the clerk. She left so abruptly it was the only trace of her left.
Opal ran as fast as she could with her newly purchased waffle maker under her arm. She quickly checked her pink casio for the time "Oh man, I'm running out of time"
She burst back into the kitchen, stuffed the waffle maker into her colleagues arms and said "Please please please can you start making a waffle with this I promised a customer...."
"The Cute Italian one?" Yumiko replied
"Uh yeah!! and pleeeease make your best cappuccino for them" she was still out of breath "it's important"
"Okay okay I will, you planning to propose or something?" Yumiko teased
Opal punched Yumiko in the arm as she ran out of the kitchen to not expose her bright red cheeks.
Opal found the ice cream stall thankfully fairly quickly. In the end she got a takeaway coffee cup filled with vanilla ice cream
She ran back to the cafe, blinkered like a horse in a race and as she turned a corner there was some small children walking home from school.
Right in front of the onrushing Opal..
Opal took evasive manoeuvres to avoid killing the innocent children but this meant she tripped on the curb and she could only watch as the tub of ice cream went hurtling into the air
She fell to the ground, scrambling to get back up to catch the makeshift ice cream tub but as she was disoriented it was unclear what the trajectory was.... and as she reached out the tub actually landed on her face *bonk*
At this point the children started to break into fits of laughter and were cheering what they had just witnessed
Opal put on her falsest smile and bowed towards the children as if an entertainer at a birthday party. She then bolted back towards the store, not feeling any pain due to the adrenaline or shock.
As she got back into the kitchen the owner was irritable as usual
"What are you doing, you sneaking off to get coffee elsewhere?"
"Why are you covered in blood?!"
"Why is your uniform ripped?"
Opal's eyes welled up with tears, she didn't like conflict & wasn't well versed in dealing with it...
"This isn't coffee this is ice cream for a customer!!" She chirped back
"I'm sorry nakamura-san" she bowed briefly
"There was a tourist and I mis-spoke so I went to get a waffle maker and ice cream"
The manager started to laugh, "Opal you realise this is a waffle maker for kids right? "
"Buh.. does it still make waffles?"
Yumiko shyly appeared in a crab like fashion from behind the owner to show Opal a plate covered in tiny Pikachu face shaped waffles
"Ohhhh fuuuudge" Opal sighed
In the end the Pikachu waffles looked cute with strawberry ears and ice cream eyes and tourist found the funny side.
Opal proceeded to hide behind the counter occasionally peeking to see if they were enjoying the food.
Still dying of embarrassment
