Chapter Three

DANIEL'S POV

Max and I entered into our favourite weekend diner. We've been visiting this place for over a year now since we discovered it. One reason is they cook nice homemade meals.

 But my worries isn't about food, it was about the lie I told my grandma, she's been calling me over a week asking when she will meet my girlfriend and i kept on lying that she was still out of the state, but my grandma even says since my girlfriend couldn't come, we should fly over to meet her.

I told Max my predicament and he only laughed at me. In his words, why lie to NaNa? I did it because I was tired of her calling me up to go on blind dates with girls I don't find interesting, and worse guys, she very well knows I'm straight.

Max had suggested I hire an actress to play as my girlfriend to NaNa, but NaNa would know immediately she walked in, she was an actress during her younger days.

We sat on a seat on the diner when my secretary Lilith sent me an email, that a client had rescheduled our meeting, I was mad, this was the fifth time he has done so, while I replied her, the waitress comes in to take our order, Max answered for me, it was when she placed my drink on the table that's when I had saw her, she wasn't the waitress who always took our order

"You're not the waitress who always took our orders?" I asked, but Max answered instead

"This is Charlotte"

Charlotte huh, she was different from the other waitress who took our orders, Vanessa. I think she always flirted with us and opened her cleavage so much that once I'm sure she wanted to shove it on my face, I felt disgusted by her actions.

I observe her for a moment, she was so different from Vanessa, her hair was put in a ponytail and she had minimal makeup, she was covered, with no cleavage at all, even at that her curves stood out, she was different from the other waitresses I've watched around here, she was so professional, she didn't flirt like the rest of them did, I took notice of how she did most of the job here, I called out to Max.

"Was it supposed to be one person, waiting on every one?"

"Huh?"

"I mean, was it always one person who waited for all the tables"

Max took notice too,

"No, I don't think so"

I watched as she went to the seat opposite ours, two drunk men were trying to flirt with her, she was professional, but then one of them smacked her ass, and that's when the commotion started because she hit him on his face with a tray, but when she tried to defend herself, the manager supported the drunk pervert and tried to fire her, but she quit instead, as she walked out and the manager tried to get everyone to return to their meal I said

"I quit too"

He was shocked to say the least

"I've always wondered about the poor customer service and unprofessional employees you have here, but because the food was always nice, I endured, but the one employee who took her job seriously quit because of a customer, who, everyone saw harassed her"

He tried to give reasons

"She shouldn't have hit him, she could have reported it to me?"

Max got annoyed at what he said

"Really, report to you, you who made her do the work of three people, yes we noticed, we saw how she did all the work, why the others hid at the back" he chimed in, someone from the other side said

"And that dude has been on her neck since he arrived, talking dirty to her, everyone noticed it, dude if this is the way you treat your employees, I quit eating here too"

This got the manager, I read in his name tag, Andre, so he had watched his employee get harassed by that man and supported the man after he went far

"We are really sorry for the events of tonight, every meal tonight is on the house-" but I cut him off

"Nah, I'm gonna pay for my meal,  since it will be the last time I'm eating here" I said

"Check please" 

Andre tried to get me to stay, but after paying I and Max walked out of the restaurant, their customer service sucked anyway.

As we reached the car park, I saw a figure crotched down and I heard sobs, like someone was crying

"Any one there?!"

The figure stood up immediately and I saw it was the employee who quit. She had tears in her eyes and tried to clean them up with the back of her hand. I handed her my handkerchief.

"Thank you" she mumbled as she cleaned her face with it

"I'm sorry about what happened back there"

She gave a wry smile, as she bit her lips

"It's nothing, it was long overdue, me quitting"

Suddenly an idea entered into my head, what if she plays my girlfriend, I mean she's not the type of girl I would bring over, but she's the type my grandma would like, My NaNa has always been a romantic, give her a nice romantic story on how we met, she would believe us.

But Charlotte wouldn't want to hear something as ridiculous as this now so I said

"You're probably in need of a job, since you quit this one"

She raised a brow at me, her wide eyes blinking in confusion

"I've got a job offer for you" 

"What?"

I reached into my pocket and brought out my card, 

"Here, you can reach me, I hope to hear from you"

Her eyes widen as she reached out take the card from me

"I hope to hear from you"

She nodded her head, and I walked towards the car, Max was already seated

"Where were you?"

I smiled to myself

"I found myself the perfect girlfriend to present to NaNa"

"What?"