RP: Unexpected Run-in Date: June 5, 2012 Characters: Emily Martin, Noel Barlow, Molly Barlow (NPC) Location:The Purple Cow Status: Semi-Private Rating: PG Summary: Just another day at work... Or not. Completion: Complete
It was just another day at work, the back and forth, get this for table 6, table 2 needs refills, order's up, back and forth from the time she got in with the lunch rush starting almost immediately once she came on shift. She liked when it was busy, though, because it meant the day went faster and made it all the sooner that she would get to go home to her baby girl. Oh how she wished she could be home with Sarah more, but work was a must as she had to help keep the roof over their head and food on the table and God were diapers expensive!
Focus, Em! she ordered herself, picking up the order for table 12 and delivering it swiftly, getting asked by no less than three tables for one thing or another on her way to take the order for the sweet old couple Marla had just seated in her section. And so the first few hours of her shift went by.
It was just another day at work. Only it wasn't, Emily realized when she went to greet the customers Marla had just told her she'd seated in her section. Things had slowed down, but the whole restaurant seemed to go quiet when she reached the table and saw the man and daughter sitting there. It was all in her head, of course; no one else in the restaurant knew how much seeing Noel sitting there unbalanced her. Hadn't she just been thinking about them a couple of weeks ago, wondering if she'd ever run into them again? Apparently he'd been right about that whole fate thing.
"Well, fancy running into you here of all places," she said with a smile as she reached the table, though after a moment she worried that perhaps he wouldn't recognize her just like he hadn't the last time. "And, hello there, Molly. I'm sure you don't remember me, but we met in the park a couple months back." She hoped that Noel wouldn't mind the familiarity, but she was southern to the core, and she didn't think she could turn that off.