Chapter 22

I get to work the next day waaaaay too early because I've been stressed about the whole Frank thing.

            I did this to myself though.

            And now I'm at a point where I'm just thinking, fuck it. What's the worst thing that can happen? It's gonna be awkward at work?

            I can handle that. I'm a big girl.

            Frank walks into the back store, and sees me and says, "Hey."

            "Hi," I reply, and my voice literally breaks.

Motherfucker.

Frank chuckles. "You okay there?"

            I run a hand through my hair, and try to keep the very little dignity I have left. "Yeah, I'm fine. I'm perfect," I tell him.

            Frank still has an amused smile. I'm not sure if I'm annoyed at it, or I think it's cute. "So, do you have any plans tomorrow evening?"

            I frown. Where is he going with this? "Eh... no? I don't think so."

            "Do you want to hang out," he asks me.

I kind of freeze on the spot. Did I hear this right? Did he just ask me to hang out? What does hang out mean?

I'm thinking all of this and suddenly feeling like I'm sweating more than normal, but all I say is "sure," with a smile I'm certain looks fake.

"Great," Frank replies and head back to the front of the restaurant, to take care of clients.

And I'm just kind of standing there, confused as fuuuuuck.

Was that it?

Technically, I only start working in like half an hour. So I take out my phone and go on Instagram.

"Anything interesting on there?" Frank asks me, with a grin.

            I'd been chuckling, alone while staring at my phone, but I stop the second he says this. "Oh, it's just my friend being stupid," I reply.

            My friend. Yeah. Tenth Knot is my friend now.

            It's kinda crazy to think, because we've never met and I don't even know her name or if she's actually a her. But she's my friend nevertheless.

            "Anyone I know?"

            "Probably not, no," I reply, but who knows. For all I know, Frank might be Tenth Knot.

            I don't say anything more, because it's time for me to work now, so I punch in, and head to the front to catch up on what I need to do for the day on top of serving clients.

            Frank asks me about what I did lately and how I'm doing and I try to act as natural as I can.

            "Do you have any exams coming up soon?" I ask him at one point, trying to make small talk, and sound like I actually care about him.

Not that I don't. I'm just worried sometimes that I talk too much about myself and don't ask people enough about themselves, so I become self conscious about that any time I have conversations with people that lasts more than ten minutes.

            "Actually, I do. I think I need someone to cover one of my shifts next week, my exam might be at the same time as work," he says sheepishly.

            "If you tell me in advance, I can probably do it," I tell him, not really thinking about it. Hopefully it doesn't fall a an inconvenient time, but I've said yes now, and I don't want to go back on my word.

            "Thanks, you're a life saver."

            "No problem," I nod to him.

            We have clients now, so we work quickly and efficiently.

            I'm actually good at my job. I don't know if I ought to be proud about this.

            I make sandwiches. In the grand scheme of things, it's nothing.

            I look at Frank standing beside me.

            Is he hot? I'm not entirely sure. I think he's something. He's definitely not ugly. He's good looking, I guess. But in a generic, I could forget his face easily kind of way.

He hasn't said anything about our kiss. But I haven't said anything.

Are we ignoring it? Or we're just at a point in our relationship where we don't even need to talk about it?

Is this the beginning of our grand love story? Because if it is... well honestly, it's kind of boring.

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Hello my little Pretzels! <3

Sorry if this chapter is a little short. Next ones shall be a little bit longer. I've mentioned this before I think, but I plan on splitting the story in three parts. And I want to finish the first part of the story, but February at the latest. I think that's doable. In a perfect world I'd finish it before the end of the year, but I have to be realistic. XD

So yeah. I hope you liked this chapter! Next one shall be up soon! Thanks for still giving this story some love!

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