Beep! Beep! Beep!
Knock. Knock.
“I’m the boss. How can I be late? And don’t worry about Lia. She’s a gremlin that doesn’t rest.” Kaiser gave her a sly smile as he grabbed her hand with one hand and grabbed her purse with the other. “Come on, I’ll even let you take a nap on my lap.”
The rest of the drive passed peacefully and smoothly as Valentina slept, Kaiser held her hand while her intoxicating scent surrounded him until she was all he could smell.
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Seeing that Lia couldn’t even muster up the energy to do her usual greeting, Valentina knew that the woman was truly tired.
“Out of my house! And it is my house this time!”
As she looked down at the coffee she had made, Valentina couldn’t help but reminisce about her younger days. Once she turned 14, she began working part-time jobs because the orphanage only provided basics, and if she wanted anything extra, like special books to study for college exams, extra food, clothing that wasn’t too torn, and the like, she had to pay for it herself.
To be truthful, she not only worked at the coffee shop, but she had held all kinds of jobs while in school. Part-time librarian, part-time waitress, part-time bartender, part-time line cook, part-time social media manager, part-time daycare worker, part-time janitor, etc. She had held so many different types of jobs and gigs trying to put herself through school that she had accumulated a variety of useless skills that couldn’t be used in the corporate world when she finally graduated.
“What happened, Lia? Why do you look like this?”
“I was making your dress. I told you. I would find it, make it, or die trying. Since I couldn’t find it, I finally finished making a basic prototype of something similar this morning. Shall we take a look? It is quite pretty if I do say so myself.” Lia gave her a mischievous smile.
“Sure.”
Lia hopped up, taking her mug with her as she led Valentina to her main design space.