Waitress by Kennedy Armstrong (the beach read txt) 📕

"Good morning mom, dad", I say as I walk through the kitchen to grab a granola bar. They both turn their heads and look at me.

"Hey honey, you heading off to school", my dad asks me as my mom smiles my way. I take a bite out of my granola bar and nod my head.

"Yeah, I have work right after school today so I won't be home until later tonight", I say to them grabbing my bag from off the floor and walking to the front door.

"Be careful walking to school honey", I hear my mom yell before I close the door all the way.

I walk to school everyday because my parents can't get me my own car. They offer me rides to and from school but I don't want them wasting gas. We only have one car, my dad drives my mom to work and then he drives to work. I work hard in school so that I can get a scholarship to go to college. If I can't get a scholarship I'll probably just end up going to community college.

When I get to school I walk through the doors to only see a few people. Not a lot of people go to this school because most of the teens go to Kingsley High School. The few people here at Gerard High School can't afford Kingsley.

"Hey AnaBelle", I hear my close friend Tasha say behind me. I quickly turn  around and look at her smiling. Tasha has short brown hair and she's really pretty. To be honest I don't know what I would do without her, she's my best friend and she understands me. Were pretty much in the same situation due to her being poor and me being poor.

"Hey Tasha", I say hugging her as she hugs me back. We begin walking down the small hall together.

"Are you working at the diner tonight", she asks as we walk into our classroom. I nod my head.

"Yeah, I won't get off until late. Laney isn't coming so I have to take her shift", I say rolling my eyes. Laney is another friend of ours, but she doesn't go to school she just works.

"Ok, I'm going to stop by so I can see you", she says to me. Before I can respond our teacher walks into the class and begins teaching.

The teachers at this school even suck. Most of the guy teachers are creeps who stare us girls down like their lives depend on it. Sometimes the teachers don't even teach us, they just sit there and do nothing.

When school ends I head straight to the diner, it isn't to far away from my school. Once I get there I'm greeted by all the people who work here. All of them are so nice to me.

"Hey AnaBelle, how was school", Gina asks me as she stands behind the counter. I shrug a little while smiling at her.

"Same old same old. Mr. Greene didn't even teach today, he went to sleep", I say chuckling a little bit as I walk behind the counter to where she is. I grab my apron and put it around my waist. I grab a pen and notepad from the counter and put it in the small pockets of the apron.

After an hour the place is filled with a lot of people. I've waited a lot of people since I've been here and I'm a little tired, but I still have a few hours to go. I here a ding from the door and I look over to see some teens about my age walk in laughing together. I see that their wearing the Kingsley School Uniforms and I roll my eyes.

"Belle, you've been requested", Gina says laughing as she points to the old man smiling my way. Mr. Unis, he comes here every night and he always requests me. I take out my notepad and pen as I walk to his table smiling at him.

"Hey Mr. Unis, the usual?", I ask him as I write down what he always gets as he smiles at me.

"Yes, but as piece of you would be nice to", he says still smiling. Mr. Unis being old and all doesn't understand that this is weird for me. I close my eyes and chuckle a little before opening the back up.

"Mr. Unis, don't you think your a bit, old for me", I say to him as I put my pen back into the small pocket of the apron.

"I'm only seventy, I might be old but I can still Jiggy", he says laughing loud causing a few people to look over at him.

"Yes, yeah, well uh your order will be out soon", I say before walking away and shaking my head at Gina as she laughs at me. I take Mr. Unis's order to the kitchen before heading off to more orders. I walk to the table next to Mr. Unis's table and see that the Kingsley School kids are sitting there. There's two girls and three boys siting at the table.

"What can I get you", I ask smiling a little. One girl whispers to the other girl and they both start laughing until she looks my way. I just give them a small smile.

"I don't believe I've ever seen you before, do you go to Kingsley", the blonde haired girl asks me with a smile that I can tell is fake. I shake my head.

"No, I don't go to Kingsley. I go to Gerard High School", I say slightly smiling at them. The girl looks me up and down.

"Yeah, I can tell by what your wearing", she says. I quickly look down at my clothes and then back up to her. I don't see anything wrong with what I'm wearing. The girl next to her laughs while the guys just looks at them like something's wrong with them.

"Ok, uhm, are you guys ordering or not", I ask getting a little annoyed, but I stay nice to them. One of the guys speak up.

"I'll just get a water", he says looking at me. I look at him, he has cute blonde and brown hair with blue eyes. I notice that I've been looking at him for to long and I quickly nod as I jot down what he says. Everybody else orders except for the two girls. Once I finish writing down every ones order I take one more look at the guy before heading off to take their orders to the kitchen. When I come from the kitchen I see Tasha talking to Gina.

"Tasha", I say smiling at her while giving her a hug. "I forgot you were coming", I say to her pulling away.

"Gee, glad to know I'm always remembered", she says laughing and I laugh with her. "So, how has work been going so far", she asks me looking around.

"It's been good I guess, it could be better", I say shrugging looking at her as she looks at something else behind me.

"Ok, and who is that guy staring at you", she asks still looking behind me. I turn around and see that Kingsley guy looking at me. You know, the one with blonde hair and blue eyes. I quickly turn back around to Tasha.

"He could be looking at anything Tasha", I say with a 'duh' tone to my voice.

"No, no I'm pretty sure he was looking at you Belle", she says looking back at me. I just roll my eyes and smile at her. "Well, I need to get going, its getting dark. Bye Belle", she says before walking out of the diner doors.

When everybody has left the diner its just me and Gina, but I tell her to leave since she's tired and I can just clean up.

"Fine, I'll leave, but make sure you lock up before leaving", she says. I nod at her before she walks out. I begin getting cups and silverware from tables and taking them to the kitchen. When I walk from the kitchen I hear a small knock on the door. I roll my eyes thinking it's Gina until I open it to see someone I wouldn't expect it to be.

"Hey, uh, I left something here". That Kingsley boy says to me. I open the door wider and I let him walk into the diner to get whatever he left. I close the door and begin cleaning up again.

"So umm, this is a nice diner", I hear the guy say as he walks next to me with a few plates in his hand. I give him a small smile and take the plates from him.

"Yeah, I love working here", I say walking behind the counter and taking them to the kitchen. He follows behind me.

"Yeah, and about earlier. I'm sorry about my friend, she's-", he starts saying before I interrupt him.

"It's fine. I get that from a lot of people all the time, I'm used to it now", I say dropping the dishes in the sink.

"Oh, I'm VJ by the way", he says to me putting his hand out for me to shake. I look at his hand with raised eyebrows before I speak up.

"AnaBelle". I shake his hand and he does this cute thing where he bites his bottom lip. I quickly pull my hand away before walking out of the kitchen.

"Well, I need to head home. It was nice talking to you", I say taking off my apron and hanging it up. VJ follows me out of the door after I shut off the lights.

"Where's your car", he asks me looking around. Probably because the only car in the parking lot is a white Cadillac Escalade, and that's an expensive car.

"I, don't have a car, I walk home everyday after work", I say to him. He raises his eyebrows at me before biting his lip again.

"Well, I can give you a ride home", he says pointing to the Cadillac. I shake my head at his offer.

"No no, that's fine. I'm fine with walking, really". I begin to walk away again before he starts talking to me again.

"C'mon, it's late and I'm sure there are lots of creepy people out here", he says rubbing his fingers through his hair. I roll my eyes at him.

"Fine", I say to him following him to his car. When we get to his car I don't even want to touch it because of how expensive it looks. He opens the passenger side door for me and I get in. Once he gets in the car we both strap our seat belts on and he starts the car.

"Where do you live", he asks me as he pulls out of the parking lot. I tell him where I live and he heads off into that direction.

"This is a nice car, it's pretty", I say looking around in the car. The inside of the car is a light brown color.

"Thanks, when I get my new car maybe I'll let you have it", he says smirking at me. I look back at him and smile. Is he for real or is he just joking.

When he pulls into the driveway of my house I sit there for a little minute. "Thank you for driving me home", I say slightly smiling at him.

"Your welcome, I can bring you home tomorrow to if you want me to. Just so you don't have to walk home in the dark", he says to me.

"Uh, I mean if you want to you can, but you don't have to", I say to him. He nods and smirks at me.

"Ok, I'll drive you home tomorrow night. Do you get off at the same time", He asks me.

"No, I get off two hours earlier, the only reason I got off so late was because I was working two shifts tonight". He nods at me.

"Ok, I'll see you then AnaBelle". When he says my name it makes