Dialogue Color = #5F912D Ruby quickly explained what Gretel needed to do, while passing her a notepad and pen. Gretel nodded dumbly trying to remember everything. Her memory was not the best. Though according to her fifth grade teacher neither was her mathematics ability, handwriting and social skills. Incidentally Gretel also hated her fifth grade teacher.
"If you have any questions, I'd suggest you ask them now,""Um," Gretel looked down at the notepad in her hands, quickly running through her instructions in her head.
"Take order. Hang order in kitchen. Bell rings. Take food to table. How hard can that be?""Oh, you'll need this," Ruby said as she handed Gretel an apron.
Gretel was relieved that the apron was white. She had actually been dreading the fact that she might be made to wear a frilly, floral apron. A thought she had accidentally mentioned to Hansel. He of course thought she was being ridiculous. Though she had got him to admit that he also would like to avoid having to wear a frilly, floral apron.
The door to the store opened as their first customer of the day arrived.
"Morning ladies!" Antonio chirped happily as he sat in one of the booth. Gretel was kind of happy he picked the booth over the bar; that was she got to serve him. The boy hadn't been in town long, but Gretel doesn't take long when deciding whether she liked something or not, and she had decided she like Antonio.
"Alright, let's get to work then," Ruby said and she left to go behind the bar.
Gretel made her way over to Antonio's booth.
" Hey, your working here now?""Yep, lucky you, my first customer," Gretel replied dully.
"Anyway Andy, I see you got the dress code," Gretel motioned to his apparent lack of shirt. Apparently he liked to run shirtless. Of course she had never seen him running shirtless as that would involve actually getting out of bed before midday, which was something she was willing to try for a view of Antonio shirtless. Though more than one of the oldies at the Nursing Home had been talking up fearsome tales of the town's first nudist moving in
"So what can I get you for breakfast?"Gretel looked across the restaurant and noticed how full it had gotten. She hadn't even noticed all the people entering. Maybe she wasn't going to make such a great waitress after all. Of course she didn't fail to notice that Flynn had come in, and he was sitting at one of the booths, meaning she would get to serve him. When she caught Flynn's eye she smiled at him.
However her smile dropped immediately as another customer entered the store. Now she was a Lady. She had black and white hair, blood red lipstick, and diamonds around her neck. Gretel felt her skin start to tingle. Gretel wasn't a particularly good witch. Partly due to the fact she never cared much for practice, and partly because after her parents left, her and Hansel were forced to learn their supernatural craft on their own. Of course with some help from the internet. Gretel knew enough about witchcraft though to know what dark magic felt like.
"I'll have pancakes with blueberry syrup, scrambled eggs and bacon please." Antonio said, dragging Gretel's attention away from the woman.
Gretel forced herself to look back at Antonio.
"Uh, Yeah sure, that will just be a few minutes."Gretel replied as she wrote down his order and took it into the kitchen.
Gretel knew she'd have to talk to the woman eventually.
"Hi, what can i get for you?" Gretel asked trying her best to be polite.
"Hello, Darling. I'll take a black coffee and an order of scrambled egg whites." The woman said with a pleasant smile, that made Gretel feel more at ease.
"Oh stop it you wretched thing!" The woman said to one of her very large dogs that started barking.
"Yep, that's fine, it won't be long." Gretel replied, all ready to take the order to the kitchen.
"Oh, Darling, one more thing if you don't mind." The woman said leaning, giving Gretel a good whiff of her very strong perfume.
"Yea?""You see my husband and I just moved into town and we're trying to get to know the community a little better. We're thinking about having a housewarming party and, well-" The woman looked a little uncomfortable, so Gretel tried to smile and look friendly.
"I'm not really sure if we invited the locals that anyone would come. Do you think the people here would be open to having a soirée at a complete stranger's house or is that idea just demented?" The woman shook her head.
"I'm sorry, Darling, you probably don't want a strange englishwoman asking your advice this early in the morning."Besides the fact Gretel hated being called darling, the woman seemed perfectly harmless. After all, dark witches didn't hsve soirées and worried about whether or not people would come. Gretel just shrugged.
"It is a little early in the morning, but I say go ahead, I'm sure people will want to come, and if they don't, who cares."Incidentally at that moment, Trixie turned around in her seat, and pronounced that she would love to come. Gretel gave the woman an 'I told you so look,' and went to put the ladies order in the kitchen. Gretel sighed, if the woman did go ahead with her idea, Gretel did not want to go, but she knew Ariel would definitely want to two of them to go.
Next up Gretel went to Flynn and Gold's table.
"Here's trouble," She said approaching their booth.
"Should I tell Ruby to check the till money after you two leave?" Gretel asked jokingly.
"What can I get you guys?" She pulled out her notepad and got ready to take their orders.