My Unknown Love

Another day in this hell hole and I was ready to call it quits.

My boss was riding my ass about getting the food to all the people in the restaurant and to keep a "cute smile while serving, instead of that fake one you're wearing."

His words, not mine. I was tiring of putting up a genuine smile when all i did was get groped and proded like a wax figure because of my "beauty". I was so over it already and not even a year had passed since I lost the only people who could comfort me when I got home, my parents and my brother.

After their car accident, I wasn't the same. My smile barely reached and my depression kicked my rear like a horse on a Tuesday.

And to make matters worse, I couldn't keep the payments for my family home so all of my memories were taken away from me in less than 6 months, and I couldn't do anything becauae i worked in some crappy dinner.

I sighed out loud, unbeknownst to myself and my boss heard it.

"Get your head out of the clouds and serve the damn food instead of sighing like an idiot" my boss yelled.

Well that woke me up.

I grabbed the food and started getting to all the people who had been waiting, and the last plate just had to be to the one man i wanted to avoid like the plague. Danny.

"Come on sweetness, I'm waiting for my food and you." Danny said while laughing with his little group of friends.

They were bad news here around town, and nobody wanted to get on their bad sides, me included.

"I've been watching your sexy hips and ass walk and stand all around this diner but having you up close is always so much better sweetness." I could vomit from the nickname by itself.

I feel his hand go up my thigh and I shiver in disgust at the contact, I feel goosebumps all over my skin but its not from the skin to skin contact its from the "I feel eyes on me" contact, which has been happening for the past 2 or 3 years.

I've definitely have felt it more since my family has passed, almost as though i can feel someone else's worry and anger on my behalf, which was weird since I had no friends.

Ignoring the goosebumps, I step back from Danny quickly before he can cop a feel of everything he isn't supposed to touch and look at him with a strained smile.

"Is there anything else you want?"

"I want you." And the little forced smile just holds still on my face.

"I mean, on the menu?"

"Nah, nothing else on there that I want" he says and his smile is no longer on his face

"Alright then" is all I say as I walk away and I hear Danny say under his breath.

"I'll have you before long, and no one is going to stop me, you have no family and nobody to have your back, you might as well become mine." He scoffed and I just keep walking away.

"Dumb broad" is the last thing I hear before I round the corner and go into the kitchen.

I'm heaving and gasping because I want to cry and break down but I also know I only have 30 minutes of this morning shift so I'll keep myself together and then leave.

The cook comes up to me and pats my head "Don't let his words get to you, he doesn't know anything" his Russian accent really coming out when he spoke.

"I know Cook, it bothers me that I'm just a piece of meat to people."

"As long as you know your worth, no one can ever tear you down" I looked up at him and smiled sadly at him

"Thanks Cook" I said

The man towered over me at a size of 6ft and was built like he ate peoples muscles for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. But he was the biggest softie in this diner to me, when it came up to others he looked like their words went in one ear and came out or like they bounced off his muscles and didn’t even touch his ears.

But I had no complaints, at least I had someone who watched my back.

The remaining 30 minutes of my shift went in a flash, and I made some amazing tips because of peoples pity but at this point I was used to that too.

I clocked out and told Cook good night and I'd see him tomorrow night for my shift with him.

Getting to my apartment wasn't a hassle, thankfully and I was happy to be in the confines of my own space, it wasn't home but I had a few pictures to make it feel like a home.

I put my keys in the bowl by the door and put all my tips in my pity jar and started getting undressed to take a long hot soak in my tub.

Having lavender bubble bath and salts in the tub and letting it rise and steam up the room was one of my favorite things to do.

Turning the tap off, I submerged my body into the hot water and sigh a relief as I soaked and let all the tension from today leave my body.

I wash myself off while humming to a song my mom always hummed to me in my sleep and I start feeling drowsy. After washing the body soap off, I lean back and rest my eyes for a bit.

I'm not sure how long I napped for in the tub but I feel a spark on my cheek, a warm touch thats so soothing that I could go back to sleep but instead the touch and the spark go away and when I open my eyes, no one is there.

Whatever I felt must've been a part of my recurring dream, whoever they are, they come and touch my face so lightly like I'm porcelain for only a second and by the time I open my eyes its gone. It feels so real but its so quick.

I softly touch my face and reminisce on the feeling.

"I need to pull myself together."

I get out of the tub, drain the water and go and make a spaghetti for my dinner with a side salad.

After I'm done eating, I go and watch tv for a bit to let my food digest before I head to bed.

My eyes get heavy as I mumble "I wish those sparks were real" My body goes heavy as I succumb to sleep.

I don't even remember getting out of bed to even come to work, this whole day has been a blur.

But I've been functioning at full capacity, these night shifts are always hell on earth, the rush of people who come in because they don't want to cook is very many.

It doesn't help the fact that Danny is here with his group of friends taking up a booth and watching my. EVERY. SINGLE. MOVE.

Like geez dude, I'm not a movie.

Bumping into the other girls on staff and trying to get orders out fast enough is the way of the game tonight and we are slowly coming to an even pace.

A man and his little boy come in and are looking around to find a seat, so I walk up to them to direct them to a booth and grab menus to take to them.

When I walk away, I see the little boy looking at me as he is walking to his table and I smile and wave at him.

He smiles so brightly and waves back at me, and I go grab the menus. When i get to the table I put the menus down on the table and some crayons and coloring sheets for the little boy, I turn to look at the man to see that he was already looking at me.

I blush at the realization, he is looking at me intensely, almost in a lovingly way, but it didnt bother me and it didn't make me feel....disgusted "You don't seem to be from around here so I grabbed some menus for you to look at." I start.

"Its no worries." If I could die and go to heaven, I would be a happy woman. His voice was so deep that it almost made my knees buckle.

"Um, what would you like this evening?" I say as I blush deeper and get hot.

"What do you recommend?" He asked.

The man wanted me to think, which was very hard with the current sight I was beholding.

I cleared my throat "Wel-well, I would recommend the steak and eggs with mashed potatoes and for the little guy i would say our mac and cheese with either chicken tenders or fried porkchop."

The little boy spoke up and said "porkchop please." While he continued to color, I giggled and looked back at the man, he smiled at me, which could take my breathe away and said "We'll do that then"

I had to keep my legs in check, "And, um what would you like to drink?"

"Water for now."

I nodded my head and rushed to the kitchen to catch my breathe, I saw Cook smirking in my direction before he said "I see someone has caught your eyes" I shush Cook immediately and tell him to cook the orders.

He chuckles and gets back to work. I sigh and get to work on the cups of water and decide to make a cup of hot chocolate with whip cream and a cup of tea for the man and his son.

I head out and put the waters and the drinks on the table "Its on the house, i thought you could use a hot drink."

The little boy claps his hands "Yay, hot chocolate" He goes to take a sip after blowing and shows us his whipped cream mustache and I giggle at him. "Its so delicious, thank you mo... ma'am. "

I shake my head slightly. " It's no problem. Your food will be out in a bit."

I walk over to Danny's table "if you're not going to order anything and just follow me with your eyes then please leave, you're taking up space. " I whisper yell.

"Aww come on sweetness, you don't love seeing me here, you got a new boy toy I see that's got you blushing like a beet" he says and I wish he hadn't seen.

He pulls me close to him and grips my side before I hear a low growl some distance away and a bell from the kitchen "Order Up!"

I push away from Danny and glare at him before walking away not giving him the time of day for the rest of the evening.

I smile at Cook "Thanks" he nods his head and looks at Danny with the worse scowl I've seen on his face ever.

Getting to the table, I place the plates down "I hope you enjoy!" I say.

Throughout the night a few people come and go and I check in with the man and the boy, I give him his check and cash him out.

I come back and have his card and receipt in my hand and give it to him "Here you go, I hope you guys enjoyed the recommendations and come again"

He smiled and signed the receipt and gave my tip in cash into my hands "Of course we enjoyed them, you recommended it" he says and smiles as he gets up and waits for his boy to get down from the chair.

The little boy hugs my legs and says "see you later" waving back at me.

I wave back as I watch them leave.

I look at all my tables and don't see Danny, which I could really do without so I'm happy he is gone. And I put the tip I got from the man in my pocket.

I head to the back of the kitchen and I see Cook still on the grill.

"I'll take the trash out now since its so piled up" I yell in Cooks direction.

None of us know his actual name so we just call him Cook since we know his initials are 'B.C.'

"No, I've got it, ill do it after this order." He says but i want to get a load off him cause I know he'll have to do all the rest of the trash cans himself so I wanted to do at least this for him.

"No, let me take care of this one for you, you're swamped right now and you have three other bags to take out later tonight. Let me at least help with this one, and you can make me one of your specialty meals for me tonight before we leave. Deal?"

He looks at me wearily but groans and says "Deal, but be careful"

I grin and nod my head "Of course, I'll just be right here outside, what's the worst that can happen Cook?"

I grab the bag and tie it up and lug it over my shoulder to head out the backdoor for the trash dumpster.

Once I get outside, I sense an eerie feeling. That makes me think twice about coming out here, but I move quick.

I open the dumpster door and toss the bag into it, I start heading back to the door when it closes with Danny standing in front of it with a sick grin on his face.

"Aww, what's my sweetness out here doing dirty work for, hm?" He says

And I back up to bump into one of his goons who pushes me towards Danny and laughs.

"Boss, she's soft to the touch!" He says cackling.

I rush to my right side to try and run and I see his other two goons standing there with a grin on their face. "Where do you think you going?"

And I lose my control over my breathing, I'm scared out of my mind over what to do and I feel Danny touch me and that makes me jump and yelp "Don't touch me!"

He laughs in my face "Why not? You're mine anyway, I'm going to ruin you and keep you all to myself"

He pushes me up against the wall and licks my neck to which I shiver in disgust.

"Please, don't do this" I say as I feel tears run down my face and his hand riding up my skirt to my underwear.

He grins in my face with a heated look in his eyes.

"SOMEBODY PLEASE....."

My words halt when I hear bones cracking and a small growl, I look down and see a little puppy biting Danny's leg and tugging him away, Danny kicks it away "Fucking mutt"

Before Danny can look back at me, a humongous dog tackles him down and bites his arm, Danny yells as his arm is torn off his body.

Cook comes outside and see the thing on Danny but goes to Danny's goons and starts punching them in there face.

I stumble off the wall and fall on my knees crawling away from the big dog thing.

It goes towards one of Danny's goons himself after causing Danny to lose consciousness and growls in his face to which the guy passes out just from the close up contact.

The dog looks at me, and stands on its two hind legs and walks towards me, the puppy that I saw earlier also comes up next to me nudging me with its nose and its tail wagging, it looks like a puppy but its definitely a lot bigger than you would think.

I fall on my butt and start scooting back of fear of what it might do to me and it looks at me hurt and starts to whimper, or at least that was the facial expression I can attempt to make out from all the fur and snout.

I keep backing up and then the bone cracking starts again and the big standing dog turned into a human right before my eyes, to say he was gorgeous was an understatement but he was also the person I had just served with his son.

He had beautiful sparkling blue eyes that could rival the ocean and the sky, a musclar toned body to match his 6'8 height and amazing toned skin.

He smirked at me saying "Enjoying the view my queen?"

And my response was to pass out, there was too much going on for me to process and my body shut down.

But before my body completely shut down, I felt those sparks again as the unknown man engulfed me in his touch with concern and worry written all over his face with words leaving his mouth that I couldn't even make out.