FOOD VILLA - CHAPTER 13&14
Chapter 13 and 14*
~~~~ Written by Divine Chidinma ~~~~
{ Vision }
“Boss…..”Rory shuttered.
“You’re fired”he said.
“Fired? No boss, I can’t be”she knelt down immediately but he began walking away to his office. She crawled to him, holding his leg before he could walk further.
“If you get me fired, then I won’t be able to feed my blind and dumb sister”she cried, a fake one.
He took his leg from her hold.
“You should have thought about that before saying those things!”he shouted and walked out.
“d@mn!”
“I didn’t know Gia is blind and dumb”Kayla said and she slowly turned to her, staring at her in anger, immediately, she stood up and a hot chase began.
**
FOOD VILLA * Evening
They’re already back from distributing of flyers.
“d@mn, I’m weak”Gia said, sitting while the rest did same.
“The lady whom you destroyed her Glassdoor, her restaurant got affected due to the truck of yesterday”Allyson said.
“What!”
“Yes, I saw it”Gia said.
“I felt bad for her”Allyson said.
“Since we’re yet to open the restaurant, why don’t we get to know everyone. Why are we all her apart of the payment”Ji-hoon said.
“I’ll go first. I’ve always wanted to be an actor, I became one but I wasn’t even popular. My last trial made me give up”Stefan said.
“Would you give it a try if there’s an opportunity?”Allyson asked.
“Yes”he smiled.
“Hmmm, I studied law in college all for my granny though, cause I don’t even know what I did all through the years. All have always wanted was being like my granny. She sees the future and past but also, she’s a mind reader”Allyson said.
“Wow!”
“I wanted to be like her, watching people come in for her help was how I wanted them to come to me. When my powers didn’t show out, I started faking it”she said.
“Like you lied to people?”Izzy asked.
“Yes, I stopped when I got arrested, I didn’t know the cop knew who I was”she said and they laughed.
“I wanna be a musician”Natalie muttered when the laughter died down.
“You sing?”
“I do, but whenever I’m to present to people, I lose the confidence. The ego of wanting to do it goes away and I won’t be able to do it”she muttered.
“That’s lack of confidence”Gia muttered.
“I have an idea, you can sing for the customers tonight”Izzy said.
“I can’t do it”she muttered.
“We’ll hide your face, I mean using a veil would be better. You don’t get to see them and they also won’t see you till the song is over”Izzy said.
“That’s nice”
“Would you do it?”Ji-hoon asked.
“I’ll try”she said.
“You should”
“Tell us yours Izzy”Allyson said.
“Easy, just as I’m addicted to K-pop, I want to be an idol, having my own band, the feeling and all that. Being a celebrity, the world knowing me…..”She was still talking….
“Wow! Didn’t know this was you all along!”Gia said and she smiled.
“That’s me”she did a funny style and they laughed.
“Well, I wanna be a model”Gia said.
“Wow”
“You boss”Stefan said and they faced him to hear his reply.
“I still have to get done with college”he said.
“You’re still a college student!”Stefan gasped.
“Thought you were done”Izzy said.
“Lost my parents when I was still in highschool at grade five. My granny and I kept pushing it through till she died eventually and I dropped out”he said and silence took over.
“I really don’t want that”he said looking at their sad faces.
“Boss really….. really……”Stefan hugged him, not completing the sentence.
“Yes he did”Gia joined the hug, faking tears. Ji-hoon tried pushing both of them, but the rest joined so he only had to hold it in.
“Guys!”
“Boss!!!!!”
**
Finally, they prepared the necessary dish and arranged everywhere already.
Customers started walking in.
“We need more seat boss”Stefan rushed to him and he gasped, rushing out of the restaurant to see crowd. Even outside, there is a line of people.
“Jesus!”he gasped, dragging Stefan upstairs through the backdoor.
They brought down some seat but it still wasn’t enough and it seems like the people are getting impatient.
“Why don’t Natalie sing now, I mean it’d keep them from leaving”Gia said and he nodded.
“Attention everyone! Wanna say a big thank you to everyone who is present. It’s really nice to see crowd in here. We have a little show for you. Bringing to you…… Natalie!”she said, demonstrating her hands to where the spotlight was on.
There is Natalie but a red veil was in front of her.
It took close to five minutes before she could start.
Izzy put on the beat she’ll be using.
▪️ Those melody of yours….
▪️ When I think about you, I can’t help it
▪️ As beautiful as oceans and sky, they’re not close to your beauty
▪️Those smiles of yours, keeps me going
▪️So I don’t want you to leave me………..
▪️Stay by my side at least baby……
She kept singing, getting deep into it without even realizing. Slowly the rope holding the veil loose and her face came to view.
Izzy and Gia did a thumb up sign as they smiled.
Though her eyes her opened but she doesn’t even know she’s staring at the people.
The song came to an end and the applaud of the people brought her back.
Slowly smile creeped on her face till it turned to a hug one.
“Yes!!!!”Gia screamed.
Natalie bowed slightly and turned to the three girls who are standing beside each other. She ran to them, hugging them.
“Thanks guys, I’m surely not forgetting this”she said as tears poured.
In the mist of the people was a woman, she smiled before walking out of the restaurant. Looking at her you’d know she’s rich.
Allyson eyes slowly opened and just like yesterday, everything stopped, but it was different cause she found herself in a different place. A restaurant though. A big and wealthy one.
She’s on a group hug with the others.
“Finally guys! This is ours!”Ji-hoon said and they all smiled. A genuine one. Slowly, she disappeared, finding herself in front of the FOOD VILLA restaurant but there’s no restaurant there. It has been demolished.
She blinked her eyes slowly and everything came back to normal.
“What was that?”she muttered.
TBC