It was a new day and Denver was on his way to work. His morning went by again in a flash. He was looking forward to getting to work today for one reason. He was hoping for one of the three ladies that was really strongly on his mind to show up today and it seemed today he may actually have his dream come true. The reason for that is quite simple to see.
At the door, entering just before him at his place of work, was a beautiful brunette girl with the same brown leather boots he saw when he first met her.
At the moment Denver saw this he froze in place, unsure what to do. It didn't matter to him that he was going to be late for work if he didn't hurry.
It was nearly time for him to enter and start working but he was frozen, frozen stiff. The sight of this beautiful woman before him was so striking; he couldn't believe it.
His saving grace was his lovely coworker Skyler. She came out to grab him. She asked Denver, "What's wrong? What's wrong? Why are you standing stiff?" Denver turned his head to face her and looked at her with a shocked expression. "Ah, ah, ah," he mumbled. Skyler, not paying any attention, grabbed him by the wrist and pulled him in and said quickly, "help out before you change." As he entered he saw the reason she was so frantic. There were four people at the counter and waiting in line behind; one of them was a lady in brown boots with her brunette hair. She arrived looking quite happy but now she looked rather annoyed, rather annoyed that she had to wait in line. Must be in a rush perhaps, he thought. Quickly he jumped behind the counter and started serving people with Skyler. It seems only he and Skyla were here at the moment and in between the coffee runs for different people. Denver had to ask, "Where's everybody else?" Skyler replied quickly, breathing heavily, "Tim is not here yet;he went for more milk.
Felix went for a meeting at one of the branches." Just the sound of Felix's name brought his stomach contents up in his throat, he thought he was going to throw up. He was so disgusted. He managed to choke it down and continued working.
Unfortunately at the time when this happened he was serving the lady in brown and for some reason he became very self-conscious because he was sure his breath was beyond awful. He was standing very close to her and after a while the lady had her hand covering her mouth and she asked, "Are you okay?" When she said that he had to apologise. He put his head right down on the counter in front of her. Unfortunately he knocked over a freshly made hot cup of coffee for another customer so the disaster continued for poor Denver today.
Quickly he grabbed the cloth and wiped up the coffee on the table. He grabbed the cup and threw it away and asked what the contents were. It was a cappuccino. A new cappuccino and he turned around and asked her, "Miss, what can I get you?" She also said a cappuccino. Then as Denver went about making two cappuccinos to go, he wasn't even sure if she wanted to go but he was in such a rush and a panic; he wasn't sure what to do. He walked to the counter, "Two cappuccinos, ready." He passed one to her and one to the gentleman who was very very unhappy. He bowed to them again and said, as my apology, "Please take this free." They didn't seem too bothered by it and went to the sugar stand at the side of the counter so they could add what they wanted.
The lady in brown boots came up. The place was suddenly quiet and you could hear the clack clack of her boots on the floor. She looked at him and asked, "You never told me if you're okay." When Denver apologised and said, "I'm sorry for not replying; I was in such a rush. I am fine, thank you. I was a bit nervous as well," she laughed a little bit and said, "It's rude to burp in people's faces. Please don't do it again." She said, "By the way, my name is Natasha." She sent him a look that made Denver back away from the counter, said "Bye Denver", and she was out. Denver was shocked again, standing like a scarecrow.
Denver was waiting for something interesting to happen all morning and something interesting did happen to Denver.
He thought today was somewhat quite incredible and even got a name and that name wasn't what we expected. He was expecting a simple name but the name was something unexpected.
He was expecting a name like Denise but wasn't expecting a name that he got. Maybe he was just biased, that's for sure. This was quite a shock to him no doubt.
At first he thought maybe her name was Amber but it turned out to be Natasha, how strange a coincidence as these be.
This fool called Denver had just left a bad impression left behind by these last few moments and that did worry him a bit.
He was thinking, "Now you can just hope to improve the situation at a later date, if at all possible." He was thinking this and worrying about it. Something even more troublesome had to appear. Like a slime would appear in a game, something slimy did indeed appear today and that slimy thing that appeared was Felix. Felix the slimy guy.
When Felix arrived he didn't greet. He just grunted as he entered, that just proves that he is slimy so he's slimy. He didn't just ignore Denver alone but this slime was acting so slimy. He didn't even greet Skyler who was always happy, cheerful, and kind.
Taking notice of her at his side, Denver simply said to her, "Don't worry about him; he's a slime ball." Skyler simply laughed and said she did agree. Her short hair, waving around in odd ways, made her look like she was dancing.
Just then she turned round and saw that the other customer had just walked in. She went out of her way to call out loudly, "Good day, what can I get you?" Denver was quite startled by this. Startled so much so he actually walked a step back and walked into the suddenly appearing Tim. Tim was shocked by it too and asked, "Did you do that on purpose?" Denver put his hands on his hips and looked down at him: "You're a fool! How can I do something on purpose when I'm walking backwards? "So leaving that aside", Tim said, then asked "but why have you changed?" He called out in one moment. Then Denver could only say, "I will soon but first I must help serve for now." He turned to the counter to help someone that just walked in. What an interesting and strange day he thought.
Denver was standing by the counter waiting for Tim to return so he could change. When Tim tapped him on the shoulder, he got a slight fright, turned around, and saw it was Tim with his brows. He asked what was going on. He said, "What about earlier? What happened?" He just told him that Skyler was rudely ignored and that he, Denver, got that all the time from Felix, and then told her not to worry about it, that he's just an idiot. He then got lost in thought about various things that happened today, including brown boots.
After that he did that, he went towards the change room, leaving Tim a little confused but it didn't seem to bother him at all because he didn't call back to Denver at all. After changing Denver went back to work at the desk as he normally did. It was a quiet day throughout the rest and nothing else much happened. Everyone was quiet. Even Skyler but she didn't seem too bothered when Felix came through and continued to ignore everybody.
When the shift End came as Denver was walking out the door, he heard his name being called from behind. It was Skyler and she asked if she may walk with him. He said sure and for some reason she grabbed his arm and wouldn't let go. Not a bad feeling he thought but it did make him feel a little embarrassed.
"Hey Skyler, what's going on with the arm holding"? Denver asked a bit quizzically and she looked at him up with puppy dog eyes and said, "Can't I? We're friendly, aren't we?" He didn't really have a comeback to this so he just left it and he replied, "OK." It dawned on him: "Hey Sky! Do we even live in the same direction?" Then Skyler thought about it a while and said "Yes although I think our turnoffs are different". Denver thought for a while and said, "Alright well I'll go down to the bottom here then I'll turn right and she says, 'Oh I can go on to the bottom then go on straight,' So she then asked if it was okay for them to walk until there." Denver thought and thought, "No it's fine," and then the bomb shell struck.
Skyler asked, "So who was the lady in the brown boots?" Denver, a little taken aback, tried to step away a little bit but Skyler would not let go. She looked very insistent on knowing the answer and then had to admit that he only met her once before. He'd been captivated ever since. She lifted her head and looked up at the sky, simply thinking about something and then she said something. "Oh that's good." She then went quiet.
They continued on for a while and then they stopped in front of a small kiosk that had just opened up and they seemed to be selling ice drinks, the blended kind. He offered her one. He bought two. Both of them were mixed fruit and had a lovely flavour. After they finished their juices they came up to the turnoff where Denver would turn right and she would seem to continue on.
That's when they parted ways but it wasn't a normal parting. She held Denver's hand and stepped away, her body language almost looking like she was trying to pull him when she stopped, squeezed his hand a little tighter and said, "Stop looking so far away from home for what you're looking for, because it's closer, closer than you can imagine." She then trotted off, leaving Denver shocked and unsure and uncertain but still he turned and went on home.