At the entrance, Colombain and I are welcoming and giving them warm tea because the weather is a bit chilly. After that one of us leads the customer to their chosen seat. With that, we are doing the normal thing for serving such as taking the orders and bringing it to the kitchen group. Because of Colombain and I already a bit busy with serving the customer, Léger needs to accompany the customers with his relaxing rhythm from his keyboard. We are only serving 10 tables for each day. When we already serve 5 tables, Colombain and I finally join Léger to play some live music. Our first day opening is going really well. Thankfully, no one gets into any accident. Time flies by because we all are enjoying every activity in this job. “Alright ladies and gentlemen. We almost hit the close time for our cafe. Everyone please give us some feedback at the counter over there.” I say to the audience. With that, one of the customers raises his hand. “Excuse me! Can you do one more song for us please, Queen Valter?!” he shouts with excitement. “Yes! Please do one more song for us!” His partner says beside him. With that the customers start cheering for us to do one more song. Because of how they are cheering at us, that makes me blush a bit from it. Looking shyly at Colombain and Léger side then they nod as a response. They encourage and support me to do so. Uhh.. Why does it feel so embarrassing.. Turn my head back towards the customers. “Alright then ladies and gentleman. I will do one more cover while the guests write down some feedback for us, okay?” Replying to the guests. “Okay!” Once again, the customers are cheering more excitedly than before. Look back to Colombain and Léger then point which song that I want to cover. Both of them nod and Colombain decides to play the guitar. “Alright. Hope everyone enjoys this last song from me.” With that Colombain and Léger start cueing the music. While singing the last song, the others start giving a piece of paper for the guests to write down the feedback. Right after the song ends, the customers are already done writing down their feedback. Everyone in this place gives us claps and cheers. “Thank you for coming, everyone. Please stay safe and be careful on your way back home.” I say to the guests who are ready to leave the place. With that the customer starts leaving the place one by one and the others also say thank you to all of them at the exit. “Vil!” Mari shouts while running towards me “Great job out there!” she jumps then hugs me tightly. “Aghh.. too tight, mari.. good job to you too, Mari.” Patting her head. She pulls away from me then shows how big her grin is. “Thank you for the hard work, everyone!” I say to the others and the staff as well. Raising my voice so everyone can hear my voice. With that, the staff will clean up the place and we all head back to our camp. At the terrace, the staff already set up dinner for us. We all sit together circling the table. “Ahh.. today is tough!” Mana says while stretching her body up. “Good work, everyone!” Mari says still with her cheerful voice. “Why are you still full of energy Mari? My gosh..” Brugière says tiredly. “Can’t help it that I’m so excited for tomorrow!” She replies. Because of her free spirit, it makes everyone giggle at how cute Mari is. Right now everyone is eating their food and telling today’s story. This sharing session makes the atmosphere more lively than ever. Even though Quinne and Sneg don’t let out any words, at least they are there. When we are all done eating, the staff are in charge of cleaning up the table as well. I’m so full.. Maybe I should take a walk for a while. Stand up from my seat with a glass of water in my hand. “Where are you going?” Suddenly Sneg shows up behind me. “Umm.. I just want to walk around for a while.” replying to him. He takes off his jacket and puts it on my shoulder. “It’s more chilly at night. Take it.” he says then wears his shoes. “Thank you, Sneg. You want to go for a walk too?” I ask him based on his actions. “If you don’t mind.” He replies. “Mhm. Sure.” I say to him then we walk together near the beach. His actions are so different from yesterday. The way he talks and treats me is never like this. He even didn’t say any flirtatious or uncomfortable words again towards me. Sneg was right, it is more chilly at night. “How’s today going?” Sneg asks. Suddenly breaks the silence. “Hmm.. Actually at first, I’m pretty nervous to serve the guests since this is my first time doing this.” replying to him. “You said you have been making drinks before right? You shouldn’t be as nervous as I am” I say to him jokingly. “Ah..” He chuckles “I can’t say that I’m not nervous though. I’m still an ametour at it. Thanks to Mrs. Quinne. She helped me a lot back there.” he replies. Did he just use formalities to Quinne? I thought they were already close. The moment of silence comes again. Something about him is kinda off for me, especially how he treats people around him. “Did I make you uncomfortable again?” He says, suddenly breaks the silence again. Out of nowhere? “Why would you say that?” I ask them with a bit of an uncomfortable voice. “I feel like you don’t really enjoy talking with me right now. Or am I wrong?” He replies. “Ah..” chuckles nervously “Why would I, Sneg?” replying to him. But his eyes tell me that he knows that I lied just now. Just thinking that he’s going to ask me another question, he just looks away and continues walking with me. Right now, we’re on our way back to the camp. Maybe it’s better if I try to be more honest with him. “Well.. I’m curious about something, Sneg.” I say to him, with that he stops his step then looks at me. No words coming out from him so I guess I will just get straight to the point that I want to ask him about. “I’ve noticed that you treat others so differently than me. Is it alright if I ask why would you do that?” I ask him and he looks like already prepared for something like this. “You’re very sharp, huh?” He scoffs “But to make it simple, I will just say that I didn’t trust them.” Trust? So in that time, I just used the right word to him? “But how about Quinne? She stayed with you last night.” I ask him again. “Oh about her. My instinct says that she is there because she wants something from me. But up until now I can’t figure out what it is.” he replies. Back then when I put other people's names, he always mocks me that I might be jealous. “Maybe you should judge her like that? I know that she always comes at me because of the same reason that you just said. But maybe she’s different to you?” I say to him, that might help him to get more friends. “True. But I guess that’s her character, character won’t change that easily.” He replies without any hesitation. But he just suddenly changed like this too. “And my character is like this. I might jump into the same hole as before but somehow I did it again to you.” He says while looking at my eyes. Our eyes are staring into each other right now. Never expecting that he would say something too straightforward like that. “What do-” My words get cut off when I heard a sound from a tree behind Sneg. Someone is there and my focus just moves to that sound direction. Because I break eye contact with him, he follows where my eyes are focusing right now. “Maybe that’s just a small animal. Let’s go back.” He looks back at me. No, there’s somebody in there. Look back at him then show my smile so that he’s not going to worry about me. “The air feels so fresh here. I will catch up later.” replying to him. He raises one of his eyebrows and it seems like he gets a feeling that I might be lying again. “Alright then. I’m heading back first.” with that he walks away, going back to camp. Thankfully, he believed that. When Sneg arrives at the camp, I finally get a chance to check that person who hides behind the tree. Walking very slowly to get closer to the tree, I almost didn’t make any sound from my steps. This is already close enough with the tree and I can finally check behind the tree very quickly. Unfortunately, no one is there but I find there's a foot mark there. So I was right? Someone in here before. Suddenly, someone throws an apple towards me from above. Thankfully, my body successfully responds to it. “You’re getting sharper.” Someone's voice coming from above me. That’s a very familiar voice. Looking at the tree, there’s someone sitting there while eating an apple. As I thought before, that person is Stam. “Why are you here?” I ask her, then she just jumps off from the tree. “Well.. I’m just curious how your summer camp is going.” She replies. “You don’t have to follow me everywhere, you know?” replying to her then suddenly I smell something that is not really good. With that, I automatically close my nose with my hand “Are you following me from the first day?!” “Why not? I’m curious, you know?” She replies playfully. “Then why are you..” looking at her up and down “You just don’t have anything to do, right?” I say suspiciously to her. She drops the apple from her hand then looks at me immediately. “I was right.. Haha..” giggles but it sounds like I’m mocking her. “Stop it, stupid! So what if I don’t have anything to do, huh?!” she says angrily. But I know that she takes it as a joke. Because of that, I finally laugh at how she just reacted. “Anyway, just don’t sneak up like this again. I’m afraid that the guards might have caught you, Stam.” I say to her worriedly. “Did you just underestimate my sneaky skill? You’re dead wrong if you said that I can get caught easily by these guards.” She replies with confidence. Well.. she’s not wrong. She said that she's been here since the very beginning. “Where do you hide, Stam?” I ask her curiously. “The guard post. They will think that place is already safe because of them then let their guard off.” She replies. This person is really not afraid of anything.. “Come to my villa later.” Looking at her from top to bottom “At least.. Clean up your body..” I say hesitatingly. As expected, she immediately throws another thing towards me, that's why I can dodge it easily. “Alright then, I think I should get back now.” taking my leave to her. “Mhm. I want to go fishing for a while.” She replies then a fishing rod and an icebox come out of nowhere. With that, I go back to the villa and Stam goes to the beach for her late night fishing. Right when I arrive at the villa, Mari calls everyone to gather. Mana calls me to sit between her and Mari. “Guys! Guess what I just got from the staff!” She says excitedly. No one at the table got any idea what Mari is going to say about. “Tada!” She pulls out a lot of letters behind her back. “This is today’s feedback and requests from our guests! Shall we read it together?!” Mari says excitedly. Everyone agrees to Mari's suggestion. From the feedback, we got a lot of compliments for our services towards them. “Oh! A guest just gave us a suggestion, guys!” Mari announces. “What kind of suggestion is that, Mari?” I ask her. She reads it first then looks at me with a smile on her face. “Maybe you can read this, Vil.” She says while giving me the letter. “Alright then. I will read it. Thank you and good job for today’s work! We’re really pleased with all of the performances. I never imagine that Queen Valter will be in the same team with Antje Quinne’s daughter.” Looking back at Mari. Her eyes are still on me and she only shows a smile on her face. Even though I didn’t look at Quinne place, I can feel her gaze towards me. Somehow the atmosphere here becomes weird, more like an awkward situation. Why did she want me to read this letter? “Hoo.. okay.. Is that all?” Brugière asks stiffly. “Oh, sorry. Let me continue.” Clearing my throat “Because of that, I was hoping that the two of you might sing at least one song together for the guests. I think it will be an unexpectedly great performance since..” I stop reading the letter right there. Since everyone always sees you guys as a rivalry.. The last few words I read for myself. Look up to find everyone is staring at me. No one ever expects this kind of suggestion and surely it will be difficult for us, especially for me and Quinne. Silent moments come to fill our table. “Well.. We’ll think about it..” I get the courage to break the awkward situation “Anyway, let’s move on to the next one.” fold the letter and put it back on the table. Thankfully, Mari follows my move, she immediately grabs the other. “Yes, let’s just collect all the feedback and suggestions first! Then we’ll discuss it, okay?!” Mari says with her excitement as always. Brugière and Mana not just stay still there, they follow up by cheering on Mari. Time goes by and we finally reach the last letter for today’s work. “Alright. Umm..” Mari seems a bit struggling with how to bring this topic back because just a moment ago other guests suggested almost the same as before. Actually, the guests' suggestions are about the person who will do the song cover. First suggestion is about me and Quinne singing together. This seems impossible for now. Second suggestion is about Sneg singing with me, Colombain, or alone. There’s still hope for this one. Third suggestion is singing with two more people together. It might be more complicated but I think we can do it. “Any comment for these suggestions guys?” Mari asks awkwardly. “I will do it.” Suddenly Quinne’s voice replies to Mari's question. Because of that, everyone looks at her with an unbelievable look. After saying that, Quinne points out her finger to me. “But not with her. I’m going to do it with Sneg.” She says. “But if you two going together, aren’t we going to have a problem with the one who makes the drinks?” Brugière asks. From that, Quinne only scoffs and looks at me arrogantly. “Well.. our Queen can do anything, right? Just let her handle it. She’s our aces after all.” She replies sarcastically. With that, she makes the situation here become tense like on the first day. Everyone stays silent and only glaring at her. On the other hand, the others know that it will be hard for me to handle the drinks since I’m not that experienced. “No one is going to give any response to me?” She asks arrogantly, “Fine.” walks towards where Sneg sits. When she walks towards Sneg, she puts that very smiley face on hers. “Let’s practice and do our best tomorrow, Sneg!” She says excitedly. But something unexpected happened again, it comes from how Sneg replies to Quinne. “Why would I?” He replies codly without looking at her That almost makes all of us drop our jaws to the floor. Oh no… Quinne who just all smiley before now has that unbelievable look on her face. “I mean there’s a suggestion from our guest that wants me to sing, right? Don’t you want to accompany me?” Quinne says, trying to defend her offering. “The suggestion only says that you’re the one who sings, not together.” He replies still with the same cold tone. “Besides, the guests said they want me to sing with Valter or whoever that is. No one mentioned our names together.” He continues while taking a sip of his mocktail. With that, it makes the whole place speechless. No one dares to say any word to them. From my point of view, it clearly shows how irritated Quinne’s face is right now. It almost looks as red as a tomato. Her fists clench tightly then she finally storm off from our table. Seeing that Görder follows her quickly, it seems like she wants to comfort Quinne. Silence fills our table again. I think I should take what he just said before. Since he already mentioned it, I can’t just make it look like nothing happened. “Umm.. so.. Since Sneg already mentioned about one of the suggestions, is it alright Sneg? For us to sing together tomorrow? It’s okay if it’s just one song.” breaks the silence once again. Even though I manage to break the silence, my voice really cracks up. “Sure. I can do more than one song.” Sneg replies while looking at me. Finally, he raises his head to look at anyone in this table. At this moment I just realize that this whole time he only looks at his glass. After giving me his answer, he drinks his mocktail again. “Wanna discuss it now?” He says after taking his last sip. His voice is really different just now. “Well.. if you don’t mind.” try to reply to him quickly. “Alright then.” He stands up “I need to make some of this again.” He says then goes straight to the kitchen. “Wow..” A voice comes out from Mari “I never expected that Sneg would agree on this.” “Agree. I thought none of these suggestions will do for our cafe.” Brugière replies. Colombain stays silent and he looks like he’s frustrated about how Sneg react. For Léger, he looks confused and worried at the same time. Mana suddenly leans to get closer to me. “Did you do something to Sneg, Vil?” She whispers. “I’m not sure, Mana. But I hope this act from him won’t ruin our team.” whispering back to her. Especially for Quinne. She seems like really wants to get to know more about Sneg but Sneg always puts a line between her and him. Two questions come to mind right now. Does he have a problem with Quinne? Or does this is how he treats others?
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