something, she really didn’t want to know. She’d had just about all she
could handle.
Adriana worked part time at the events center, and she’d gone out on a
limb to get Taylor some casual work. After a week of pounding the
pavement to hand out resumes the old-fashioned way and sitting down at
her beat up laptop to fire them off in the rest of her free time, it seemed like
a lucky break. She was more than willing to call the sitter th
at Adriana and
Juliana used for Joseph. Stephanie was friendly and loved kids. Taylor
hadn’t been at all worried about leaving Chloe with the sixteen-year-old for
just a few hours.
The benefit had been going just fine. Adriana was even there, though
she wasn’t serving drinks. Taylor did have experience with waitressing, and
she had a great memory. She wanted to make sure that Adriana wasn’t sorry
for talking to her boss and getting Taylor a position. She’d been so careful
all evening. She’d even made a small amount of money in tips. Everything
was fine until she’d tripped over the chair that was shoved back just a little
too far from that table and spilled seven drinks all over the place. Well,
mostly all over that guy, who wasn’t at all pleased about it. Taylor hated
that she’d frozen up and all she could do was mumble about dry cleaning
and rush out of the room.
I should have handled it better. Said something to defuse the guy’s
anger. Maybe I could still have salvaged the situation.
If that were the truth, she wasn’t sure how she could have gone
about it any better. It didn’t help that the guy was a huge jerk. Taylor
recalled that some of the people staring at her during the incident looked
sorry for her. There had been a woman a few tables over, whose frosty blue
eyes looked somewhat sympathetic. She had been unearthly style gorgeous
and even now, that flash of blue eyes and that rich, raven hair stayed with
Taylor.