Together at the Table by Hillary Manton Lodge

Author:Hillary Manton Lodge
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2016-05-03T04:00:00+00:00

“I got a role,” Braeden the operatic server told me, his face flushed with excitement and anxiety the next morning.

“Did you?” I answered cautiously.

“It’s for A Christmas Carol—I’m the second understudy for Scrooge. The lead was deported and the first understudy has mono. I’m so lucky!”

“I’m pleased for you,” I said, and I really did mean it. “So tell me what your theater schedule means for us at the restaurant.”

He winced. It was the kind of perfectly executed wince that gave me the impression that he’d worked on it with his acting group. “I’ll have performances every weekend,” he said. “From now until Christmas. So I’ll need to change my hours.”

I nodded and thought fast. With younger wait staff, I knew that there would be a certain amount of unreliability—few servers chose to stay in the position forever. Braeden was good at his job, so I’d try to keep him as long as I could.

During the days to come, though, I’d need all the help I could get, and without Braeden…“Ask around,” I told him. “I can switch Jade or Stan to cover your shifts, but that means moving someone off lunch and onto dinner, which means I need another server. So if any of your friends who can carry a tray are looking for a job, let me know.”

Braeden promised to ask around, saying he’d texted a couple friends and hadn’t heard back.

He left my office, and I immediately pulled up my calendar to examine the existing schedule.

Well, I’d wanted a distraction from the holidays, and here I had it.

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