"We have an order for three burgers and four drinks! Bring the special around and don't forget that table three made an order as well! Where is everyone? Oh, Arit, you're finally here, grab an apron and go back to help Mario!"
A woman was shouting out orders from behind a counter as she smiled at so custors waiting for their food. Once the woman saw Arit, she told her to go to the back and Arit nodded as she dropped her bag in the employee locker and went to grab her apron. She tied it behind her as she made her way to the back and greeted the man standing in front of the grill.
"Hey, Mario. Florence seems really pissed today."
"Bah! The woman keeps screaming like witch! Acting like it will make the grill faster! If she wants more food, she should buy more grills! This single grill is a travesty for a chef!"
Mario was a short, chubby xican man with so tattoos on his arm and a teardrop tattoo under his left eye. He had a toothpick in his mouth that he rolled around with his tongue as if it were a cigar, and he had an intense look in his eyes as he watched the burgers sizzling on the grill.
Arit chuckled at what Mario said and went to start working on the fries. She noticed eyes on her back and turned around to see Mario looking at her weirdly. She raised a brow and asked him what the matter was. Discover exclusive tales on m,v l'e-
Mario chuckled knowingly.
"Nothing, you just seem different today! You have been smiling like an idiot and your skin is glowing like sun. My madam used to have the sa look when I gave her a good spanking! Can tell you had a very good night!"
Arit blushed at Mario's bluntness and waved him away.
"Stop saying nonsense."
Mario chuckled again as he turned so of the burgers on the grill.
"I envy you, Arit. Youth is a ti to enjoy good monts with loved ones. I can tell you are using it to its fullest. I was a fool as a youth and made many mistakes that made lose a lot of ti with my madam, and now that I am getting life on track, she is no longer with . She has moved on due to my foolishness. Do not make the sa mistakes I made, Arit.
Hold tight to your lover and never betray the love you have for him. That is the true aning of life and love."
Arit gained a small smile on her face when she heard Mario talk, but before she could say anything back, the voice of Florence from the front counter echoed through the kitchen again.
"Where are those three burgers I asked for!? Mario, don't let catch you slackingin there again! Bring the burgers out now!"
"Okay! Okay! Just wait, you witch! Arit, help with the grill, I need to package fries and burgers before the witch tries to cast a spell on !"
Mario quickly started to wrap the burgers into the packaging and Arit hurried to take his place at the grill as he left to hand them to Florence. Mario cussed under his breath as he ca back and went to grab the fries for the custors.
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The Federation of Arica went through a lot of drastic changes ever since the Armageddon Anima attacked four years ago, but the largest change that it went through was the introduction of a letter-based city system that was used to designate all the cities in the federation.
Mark and Arit lived in City A. This was the second largest city in Arica, only dwarfed by the much larger City S that was the main headquarters for the Superhuman Association.
But when it ca down to education and learning, there was only one city in the federation that could claim to have the highest academic index amongst all the other cities. This city was City D. City D housed more than ten universities and twenty high schools, all of which were so of the best in the entire country.
And in such an academically gifted city like City D, there was always a lot of competition between the schools to see which of them was the very best.
Every school there held a lot of pride in their students and they wanted to show that their students were the best in the country, so they would regularly have a nationwide competition twice every year that was used to determine the very best school in the country.
It was called the Academics Championship.
It didn't matter what your course of choice was, neither did it matter what year you were in university or high school, the competition was open to everyone and the only things that would be tested were arithtic, linguistic, and general knowledge.
The students that were entered into this competition ranged from high school students to finalists in universities who believed they possessed the most knowledge out of all the students, and the winner of the competition would not only bring fa to their school, but to themselves.
They would be seen as a legend among students and they would be considered the very best in everything academically related.
Every year, more than ten thousand students would enter the competition. They were all there fighting to bring fa and glory to themselves and everyone supporting them.
But all that changed three years ago, when Patrick Grey entered the academic scene for the first ti.
As a child, Patrick's family had always known he was special. He did not cry when other children cried, he did not laugh when other children laughed. There was always a cold detachnt in his eyes that showed he was analyzing everything around him like a robot. Cold and unfeeling.
Patrick's parents were terrified of him. They were so scared of him that they did not want to send him to regular school like other children because they were afraid of how different he was. They ho-schooled him for a long ti, and they sent Patrick's sister away from ho and made her study in a boarding school so she wouldn't interact with him much.
Patrick was always alone and it wasn't until he was old enough to go to middle school that Patrick t Mark.
Patrick's parents ran a paint shop for automobiles and Patrick was taken along when they went to make a deal with the Vanitas company. Patrick was made to stay in the waiting room and that was where he t Mark for the first ti.
Even as a child, Mark was very blunt and his blunt attitude did not mix well with Patrick's rude attitude. There were a lot of glares and shouting between the two children when they t for the first ti since they couldn't see eye to eye on many matters.
But as ti went on and they kept seeing each other after Patrick's parents got the contract to supply a portion of the paint for Vanitas Motors, they eventually realized that they had a lot more in common than they initially thought. They beca friends.
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