Chapter 58 - 58

Reiner's p.o.v

I walked into the cafe. Brandon had called me up for a date and I didn't want to be late. Things are not all well at the moment but I hope we get passed it.

The problems between us have all passed and now it's time to pick up the pieces. I chose the table that is at the corner. It was private and we could have a peaceful conversation.

Taking a seat I took a quick glance at my watch. I had arrived a half an hour early to our date.

'I should order while I wait,' I signalled for the waiter to come to me. The boy looked close to my age, he was waiting an apron over his clothes. He saw my hand and nodded.

As someone who had been a waiter before, by choice of course. I know not to insist as he was with another customer. The day was sunny with a peaceful serenity in the air, it gave off the feeling of luck and favour in the air. My relationship with Brandon could most certainly need that.

The waiter arrived at my table ready to take my order. "I want~"

"A chocolate shortcake and some cappuccino latte," he spoke before I could.

I frowned as he seemed to have guessed exactly what I was going to order. The coincidence was too good to be true with the knowing smile on his face.

"How did you know that?" I asked him confused. His face seemed familiar to me but I couldn't point out where exactly I had seen him.

"Because, I pay attention to things that are important," he said in a tone that suggested that I am supposed to know him. "I'll get your order," he added and winked his eyes before leaving.

I was left puzzled by the weird encounter. The waiter seemed oddly familiar, the way he spoke to me was also personal which further confirms my suspicions.

"Where is Brandon?"

My eyes searched the door for the male hoping to find him. He was supposed to be here, usually when you set a time for a date. It is advisable to arrive early but he was not even arriving.

I reached into my pocket and fetched my phone. I saw a notification on it.

<<I am going to run a little late>>

This was the first date we were going on without all the problems we had hindering us and he wasn't even here. He was running late, he was unbelievable.

"Who is unbelievable?" the waiter boy set my order down. I raised my brows at his question, we were not that close for him to ask me about my matters.

Before I could give him a befitting reply, he went ahead and took a seat opposite from me. Why does this situation look so familiar to me?

'Oh, the day I met Brandon.'

"That seat is taken," I say to him hoping that he leaves. It won't look good if Brandon comes and finds him there.

"Yes, by me," the waiter replied cockily.

I gazed at the boy wide eyed at his nerve to sit down with me and act like we are close friends when I don't even know him. I am here to meet with my boyfriend and he was just getting on my nerves.

"Leave before I call your boss," I threatened. But the thick head stayed put unfazed by my threat.

"I own the cafe and other branches such as this," the waiter uttered. "If I fire myself as a waiter, I won't sleep hungry," he replied his like curling up into a smile.

He seemed to take joy in annoying me. "Can you go seat somewhere else?"

"No, my property my choice," he replied.

I stood up from my seat to leave. There was no way that I was going to seat there and tolerate that idiot. He was acting like me and I am me so it's irritating. I am supposed to be the cocky one in the room and I should be the one teasing others not the other way around.

The only person allowed to tease me was my lovely boyfriend Brandon and he wasn't around so anyone else should go to hell.

"Leaving so soon shorty? I was only getting started, I had no idea that you had grown soft?" the boy stated.

I stopped in my steps. That nickname, only one person ever called me with that name and it was in the other life. The time before Brandon magically turned back time.

"What did you call me?" I asked to him.

"Did you forget yourself after travelling back to the past, my dear shorty" the waiter boy asked me.

He got up from the seat and walked passed me and went away. My heart skipped a beat as the realization hit me of who he was.

I found myself sitting back down. Meeting him again was too much to take in at once, what was worse was the fact that he spoke as though he recalled our time together.

It was impossible to recall the past, he didn't have someone like Brandon to remind so how come he knows of the past. My parents don't even remember they had been separated in another timeline. And yet the male spoke as he did before.

"Brandon," I looked up when someone knocked on the table.

"Is that someone special," the waiter boy questioned taking a seat once more.

"Where did you go?" I curiously asked.

"Did you miss me," he inquired with a teasing smile in his lips. "I am all yours now," he added.

I shook head at how much he remained similar to himself that I knew before. He was younger but still had the same spark in his eyes.

"Who is this Brandon?"

"My boy~"

"Forget him, now that I am here only think of me," he said flirtatiously. "Now, how about that date that you owe me," he spoke.

The smile on my face dropped as he uttered that word. It was so sudden that my breath hitched.

"You have not forgotten the promise you made me now have you shorty?" he asked.

I gulped nervously. I do recall the promise that I made him and it was not good that he is here to collect.. This was the worst time to meet him again, that too with him recalling everything from the past.