Poland X Reader RQ: College Cafe AU

It was beautiful sunny spring day! (Y/n) was almost sad that she had to spend it at work. Almost. The schools were almost over and everybody were looking for a summer jobs or looking forward for vacation. Sunny beaches, festivals, fireworks and everything were just around the corner, tempting youngsters like candy tempted small children.

(Y/n) was already working before vacation. She was independent student in Hetalia college and lived far away from her home and family. So she needed a job to support herself, since she couldn't let her parents or grandparents pay everything for her. Even if they wanted to she didn't want their money. She wanted to make her own money and live her own independent life.

She got herself a waitress's job near her college in a small cafe. She thought that she had to smile and fight for her job, but the owner hired her just because she was a first person to ever try to get work from there! The cafe itself wasn't so big, but it was very popular with local people and students liked to come and eat lunch at there. Delicious coffee and famous desserts lured people in easily and (Y/n) nice service skills were very liked among older customers.

Her job was actually quite simple. (Y/n) was an excellent waitress thanks to her politeness and humbleness and especially older people and little kids liked her, when youngsters of her own age ignored her mostly. It didn't bother her, but it would have been nice to hear some compliments from her schoolmates and maybe even catch someone's interest. She had been single far too long.

(Y/n) put her school bag to her locker, tied a apron around her stomach and tied her hair up in a way she found it most appealing. She had to keep her hair tied up so that no hair got in peoples dishes. She had a free day because her teacher was sick so of course she was going to use it fully in work.

"Morning." Berwald, the cafe's quiet owner greeted her as soon as (Y/n) walked out from the back room. He was her boss and quite intimidating at first when she had started but she soon learned that he was actually really funny guy. He was just socially awkward.

"Good morning boss! How's everything today?"

"Good."

Berwald was was excellent boss. Even if he appeared as a scary man he was actually really sweet and kind man. He gave (Y/n) always paid sick days if she was sick and let her go him early if business was slow at the end of the day. In return from his kindness and care, she decided to be the best waitress that man could ever have!

"Great! I'll open the door and change the sign!" (Y/n) said taking the keys from behind the counter and went to open the door. When she got door open she turned the 'Closed' sign around so it said 'Open' and went to pick up her notepad.

The morning started slowly, but soon came the busy lunch hour. It was always very busy time, especially with all the students coming there to eat or cool down, but they managed. Berwald was behind the counter with all the desserts, ice creams, drinks and foods, while (Y/n) escorted the customers to their tables, took their orders and sometimes helped with making orders when it was too busy for Berwald to do everything alone.

Suddenly the bell over the door ringed, signaling fro new customers. (Y/n) as a quick worked turned to look at her customers. There were two, a brunet young man and blond young woman. They were probably same age as she herself was. The man had light summer clothes on and girl had lovely pink flower dress on and was a little bit shorter than the man.

The man had a shoulder length nice light brown hair and nice and a little nervous twinkle in his green eyes as he surveyed the cafe in slight wonder. The girl's blond chin-length hair was done nicely in one sided ponytail that looked adorable on her, but she looked nervous. She was eyeing everything with her green eyes so suspiciously like something would jump at them any second. Maybe she was shy?

(Y/n) felt herself blushing softly as she gazed at the girl. She was just so cute with a red ribbon on her hair and it that summer dress… She quickly snapped out of her thoughts and shook her head. She was at work, not on her free time picking up men and women! Like she even did that… She put up her best smile and went to greet them slowly so that they could see her coming and not get afraid.

"Hello and welcome to the Sweden's Cafe! I'm your waitress (Y/n) and I'll be taking care of you at your stay here!" she greeted them cheerfully and gave them a little bow, a bad habit of her that she had adopted from all the TV-series she watched.

"N- nice to meet you…!" the brunet male greeted her and smiled to her a little. The blond girl instead took a step behind her companion and eyed (Y/n) carefully. She must have been really shy. (Y/n) didn't let it bother herself and she smiled pleasingly for them.

"A table for two?"

"Y- yes please."

"Right this way." she said and lead them to a free table beside the window. It was nice little table and rather popular with couples. Something she presumed that they were. The guy pulled himself a seat and sat down, but just as the girl was about to do the same, (Y/n) moved behind the chair and moved it for her. The blond turned to look at her in a slight shock and (Y/n) realized what she had just done and blushed a little. The blond blushed back, then surprised her by taking the seat and waiting for her to push the chair under her. Which she did, like a true gentleman-! I mean gentlewoman.

She cleared her throat a little to get rid of the embarrassment and hoped that her boyfriend didn't look at it in a offensive way. Luckily he just seemed to smile little awkwardly. She pulled out two menus from the next table and set them in front of them for them to read.

"Here's our menus, please take your time, I'll come soon to get your orders!" she said and left to charge some other customers. As soon as she had charged them and bid them farewells she glanced at her couple few tables away. They seemed to be whispering at each other while glancing at their menus from time to time. Probably talking about their orders.

She groaned a little at her behavior and pinched the bridge of her nose with her fingers. She could feel it, a small crush forming towards that blond young woman. But she couldn't! She thought women were cute and she knew a cute girl when she saw one, but she didn't roll that way! She liked guys with some specific attributes… But the brunet didn't fulfill her interests in a man.

"Are ya going to take their orders?"

(Y/n) yelped and turned around to see Berwald standing there behind her. She nodded in slight panic, took her notepad and made her way towards them. Two of them fell silent as soon as they noticed her coming, but (Y/n) didn't care. She flipped her pad open and smiled at two of them.

"Are you two ready to order or do you need some more time?"

"N- no, uh, thank you. We're ready. I'll have lactose-free chocolate milkshake." the man said. She nodded while writing down his order and turned towards girl, "And what I can get for you?"

The girl blushed and turned her gaze away from you towards the table. She turned towards her date in a hope that he could help a little, when she heard her mumble something incoherent under her breath. She was just so quiet that she couldn't hear her.

"Forgive me but I couldn't hear that." she apologized a little worriedly. The man laughed a little nervously and gave her apologetic look, "I- I'm sorry, he's a little shy. He'll have a strawberry sorbet with chocolate sauce and whipped cream."

She nodded happily and was about to write down her order when she realized it. She was actually he! (Y/n) felt her eyes widening and she turned to look at the blond in absolute shock. The blond himself blushed a little and averted his eyes off from hers.

"E- excuse me, but are you a boy…?" (Y/n) couldn't help but to ask. Immediately she felt like hitting herself over the head. How rude she must have been for asking that! She felt like dying…!

"Ah ha ha… Yes, he's a boy… He just really likes to dress up as a girl…" the brunet said nervously and glanced at her worriedly, "A- are you going to kick us out now…?"

"What!? No, why on earth I would kick you out? You're my customers, my job is to serve you not caring about who or what you are and make sure you feel comfortable! Which forces me to apologize my earlier rudeness. I'm sorry." she said and bowed in shame. How could he even think that she could kick them out and for what, cross dressing? Did other places do that?

After hearing her the man let out a small relieved sight and smiled at her, "N- no problem. It's just that many places feel uncomfortable to serve to us once they found out he's actually a boy and usually ask us to leave so we don't weird out other customers…" he explained and glanced at his blond friend who looked extremely flustered by all the attention they were getting from him dressing up.

She was shocked to hear this and quite angry also. No one should be treated that way, no matter what the reason was! What if other partner of the gay couple liked to wear women's clothing!? It shouldn't matter, no matter what!

"Well don't worry because we don't kick anyone out from our cafe! You're welcome to stay and come here whenever you want!" she said happily and lifted her arms in the air in excitement. The brunet actually smiled at her, but the blond's blush just deepened and he turned to look out from the window. This worried her slightly, but the brunet smiled at her a little.

"He's just shy around new people."

Suddenly everything made so much sense.

"Oh, I understand. I used to be shy as well. He's very lucky to have you as his boyfriend!" she laughed but both males turned red as cherries.

"Uh, actually we're just childhood friends…! We're not dating…"

(Y/n) did it again. God, she wished the earth would swallow her! She blushed quickly and started to shake her hands in panic and bowed again, "Oh no, once again, I'm sorry! Forgive me! I'll go to fetch your orders now!" she said and quickly left the embarrassing scene. She took the orders for patiently waiting Berwald and gave them for him.

As she waited for him to make their orders she stole a small glances at her customers. The brunet seemed nice and quite cute actually, but the blond shot her heart spot on with electricity. No one really knew, but (Y/n) had a thing for cross dressing men and it was especially bad when the man rocked the skirt. And damn, did he rock it. He was just so cute that she could just eat him up!

She didn't know why she liked girly men, but she guessed it had something to do with her own slightly manly behavior. She always liked to keep doors open for others, she dreamed about pulling chairs for her dates and making them feel special. Those were things that woman wanted men to do for them, but instead she wanted to do it for someone else!

Her parents thought she was a lesbian or bi, but she wasn't so sure. She just really liked girly men. How cute and petite they were, how she could make them gasp, blush or even moan… and suddenly the very thought came in her mind and it included the blond girly boy. (Y/n) groanned and buried her burning red face against her palms. She was such a pervert!

"Ya alright?"

(Y/n) gasped and lifted her head up. Berwald was staring at her with his blue eyes and in his hands was a silver tray with chocolate milkshake and bright red strawberry sorbet on it.

"I- I'm fine! I'll take these for them alright?" she asked and took the tray in her hands. Berwald only nodded and she turned to take their orders to her customers. As she came closer to them, she felt herself blushing more and more. She tried to control it and even succeeded.

"Here's your orders! One lactose-free chocolate milkshake for you and a strawberry sorbet with chocolate sauce and whipped cream for you!" (Y/n) said cheerfully and placed the said orders in front of her dear customers.

"Thank you." the brunet said and smiled happily to her. This made her smile even more, but when she turned to look what the blond liked from his dessert she found him staring at his dish with wide eyes. (Y/n) and the brunet glanced at the blond's dish in wonder and she blushed when she saw what the all fuss was about. The red ice cream balls were covered in pure white cream and all over the cream was drawn chocolate sauce hearts!

(Y/n) was actually so shocked that a nervous smile froze on her face. While the brunet and blond stared at the dish she turned her attention towards Berwald who was watching the situation from behind the counter. The said man corrected his glasses and smiled ever so slightly. For such a nice man he had a creepy smile. She couldn't believe it, her boss was toying with her feelings! Was she so readable that he knew she had a tiny crush on the blond young man?

"P- please enjoy…!" (Y/n) wished for them and quickly darted away from the embarrassing scene. She passed watching Berwald and told him that she was taking her break. (Y/n) made her to back room and took a seat next to a table. She tried to control her panicking heart. What on earth they would think about her now? That she was some kind of weirdo who left notes like that to everyone? No, it couldn't be that. They could think it's what the cafe always does with it's desserts, decorates them to appear cute and appealing!

Yes, that was it! They would totally think that! She didn't even do the desserts! It was Berwald! They would just pass it off as a decorations and eat their dished in peace. This made (Y/n) relax. She decided to enjoy form her ten minutes break and took herself a refreshing glass of water and relaxed. She still had about five hours of work.

After her break she tidied herself up a little and joined Berwald on the cafe again. The said man was just cleaning the cash register. (Y/n) walked up to him and poked him between ribs. This made a much larger man flinch and almost jump in the air, which was quite funny scene. The man turned towards her and she gave him unamused look.

"That was nasty trick boss. Don't do it again." she said and gave her boss an serious look. Berwald hummed as a answer and nodded slightly. (Y/n) relaxed notably after hearing this and let out a long sight.

"Great. Now that we're done with that, what next?"

"Ya could take this bill for them." he said and pulled out a ready bill. She nodded without thinking further, took the bill from him and made her towards her two customers. She was glad thinking that they could leave so they would be all spared from further embarrassment, but it made her also a tad bit sad, thinking that she might not see the blond guy again. The brunet had already finished his milkshake, but the blond was still picking on his melted ice-cream.

"Hello again!" (Y/n) greeted them with a new smile and glanced at each one of them, "Are you ready or do you wish to have more time to yourselves?"

"Ah, no, we're done! Thank you. Could we please get the bill?" the brunet asked nicely and smiled a little bit to (Y/n). She smiled and was going to give the bill for the brunet, seeing that the blond was quite shy around her, but then she heard someone clear their throat quite loudly. (Y/n) glanced quickly behind her and saw Berwald coughing against his fist. She raised one eyebrow at the man in confusion and her boss pointed at the blond customer.

(Y/n) not understanding what her boss was fooling around just decided to do as he silently told her and gave the bill to the blond young man. He flinched a little seeing her hand coming towards him, but took the piece of paper carefully from her gentle hold.

(Y/n) tried to smile in encouraging manner to him, but it seemed to make him just shyer. Then he looked at the bill in his hand and his eyes widened in shock. (Y/n) and the brunet immediately got worried. She got a scary idea that maybe the bill was too big for them to pay and they would worry about it…! But as the blond put the bill on the table for them to see, she saw something she never thought she would see.

There was a massive discount from both milkshake and ice-cream. The discount was so big that there was no money coming in for the cafe! Then there was a clean line of numbers written under the bill and blood drained from her face once she recognized it as her phone number.

"I- I- I'm so sorry! There must be a mistake! Yes, I, um, I should take this and go fix this-!" she started to dabble in panic and reached with her hand to take the bill back, when a hand was suddenly placed over hers. (Y/n) felt her heat stop for a second in panic and then turned towards the blond who had stopped her.

"Like, don't…" the blond mumbled shyly. (Y/n)'s eyes widened in surprise. He even had a high voice! Almost like girl's…! Even if she wasn't able to see his eyes under his bangs she felt his green eyes on her, "Like, you gotta name or something…?"

"Y- yes…! I'm (Y/n). (Y- Y/n) (L/n)…!" she introduced herself for them. The brunet flinched and a huge smile spread across his face, "You're (Y/n) from the second year aren't you?"

She glanced at the brunet in confusion and nodded, "I am?"

"We know you, we both got history, art, gym and English classes with you!"

"Y- you do?" she asked in shock. She seriously had no idea who her customers were and sadly she didn't recognize them as her classmates. The brunet nodded, now much bravely since he recognized her, "Yes, but we have never talked before. You usually sit alone or do group project alone so we never really had courage to come and talk to you… Also, you have your hair up so we didn't recognize you first."

That made sense. She never really talked to her other classmates because most of them were quite loud and she wasn't really comfortable with loud noises. But as she thought harder and harder she started to remember little things. Two of them keeping and presentation about Poland and Lithuania in history class, the brunet making nice looking paper mache dog in art glass, the blond taking cover behind the brunet in gym class while playing volleyball and two of them at the back of the class in English lessons.

"Ah, now I know you! You're Toris and you're Feliks! I'm sorry but that's all I remember." she apologized and bowed shortly. The brunet smiled a little at her, "It's no problem! I'm Toris Laurinaitis and this is Feliks Łukasiewicz, but please, just call us with our first names, our last names might be hard to pronounce."

(Y/n) nodded and smiled slightly… until she remembered the bill and her number.

"Ah, I'll just take that bill from you and go and fix it…!" she said and tried to snatch the bill back, but Feliks pulled back and held the bill in his hands. This confused (Y/n) greatly. Why on earth would he wanted to keep it? She hoped that he didn't think she would charge them full prices! She could never do that, once the payment was set she wasn't going to change it. At least not into higher one!

"You can, like, get it back right after I get your number up…" Feliks mumbled and turned away from her with bill in his hands. This shocked (Y/n). He actually wanted her number? For what? Not what she thought would he? He wouldn't ask her out or anything…?

"I- I think he would like to meet up with you again, if that's fine with you (Y/n)?" Toris asked nervously like he was nervous for his friend. (Y/n) blushed brightly and averted her eyes from them to her feet. She grumbled the hem of her skirt nervously and tried to form some kind of smart replies but all she manned to do was to nod.

Toris smiled at this and started to dig around his pocket for money. He placed money to the table and she took it and dashed away. She quickly went to the cash register, clicked in the numbers and the cash register opened with a ding. She placed the money inside, took out their change, shot her smiling boss a dirty look when she thought he wasn't watching and made her way quickly back to Toris and Feliks.

"Here's your change sir." she said trying to maintain even a bit of her imago. Which was pretty low now, but she could always try. Toris thanked her and pocketed money in his pocket.

"It's time for us to go. Are you coming Feliks?" Toris asked from his friend and started to get up from his seat. Feliks nodded shyly and started to get up as well. (Y/n) smiled a little bit in relief that they were leaving. Maybe her face could get some rest now. But she was a little sad as well. Especially as she thought greatly about his style and girlishness…

Both of them got up and went towards the door. (Y/n) wished them a good day and bowed as a good bye, but just as the Feliks was walking past her she felt him grab her hand and put something in there. Both of them froze. Toris opened the door and waited patiently for his friend.

(Y/n) watched the blond man with her eyes wide open and then the object in her hand. It was teared pice of their bill, but there was a phone number on there. First she sadly thought he was returning her number, but when she looked more carefully she saw that the number was written with pink glitter marker and there was small hearts all over he paper, around the number. Realizing that it belonged to the man and it being so adorably cute, she blushed. Feliks blushed also and averted his eyes from hers, but then turned back towards her.

"Like, you better call me…!" he mumbled and shot her a full blush stubborn look that just demanded 'You better call me dammit!'

"I will." she promised and gave him a reassuring smile. Feliks blushed and pushed out his bottom lip adorably, before sprinting after his friend. Both of them exited the cafe, bell chiming as they left. (Y/n) sighed a little and made her way behind the counter where Berwald was cleaning a glass with towel.

Both of them stood in perfect silence. (Y/n) glanced at her boss, but then she averted her eyes at the other way and opened her mouth to say something, but at the last second decided against it and said something else.

"I hate you…"

It was alright, Berwald understood anyways.

"Ya'r welcome." her boss said without lifting his eyes from the glass in his hands.

"God freaking dammit…!" she cursed softly and covered her cherry red face with her palms. She was so embarrassed yet so happy that she felt herself tremble. Berwald smiled a little and softly patted her on the back. (Y/n) felt relieved and so, so happy.

"Thank you…"