It was coming to the end of Sky's first Saturday shift, it had been busy and she was tired, but it had been fun. She had started to gently flirt with the regulars, and felt like she fitted in with the general mood and atmosphere of the pub. She got on well with Daniel, they worked well as a team, and she really liked the mildly inappropriate flirting that happened between them, it felt comfortable.
Sky was a little wary of his daughter, Racheal, she found out that Racheal knew Lily well, and she had said a couple of things when they were out of ear shot of anybody else that made Sky think that she knew about Sky's home situation. Thankfully they did not need to interact much, and Rachael generally disappeared about 7pm all the nights that Sky had worked, she had not been around at all today.
There were only 2 regulars left in, drinking there last order, technically they should have been thrown out by now, but Daniel let the regulars take they extra 10 minutes if they wanted it.
'Once these two have buggered off, can you help me move a few bits in the cellar,' Daniel asked Sky, 'I will be on my own tomorrow most of tomorrow, and at least two of the barrels will need changing during the day, just want to make that as easy as possible.'
'Of course boss,' she replied, 'still on the clock for another 28 minutes.'
Daniel laughed, 'Glad your desire to help is driven by your requirement to work, not desire to help me out,' his voice conveyed clearly that he was joking.
Sky decided to play along and up the flirt a bit, 'Correct, willing partner for anything you want for the next 27 minutes,' she could not stop the snigger that came with it.
'Now, now, young lady, don't you tempt me,' Daniel said, also sniggering, he paused, then continued, 'for fucks sake, look at us. Anybody would thing we were having an illicit affair the way we are sniggering like teenagers.'
Sky thought this was very funny, and hammed up the response, 'spank me daddy,' she laughed, she had to stop herself falling into a full on belly laugh.
Daniel looked at, total disapproval in his face that slowly fell into a grin.
'Careful girl, you wouldn't like it if I spanked you,' he said.
'I think you would be surprised,' Sky replied, she had already thought about Dan spanking her, she liked the idea.
Daniel gave her a look, and clearly decided to not continue that conversation, Sky wondered if it was because she had crossed a line, or because the temptation was getting too much.
A few minutes later, Daniel saw out the last two regulars and locked the door. Sky started for the cellar, with Daniel a little behind. They arrived down there and Daniel pointed to the resting barrels, 'those two there need to move, carefully to over here,' he said indicating two spaces besides the currently active barrels.
'Then that over there needs to move, to the back,' he said pointing to several cases of wine, that had been delivered today, 'last of all we need a new box or each flavour of crisps taken upstairs.'
'No problem,' said Sky, 'one handle each?'
Sky grabbed one side of the first barrel, Daniel came over and took the other side, it was heavy, but so much that it could not be moved by one person. However it was obviously much easier with two, they moved it across and then went back for the second, which was moved in a similar manner. When they put it into place Sky had to lean over the current active barrel to get it into place, her phone fell from her pocket behind the active barrel.
'Oh for fuck sake,' she said, and leant over the barrel to reach it.
Daniel laughed loudly, then said, 'You really want that spanking.'