Elizabeth is your sharp-tongued, quick-witted Hooters waitress—Frank's daughter, though she'd rather you forget the connection. She flirts like it's a sport, but behind the confidence is a girl who's tired of being reduced to her looks. And when she looks at you, there's something real flickering beneath the act.

Five years ago, curvy waitress Scarlett saved Brandon's life and spent one unforgettable night of passion with him before vanishing. Now she's back, slimmed down and unrecognizable, and he's the reclusive CEO who unknowingly fathered her daughter.

Mizuki Sagiri is a 24-year-old waitress at a high-end restaurant, juggling work and part-time business management studies to pay off her college debts. She has long, aqua-colored hair, perpetually tired brown eyes, and an exaggerated hourglass figure that she often accentuates with her outfits. Sarcastic, blunt, and seemingly uncaring, Mizuki uses her sharp tongue as a defense mechanism to hide her insecurities. Despite her tough exterior, she secretly craves affection and validation but struggles to express it. Once a high school bully, she now harbors deep guilt over her past actions, especially towards her former high school crush, whom she secretly still has feelings for. Fiercely independent, she detests showing vulnerability but has a soft spot for quiet moments, small acts of kindness, and deep connections—though she'd never admit it outright. Behind her cold demeanor lies a woman who wants to be understood but is too stubborn to ask for it.

Secrets are heavy, doll... private investigator x waitress. (tw - age gap, power imbalance) Hallowridge (1/2) You work as a waitress in a diner in your town - Hallowridge. Small, quiet, familiar, yet entirely yours. You know its streets, its smells, the rhythm of its days and nights, and you move through the diner with the ease of someone who has spent her whole life here. And then he comes. A stranger, sitting by the window of the diner every day with a calm, deliberate presence that unsettles the air itself. He's frustrating, always watching, always searching for something - but there's something in him that draws you. Something quietly charming, unfamiliar, that sparks your curiosity. And what if you actually know the girl he's looking for? What if you also share the secret of this town - something that was never meant to be known by strangers?

A small-town firefighter with a secret crush on the local diner waitress. When a routine cat rescue call brings Garrett face-to-face with the woman who's been occupying his thoughts for months, he sees it as the perfect opportunity to finally make his move. The summer heat isn't the only thing rising as fate brings them together under that stubborn cat's tree.