Trucker sat down in one of the booths. They had just closed up after a long and busy day. 'I really need to hire someone new soon.' He thought glumly.

He and Zo had been happily married for about 5 months now, but not everyone's relationships were going as well.

Piper and Noah were working out quite well. They had actually moved in together a month ago. They had gotten over the whole "Anna" incident, the only real problem now was that Piper's parents didn't like the fact that their daughter was with a guy who was considerably older and had a daughter with the same name as the on Piper had put up for adoption.

Jen and Jeff (aka Fuzzzy22) had been having problems lately, nothing to actually do with their relationship; they were trying to figure out where they would live. Jeff's business was down near L.A but Jen absolutely loved living in Santa Cruz and couldn't imagine living anywhere else, she'd had a difficult enough time moving here from Wichita.

But the worst were Priestly and Tish. They'd lasted a total 3 months, one before Trucker and Zo got married and two after, before things had completely fallen apart. Trucker had wanted the two of them to work out a as couple, but in a way he had known that it wouldn't. Tish had expected Priestly to keep his clean cut boy next door look, but that just wasn't who he was. For a few weeks Priestly put up with looking that way, but after a short while the sarcastic t-shirts came back because he didn't really own anything else, then the lip piercing went back in. While Tish could cope with the t-shirts she drew the line at the lip ring, this resulted in a massive argument between the two. During that argument Tish told Priestly that she cheated on him.

She'd moved after that, and out of concern for Priestly, Trucker hadn't brought up hiring anyone else. Instead he had friends working on their particularly busy days. But considering that over the last week or so things had been getting very busy and Truckers friends couldn't always work he really needed to hires someone a little more permanent. Considering that Priestly had been complaining about the lack of help lately he knew it would be okay to get someone new.

So long as they didn't resemble Tish in any way.