"Okay what's up with you?" Dean asked his best friend Roman.

"Huh? What are you talking about?" Roman asked looking up at Dean who was standing by his desk.

"New girl. You've been staring at her all day. What you know her or something?" Dean asked looking through the window in Roman's office at the new girl, Sam.

"Something like that."

1 year ago

Roman sat in the living room watching Sam take her boxes to the car. After 6 years together they were over and she was moving out. They wouldn't even look at each other as Roman sat there watching tv trying to pretend he didn't care. It was a long time coming he told himself. He was working late all the time trying to open his own mechanic shop and he wasn't there for her anymore but she should have supported him and been okay with it he told himself. He took a drink of his beer as she moved the last of her boxes to the car.

"Well...I'm leaving now." Sam said as she walked back in the house standing by the couch. "You're not even going to say bye?" she questioned as Roman stared forward at the TV.

Sam let out a cold chuckle, ran her hand through her long black hair and shook her head. "Of course, you stopped caring a long time ago."

As Sam slammed the door Roman let a tear run down his cheek.

"Hello? Earth to Roman?" Dean said waving his hand in front of his face.

"What?" Roman said shaking his head and looking up at Dean.

"I said how did you know her."

"We were together for 6 years."

"Wait... that's THE Sam? The one you were with while opening this?"

"Yup."

"Why did you hire her?" Dean questioned.

"I didn't, I told Eric from Human Resources which position we needed filled, the qualifications needed and how much they would make and he took care of the rest."

"And you're okay with that?"

"Yeah..I mean its weird seeing her again but she's always been a hardworker and we really need that considering how big we're getting, we're going to have to hire more people eventually so it's fine."

"Okay whatever you say boss. Im going to go finish this car, bar after work?"

"You know it." Roman replied before pulling paperwork out of his desk.

A few minutes later there was a knock on Roman's door.

"Come in."

"Hey boss, I wanted to introduce you to the new employee she's the one I hired to take the phone calls, payments and write the schedules for the cars coming in. Roman this is Sam, Sam this is Roman." Eric said standing at Roman's desk smiling.

"Hello Sam." Roman said forcing a smile and sticking his hand out. Sam stood still a moment before slowly reaching forward to shake his hand.

"Well I'm going to show her the rest of the shop then she'll be ready to start tomorrow." Eric said opening the door.

"Can you wait outside a moment Eric? I'd like a moment with our new employee."

Eric nodded and walked out, shutting the door behind him.

"I'm sorry, I didn't realize this was your shop I can find something else." Sam said imedittely when the door shut.

"Sam it's fine. I have no problem with you working here, after all we're adults no reason for our past to interfere with our jobs. I just want to make sure you know how this is going to work. We open at 10 am and close at 9 pm everyday, You will be here at 9:45 am to insure that everything is ready before we open and leave 9:15 after cashing out and closing up the shop. We are closed Monday and Tuesday so those would be your days off, we are closed on the major holidays and you do get holiday bonuses. You'll work salary, the first 90 days you cannot call out, after that I prefer to limit the amount of time you call out and it has to be with 10 hours notice so we can cover your position. You'll be answering the phones, giving estimates, making the schedules, if you have any questions how long it will take to do a certain job on the car go to Dean he's the head mechanic and will give you a time frame. I'm sure Eric has gone over all this with you but you know me I like to hear the confirmation myself that you're okay with all this."

Sam nodded her head "I'm okay with it."

"Okay then you can go to Eric to finish the tour and I'll see you tomorrow." Roman said getting up and opening the door for her.

Sam walked out the door and felt a pain in her heart. It's been 1 year since she left Roman, 1 year since she's talked to him and even seen him but seeing him took her right back to the day. She felt her eyes tearing up and quickly wiped them away as Eric walked up to her.

"Ready to finish?"

She nodded her head and followed him.


The next day Sam walked up to the shop doors at 9:30 am.

"You're a little early." She heard a voice behind her, she turned around and saw a guy with blue eyes, shaggy hair and ripped jeans walking up to her.

"Oh uh yeah, I don't really like being late so I usually show up early."

"I'm the same way. I'm Dean the head mechanic."

"I'm Sam. I'm the new assisstant."

"Oh yeah I saw you yesterday. I'll tell ya I'm happy we finally got you, trying to work on cars and answer phones and questions was getting a bit annoying. I just wanna work on the cars not deal with people you know?"

Sam opened her mouth to answer but closed it when she heard Roman's voice.

"Morning guys." He said walking up to the doors and unlocking it.

"Morning man." Dean said patting Roman on the back while Sam just smiled and walked in.

"Dean you know what to do, Sam come with me." Roman said as Dean walked off to the garage.

Sam followed Roman to a room, "This is the break room, you can leave your purse and stuff here or leave it at your desk whichever you prefer." Roman said before going to walk out of the room.

"Roman." Sam said quietly.

"Yeah?"

"Where do I put my lunch?"

"I forgot to tell you. Since I have you guys work 12 hour days, I usually just buy everyone lunch so you don't have to worry about bringing it but I have a mini fridge in my office you could use today. I want to show you the computer system before we open so we should get to that."

15 minutes later the store opened, Dean was in the garage working on a car someone dropped off, Roman was in his office doing paperwork and Sam was at her desk trying to set up schedules when the computer system crashed.

She was doing everything she could trying to fix it, she tried to restart the computer, tried to exit, force shut down, nothing she did would work and the phone was ringing off the hook. Roman looked up from his desk out the window and saw Sam on the phone and writing on paper while looking overwhelmed at her computer.

As Sam hung up the phone Roman walked out of his office in time to see her slap the keyboard.

"Everything okay?" Roman asked walking over.

"The computer crashed and I can't fix it everything I try makes it go slower, people have been calling non stop and I wrote down their appointments but I can't get the computer to work for me to put it in, it's only been half an hour and I'm already messing up." Sam replied rubbing her hand over her face.

"Okay calm down, it's your first day you're allowed to not know how it all works yet okay?" Roman said placing his hand on her shoulder.

Roman's touch always calmed her down and it was reassuring to her to know it still did. She took a deep breath and nodded.

"Okay let me look at it." Roman said looking at the computer. "Okay I see what the problem is." Roman said after a few minutes.

"What is it?"

"When you first start you have to log in, Eric should have gave you your log in but it's right here," Roman said pointing to a piece of a paper, "what happened was with the system we use if you try to enter anything 3 times without logging in it will lock your computer since we have everyones personal information on here, so I'm going to overwrite the system with my log in, restart it then you log in and when the day is over just log out, put the paper in your desk and lock it."

"oh okay, thank you Roman." Sam smiled up at him.

"Anytime." he smiled back and walked back to his office.

The rest of the day went really smoothly for Sam and for the first time in her life she felt content with her job and it made her look forward to coming in tomorrow.


Half way through her second day, a young man came in and walked up to her desk.

"Excuse me mam?"

"Hi yes how can I help you?"

"Well my car is making a weird noise and I don't feel comfortable driving it so I was hoping you had an opening today where you can fit me in just to take a look at what is going on."

"Um yeah let me check our schedule." Sam said looking to the computer and typing some stuff in. "I have to talk to the mechanic to make sure but we may have some time in about an hour to look at it. I'll be right back." she smiled as she walked to the garage.

"Hey Dean?"
"What's up Sam?"

"There's a guy here who said he doesn't feel comfortable driving his car because it's making a weird noise and he wanted to know if you would be able to take a look, i think in an hour you have some open time."

"Yeah I'm about finish with this car give me 30-45 mins and I'll head out to check it out."

"Okay thank you."

"Excuse me sir?" Sam said as she got back to her desk "our mechanic Dean said he can take a look in about 45 minutes if you don't mind waiting."

"Oh not at all."

"Okay just go ahead and have a seat over there where the TV is and he'll be out here soon."

"Okay thank you."

45 minutes later Dean walked out, introduced himself to the guy and looked at his car and decided it would be safer to fix whatever the problem was now so he could have his car back and not have to spend money on a taxi so the guy went back into the shop and went to talk to Sam.

"So looks like I'm going to be stuck here a few more hours, Dean said they'll do my car now."

"Oh that's really nice of him. He's usually pretty fast so hopefully he can get you outta here soon."

"Yeah hopefully. Although waiting here isn't that bad." He smiled at Sam which made her blush.

"I'm shawn by the way."

"Sam."

"Well I would just like to say you are very beautiful Sam."

"Oh...why thank you Shawn that is very nice of you." she smiled.

"And you have the best smile I have ever seen."

"What is going on here?" Sam heard Roman say from behind.

"Shawn had something going on with his car and Dean's fixing it right now." Sam said.

"Okay that's nice but why are you flirting instead of working? This is a job not a hang out Sam. I expect better, get back to work you don't need to flirt with the customers." Roman said sternly before storming off to his office.

"Woww... nice guy" Shawn said.

"It's okay he's right, I gotta get back to work. Nice to meet you." Sam said looking back to her computer and feeling a bit embarrassed.

Later that night Dean, Roman, and Sam were all getting ready to close up shop, there was an awkward silence that Dean didn't do well with.

"Okay what the hell is going on?" Dean said looking between Sam and Roman.

"Nothing Dean." Roman replied putting files in a drawer.

"Then why is it so awkward? Did something happen today?" Dean looked at Roman who stayed silent, then looked at Sam "soo?"

"Roman thought I was flirting instead of working so he got upset with me."

"I clearly heard you flirting I didn't pay you to flirt I pay you to do your job that you weren't doing."

"It was less than a minute Roman, I was still working."

"You were flirting with a customer exactly how is that working?"

"You didn't have to call me out in front of him though, it was embarrassing."

"Then do your job and it won't happen." Roman shrugged.

"I was doing my job Roman. He came up said 2 sentences to me and that's when you came out, the timing was bad but I was still doing my job."

"Okay guys take it easy, it's not that big of a deal and it won't happen again lets just finish this." Dean said trying to ease the tension.

"If you were doing your job you wouldn't have been flirting, it's that easy to comprehend. You are wrong."

"Of course. You're always right and I'm always wrong isn't that how our relationship always was?"

"Why are you bringing our relationship into this? Im telling you as your boss you weren't being appropriate."

"Really? It sounds like you're just jealous."

"Jealous of what?!" Roman shouted.

"Calm down guys!" Dean said back.

"Jealous that a guy was talking to me because thats the only reason you'd be mad when I really was doing my job."

"Any guy on the planet can talk to you Sam I don't care, just not on company time when I'm paying you. In case you forgot our relationship has been over for a while, I have no feelings for you, talk to whoever, but not when I'm paying you to work!" Roman said.

Sam felt a pain in her chest when he said he had no feelings for her, sure it was a while ago and she knew he didn't but it still hurt to hear because deep down she still loved him.

"Part of my job is talking to the customers. I'm sorry if that bothers you but it's what you hired me to do." Sam replied after a few minutes of silence.

"Talk not flirt. Common sense." Roman replied coldly.

Sam just looked at Roman, this wasn't the Roman she was used to. The Roman she knew would not yell or embarrass her like that, he wouldn't be so cold to her, suddenly she remembered how cold he was to her the day she left, how he didn't care anymore and all the emotions she felt that day came rushing back. The heartache, the lump in her throat she just wanted to cry but she couldn't let him see that so she grabbed her purse and ran out of the shop.

"Roman. What the hell man?" Dean asked

"What?"

"What's going on with you man?"

"What are you talking about?"

"We've both flirted with customers, it's not a big deal. She just ran out cause of what you said."

"Yeah well that's typical her. Always runs out on people."