Shannon was setting up for the day when he heard a knock at the door, walking towards it he could see it was Faith and he smile. He was worried she wouldn't turn up after Saturday. He unlocked the door and opened it.

'Hey Faith, look I wanna apologise for Jeff Sunday, I heard what he said, he had no right to...'

Faith cut him off.

'Shannon its fine, honestly, I probaly deserved it.' She wanted to end this conversation quickly, it felt weird talking to Shannon about Jeff.

'Don't say that of course you didn't deserve it.'

'Shannon, please, its fine, forget it.' she replied getting agitated thinking about the subject of conversation.

'Well I'm not happy. He will be in later, he should apologise.' Shannon spoke, irritation in his voice.

Faith flinched. She didn't want to see him but she couldn't exactly say to her new boss, hey your best friend isn't allowed in here.

'Please Shannon, forget it, its over.' Shannon could detect the annoyance in her voice and dropped the subject.

Over the next hour he talked her through the basics, where she would be, what to do, how to act etc. Faith found it all quite exciting, she had never worked in a tattoo shop before but loved the atmosphere she felt whenever she went into one for one of her many tattoo's.

'Right, we have about 5 minutes before we open, wanna cig break?' he asked Faith.

They stepped out into the bright sunshine and Faith squinted, her eyes adjusting to the light. The engaged in idle chit chat, nothing personal. Shannon wanted to ask her more but didn't want to scare her. Faith still felt a little weird after what Jeff said the other night about Shannon wanting her.

The morning went by quickly, it was so busy and Faith enjoyed that. It meant she didn't have time to sit and think about things. She looked at the clock, it was 2pm, the shop was closing for lunch and she was contemplating what she was going to do for an hour. The bell rang to signal someone was entering the shop. She was just about to shout they were closed when she looked up. Jeff. Great.

'Hey Faith.' He said

'Jeff.' She replied. Her coldness hit him. Mind you he supposed he deserved it after yesterday. 'Shannon is in the back if you want him.' She didn't even look up from what she was doing to say that.

Jeff sighed and walked past her.

'Faith.' he called out before walking into the back, she turned and looked at him. 'You look good.' With that he carried on through the door to find Shannon. Once again leaving Faith confused.