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It was time for Tori's French quiz. She knew no one in her class but liked the language even so. It was her choice to take it all through high school, seeing as she did live alone and had no one to answer to.

She handed it in at the end of the period and met Dustin at the car. He drove her to the diner and then drove home, promising to visit before she left for the night. She grabbed her hot pink apron and took over the front counter.

All was going well, hardly any people considering their normal supper rush. Rhonda was washing the empty tables in the tiny diner and Mario was cleaning up the empty kitchen. Tori looked around at the whole lot of nothing to do. She grabbed a post-it note and began to print her name. She stuck it in the middle of her apron and started to draw a picture. It was just a simple circle with a few other shapes inside.

Her drawing went on for the next few minutes until the ringing of the bell on the door broke her concentration and she darted her head up, causing her to scrape a black pen line through her picture.

Hunter seated himself at the front counter on one of the hot pink benches. Tori looked at her ruined picture and realized that the customer was more important considering it was her job to serve people who wanted to be served. Tori wandered over in front of him and waited for him to look at her.

"What can I get for you today?" Tori asked.

"Just a coffee."

"Alright, it's on the house, seeing as you don't look like you're in a very cheery mood." Tori smiled.

"Thanks Tori." He mumbled.

She wandered to the coffee pot in front of the kitchen window that the orders were passed through. She grabbed a clean mug from the dishwasher and quickly dried it. She threw some creamers on a little plate and grabbed a sugar holder. Tori set the mug down first then took the creamer plate from balancing on her arm and set it down with the sugar.

"Nothing else?" She asked.

"No thanks."

Tori headed back towards the cash register and almost popped it open. Rhonda snapped her back to the reality of which the diner was.

"Did you give him coffee on the house?" She asked.

"Maybe, don't tell please." Tori pleaded.

"You owe me." Rhonda smiled.

"Okay." Tori replied.

"Big time."

"I'll take your shift sometime?" Tori asked with a smile.

"No girl, I'm just kidding, I would never make you do anything, I do it all the time, just don't rat me out and I won't rat you out." Rhonda joked.

"Oh my god, you're the best." Tori practically yelled, shocking the whole diner, including Hunter.

"Whoa girl, keep it down." Rhonda laughed.

"My bad." Tori said to the whole diner with a laugh.

"Girl, don't be sorry." A customer yelled back with a laugh.

"Okay, thank you Mrs. Sanderson, your meal is on me." Tori replied without thinking.

"Free food all around." Rhonda added.