CHAPTER TWO

Catherine arrived at work early the next morning. She worked as a waitress in a little cafe on the edge of her small hometown of Napanee. She needed to get there and keep busy or all she would do was think about was Richard and get herself upset over the whole situation. And that wouldn't do her any good. She had to just move on and forget about him.

Melissa walked into the cafe where Catherine worked. She wanted to quickly drop in and check on her best friend. She was worried that Catherine was trying to move on too fast. It had only been a day since she had found out about Richard and his cheating. Melissa knew that instead of dealing with it, Catherine was trying to just ignore it.

"Hey, Danny." Melissa greeted the man behind the counter.

"Hi, Mel." Danny said with a smile.

"Where's Catherine?"

"She's out back." Danny replied. "Do you want me to go and tell her you're here?"

"Oh, no, it's okay, I should be getting back to work myself." Melissa smiled. "I only dropped in to say hi."

"Are you sure?" Danny asked. "She looks a little distracted today. I'm worried about her."

"I wish I could stay, but I really should get to work, I'm late as it is. But please tell her I stopped by and I'll be back later after I've finished work to she her."

"No problem, I'll make sure she gets the message." Danny said.

"Thanks, Danny."

Melissa left the cafe and sighed. She hated herself for not being able to stay and talk to Catherine, but she really couldn't. Her boss had warned her about lateness twice already.

Melissa searched through her jeans pocket as she hurried down the street. She pulled out her cell phone and flipped it open. She looked at the time and rolled her eyes to see she only had ten minutes to be at work. She shoved the small phone back into her pocket and practically ran to her car. She dug around in her pocket again for her car keys. Her blood ran cold when she didn't find them.

"Oh, no." she mummbled to herself. "Where are they?"

She searched her other pockets but still no sign of them.

"Darn it!" she exclaimed, slamming her hand into the side of her car.

"Missing something?" she heard a deep male voice say from behind her.

Melissa gasped and spun around to see who was behind her. She frowned at the sight of the man in front of her.

"What's it to you?"

The man just laughed and held a set of keys up to Melissa. "I believe these are yours?"

Melissa let out a sigh of relief as she took her car keys away from him. "Thank you. They must have fallen out of my pocket." Melissa said. She smiled at the stranger in front of her. Her eyes began to scan him. He was very tall. Melissa was around five foot seven herself, and this man still towered over her. He also had to most gorgeous pale blue eyes. "I haven't seen you around here before."

He let out that deep, raspy laugh again and shook his head. "No, I don't live around here. I'm just here...on business."

"Oh." Melissa smiled up at him. "Well, I have to be going. Thanks again..."

"Randy." he said. "Randy Orton."

"Thanks again, Randy, for finding my keys." Melissa grinned. "I owe you."

"I'm always happy to assist a beautiful lady such as yourself." Randy smirked.
Melissa laughed and rolled her eyes at him and unlocked her car door. "It was nice meeting you, Randy."

"Yeah, you too." Randy smiled. "Maybe I'll see you around."

"Maybe." Melissa smiled as she got into her car and drove off. "Well, that was an experience." she laughed to herself as she headed to work.

Well, that's chapter two taken care of. R&R peeps!