*Rae's POV*

It's been a few weeks since schools been out and I feel so good. So, so, so good! I've gained weight and I've been seeing my friends more. I knew I'd get better! I was just having a bad week...or two... but now I'm fine! Like I said I'd be!
"Rae! I need you two take Shelley's tables for a bit!" Shawn comes storming out of his office.
"She running late again?"
"I don't know where the fuck she is...again!" I swear he's got a vein popping out of his face right now.
"Don't worry! It's not too busy right now! I can handle this! Dinner rush doesn't usually start for another hour, right?"
Shawn gives me a polite smile and storms back into his office.
I guess I'll get started on the two tables I got right now.
"Alright I'll get your order in now! Is there anything else I can help you with?"
"No, sweetheart we are all set!" The sweet elderly couple, also my last customers of the night, smile up at me.
"They're pretty cute." Andrew, our new bus boy, says sliding up to me by the order counter.
I can't help but blush because, if I'm being honest, he's really cute. He, ironically, looks like Andrew VanWyngarden, from MGMT. Big green eyes and Shaggy, curly brown hair. He doesn't talk much but when he does he's usually pretty sweet or kind of awkward. I may have a tiny crush on him.
"Heh,uh, yeah! They always come in at this time before close to get dessert!"
Smooth Raeanne, real smooth.
"So,uh, Rae, what are you up to tonight? I mean like, after work?"
Before I can respond Derrick, our cook, is ringing the order bell in my ear.
"OOORDER UPP!"
"Yep! Yeah! Right here!"
Andrew stifles a laugh at me and walks away.
"I hate you!" I mouth to Derrick as I grab the couples pie.
"Alrighty! Here we go! One cherry pie to the best customers ever!"
I place the pie between them. Shortly after they pay their bill and leave.
Now it's just myself and Andrew cleaning up the restaurant, Derrick always leaves right after we split the tips and Shawn, well, I haven't seen Shawn since Shelley didn't show.
Andrew and I share a few shy smiles and quick glances at eachother while we quietly close and head out.
"Hey, Rae!" I hear him call out as I start my car.
"Yeah?" I peek my head out the window.
"You didn't answer my question!"
"Oh yeah! Shit! Um, I was going to head over to my friend Lip's house if you wanted to come?"
"Sure!" His smile gets really wide and I can feel my cheeks flush. I'm such a dork.
He hops in the passenger seat.
"OH SHIT!" I screech my car to halt as Andrew exclaims.
"What?!"
"I forgot to leave some paper work with Shawn!" I say as I start driving in reverse back to the restaurant.
"I'll go inside with you, it's late y'know."
We both get out and head to the back of the diner. I have a key because Shawn says he trust me enough.
"So, weird being in here after close." Andrew whispers to me.
"You don't need to whisper. I don't even think, Shawn's still here."
"I didn't see him leave!"
We crack open the door but it won't open more than a crack. Andrew and I both give it a shove and realize Shawn's desk is in front of the door. Weird, but we've managed to get it open enough we can squeeze in.
A loud gasp leaves my mouth when I see Shawn lying on the floor with a needle in his hand, a rubber band around his arm and his eyes bloodshot. Andrew is already checking his heartbeat while I stand frozen at the door.
"RAE! RAE! CALL 911!"
I snap out of it and panic trying to get my phone. The operator tells me the ambulance is on it's way. Andrew and I wait at the front door to walk the paramedics through. They say he still has a pulse and should be fine.
We sit in silence as we follow the ambulance to the hospital.

*LIPS POV*

"She should of been home by now! I can't get a hold of her!" I overhear Lisa talking to Fi downstairs.
"What Rae didn't come home?" I ask reaching the last step of the wooden hill.
"No, and I can't get a hold of her, Lip have you heard from her?"
"Wasn't she coming over tonight, Lip?" Fiona looks at me worried.
"Yeah, but sometimes she goes home and changes after work or something. I didn't think anything of it."
Lisa looks disapointed, I don't want to worry her but I'm a little scared too. I quickly run upstairs to get Ian.
"Yo! We gotta go get Rae!"
"Her car breakdown again or something?"
"Lisa can't find her we gotta go look, man!" I pick up Ian's jean and a shirt from the floor and throw them his way.
"Can't find her?"
"Yeah she didn't come home from work, Lisa's been calling and can't find her."
"Alright, I bet she's fine though! It's Rae!"
I start having flashbacks to that night when she told me about Mitchell. What if she ran into him? What if he did something worse?
Ian and I come flying down the stairs to tell Lisa and Fi where we are going to stop suddenly.

"What do you mean you're at the hospital? You're boss did WHAT? RAEANNE MARIE YOU CALL ME NEXT TIME! I swear to GOD! I am going to kill you when you get home!" Lisa is screaming in our living room pacing from one end to the next.
"I guess she found her?" I ask, Fiona shrugs still with her brows furrowed and the look of worry plastering her face.
Lisa hangs up, sighs loudly and turns to us with a small smile on her face.
"Raeanne just called. Apparently her boss overdosed in his office and her and a co-worker found him. She's now at the hospital and has to file some report. She'll be home soon. Sorry to worry everyone." Lisa says in a strange slow tone.
"Holy shit! Guess we don't got to go look for her." Ian sighs walking back up the stairs.
"Guess not. Glad she's okay!" I sit on the couch,giving Lisa a reassuring smile, turning on the tv while Fiona walks Lisa out the door.

Her boss OD'D? That's fucking crazy. That's a scary thing to see. When I was a kid I saw one of Frank and Monica's drug buddies all strung out on our living room floor after a party and that was crazy enough. Seeing someone overdose? That shit's scarring.
I sit and watch TV for a bit waiting to see if Rae will come here first. Fiona went to bed pretty much after Rae's mom left. Never a dull moment around here. It's kind of quiet right now. Almost too quiet.

*RAE'S POV*

The doctor's said he's going to be fine. So we could leave after we filed the report with the police since Shawn's also apparently a parolee? I had no fucking idea.
"So this wasn't what I had planned for tonight." Andrew sighs.
"Weird, these were my exact plans." My sad attempt at lightening the mood.
"You need a ride home?"
"Yeah, shit, if you don't mind?"
"Not at all, Andrew!" I'm blushing, what an inappropriate time.
We're driving silently, the drive is quite a bit but I don't really feel like making small talk.
"So, we go to the same school eh?" But Andrew apparently does.
"Really? I've never seen you around?"
"We actually had English together."
"Wow, I feel like a total asshole!"
How did I not notice?
"You sit in the front, I sit in the back, no big deal. Hey you mind if I play some music?" Andrew has been looking through my CD book since we got back in the car.
"No, go ahead, be my guest." I yawn.
"You got some cool stuff here, Strokes, Vaccines, MGMT, I love MGMT!"
"Yeah, me too! Anyone tell you, you look lik-"
"Andrew? All the time!" We both laugh.
"So, pop quiz, Oracular spectacular or congratulations?" Andrew asks sitting up straight, leaning in a little closer than before.
"Oh, Congratulations BY FAR!"
"It's my favourite too! A lot of people didn't like it for some reason."
"Because everyone just wanted a KIDS 2.0 but I thought it succeeded Oracular Spectacular vastly!"
We go back and forth about music for a while. The tension between us slowly fading. Both becoming more and more relaxed. But I keep picturing Shawn's lifeless body lying on the floor of his office, chills going my spine everytime.
We pull up to Andrew's house, he actually lives 2 houses down from Karen. How have I never seen him around?
"So, um, do you work tomorrow?"
"Nah, I'm off, how about you?" His eyebrow raises looking over his shoulder before he exits my car.
"No! I don't think they'll even open the diner tomorrow without Shawn."
"Yeah." Andrew turns to leave but stops with a sigh and turns to me.
"Well, uh, here's my phone, put your number in there and give me a call if you want to do something tomorrow. I'm not busy." He's blushes.
"Alright, I'll text you." I take his phone and do exactly as he says.

He smiles at me and leaves the car with a small wave.
I can't stop smiling which is making me feel quilty because of what happened tonight.
"SHIT!" I exclaim.
"Lip's going to be so mad!" I say to no one in particular.

I drive passed the Gallagher house but there's no lights on.
I'll just talk to him tomorrow. I still need to deal with my mom too.
I head quietly to my bedroom. Immediately flopping onto my bed. I'm so tired but I can't sleep. I lie awake staring at the ceiling, picturing Shawn and the needle and the paramedic's rushing his lifeless body out of the diner. It's going to be a long night.