Hey guys :D well we had to have Jun resurface at some point haha also Michael in this chapter is Mimi's friend from DA2, you know the one who is totes American but sounds about as British as Austin Powers anyway hope you enjoy :D

I really need to take that job offer. Well when I actually get a physical offer. I had just had to sit through my fourth complaining customer of the last hour because one of the Newbies they hired had been putting stock out in the wrong places so the customers were demanding to know why the expensive stuff they thought was on sale was still full price. God I hate this place…

Tai had been getting the brunt of it so I thought I'd step in and give him a hand with some of the collateral but after apologising again for a mistake that wasn't my fault and getting blamed for it anyway I was beginning to lose my patience. I needed to get out of here or I think I might actually go postal and shoot up the place. Well, if I had a gun and there was no chance I'd go to prison afterwards.

After I had gotten off the phone about the photographer job with Matt I had received a call the next day from his manager telling me that Matt had recommended me for the job and asking me to send a portfolio of my work over to him. I had spent the rest of that evening sifting through all my photographs and selecting the best ones I had of people to best show off my skills.

I really needed this job. Retail work is awful. I think the only reason I'm still here is because I quite like the people I work with (well Mimi and Tai) and by the time I get home I'm too exhausted to look for a new job. Here's hoping that Matt's manager gets back to me quickly. He said it should be within a few days so as soon as I find out I'm probably going to hand in my notice – get out of this shit-hole before I stay here for the next six years.

I had been contemplating this for the vast majority of my shift (when I didn't have to deal with customers) and had pretty much made up my mind by this point. I just needed an answer from the other end. I had been so lost in my thoughts that I didn't realise that someone was talking to me until they tapped me on the shoulder. I turned round to see Jun standing behind me looking incredibly pissed.

"Hi," I smiled hoping to dispel some of her anger. "you ok?" This however just seemed to make things worse.

"Don't you 'hi' me," she snapped. "I've got a bone to pick with you."

"What about?" I asked, confused.

"Oh I think you know what." she replied.

"I'm sorry," I said. "I really don't have any idea what's going on." I know this girl is legit crazy and everything but I really have no idea what the hell she's talking about. I'm assuming it has something to do with Tai (I can't imagine her going this crazy over anything else) but we've hardly been talking that much today and the only way she could be mad for me talking to him is if she had been staking out the store to keep tabs on him. Unless…

"You kissed Tai!" she screeched. Everything seemed to stop at that exact moment. Quite a few people around us (both customers and my co-workers) turned to stare in my direction. I could feel my face heating up. This was not good.

"What?" I asked trying to work out how she could possibly know about that unless she had actually stepped up to stalker level as I'm pretty sure she wasn't at Kari's party.

"You went to his sister's party the other night didn't you?" Jun asked still screeching for all the world to hear.

"Yeah…" No point in trying to lie about it.

"While you were there you and Tai went out onto the balcony and you mouth raped him!" she snarled. To say that this annoyed me greatly would be an understatement.

"That's not how it happened, it was a drunken accident." I told her trying to remain calm and not fly off the handle at this psychotic nut job. "How did you even know, I don't remember seeing you there at all. Are you that crazy you're keeping tabs on him now?" Ok so maybe I lost my cool slightly. She huffed to herself as she pulled out her phone, obviously looking for something. When she found it she turned it to face me. "What am I looking at?" I asked because as far as I could see it was just a picture of a couple of Kari's friends from Saturday night that they'd obviously put on Facebook.

Jun took her phone back huffing to herself again before she turned it back to me. She had zoomed in on the back of the picture and I realised that what I was looking at was a very grainy shot of Tai and me kissing in the background.

"Don't try to deny it." she snapped. "I know that's you." I sighed in exasperation. What did it matter? Nothing I said was going to get through to this crazy bitch.

"It was a drunken accident." I said. "It didn't mean anything."

"Liar!" Jun shouted. Oh my god this was turning into one of those scenes you see in a trashy soap opera and I wanted to walk away but she would just follow me if I did. At this point, however, Mimi jumped in to save me.

"Hey!" she snapped at Jun. "I don't know where you think you get off coming in here and harassing my friend but if you don't leave I will call security."

"I'll leave in good time as soon as I've had a good explanation for why this little slut was kissing my man." Jun replied.

"Tai is not yours, you crazy bitch!" Mimi cried.

"Oh and I suppose he's yours?" Jun asked incredulously, like Mimi was the delusional one.

"I have a boyfriend!" Mimi replied. "You've met him. You're insane!" As they continued to argue (with more and more people turning to stare in our direction) I thought that it might be a good idea to go an get security before Jun took a swing at Mimi and Mimi knocked her out. I turned to leave and found myself running smack into someone who I had thought (and hoped) that I was never going to see again.

"Hey TK." Michael said smiling at me. It felt like something was exploding in my brain at how horrific this situation was turning out. Not only did I have Jun shouting the odds at me for kissing Tai at the party the other night but now my ex shows up from god only knows where and is acting like our break up never actually happened.

"What the hell are you doing here?" I asked. I could have been nicer about it but I was already annoyed so I decided to continue being annoyed.

"That's a fine way to greet someone who just flew half way around the world to see you." Michael replied.

"That's not an answer!" I practically yelled at him. "Seriously Michael I do not need this right now." Unfortunately it was at that exact moment that Jun overheard me and turned on Michael and me, forgetting her previous quarrel with Mimi.

"Are you his boyfriend?" she asked Michael. That was a pretty big conclusion for her to jump to but form what I hear she's good at that.

"Yes I am." Michael told her.

"No he isn't." I corrected. "Michael we broke up."

"Not for a good reason." he replied.

"Yes for a good reason!" I said. "We broke up because I was moving back to Japan and you were sleeping with other people!"

"I'll admit I made a mistake…" he began. "but…"

"But nothing!" I cut him off. "We're over, remember. You flying half way round the world and dropping in unexpected is not going to change that. Especially as I have no idea how you found me!"

"It's quite easy when you know how to do it." Michael said almost proudly.

"Oh my god will you listen to yourself?" I couldn't believe that he was actually proud of what most normal people would consider to be weapons grade stalker level.

"So what's actually going on here?" Michael asked ignoring me and turning to Jun.

"Your boyfriend was seen kissing my boyfriend." she told him. Fantastic! This just keeps better and better.

"Tai is not your boyfriend." Mimi said in exasperation.

"And Michael is not mine." I added. Neither of them seemed to accept this fact and Michael rounded on me.

"What the fuck?"

"Seriously?" I asked. After all the shit he had put me through at Uni when I found out that he was sleeping with other people he was going to give me a hard time about drunkenly kissing someone and we're not even together!

"Jun will you just get out?" Mimi snapped.

"No!" Jun shouted. The urge to punch her in the face was getting too strong and I was struggling to remind myself not to punch a girl. Having said that is she takes a swing at me I'll give as good as I get. "I'm not leaving until this slut answers for what he's done."

"What the fuck is going on here?!" a voice from behind us shouted. I closed my eyes and felt my entire body sag in frustration and embarrassment as I recognised the voice as Tai's. Jun seemed to perk up immediately as soon as she saw Tai.

"Well basically…" she began.

"Not from you." he said cutting her off. He looked absolutely livid and I had never seen him even remotely angry before. I couldn't look at him though I knew he was expecting me to give him an answer, I could feel him staring at me. When I continued to look at the floor he gave up and turned to Mimi. "What the hell is going on and why is everybody shouting the odds at each other on the shop floor in front of customers?"

"Ok we were all just getting on with our work then this crazy bitch…" Mimi stated, indicating to Jun.

"We can do without the name calling Mimi." Tai said.

"…comes in and starts shouting the odds at TK for no good reason." Mimi continued as if he hadn't spoke.

"He kissed my boyfriend!" Jun screeched.

"Is that what this is all about?" Tai asked incredulously. "Jesus Christ!"

"I keep telling her it was a drunken accident but…" As soon as the word were out of my mouth I knew I shouldn't have said that.

"Ok but the only person you've drunkenly kissed recently is… what?" Tai turned to stare at Jun as what I had said had just sunk in. "Excuse me did you just say 'boyfriend'?" he asked her.

"Yes." she replied as if this was the most obvious thing in the world. Tai let out a bark of hysterical laughter.

"You really are a crazy bitch!" he stated. "When are you going to get it through your head that I am not interested in you; you terrify me!"

"You don't mean that." she said in a small voice.

"No I really do." he told her. "I know people say you've got to be cruel to be kind but in this instance I am being neither. There is no way that you and I are ever going to be together – I am not interested in you and this has been going on far to long!" Tears began to well up in Jun's eyes and I wondered if things had gone a little too far there.

"Now listen here…" Michael began. I have no idea what he thought he was doing, whether he was going to threaten Tai or start a fight with him, but either way it was only going to make matters worse.

"And who the hell are you?" Tai asked.

"I'm Michael, TK's boyfriend." he introduced himself.

"Ex-boyfriend." I corrected immediately although I still managed to catch the hurt look on Tai's face. I turned to Michael. "Michael we're over. You cannot fly half way around the goddamn world and turn up at my place of work, without giving me some warning first, and expect to change that. You slept with other people so I ended it. There is nothing more too it than that. Oh my god did you even have a plan when you turned up here?"

"Well no," he admitted. "I just thought…"

"Whatever you thought the answer is no." I cut him off. "There is nothing that is going to make me change my mind; I've moved on, I'm not interested."

"We know who you are interested in though." Jun quipped.

"Oh my god, really?" I asked turning to stare at her. I really wanted to punch her now. She opened her mouth to speak again but Tai cut her off before she could start this time.

"Ok that's enough!" he snapped. He turned to her. "Jun unless you have a work related issue that has brought you here go back to your own store of whatever you're supposed to be doing today. Only come back here when it's an actual work related issue."

"But…"

"No!" He turned to Michael. "I have no idea who you are but not telling your ex that you're going to fly halfway around the world to see them and just turning up is really not ok. Get out of my store."

"But…"

"No, just no." He turned to me. He sighed but I made sure that I didn't freak out and look away this time. "Just go home, your shifts nearly over anyway."

"Ok." I replied and turned to leave.

"But Tai…" I heard Mimi protest.

"Just leave it Mimi," he said. "please." She threw her hands up as if to say that she was done with this whole thing.

"Fine! Done with this shit anyway" she said and walked away. Tai looked at me again. I wanted to say something but things were too fucked up and complicated for me to make the situation any better so I just turned and left. I would have to deal with the fallout of this eventually but there was nothing I could do about it right now. Might as well just go home…