I arrived at work 5 minutes before my shift started. On Thursdays my shift always started an hour and a half earlier. I also worked on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays. Saturdays I also had work early, except it started at 1 in the afternoon. So a lot earlier.

I thanked Zach quickly and told him I'd be with him in a minute, I just had to get changed first. Right when my shift started I was ready.

A girl named Natalie passed me and said I had a customer at Table 9. I knew who the customer was of course, since I'd seen him only 5 minutes ago.

When I started towards the table though I saw Zach was leaning against the counter and Josh was at the table. I turned back and walked over to Zach. "Oh God." I put my forehead on the counter.

"What is it?" Zach said. I heard concern in his voice.

I lifted my head. "Ex-boyfriend at 2 o'clock."

He looked over at Josh. "Want me to go kick his ass for you?"

I sighed and put my cheek against my palm. "No, don't go kicking anyone's ass for me. Otherwise we'd have to ban you from the restaurant and I still need you around here." I looked up at him and he had that same lopsided grin.

"You sure?"

"Yeah, I'll go deal with it myself." I gathered my composure and walked up to his table. On the way though I chickened out and settled for finding my inner-Macey. "Hello, sir, I'm Cammie and I'll be your waitress for tonight. Are you ready to order?"

"Cammie, we need to talk."

"I'm sorry, we don't have that on the menu. But we have a particularly popular special called the lying cheating pig."

"Cam-"

"I'll leave you to think about your order." I left and a few seconds later he was following me. I headed for the kitchen and turned before I went in. "I'm sorry, sir, employees only."

"Cammie, this is ridiculous." He said in frustration. That's when I snapped.

"Ridiculous? What's ridiculous is that you actually dared to show your face in this restaurant after I made it perfectly clear for you to stay the hell away."

"Hey, is there a problem here?" I heard Macey say.

"Yes, tell this waitress to started acting like a normal person." Josh said. I had to say, that was a pretty lame response.

"Hey, if you don't like the service here, you can leave. She," Macey gestured to me, "sure as hell doesn't want you to stick around so back off. If you don't, we'll have someone escort you out the front door."

Josh glared at us both then exited the restaurant. I stood there, baffled. Had Macey really just stuck up for me? Since when did that happen? Ever since she had caught Dean, her now ex, she'd been as cold as possible to me. "What was that all about?"

Macey had turned to go to the bathroom and I followed her in. "Let's just say that I know what you're going through, particularly since you were the one who slept with my boyfriend."

"Thanks for the reminder, I get them constantly everyday. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to forget anytime soon."

She just gave me a look that basically meant she was waiting for me to stop blabbering. "Anyway, I know that you probably are having a hard time resisting the temptation to strangle Alice to death in her sleep."

I frowned. "Who's Alice?"

"The girl your boyfriend cheated with."

"Ex-boyfriend." I added. "Wow, 'Alice', that seems like such an innocent name."

Macey gave me a sidelong glance as she washed her hands thoroughly. "Yeah well, so does 'Cammie'." She sighed. "It doesn't help that I have to see you every damn day at work." She looked up at the ceiling. "It's like I'm being punished for something I didn't do." She rubbed her hands harder and bubbles started appearing fast. "It's like constant torture. But you know what hurts the most?" Her voice cracked and I realized she was about to cry. "You keep apologizing over and over but after that night that I caught you two, he never showed up again." She let her hands drop and her hair covered her face. "In a way, I'd say you're lucky. Your ex actually came by and if I hadn't been there I'm pretty sure he'd have started begging to have you back." She hit her hand against the sink.

I didn't know what to say. I'd never known she'd felt that way or that Dean had been such a jerk to her. "Macey… I'm sorry. I know, that's a pathetic thing to say after everything, but I really am." I blew out a deep breath and leaned against the wall. "It's just, I don't know what to say to you anymore. I've apologized over and over and it seems like all my efforts are meaningless. You have no idea how I feel over what I did with Dean. Everyday when I see you, it's like I see what happened that night again, like my mind has programmed that night on a loop. And I feel so dirty and guilty for doing it. A-"

"Please," she held up her hand. "Just stop this pity party. I know that you feel sorry. I've heard that a couple hundred times."

"Wait… so am I forgiven?" I asked cautiously.

She snorted. "Forgiven? I will never forgive you for sleeping with my boyfriend." She said as she passed me and pushed her way out of the bathroom.

Yes it's a short chapter and I apologize. Man, there are too many apologies in this chapter... Im going to have to make a fun chapter next. ANY IDEAS? Maybe a pool scene or a walk around the city or going to an interview with the DEATH DIEMUNDZ! Tell me if you have any awesome ideas. And dont say something wimpy like 'a date with Zach and Cammie', cuz believe me I'm planning the romance!

Neway, moving past the future scenes, tell me about this chap. did you love it hate it? did you expect Macey and Cammie to be BFFs? Yeah, well, i did too =P but decided to keep her as a pain in the ass. I was planning the make the chapter longer but you see I got bored of writing it and had no ideas left...

Anyway! Thank you for reviewing the previous chap. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE review! I got EIGHT on the previous, aim for TEN now!

Ivoryyy

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