"Nick?" I say, he keeps staring at the ceiling. Ever since we got home he hasn't moved from the couch. He's staring at the ceiling and that's it. He didn't even go take off his uniform. I sit beside him and shake him a little. He turns his head a little to face me.

"What?" He looks tired and sleepy. His face is pale and his lips are chapped. "Whats wrong?" I ask worried. "Nothing." He turns his head back so hes now staring up again. "Nothing." He repeats.

"I can tell something's wrong, why won't you tell me?" He shrugs, "Cause nothing's wrong." I clear my throat, "Okay. If you say so. What do you want to eat? It's my turns to cook. Remember?" He nods slowly, "Yeah I remember. But I don't want to eat anything."

"But- why not?" He shrugs, "I don't know. I'm not hungry." Then I remember what he told me during our lunch break, he said he wasn't hungry. "Have you ate at all?" He shakes his head no, "Oh my God Nick. You have to eat!" I say, "I told you I'm not hungry."

"Well you still have to eat! At least something." He closes his eyes, "Sydney I'm not hungry!" I sigh, "I don't care."

"I know you don't care." He gets up and walks to his room, "It's not like you ever cared at all." Then he slams the door. I sit there blinking fast and I feel hurt. He's acting with me like he acted the first few weeks we met. He's being cold and distant.

~

In the morning I have two cups of coffee made. Hopefully Nick will drink it since he hasn't eaten anything. He walks out his room already changed and his hair is wet. "I made coffee." I say handing him the cup. "I don't like coffee." He turns around and I feel like I've been kicked in the stomach. "But you do like it." I whisper. He shrugs and walks to the door, "You haven't eaten." I say worried. "I did eat. I woke up around four and ate then took a shower."

I look at the sink and see a plate there which looks like it's filled with spaghetti sauce. At least he ate. "Are you coming or not?" He asks. I take my plastic cup with me and leave Nicks cup there.

He doesn't talk the whole way to work. Not even when we're in the cafe and this is killing me. Why is he being like this with me?

I walk in the kitchen and Alice is the only one here right now. "Hey." I whisper, she turns around startled. "Oh, hey." She says fixing her hair. I start preparing a coffee for my customer. "Did I freak you out yesterday?" She asks, she looks up at me as Shes washing dirty dishes and cups. "No, why?"

A couple girls walk in with orders and Alice looks at them then at me, "Because of the whole story thing." She whispers like the girls knew about it. "No. It made me mad though." I say. "It makes me mad too. But I can't do nothing about it. I will forever be known as the girl who had a threesome and cheated on her boyfriend." Oh, that's right. Alice had a boyfriend in high school.

Seth, I think that was his name. He was a popular guy of course. He had muscles and he was very good looking. The thing I liked about him was that he was nice to me. At least he acted nice. I remember we had to do a lab together one time, his other friends were in the class and they all made fun of him with getting stuck with me. I felt bad because I was embarrassing him. But instead of being mean to me he was nice. And that's something I will never forget.

"Did you ever got to explain to him what happened?" I ask finishing preparing the coffee. Alice turns the sink water off and dries her hands then she waits until the girls walk out. "I did. But think about it, he was a senior and he was popular. He couldn't handle the pressure of dating me because everybody thought I was a slut. And plus it got so bad his parents even interfered. The whole town found out, some felt pity for me because they believed my story. But others just talked bad about me, they would add new stuff my my story everyday. And of course I couldn't do that to Seth either, I loved him. And I couldn't date him because the whole school would talk about him. He was gonna be the joke of the town for dating a girl like me."

Alice looks down at the floor and smiles sadly. I can relate to that, because I pushed Anthony away for the same reasons. Because I thought people would talk bad about him for being with somebody as insignificant as me. "You can look for him, it's not too late." I say with eager. Because I feel terrible about her story. It's not pity, I can just relate to her so much.

"Oh no, it's too late for that." She says. "No,no, no. It isn't, I'll help you find him." I say, she smiles. And not a sad smile, a real smile. "Thank you. But my heart belongs to somebody else, I did love Seth very much but he left me when I needed him the most. I don't blame him though, it was the circumstances. Maybe we weren't meant to be."

I'm about to ask her another question when I realize I still haven't taken the coffee. "Crap, hold on be right back." I grab the coffee and speed walk outside. "I'm sorry sir." I say putting the coffee on the table. "It's okay." The man smiles and takes the coffee. I smile in return and turn to head to the kitchen. But then my worst nightmare walks in.

I start to walk really fast but they see me. "Oh! There's our favorite waitress." Macy says taking off her sunglasses. Brittney grins, "Indeed." Nick looks at the girls then he gives me a look. Jena's red lips begin to move, "Come serve us." I hold my breath and walk over to them. They sit in a large table.

I don't speak a word I just stand there waiting for them to order. They talk for a while and just ignore me like I'm not even there. "Okay so I want a- Hmm," Brittney looks at me. The way she looks at everybody she dislikes, her eyes scan me up and down and I feel naked and exposed even though I'm not. "French vanilla." I write it down quickly and sloppy because my hand is shaky.

I shouldn't be afraid but I am. "Miranda and I want the same too." Jena says with a smirk, I can tell they know that they're making me feel less. "I want a cappuccino." Chase says and Jade stares at me for a couple seconds. She looks at me and then smiles to herself, only God knows what she's thinking. "Regular coffee." Jade says. I finish writing it down and then wait to see if they want something else.

"What are you waiting for stupid?" Brittney asks, I turn around as I clench my jaws. This makes me so angry, "Make it quick." Chase says with a laugh.

I walk in the kitchen and start preparing the orders. "Woah you have a lot, want me to help you?" Alice asks, I nod and she starts making some. When we are done she wants to help me take them too, "No. I can do it." I say, I remember that day she tried to protect me from not seeing them. "Are you-" before she can finish Selena calls her to help her and I take advantage of that to walk out with a big tray with the six cups.

As I approach the table my knees feel like jelly and I feel like Im about to drop the tray. Luckily I make it to the table. I give them their drinks and they talk and laugh. How can they talk and laugh like nothing? Don't they ever feel guilty at all?

"Mine is cold." Brittney says. "I just prepared it two minutes ago thats impossible." I say, she raises and eyebrow with a grin. "Oooh, you're getting defensive aren't you? Well I say mine is cold and if it's cold then I suggest you bring me another one." I gulp trying to hold in my anger. "Make it quick. I want it today not tomorrow." She says. I turn back around to walk to the kitchen.

On my way out I see that Brittney is not on her table, she's walking to her table. Then she stands there talking to Miranda. I'm about three steps close to her when I somehow trip and spill the coffee on her. She screams furiously and I get up quickly from the floor. "I didn't mean to." I say quickly handing her paper towels. She furiously slaps hand so I will get the paper towels out of her way. "Yes you fucking did! You stupid bitch- ugh you ruined my shirt. Oh my fu-"

"It's okay, here you go ma'am." Nick steps up in front of me and hands her paper towels. "It's not okay!" She screams yet she takes them from him. My chin quivers as I stand there embarrassed. The whole cafe is looking at me. I'm going to get fired. My manger walks out and he sees us there. "I'm so sorry." The manager tells Brittney.

"Well maybe you should get better waitresses not shitty ones like her." She stares at me viciously. "It was my fault." Nick says. I look at him with a questioning look. "I was going to tell her something and I was walking behind her then I accidentally pushed her." The manager looks at him and then at me. "I'm so sorry ma'am," he turns to look at Brittney who's still standing there drying her expensive blouse. "How about you drink another coffee? It's all free for you and your friends."

"Fine. But make it quick oh and I don't want this idiotic waitress to serve us again." She points at me and I stand there not moving. "We'll talk later." The manager whispers as he walks away. Macy stares at Nick for a while. Then she smiles at him, Nick looks away and turns around to walk away. I bend down to pick up the broken pieces of the cup. "That's were you belong my little skank. On the dirty floor." Brittney grins and I have no doubt I didn't trip on accident.