Chapter 7

Lizzie

Charlie had rushed home from work after Stephen had found me in a puddle of tears. They both talked me through what had happened. We sat for hours that night dissecting the entire event and weighing the pros and cons of me staying or going. They convinced me to stay a little longer but not go back to work at the diner. It was better to not make it easy for my mate to find me until I decided what I wanted to do. I wasn’t going to let him decide my fate. Late that night I sent a text to Tom and told him I had to quit, I blamed the whole thing on the guy breaking the door and me not feeling safe. I said I would in next week to grab my final check. Tom was the worst boss so he didn’t even respond until the next morning and just said back “ok”.

One benefit of not working at the diner was being able to throughout the horrible uniform, definitely not my style. I needed to find somewhere to work where jeans and converse were acceptable uniforms. Once again Stephen and Charlie were a