Broken Heart

Chapter 5

Kayla Wilson
"Hey Kayla, thanks for coming. I know today is your free day but I had no choice. This place is packed with customers and I need all the help I can get." Jack said as I entered the café.

It's been a week since I started working at the beach side café and so far, everything was going good. Everyone working there were really nice to me. My co-workers Colin and Becca were really friendly towards me. They were dating each other and were in their first year of college. They never judged me, despite what people were saying behind my back. Jack was also very supportive of me and they were all nice to me, especially Zach.

Zach Williams. The first person I talked to after the move. Even though we bumped into each other by accident on the first day of school, he had made quite an impact on my life. He helped me in so many ways that I was grateful for everything he has done for me.

"Kayla, come back to this world." Someone said, snapping their fingers in front of my face. I look up to see Zach smirking at me.

"Huh? What were you saying?" I asked bemused.

"I was asking you to give me your number." Zach said pointing at my phone on the table.

"Why do you need my number?" I asked tying the apron around my waist.

"I just need it." He grabbed my phone off the table.

"Hey give it back." I said in a vain attempt to snatch it away from him.

"No password." He observed. "Even better, Okay just give me a second, aaand done." He handed my phone back to me. I was trying to figure out what he had done with my phone when it vibrated. Apparently I had a new text message.

I opened the text message to see that it was from 'Awesome Zach'. He had saved his number on my phone. The message said 'This is my number. ;)'

Trying to keep myself from laughing, I looked back at Zach and raised an eyebrow. He was grinning like an idiot. As I was opened my mouth to make a remark, Jack came over to us.

"Are you two lovebirds gonna start working or just stand there doing lovey-dovey stuff?" he questioned.

"Sorry Jack, Zach was being immature as always." I said blushing at his words and quickly scurried off to clean the tables.

The whole day was tiring because of serving so many customers and cleaning many tables. Jack gave us an hour's break before we were dragged back to work. It was half past five when Jack said that we could leave. I was glad that I could head back before six. It meant that I would have some time to rest before preparing dinner.

"Kayla, wait up. I have to ask you something." Zach said catching up with me. We both walked together towards the main road.

"I was wondering if you'd come to the party at Andy's tonight?" He asked.

"Uh, I didn't even know that there was a party tonight. But even if I did, I wouldn't be able to go. Sorry." I answered.

"Why can't you? It's gonna be fun. The party starts at 9:30." Zach tried to convince me to go.

"Zach, I do wanna go but I can't. My dad might kill me if he found out that I went to a party." I said with a sigh.

Zach nodded in understanding and gave a small smile before climbing into his car. I waved at him and turned to go. My house wasn't that far from the café. It was just a 20 minute walk. On the way, my mind was filled the events that had been taking place since I moved. After the move, my dad's abuse had been reduced to a minimum. A change might have been what we needed. I hoped that everything would eventually get better after this. Maybe we could return to being the happy family we were before mom left us.