A Pie in The Sky

Chapter eight

Chapter 8

The next day she checked her email and was invited for an interview at a coffee shop on the next Thursday which was tomorrow. She wasn't panicked or bothered because she had worked at a coffee shop before. She went for the interview and on Friday she found out she had gotten the job as she had expected, she was to begin on Monday and would be delivered her uniform during the weekend. She started her job and liked it, it was nothing special and not stressful, she was paid thirteen dollars an hour and only worked four hours a day from eight a.m. to twelve p.m. every day except Sunday, she was free the rest of the day. She was early most days and only late by at most five minutes on days she was late. Life was good, not great but good, Patrick had asked her to be his girlfriend she accepted excitedly because she enjoyed his company, they had been dating for two months now and she hadn't spoken to Butch in three months, she had tried to text him but it just kept getting later, she missed him so much and missed telling him about her day, she always wondered if he missed her too.

Patrick was really an amazing boyfriend, he was romantic, always made her laugh and was always available when she needed him, deep down she was scared it was almost too good to be true, but she always brushed the thoughts away. Daya was not a nosey person and never cared to check Patrick's phone but she had recently noticed that he had been getting numerous calls that he took in private, this made her curious, but she still tried to fight the thoughts, she loved playing ignorant. She jokingly asked him about the calls and he got really defensive and shouted as he told her to mind her business, she was shocked then annoyed then quietly and angrily got her stuff and walked out. He called her and texted her all night, but she ignored him, she laid in bed and cried for a while, she wasn't sure why she was crying but she felt terrible and missed Butch but couldn't call him especially about Patrick.

She went to work for the next two days as normal, she wasn't sad anymore but was still upset with Patrick for disrespecting her, she had talked to her old co-workers and they said they rarely saw Fred since she got fired, they made jokes about him as she made her way home. As she got home, she saw Patrick sitting in front of her house, he apologized and said somethings she wasn't really paying attention to because she was ready to forgive him, she let him in and the spoke nothing of the argument and acted like everything was ok as they made out. There was a little strain on their relationship, they weren't like they were before and Daya was now suspicious of him.

It had been four months since they started dating and five since she had last spoken to Butch, she decided that she really missed him and needed to talk to him, she texted him saying

"Butch I am really sorry, and it was all my fault, please forgive me and call me when you get this".

She then went to Patrick's place after work, it was Saturday, so he was home all day. They talked and laughed all day and she planned to sleep over. At six p.m. as they were having a conversation about how stupid a show they both watched was, Daya said

"have you noticed how movies have a way of making you forgive the main character? Like no matter how much harm or evil they cause, you basically use their good or romantic characteristics to oversee the bad and shady things they do"

Patrick responded without much thought, "no actually.".

Patrick then got a call, he ignored it and Daya noticed but didn't comment on it, the number called him two more times before he put his phone on silent, this irritated her then she said "why don't you pick up your phone", "because it is unimportant, we are having a conversation and I don't want to", he said firmly, she didn't like his tone but continued the conversation anyway. She noticed his phone light up on the table and quickly grabbed it and put it on speaker as she ran upstairs and locked herself in his room, the caller said