Memory Loss

Chapter Seven

Chris

Kaite, was great. As soon as I saw her sitting in the sun eating her lunch alone, I was drawn to her, and she was so easy to talk to and be with I just opened up. It was great beacuse I hadn't felt like that since I'd woke up in hospital. After I spoke to Tony Katie had the wonderful task of teaching me everything I had forgotten about working at the Bowl-a-rama (Tony really did need to change that name) which acording to her I had done for her the year before.

"If anything goes wrong i just want you to know im blaming you, you taught me after all," she told me before we even got started.

Is wasn't difficult but Katie unlike everyone else didn't test my memory she just treated me as though it was my first day and i'd never been here before. She taught me how to make the burgers and laughed at me when i couldn't flip them.

"You used to laugh at me coz i couldn't flip a burger, now its my turn," she told me showing me that she was just teasing me.

I liked that she taught me things on a basic level and didnt push me. When I made a hot chocolate for her I added five marshmellows even though I was told to only add three.

"Somethings never change," she told me explaining that I always gave customers five marshmellows instead of three and I had a feeling that she wouldn't have pressured me about the lack of marshmellows if I had only given her three. 

She taught me how to use the till and reminded me of the password so I could log on. Tony pretended to be a customer at one point and i didn't do to bad.

"It's because I'm such a great teacher," Katie told me smiling, but I could see she was proud of me.

"You still make a great burger son," Tony called from one of the tables.

"Is it always this fun?" I aked Katie beacuse this was the most fun i'd had since coming home.

"You wait until we are actually busy, it does get pretty hetic, and noisy but yeah it's fun," She told me.

"When are we busiest?" I asked.

"Friday night and Saturday as im sure you could have guessed. We are pretty quite the rest of the week we only open until 8pm and on Sunday's we are closed." she told me.

"Really, im sure this place used to be open Sundays."

"It did, but then Tony realised that he wasn't making money keeping it open, now we get a day off." Kaite told me.

"It's Saturday today right? How comes it's dead in here?"

"The heat," she told me, "people don't want to spend the time inside when they can be working on their tans."

"Oh is that what you was doing at lunch?" I teased her.

"Too right," she laughed.

I was annoyed at mum for trying to stop me from doing this and I was glad I had convinced her I would be OK. I could tell working with Katie was going to be easy, she was so easy to talk to and get along with I wondered if were good friends before I forgot everything.

We were just leaving for the day (Tony had let us go early) when I decided to ask her.

"Kate?" I called realising to late that i'd shortened her name without asking if it was OK.

She smilied and I could tell she didn't mind.

"What's up Chris?"

She stopped just under a lamp in the car park.

"Were we.... are we good friends?" I asked stuttering and feeling like a complete idot.

"Of course we are Chris, we've worked together for just over a year."

"Right yeah of course."

She turned to leave again and I shouted bye just as my mum pulled into the car park wondering how long it would be before I got to see her again.