The best part of working at a truck stop was the fact that there were showers. I washed away the smell of greasy eggs and burnt bacon and dried my hair under one of the hand driers every night. Due to the lack of an alarm clock, I was always too late to take a shower before work. I did my make up quickly, but carefully. Some girl had left her purse on a table one day. I left the money and credit cards despite my need for it and just took the needed makeup. I changed into the last clean outfit I had for the next month. I had maybe a total of ten outfits and I was expected to make it an entire month before they were washed.

I walked out of the bathroom and towards the table where Spencer sat. I had asked her name at the most random time while walking past her. “You ready to go?” I asked her with a huge smile.

“Yeah, let’s go.” I held out my hand and she gladly took it. We walked outside and I immediately put a cigarette between my lips. My lighter wouldn’t light though and it was bothering me. A flame came from my left and lit it for me. I smiled at the beautiful girl holding the lighter. It was Spencer. I didn’t even know she smoked.

We walked down the sidewalk chatting about things we likes and things we couldn’t stand. This girl was really easy to talk to. However, I didn’t talk about anything that had to do with the present. She was way too nice, and way too pretty, and way too all around amazing to scare away this soon. So I kept my mouth shut about everything.

I could feel my cell phone vibrating. The one thing about Aiden that I liked was, he would give me what he could and claim it was for business. He gave me this cell phone and said it was so he could contact me when he needed to. But he had that smile that told me he just wanted to give me something to use to call Kyla for free. It wasn’t the greatest phone in the world. It would make and receive calls as well as send and receive texts, but that was about it. I was still thankful. “Excuse me” I said politely pulling the phone from my pocket and answering it. “Hello?”