SCARRED HEART

"I am sooo tired." I groaned. "Sorry little baby." Andrew consoled, grinning. I gave him a stink eye look and walked away from him.

"Oh, come on, what did I do?" He asked, feigning a surprised look on his face. Ignoring him, I continue to walk away from him.

He walked faster to catch up to me, "okay I'm sorry, Meggy." He applogized with an insincere look. I raised an eyebrow at him to let him know that I wasn't moved. He let out a snort while trying not to laugh.

I turned around and we continued walkin towards the cafeteria to get something to eat. "I need to go to the library later to work on my assignment. I'm slacking off because it's too bulky and I'm lazy." I complained.

"Wow! Did you just realize that you're such a lazy student when it comes to school work?" Drew questioned me.

I pouted in annoyance, "you didn't need to point it out, young man."

He smirked in response. Drew and I hung out a lot more after the babysitting incident and over the time, we became close friends which surprised me because I never expected us to hit it off that fast. I guess I'm a likeable person.

After getting our snacks from the cafeteria, we parted ways. Drew had another class to go to and I have to visit the library to finish my assignment.

A couple of hours later, the librarian came to me and said he was closing up. I had to leave and decided to finish up at home. I called Amber to know if she was still in school so she could give me a ride home.

"Hey, yeah are you still on campus?" I asked.

"Yeah but I'll be leaving in 30. Why?"

"I need a ride, if you don't mind."

"Sure, I can do that." She replied. "Okay, I'll wait for you by the library, thanks!"

" What! No! The lib-" I ended the call quickly with a grin on my face. I knew she would protest about me staying back at the library because it's a whole different route from the road she'll take when going home and I'm feeling too exhausted to go to her.

My phone rang and I saw Amber on the caller's ID but I refused to answer. She called a couple of times before she stopped calling. I'm pretty sure she'd be cussing me out right now.

I sat by the pavement to wait for her while scrolling through Instagram reels.

A car's horn honked and I looked up. Seeing that it was Amber, I smiled at her and got up from the pavement, walking towards the car.

"You my dear, are a lifesaver." I said to her with a sweet smile on my face on getting into the car.

"Don't even start with your flattery. Why didn't you answer my calls? And don't you dare say you weren't aware because I saw you on your phone." She looked annoyed.

"Well... I was tired. I didn't have the strength to answer calls." I told her.

"Oh but you had the strength to watch TikTok videos right?"

"Wrong! So wrong my love. It was Instagram not TikTok. See, there's a difference." I countered.

She gave an exasperated sign, "how do I even get the strength to tolerate you?"

"Because you love me. Now drive, we're running late." I said and rested my back to make it look like I want to relax and sleep and closed my eyes.

"What were you doing by the library?" She asked, starting the car' and drove on home.

"Finishing an assignment." I answered drowsily.

On getting home, I took a nap before my night shift at the restaurant as a waitress.

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The alarm woke me up and I took a quick wash of my body and wore a long sleeved shirt and a combat short. I tied my hair backwards, put shoes on and informed Amber that I was headed to work. I left and took the bus and got to work few minutes to six. My shift starts at six pm and ends by eleven. It's a high end restaurant owned by Mr Iginio.

I went to the locker room to change into my work uniform and headed out to start my duty.

"Hi Sam." I greeted my fellow co-worker who just finished her shift and I was to take over from her.

"Hiya, Megan." She replied and told me the tables assigned to me.

"Alright, bye!"

She waved back at me and headed to the locker room.

I saw a group of people getting seated at one of my assigned tables and I took some menus and went to them.

"Good evening, welcome to The Food House. I'll be your waitress for tonight, what can I get you?" I greeted, handing over the menus to them. They were four in number, two boys and two girls. I brought out my jotter and pen from my pocket, ready to write down their order.

As I was writing down their orders, one of the girls spoke up, "shouldn't we order for Harry?"

"How'd you know what he wants to eat?" One of the boys asked her.

"I'll call him." She said and typed on her phone and then placed it on her ears.

"Should I wait?" I asked to know if I should proceed with their orders.

"Please hold on a bit." She said politely. It's good to know that some rich kids still have manners. I smiled and nodded.

" Hey Harry, we were thinking we should order for you. What would you want to eat?" She asked. She picked up the menu and started listing out the dishes for the person to choose from.

"Add the Beef Wellington and white wine to the order." She said after ending the call.

"Okay. Your meal will be ready shortly." I responded and wrote it down and went to the kitchen to give the chef their orders. I served them the drinks they ordered while they waited for their meal to be ready.

A boy came and sat down while I was serving the drinks.

"Kathy had placed your order." One of the boys informed him.

"Okay." He said. After serving them, I turned to leave and I heard a 'wait' directed at me.

I looked at them and said, "yes?"

"It's you, the girl from the club." The boy who joined them said, surprise coating his face.