I was lost in my thoughts staring outside the window in my class when suddenly out of nowhere a chalk came flying towards me and boom headshot.

"Megan! Pay attention," teacher shouted. The chalk did its work as I now have no idea what I was thinking a while ago.

Bell rang and it was break time. I was walking towards the restroom when someone pulled me by my arm. Ah! It was my friend Liv. Yeah, yeah I know what you are thinking and its right I do have a lot of friends. Each one of them is kinda popular in their own ways except me. Yes and even with all these friends I was lonely inside.

Liv's pull was kinda harsh and I quietly did a scream, a quiet one. "Girl, easy, It hurt," I said shaking my hand. "Nah! You are fine. But you left without me and it was rude." She replied.

Oh god this girl, I thought as I made my way towards the rest room.

And like that the day went on, nothing bad happened actually, it was all happy, laughing, and so on but still in my heart it stings, no idea why.

Everything was normal happiness was surrounding me until the last bell rang and the class was dismissed. Now came the reason why I had that sting feeling in my heart.

As the school was dismissed everyone was going back home with their friends but since Liv and I live in different ends of the town. She wasn't able to walk back home with me.

My neighbour Cloe doesn't even look at me I don't know what I had done. She has her new friends, the popular kids in the school, so she was always busy with them. Even though we were childhood friends, now she seems to not even notice me. I let it be atleast I have Liv on my side.

With so much of these thought rushing through my mind i crossed the busy street and made my way to the end of the crowd. But suddenly I crashed on to someone, who was carrying a tray with drinks, and we both fell on the ground covered in what tastes like, ewww!, pineapple juice. i despise pinapple juices.

The boy whom i crashed into jumped back on his feet quickly and offered me a hand. As i looked up, it felt like someone knocked the air out of my lungs. Those brown eyes which shined honey under the evening light, the jawline so fine, tender looking lips with a light tint of pink. His dark brown hair which stuck onto his face due to the drink. The guy looked majestic, straight from a fiction. And he was head to toe covered in pineapple juice. Gross!

I got back on to my feet and noticed that he was wearing a waiter's outfit. I looked up to see that we were actually standing infront of Mr Baker's Cafe. So he works here, I thought.

 We were standing there when suddenly someone came out of the Cafe yelling ,"Oh, Ethan! Can't you even do a simple thing right boy? Do you want to get fired kid?" A plumpy man who looks like he is around 30, came out of the cafe and stood in between us looking at Ethan. He was 5'6 tall grumpy man, Mr Baker.

I froze when i heard that that boy was going to get fired because of me. I had to do something, think something fast. 

"Oh, Sir! don't do this to him. It was my fault, I was the one who crashed onto him. He did no wrong." Boy I regretted each word that came out of my mouth. But what done was done. There is no going back. 

"Oh, you trying to be smart young lady. Fine, then you will have to pay for all the damages you have cost. It will be $300." $300 dollars. My jaw just dropped to the ground when he mentioned three hundred dollars. He just stood there arms crossed, Ethan was picking up the glass pieces from the ground and i was standing there cluless on what to do. I don't even have a quarter with me much less three hundred dollars. My mom will surely kill me if she got to know about this. After a whole minute of digesting what just happened i was about to say something when Ethan stepped inbetween us. 

"It's wasn't anyone's fault. Accidents happen all the time. She is already shaking like a leaf and just a highschooler. If you still want your money take it from my salary." He then turned to face me, those amber eyes burned into mine and i felt a strange sensation in my gut. "Its alright, you go home. I will take it from here now." 

Mr. Baker looked annoyed by Ethan's response but he was wise enough to not make a scene infront of his customers so he went back inside. I started walking towards home but i just peeked behind my shoulder and saw Ethan still picking up the small glass pieces scattered on the ground. 

When I reached home. My little brother, Max, came running towards me and stopped a few meters away from me. He the started screaming at the top of his lungs, "MOM! MOMMY! THERE IS A ROTTEN BANANA SHAKE IN OUR DOORSTEP."

"For Christ's sake, shut up. You burst my eardrums and for you information its pineapple juice. Now move out of the way I want to take a shower." saying i pushed him aside and went into my room. 

Later at night, when i was sitting at the table I noticed Dad was not there. 

"Where is dad?" I asked as my mom handed me a plate, it had 2 slices of meat loaf, some mashed potatoes on the side along with some peas. 

"He went for a business trip" She said as she handed another plate to max. I tilted my head. "To Italy." Italy? and he didn't tell me? "He would be back next month."

"Next month? seriously and he didn't even thought of telling me?" I slammed my fork on to the table startling poor Max. "This is ridiculous." I sild off the chair and went into my room shutting the door behind me. 

I felt like she just dropped a bombshell on me. Dad and I were so close and he just left without telling me? Something ached in my chest. I hugged on to my pillow tightly and forced my self to sleep.