Chapter 5

“Can you just not?” I snap at Lorraine, the other waitress in this hellhole, and shove her out of the way with my arse as she lounges in the hatch in my way for the millionth time today. I am already tense and irritated by my day, and having her fat ugly face hanging around me makes me even more so.

“What’s eating you, sugar?” She drolls lazily, that fake New York twang she tries to mimic, even though she is from Texas, and eye rolls at me.

Her frizzy, over-processed nest of almost white hair over pudgy fake tanned and poorly applied makeup gives her an air of late fifties rather than the forty-two she told me she is. I swear she’s on the verge of getting a fork in her eye today, and I am not in the mood to deal with a menopausal old hag with a laziness disorder. She needs to tuck her disgusting spotty food baby away as it overhangs, giving her a muffin top on the trousers she has on today, and I wonder why I am the only one who gets stuck with the shitty pink waitress d