"Have you seen this" Lucy said approaching me as she stretched out the magazine she was holding. We were getting ready to open the restaurant for today. It was a copy of vogue's magazine and I was staring at the front cover which stared Mark and his wife Linda.

"Ohh, the picture is nice" I said, giving it back to Lucy. And then I continued with what I had been doing.

"That's it?" Lucy inquired like she was expecting me to say more or do something but I wasn't because i didn't even know what to say and i probably shouldn't so I just looked up at her with my expressionless face.

"Yeah, that's it" I said dropping the duster I was holding.

"She is so pretty and gorgeous. I can't even compare to her" I said sadly.

"You're beautiful Anna! And Mark loves you not her. I can see it from the way he is with you everytime." Lucy consoled.

"He is married to her Lucy, I am not. That is the difference between the both of us. One has more authority and power" I explained.

"Anything you say" Lucy shrugged before she left. After some minutes after the restaurant had been opened I saw someone enter the restaurant with her drop dead gorgeous outfit. She was looking even more stunning than the last time I saw her. I really couldn't compare to her in any way and this made me wonder even more why Mark kept coming back to me. It was Linda that had entered and I wondered why she was here because I had never seen her here before.

My boss called us for a brief meeting immediately and it was probably to talk a about the august guest we had.

"You all need to be perfect, we have a special guest here today" he had said nervously

"Anna, go and serve her our special. Be on your best behaviour too" he said and then immediately Lucy looked my way.

"Sir, can't someone else go, I have other things to finish" I asked to excuse myself because really especially after our first meeting. I am very sure I was the last person she would want to see.

"I can go" Lucy said trying to save me but it really didn't work.

"I want Anna to attend to her" he said then he left us. I walked up to her and I prayed silently that she didn't recognise me but it didn't work.

"What can I get you ma, should I start with drinks" I asked nicely and immediately she looked up at me from up down and again.

"Ain't you the girl who spilled drinks on me the precious night" she asked curiously and even though all I wanted to do was to lie and probably tell her I hadn't seen her before. I really couldn't.

"I am very sorry about the previous night ma" I pleaded

"You should be sorry" she said back with a look of disgust on her face.

"I know people like you don't know the importance of expensive things and always look pitiable at the end. Nothing but stupid golddigging parasites!" she spat and I really have never felt so small and irrelevant in my life. But there was nothing I could do. She was richer and more influential than I could ever be.

I went later to get what she had order and I met Lucy patiently waiting for me to come over and tell her what happened.

"What happened" she curiously asked

"It's nothing really, just told me how irrelevant I was" i said as I picked up her order

"That witch!"Lucy said angrily

"Lucy!" I said raising my brows.

I went ahead to drop her order and was about to leave.

"Where did you get that bracelet" she asked, referring to the bracelet I was wearing. It was the bracelet Mark had given me the night before and I really wasn't about to tell her that.

"A friend gave me" I answered hoping she wouldn't ask me any other question.

"So who did you sleep with to get the expensive thing" she asked and I really wished I could slap her there but I wasn't ready to lose my job yet.

"How dare you!" I said angrily

"You slut! Isn't that what girls like you do" she said and I immediately raised my hand to hit her but I was held back by Lucy who ran to my rescue.

I left then calmed my self down, she was such a bitch and maybe she was true actually I thought because I was sleeping with a married man and that was bad, I guess but Mark loved me and I loved him if only we could choose who to love. I would definitely not choose a married man.But she didn't have the right to call me a slut.

"How dare she" I said to Lucy after I had left her table. I was now becoming emotionally as a tear dropped down from my eye. That was the kind of girl I was, things got to me easily and went it hurt all u did was cry.

"She didn't have the right to" Lucy said as she pulled me into a hug.

"Yeah she didn't" I said wiping the tear off my check. She had the privilege all given to her all her life. She had probably never worked for anything in her life and I have had to work and struggle ever since I was a little girl to support my family. That was one of the reasons I wasn't going to work with Mark because I didn't want people to say things like she slept her way to the top or something. I wanted my talents to speak for me not Mark.

I and Lucy left the restaurant early that day and as we walked home because we didn't leave so far away from home another. I really wanted to ask her about her baby daddy and if the had settled things but I realized anytime I brought up the issue she always found a way to change the topic.

"I feel someone is following us" I said looking behind for the second time. My guts are never wrong and I hoped it was this time anyways.