"W- What are you doing here?" I stuttered, looking over to where Tanner stood, a smile on his face as he talked to the old lady serving. "I mean, why are you here?" Darren raised a hand, taking it to the back of his neck and I watched him, not believing that he was back in front of me, trying to talk. It was almost crazy how I'd forgotten about his existence. I felt some kind of surge of anger that he could actually come back and say, 'hey'. Like, hey? He freaking left! He left me at a very terrible time in my life. Just when I was thinking he was decent and different, he was only one of those people who came into a person's life to leave, and if not for the kind of person Ryan was, he'd have rubbed it in my face that he'd warned me about him. I looked back at him, biting my

