It's Eating Me Inside, I Was Scared She Would Take Him From Me

I was 19 working in a diner as a waitress. A guy came in, ordered and ate, without saying another word. When he paid I asked him to take me with him. We drove to a duplex, he told me to sleep on the floor, he had to work in the morning and needed his sleep.

He let me stay with him, I made a bed on the sofa. I felt I needed to do something to pay him back so I cleaned up. I found a picture frame with broken glass and the picture of a girl. He said she had left him. I became his girlfriend.

A year later I was looking better, gained weight, thinking about going to school. She showed up and wanted to talk to him. I said he was traveling.

She left, I never saw or heard from her again. I never told him that she came looking for him. I can't tell him now, I regret keeping it from him.