roadies (Amy)

She walked through the door, eyes cast downward with the corners of her mouth pulled down into that very familiar frown. Everyone noticed and almost immediately the initial high that had the crew abuzz from simply being around each other had died off and faded into the floorboards.

Delilah was the first to see Amy when she entered the Cafe and her first thought was 'this cannot be good', almost simultaneoulsy the boisterous chatter amongst the Roadies Crew had evaporated and an uncomfortable quiet fell over all of them.

Amongst the crew Amy wasn't too well known for being able to handle emotion all that well, but they loved her nonetheless. In fact, this was not the first time that something like this had happened needless to say that it there always seemed to be something going on Amy and eventually each of them learned how to work around the discomforting vibe in their own way.

Like every other time Amy tucked herself away at a table in the corner of the restaurant to be by herself, but ironically it was always so obvious that she wanted people around in spite of her attempt at hiding. It never took too long before someone would ask her what was the matter, and more often than not it was the same thing she had going on last week and the week before that. And everytime it seemed that the solution to most, if not, all of her issues was a very generous dose of perspective. There were times when Delilah wondered if this was all just learned behaviour or whether or not Amy even realised that her actions resemebled those of a petulant child, not that she would ever say such things.

That day was particularly bad because just as the door opened and the light through the windows washed over Amy's expression Delilah noticed tears forming and threatened to fall from her exhausted eyes. This meant only one thing- the issue that so often reared its ugly head had come to visit once more. It was obvious to everyone that something had happened between Amy and here pseudo on-again-off-again boyfriend Mick. The tension eeked out into the rest of the cafe and sapped all their energy as it weaved through each of them one by one. They all knew that once any one of them was in that kind of mood it was over. They were unapproachable and it was virtually impossible to get them out of their own heads.

Lara was the first to greet her.

"Hey pookie, what's up?"

"Oh nothing you know... work is stupid! Now I have to work again for the second time today and everything sucks." The words dribbled in a monotonous garbled moan. Lara knew as they all did that she was just warming up. It didnt take very long at all before Amy's verbal onslaught caught alight and began when the tears inevitably fell. Mick, the jackass, had broken up with her - again. Despite her friends objections Amy always insisted that she was happy with the way things were, and as they saw itshe was stranded in a kind of relationship limbo. By giving him what he wanted she never truly got what she wanted and thus the cycle perpetuated itself. Taking her at her word the rest of the Roadies crew never really brought the topic up because they realised that their reasoning would onlny fall on deaf ears and that there was nothing else they could do.