It was now three in the afternoon. Ashley is a checker for Vons supermarket, and she had just finished ringing up her last two customers of the day. Time for her to go home for the evening, the only problem was that she didn't have a home to go to.

For the last year, even though she had a part time job, Ashley was homless. Only makeing around ten dollars an hour and twenty-five hours a week, she couldn't afford a place to live, the only home that she had was her car.

Ashley is a loner at the store, her coworkers don't even know that she is homeless, she hides it very well. Every day she goes to the local public gym and uses their showers to freshen herself up. She does her laundry at a laundrymat across town, and if she does enough money left at the end of the week, she will try to spend atleast one night in a local motel. Otherwise she just sleeps in her car, wherever she can.

　

It was again three o'clock and time for Ashley to head out for the day, by the time she was ready to leave, she was starving.

She checked he wallet to she how much money had left till tomarrows payday.

"Ten, Twenty, Thirty, Forty, Fifty........ Great! I actually have twenty extra dollars this week! Enough to stay at the motel tonight and have a decent meal today! This is a good week!"

Deciding that she had a hankering for pancakes and eggs, something she hadn't treated herself to in weeks, she headed over to Denny's in the corner of the shopping center.

Ashley was quickly seated and started to look over the menu. She decided on the big combo platter, Three pancakes, two eggs, sausage, bacon, and toast, with a large orange juice. It was also on special for just $7.99. That made her even happier.

As Ashley was waiting for her meal, she picked up one of the free newspapers that they give to patrons to read. As she was reading, she looked up to see one of her customers walk into the resturant, it was Rick Allen. Rick had been a customer of the store for some time and always came through her line. Ashley knew he was the drummer for Def Leppard, because she had been a fan of theirs for years. Today was the first time in a while that she had seen him because she knew that the band had been out on tour, she also noticed that he wasn't alone and Rick Savage was with him.

As her thoughts where drifting off, the waitress had brought her her meal.

"Is there anything else I can get for you?"

"No thank you! I'm fine!"

"If you need anything, just hollor!"

"Thank you!"