Changes ||Andy Fowler ff||

1 - "Embarissing time"

It's now the 3rd of September 10:10 am of a ‪Thursday morning‬, is raining outside, my favourite kind of weather; I'm here inside my rented flat listening to a wonderful Little Mix song, Woman's world to be specific and I start thinking like I always love to do.

If you don't know that song talks about how in this world there are still a lot of differences between women and men and that's something that really pisses me off.

My thoughts were interrupted by someone calling me "Abby, can you come to the kitchen please?" : that's my roommate and also one of my best friends Emily, we share this flat with other two girls Bianca and Kylie, we all moved here to Manchester to study at the university.

I'm Abigail, but everyone calls me Abby, I'm short like really really short, I have dyed red long hair and brown eyes and I wear glasses, I know the other three weirdos for like 6 years now thanks to some friends we had in common, they all did dance together so they've known each other for like 10 years or so, but we're all pretty close to each other.

Anyway I reach Emily and I found her burning some pancakes, she always has to burn something while she cooks but I have to admit that she is improved a little now, not like Kylie that doesn't know what to do in a kitchen, but that's another story.

While I help Emily with the pancakes we talk a little about what we have to do during the day: " I have to prepare an essay for Saturday, I'm very stressed out, it's about mental health so it's a really delicate topic" Emily says, "If you put a few of your own experiences mixed with all the technical stuff I'm sure you'll do great love; if you want me to help you I'm here, well I'll be here before I have to leave for work, so I have 5 hours left" I replay, "did I mention that I adore you?" she says while hugging me, "Yeah yeah... let's eat these first" I say returning the hug.

After almost 1 hour we hear someone coming into the kitchen and it's our lovely Bianca, that always took so long to wake up, that's why we usually use Zayn Malik voice to wake her up but today she deserved to sleep after she passed excellently her first clinical psychology exam yesterday.

It was our first university exam and we were so nervous, but it actually went pretty well so I'm happy about it; we always wanted to study psychology, we would like to understand people's mind and help the others.

The only one who is missing now it's Kylie so I ask where she was because I was probably asleep when she left the house and it's in that moment that we hear the door being opened revealing our lovely girl, she was holding some shop bags and then I remembered: she offered to do the shopping because she can't cook, we all do what we can here to help each other and don't mess the apartment too much.

I feel like the mother of the group even if I'm the smallest one talking about height but that's because I'm the most boring among us like I don't usually drink alcohol when we go to parties, I don't like to go to amusement parks because I'm afraid of height and all these similar stuff, but it's fine for me to be like this and I found someone that makes me have fun in different ways.

Anyway Emily and I finished the essay, that was, as I was expecting, absolutely beautiful; she just needed to put more of herself in that and then we ate what Bianca prepared for lunch.

Then at like ‪3 pm‬, I leave the house saying goodbye to my girls and directing to the metro station, it takes me like about 30 mins to come to the coffee bar where I work, yeah I don't have a car, I have my license but it's not my priority at the moment to buy a car, I prefer using my money to rent the flat with my besties and live on our dreaming town.

We all have English names but that's just because all of our parents like this language, we actually came from Italy and we love our country but we always wanted to leave somewhere on the Uk, we always felt at home here.

Arrived at the bar I am greeted by my colleague and also friend Julia: she is taller than me, blue-eyed, brown hair and she has glasses too. We got along almost immediately and we have fun working together that's why I can handle our rude boss and all of the people that snap at you just because they had a bad day.

We meet a lot of different people every day and whether they are kind or not we got each other's back and that's amazing. We start serving the customers, preparing coffees and teas and cleaning all the tables, all ordinary stuff, then we take a little break eating some biscuits because the bar seemed quite empty today.

Suddenly the little bell on the door informed us of the arrive of a client; "I can take care of it, I'm done eating" I whisper to Julia and turning around I see a handsome blue-eyed guy with blonde dyed hair wearing a white shirt and laughing at something that the beautiful girl with him has just said.

As always I smile and trying to be as kind as possible I ask " Good evening, how can I help you?", " I'll take one brownie and two teas to take away please" he says and then he adds, talking to the girl "Clifford do you want something to eat too?", "No I'm fine thanks Andrew, I'm gonna call Blanco, I'll wait for you outside okay?" he nods and then she smiles at me and waves goodbye.

I do the same and I quickly prepare the order giving it to the cute guy that politely smiles at me giving me the money and thanking me, I smile back too shy to say anything.

When he leaves I turn back to Julia that was there all the time and that has a smirk on her face " What was that?" she says and I confusedly look at her and she adds "He stared at you for all the time he was there", I laugh awkwardly saying "He was here for like just five minutes, and that's impossible I mean did you saw me? I am nothing compared to that girl or him, he was one of the most handsome guys that I've ever seen.." I  say without breathing.

Apparently, I haven't even noticed the bell ringing because I hear a cough and that Andrew guy saying "I'm sorry, I've left my wallet here... You're beautiful too, by the way, see you soon I guess.." and with that, smiling, he just leaves.

I stand speechless for what seemed like minutes but it was just a few seconds, trying to not sink into the floor, but that's all I wanna do right now.

Then Julia yell my name trying to gain my attention and I start freaking out "that was the most embarrassing moment of my life, omg..." but I am again interrupted by Julia that laughing says "I know it was not the best beginning, but you heard him, I was right, he will come back here really soon because he seems to like you".

Then a few groups of people start to fill the bar so we go back to work, me still thinking about what had just happened.

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Author note: Hello angels, this is the first chapter! I'm very excited and I really hope you will enjoy it.

I noticed,writing this back here from my notes, that I write really long sentences period as my teacher used to say to me in high school: oops😅

Anyway let me know what you think about it,
pls be kind x
Sharon x