Changes ||Andy Fowler ff||

2 - "Sharing music taste"

After three days he hasn't shown up to the bar but I am still thinking about his smile, I had some crushes before but they were all like " I saw him on the bus he's really hot" and then the story ends, but this was different and my friends start to notice that I had my mind somewhere else.

So this evening of ‪the 6th of September‬ I told them what happened and there we are, sitting on the couch with them laughing at me because I have again that smiley and stupid face.

They haven't seen me like these for a while now and that's why I hear Bianca saying "I really hope that he will come again to the bar because I've missed that shiny smile of yours", I hug her and then Kylie adds " I'm sure that the fact that he was wearing a white shirt surely didn't help you not thinking about him, you love guys with shirts" with that we all laugh and we go on watching our favourite tv series that we have seen for the fifth time now, Teen Wolf.

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The next day I wake up early to cook some pancakes for the others then I leave a post-it "I'm going to work, the breakfast is ready, love you all bye" and after 40 minutes I arrive at the coffee.

Today I'm the one opening the bar and Julia will come a bit later, she had an exam to take, she's studying psychology with me. ‪

At 8:00 am‬ habitual clients start to come, all ordering the usual to take to the office so I greet them with a simple "enjoy your day at work", hoping for the best for everyone.

I am just vibing at a Bazzi song while cleaning the counter when he walks in, alone this time and wearing another shirt. I also notice that today he has a beard and he definitely looks older, still handsome.

I've probably stared at him for more seconds than needed because he clears his throat and says "Hey " then smiling he adds " can I have a Vanilla Latte please?" and then I finally replays "good morning, yeah sure, do you want a brownie too?", he then says always smiling "no thanks, not this time...you have a good memory".

Laughing awkwardly I replay "yeah I usually remember most of the orders.. eat-in or take away?", "I'll stay here if that's not a problem, thanks", he says while sitting on the stool in front of the counter, "of course", I say while giving him his order.

Then I go to serve a couple that has just entered and that took a table on the corner of the bar and when I come back to the counter I hear Andrew saying "what were you vibing at when I walk in? if I can ask.." so I decided to give him one of the AirPods that I was not using and I put ‪3:15‬ back saying "if you want you can listen too, I usually don't listen to music while working but it's quite empty during ‪Monday morning‬ so..".

He listens to the song and says "thank you, it's actually one of my favourite songs and you don't have to give me an explanation, don't worry".

He stayed there listening to my playlist for like 10 minutes while I was serving a few clients when I suddenly hear him humming 'loving you by Alex Aiono' and he actually sounded really good and that's why I tell him smiling "wow you're really good at singing", he blushes a little but enough for me to see it and then answer "yeah thanks, it was actually nothing but I posted some covers on Instagram if you want to check, so you can definitely change your mind".

I then laugh a bit and say to him "okay untalented guy, show me these "bad" covers" so I give him my phone and he adds himself on Instagram and I notice that is profile is verified and I say "should I know you Fovvs?".

He then answeres humbly "I was just a singer in a band, we were not so famous, so no, not at all". I notice that he is talking about the band using the past but I don't say anything, I just check one of his last covers, one of the Oasis's songs and he sounds sick so I say "If you can't sing, I'm Shakira", "Hello Shakira nice to meet you, I'm one of your biggest fans" he says giving me his hand to shake, I do it while laughing and then he laughs and I swear that's one of the cutest sounds I've ever heard.

"My name is Abigail by the way, but everyone calls me Abby", "My name is Andrew so you can call me Andy, if you don't like Fovvs", "they're cute so I like them both" I hear me saying before I turn to the clients that were waiting to pay and leave.

I then ask him, noticing he took off the headphone, "if you want to still listen to the music I can put it back" (hearing his cover I then closed my phone without putting the playlist back on), "no it's okay, we can just talk for a bit when you're not busy with clients if you want" he replays hesitating and I say "yeah of course, just give me one minute I'm gonna check if that couple needs something else".

Then the time seemed to fly and we were just sharing information of ourselves, simple things like the fact that he leaves here with his mother, that he has asthma and because of that he can't take a dog, even if he really wants to and that Amy, the girl of the other day is his best friend.

After this talk Andy pays and he says "I really would like to stay here with you, but I have to go", "oh no don't worry, hope you'll have a wonderful day, thanks for coming" I say smiling, he then adds " it was nice talking to you, see you soon beautiful" and with a smirk, he leaves.

In the same moment, Julia comes inside, I instantly look at the clock and find out that he stayed here talking to me, drinking 2 Vanilla Latte, for like two hours, okay what the hell just happened?

Julia of course, wants to know everything so between one client and another I tell her what we talked about.

"So he stayed here talking to you for a lot of time, you have his profile on Instagram, he called you beautiful again and he is a good singer also then a beautiful looking guy, that sounds like the start of something really exciting", she says and I just don't know what to say so I reply with a simple "shut up you silly, we have to go back to work, the football team of the nearest college is coming in a bit, there will be a lot of people here."

When it's finally time for me to go back home I start thinking about today and I write to my friends on our group chat that I needed to tell them everything.

Nothing of incredible had happened but I honestly wasn't expecting him anymore, then here he is making me feel good again, but whenever I feel in that way I just start remembering how it ended with my previous and only boyfriend that I had.
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