TWO
If she could slap fate,
she would.
The smoothie shop is small.
It is cozy and unique
spontaneous and overall
rambunctious.
It was both her mothers' ideas
to create a rambunctious shop
dedicated to smoothies
at the heart of San Francisco.
She stands behind the register,
with her arms crossed,
and her mouth pursed in
a thin line traced
by the pencil of boredom
and impatience.
Her brother
and his boyfriend
thought it was a marvelous idea
to explore one another
in an apartment up north
on a day where they both had their shifts.
Which left her
to do the cleaning and sweeping,
blending and speaking,
complaining and delivering
as well as spontaneously combusting.
Sike.
The bell at the door chimes
and Madelyn Johnson turns her head
only to spontaneously combust,
Internally that is.
Her heart does not race.
It doesn't even try to palpitate.
Her eyes only widen
and the only sounds
that escape her lips,
are the ones that resemble
the cry of a dying tyrannosaurus.
The boy is more or less startled.
he has been kissed by strangers,
had his boxers stolen from him,
his hair snipped off at signings,
and his apartment filled with love letters,
millions of them.
But he has never directly received a mating call.
or mating screech.
The girl from behind the register does not move.
her eye twitches however.
There is something distinctive
about the freckles that spill across her cheeks
and the frizzy curly hair that spills down her shoulders.
There is something about the defiant sparks
in her amber eyes,
that remind him of shooting stars and starry nights.
"Maddie?" He whispers softly,
almost shyly,
before clearing his throat and repeating
"Madelyn Johnson?"
Eyes wide as saucers,
she finally pipes,
"Ash?"
All Maddie could think of was that
If she could slap fate,
she would.
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Arrogant with a Side of Smoothie
NouvellesMaddie Nguyen is a homeschooled teenager who happens to be a maladroit employee of a family owned smoothie bar, who was supposed to have her senior year as an unquestionably stress-free adolescent. But that was before-before she ran smack into the t...
