Falling In Love at A Coffee Shop

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You can do this, Christine, you can do this.

I opened the coffee shop's door, and walked directly to where Carmen was preparing coffee.

"Chris, you are back!" She smiled, "but, why? Today's tuesday."

"Carmen, yesterday "the guy" left his book, and I'm gonna give it to him today."

"Oh, I like that." she smirked

"Is he here?" I asked

"Now he is." she stated

I turned around and saw him with his leather jacket on an arm and a bag with I suppose his things and books in his other arm. He looked for an empty and comfortable table until he found it and sat down.

He took everything out and the stood up, wait.. He's coming where I am.

"Carmen, is he coming?" I panicked

"Yep."

My heart was racing and I was panicking inside.

"Eh, Can I have a regular coffee and a piece of key lime pie?" He said

"Perfect, that'd be $4.59." Carmen said and grabbed the bill

"$0.49 your change." she smiled, "Your coffee, and I'll take your pie to your table in a sec."

"Excuse me," he said, and grabbed two bags of sugar

His voice was let me say.. sexy.

"Chris, do you want to take him the pie?" Carmen smirked

"Um, nope."

Carmen shrugged and gave him the pie.

He opened his bag and took out his laptop,

What can he be doing?

"Carmen! Give me that mop!" I pointed at the mop leaned against the wall

She handed it to me and I started "cleaning the floor", lies, lies and lies. Obviously not. I was just gonna walk by and look at his computer, yeah, maybe I can get more info of this guy, at least his name.

I'm such a stalker.

I leaned trying to not be that obvious, but nope no information.

Wait, what's that? Is he on facebook?

Yeah, bitches. I'm getting his name on this second.

I leaned and held on the mop, how dumb? That freaking mop is..

Wet.

Of course, by this moment I was laying on the floor and the mop still in my hand. I stood up the quickest I could, and literally ran into the kitchen.

"Carmen, I humiliated my fucking self in front of him!"

"Christine Houdelot, that language."

I heard that familiar voice and saw my grandmother with a cup of tea. I ran to her and hugged her tightly,

"Mama Lu!" I kissed her cheek, "when did you come? I thought you were still on France. Why didn't you tell us?"

"It was a surprise for all of you, Christine." She tucked a piece of hair behind my ear, "who did you humiliated yourself in front of by the way?

"Uh, no one." I blushed

"That smile tells me something different." she laughed, "a pleasure seeing you, princess. I'm going home to surprise the rest of the family."

I laughed and she left giving me a wink at the end. I smiled and when she was nowhere to be seen, I ran looking for Carmen.

She laughed, "Mama Lu heard you?"

"Yeah. Now, let me tell you I humiliated myself in front of that idiot!"

"Why are you calling him idiot?" She laughed loudly

"Shut the fuck up, and help me, I need to talk to him."

"Just go and talk to him." she shrugged and turned around

Then I remembered the book he left yesterday and that I had it on my bag. I grabbed my bag and ran where no one could see me. I hid silently taking the book out.

Breath in. Breath out. Breath in. Breath out.

I made my way to his table slowly, and I did as if I was going to talk to someone else or go to another table since I didn't want him to notice me.

Centimeters away from his table I sighed and turned around quickly,

"Hi, um.. yesterday you left your book," I stated

"Oh thanks! I thought I lost it." he smiled and he had such a beautiful smile

Silence.. shit.

"I'm Edward," he looked up after looking at his book

"I'm Christine." I smiled trying to make him feel comfortable

"Do you come often to this coffee shop?" He asked

"Yeah," I answered, "what about you?"

"Yeah, the coffee is amazing, desserts are delicious and the place is cozy." he laughed

"No, no, it actually is!" I laughed along

"How did you discover it existed?" He asked me after laughing

"Well because my uncle is the owner." I said,

"Wow, how's your uncle called?"

"His name is Harold Houdelot, but we call him Harry."

"Like Harry from One Direction?" Edward smirked

"You like one direction?" I laughed

"Some songs are cool." he shrugged

"You are right." I smiled, " so hey, I noticed you like reading."

He smiled lightly, "you are right. I love reading."

"I also like reading a lot, I like reading especially here." I said and looked down smiling

"What authors do you like?" He asked

"I like John Green.. and many others.." I laughed, "and you?"

"My favorite is William Shakespeare." He winked

"Hold up there Romeo!" I laughed and he laughed along

We stopped talking for a moment, we just stared at each other's eyes, and doing what I would call "admiring each other",

"Christine?" He asked

"Yeah?" I looked up

"Hey, why don't you sit down and we continue talking?"

I smiled.