I wake up to my alarm blaring my favourite Taylor Swift song, Bejewelled, to tell me it's time to get ready for work. It's still too early for me so I stay laying underneath my warm covers as it's December and everywhere is beginning get cold no matter how high the heating is. My eyes slowly begin to droop and I fall into a light sleep, however I was awoken to the sudden heavy force on my chest. Who else could it be? It's my cat, Freddie
"Oh my god, Fred, you scared me!" I jokingly say to him as I scratch his head, earning a pur
Freddie's presence is what reminds me that I have to start getting ready for work now. I work in a little coffee shop down the road from 7am to 1pm, it starts getting busy at around 9-10 ish as people are heading to work but I'm just glad I'm not on the lunch shift
I run down my stairs behind Freddie to feed him, he's an unbelievably hungry cat and will do anything for food. Once his good touches the bowl, he begins to devour it while I place two slices of bread into my toaster, should I have jam or peanut butter? As I'm debating on what I should have on my toast, I get a text. It's from Gwilym
He works with me at the coffee shop, we've been friends since childhood but drifted a tad when we were in secondary school but we were closer than ever in our first year of college. We're now in our second year, still closer than ever, but with a shitty little job that actually isn't too bad. Gwilym is one of my closest friends because he doesn't care who or what you are, so when I came out to him as bisexual he just wanted to know if there was a guy in my life who made me realise. Nope just Hayden Christensen in Revenge of the Sith when he's in the bed with Padmé and he gets up after a nightmare and he has no shirt on- actually maybe I should stop. Anyway Gwil is my best friend and I couldn't do anything without him
ben guess who's at the shop right now!!
who?
I was secretly hoping he'd say something like Ewan McGregor or a singer like Harry Styles
joe!
JOE!
For some background information, this guy called Joe has came into our coffee shops a bunch of times now, we've never had such a regular customer before. But after like the 5th time, I was beginning to realise the little things about him that stuck out to me like the way he'd wrap his scarf around his neck when it was cold or how he held his phone, his pinky supporting the bottom of the phone. In other words, I had a crush on Joe. I had no shame in admitting it because Gwilym agreed and so did other co-workers. However he only ever showed up when I was there but now I'm not there and he is
my shift is in 15 minutes! how come he's already there?!
dunno?? he hasn't actually ordered yet, just sat down
okayy thanks!
I now begin to rush my morning, I decide to put jam on my toast, I quickly brush my teeth and I literally throw on my work uniform as fast as I can. I get there with 5 minutes left until my shift, my apron is hung up on a little hanger with my name on it
"He's still here" A happy voice speaks to me
"Still? I thought he would've left at the sight of you by now?" I play around with Gwilym
"Shut the fuck up" Gwilym laughs
I tie my apron around my back with a little bow hanging there as I make my way to the cash register so I can take orders. As soon as I check that the register was emptied last night, I hear a chair drag across the floor like someone was getting out of it. My eyes quickly dart up and suddenly Joe is right in front of me
"Hi" he smiles at me taking out his AirPods that are playing 'Goo Goo Muck' to talk to me
"Hi! You want the usual?" I ask waiting for the reply to obviously be yes but I was dumbfounded when he said no
"I thought I'd try someone different as it's the Christmas season. Do you have a Christmas menu?" Joe spoke at an alarming speed as if he was nervous, Joe was never the type to get nervous while speaking to people
"Uhm, we do have a Christmas menu but it's like super small and one of them consists of a dessert. Do you still wanna have a look at it?" I ask him
"Sure" he gives me a light smile
I go out back to find Gwilym to see if he knows where the Christmas menus are but he can't find them so I resort to trying to find them myself but no luck. I already pretty much remember the menu so I just recite it to him
"Ooh okayy" he draws out his words, after a few seconds, he speaks again "What do you recommend?"
"Me?" I said almost shocked, he just responded with a nod "Okay, I'd recommend the Gingerbread Latte but that's just because I'm obsessed with gingerbread"
Joe let's out a small chuckle before deciding that drink. He sits back in his seat, putting his AirPods back in while I head to the back to let Gwilym know his order. I couldn't help but talk about him while Gwilym made his drink
"He was playing Goo Goo Muck! It's literally one of my favourite songs!" I excited spoke
"Then just tell him you like him" Gwilym spoke with a hint of boredom in his voice
"No! He's just being nice" I shied away at the request
"Ben...seriously! He's never here when it's not your shift, he wouldn't come up to the counter unless you are the one serving, he doesn't even do anything here! He just drinks his coffee and admires you. No way does he not like you! Tell him." Gwilym began listing things I hadn't even picked up on before despite being a pretty observant person
A ring from the counter pulled me out of my train of thought
Maybe he does like me too?
