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hey i just got a table inside do you want anything?
a latte please i'm about 5 mins
k all good 😝
any paps?
nope nothing yet i think we're ok
thank god see you in a min
HAYLEY O'BRIEN DOESN'T remember thelast time she felt so nervous. So nervous that every time she inhales, she feels like it'll be the last breath she'll be able to take. Anxiety clings tightly onto her veins, gripping onto her like a fence constructed out of barbed wire. It refuses to disappear, and as the time on the clock on the wall gains closer and closer to when Finneas said he would arrive, it only gets worse.
The anti-anxiety medication she had taken before she had left her house hadn't done much in all honesty. Sure, it had taken the edge off a little bit, but Hayley still continues to feel like when she sees the ginger-haired male, she'll die. She hates panic attacks, and she loathes anxiety.
It also probably didn't help that she had already drunk multiple coffees that morning. No, that definitely hasn't made things any easier.
Clothed in dark green hoodie, jeans and a pair of sunglasses that are perched atop her recently washed brunette hair, the teenager appears like any other customer seated inside the lesser-known back alley cafe. It's one of Hayley's favourite local joints to go for pastries and breakfast smoothies, and one of the benefits is that it's almost always empty except for her. Which is greatly appreciated on a day like today, when a Grammy award winning producer and artist is about to meet her for a coffee.
She doesn't love to call herself a 'celebrity,' because compared to some of her friends, she really isn't. Although, that opinion is contradicted on almost a daily basis with multiple articles, columns and gossip based on her. Finneas, on the other hand, is currently one of the most famous people on the planet; at least, she thinks he is. Which also makes her ten-times more frightened to meet him. Would she embarrass herself in front of her idol's brother? Maybe it would be something she'd say, or perhaps she'd somehow offend him or Billie without meaning to. Or maybe-
"Hayley?"
The voice that interrupts her paranoid thoughts is smooth. Without looking at him, she knows exactly who it is. Hayley's head turns to the side and she is met with the sight of Finneas O'Connell. His ginger hair looks extra copper with the sun streaming in through the floor to ceiling windows to give it natural highlights, and based on his wide smile, he looks like he genuinely wants to be here. She quickly stands up in her chair and reciprocates the grin, stretching her hand out for him to shake it. "Hey! Yes! Hayley, that's me. I got you a coffee, I hope you're okay with almond milk? I know you guys are all vegans, so..."
