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A first meeting can be the start of a lifelong friendship or a love story that last's forever ~ Unknown
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June P O V
It's currently 3:30 and my last class just finished. Thank God. University is tough
I don't like Maths, I'm good at it but I don't like it. 'If you want to be a good doctor someday and make your pa proud you must excel in it. No less expectations' I quote my papa's words.
He always envisioned me being a doctor so I went with it. I'm not sure what I can see myself doing other than training to be a good doctor, it's all I've studied to do most if not all my life so I can make papa and my family proud
I take the subway to go to Rose's Book Café. I hv a shift soon. If I'm not studying in my dorm or visiting papa I go there to work and relax on days I don't have any shifts. The owner Claire, she's really understanding of my class schedule and works with it. She's like a motherly figure to all the staff. In one way or another she's been there for all of us.
You might be wondering why she didn't name the café Claire's Book Café instead of Rose's Book Café. Her exact words were 'Why use my own name and when I could be mysterious, where's the fun in that?'
20 minutes later I arrived at the Café with 10 minutes to spare.
It's busy today. Seeing it's a Friday and all. Mondays and Fridays are always the busiest on weekdays.
I enter the vintage yet modern building, the aroma of coffee and deserts and books fill my nostrils. I literally come here everyday and I'll never get tired of this smell it's heavenly
"Good day June" Miles, one of my co-workers, greets.
"Good afternoon Miles" "Did you get that new tattoo?" I asked
"Yep, I got it done yesterday. The pic you showed me really helped"
"No problem" Miles was 5 '9 with messy blond hair and blue eyes, he had a full sleeve tattoo on his left hand and his newest tattoo of a bird behind his ear. It suited him. He's really friendly once you get to know him.
When I first started working in the café I was terrified to talk to him let alone speak to him for weeks. He can come off as mean at first but he's like a big brother. A big brother with a love for K-dramas dont tell anyone though.
He says It'll make him feel less intimidating to others
I tie my messy dark brown hair into a low bun putting on my apron over my clothes adjusting my badge on it. I look at myself once more in the employees bathroom mirror before starting my shift.
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It's 5:20 now and my shift ends at 6:00 pm. 40 more minutes to go. "Sweet pea" Claire called "Can you go over to table 4 and give the elderly couple their drinks please oh-and the slice of cheesecake"
"Sure"
"Thanks June"
I carefully take the trey from Claire maneuvering around people so I don't spill anything before I reach the couples table. I almost successfully made it but then I tipped on what felt like a wall spilling all the contents on the tray onto a customer that I accidently bumped into. I heard the silver tray make a loud clank sound while I landed on my butt. 'Ouch'
This is embarrassing
I stand up abruptly spilling countless apologies to the person I bumped into not wanting to look up at them. When the person said nothing I wondered if they had not heard me. I look up to meet a gorgeous pair of green orbs staring into my own brown ones with a slightly confused look?
I apologise again before he shakes his head and takes a seat in the corner near the glass windows of the café.
'Weird' I thought I certainly wasn't expecting that. Maybe as a further apology I'll make his order on the house. He'll like that right?
I cleaned off my apron while someone went to clean the mess I made re-making the couples order while I took the guy who I bumped into order instead.
With a deep breath "Hii welcome to Rose's Book Café, what would you like to order?" I say as sweetly as I could. I guess he didn't hear me so tapped his shoulder to gain his attention. He looked up at me quizzically before sliding a notepad to me.
'Can I have a Frappuccino and a croissant please?' the note read.
I nodded my head walking off to prepare his order. 'Maybe he's shy' I thought
5 minutes later I come back with his drink and croissant he reached out in his pocket to pay but I stopped him
"No It's free since I bumped into you, Think of it as a sorry for staining your jacket" I say looking at the ruined dark clothing sprawled out on the chair opposite him.
He just stares then pulls out the notepad scribbling a response
'Its ok, I didn't really like the jacket anyway this finally gives me an excuse to throw it away'
He has nice handwriting. I couldn't help but feel obliged to tell him that
"You have really nice handwriting"
He just nods in acknowledgement his grumpy features relaxing slightly. We stared at each other for a moment before I was needed elsewhere.
By the time I had a chance to look over to see if he was still there he already left. I couldn't help the small frown that made its way on my face. I didn't even know his name. Sighing a quietly muttered 'nice to meet you Mr. Grumpy' looking back at the table he sat at now being preoccupied by 4 drained teens in need of caffeine.
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