Meeting Him in a Coffee Shop ✓

Yeehaw to you too

A/N: Hello to all two of my readers! I've decided to change the story to 1st person because 2nd person is just getting too hard to write (those English teachers were right when they said that we hardly ever write in 2nd person). So I'll be going back and fixing the other chapters to match. I don't think much will change, besides "you" to "I" but I might add more stuff to the characters thoughts, so maybe y' all should go back and reread them after they are republished. THANKS!

"Bye y'all, see you tomorrow!"

"Yeehaw to you too," my coworker says in response.

After being here for only a week, I have become such great friends with my coworkers and the banter in the office has hardly stopped.

I quickly stop by my boss' office to drop off the sketches before leaving the building and taking the same route I take every day after work towards the same cafe that I visited on my last day in London from my last trip. I remind myself that I am going there not to find him, but rather to get coffee because I enjoy it so much. I repeat the same mantra in my head, telling myself that the chances of me seeing him here are slim to none.

"Bye y'all, oh and don't forget the party starts at 7! Please don't bring those dry things you call cookies, I will be providing y'all with real American food!"

I wave goodbye to my coworkers before wrapping myself in my raincoat, preparing for the unforgiving rain outside. However, I stop at the door, wondering if it is worth it to go to the cafe on such a cold and wet day, besides I have a house-warming party to prepare for in 2 hours. But what if he decides to come today I ask myself. I shake my head, trying to dispel the thoughts. I won't be seeing him again, I remind myself before heading the opposite direction of the cafe towards my apartment, or rather flat as they call it here.

"Y'all can go ahead, I'll catch up later."

My boss was having a baby shower and had invited the whole office, but I had an upcoming deadline that I was falling behind on so I stayed behind at the office to complete my work. After double checking my work thrice, I finally smile with satisfaction and hurriedly grab my things so that I could leave and catch up with everyone else that was headed to my boss' house. They were supposed to be taking the "tube" to her place, but even after almost three weeks here I was not completely comfortable riding it by myself. Before leaving the building I ask the doorman which way it was to the station and he tells me that it is in the same direction as the cafe. I decide against grabbing my beloved twist, knowing that there would be food at the baby shower, but decide to just pop in to say hello to the barista that I have befriended over my daily trips to the cafe. Before entering the cafe though I notice a familiar mop of brown hair. I pause, unsure if it is really who I wanted it to be. His back is facing towards me, but he laughs at something and when his body shakes it proves that it really is him. The excitement fills me as I open the door to walk in and greet him, but as I walk in I notice that he is sitting with a girl. A beautiful girl.

"Hey, I was wondering when you would come in. Stayed late at the office today?" the barista calls out to me as soon as I step in, but my eyes are still trained on the happy couple laughing.

He hears the conversation and turns around, finally noticing me. He looks confused at first, but after recognizing who I am his eyes mirror the same excitement I had in mine earlier.

I try to smile at him, but my face does not get the memo as I am standing there still shell-shocked. My feet don't seem to be cooperating either as I am frozen in my spot.

"Hello, love. You alright dear?" I hear the pretty girl say to me.

Of course, she's also nice, I tell myself. He finally puts two and two together when he sees the hurt in my eyes.
"I can explain, wait-" he calls out, but I don't stay to hear the rest. My feet finally choose to move and I run out of there. I don't stop until I get home. I scold myself for being so dumb and thinking that he wouldn't find a girlfriend in the six months that I was gone.

What did you except, that he would wait for you?

As I walk towards my tiny bathroom to shower I remember that I was supposed to be going to my boss' baby shower. I decide against going and remind myself to bring the gift to work tomorrow and come up with an excuse. There is no way that I could deal with any social interactions after having my heart almost ripped out.

I stand in the shower, letting the water run down my body as I continue to tell myself off for being such as hopeless and believing that he would wait for me. After a small cry, I find myself smiling though because after the internship is over now I will be able to go back home with nothing holding me back. I knew that for a fact if he had shown up again and asked me to stay I would have said yes with no hesitation.