Imperfections

1 - The Coffee Shop and The School

The sun was just went up and shone through the town, squinting the eyes of those who were shone by it.

A girl walked through the lonely road, with not even ten people on it. Entering the café with a ringing bell, she walked straight to the girl behind the counter. “Buongiorno, signora Martin” the girl behind the counter said, receiving “buongiorno, Isla” from the girl talking to her.

“The usual?” Isla asked.

“Yeah.” She answered short.

Isla told her to wait for a minute and she replied with a nod. Not until another minute, someone came in, a boy, or a guy, with a mask on. A very peculiar behaviour in the area.

He walked towards the counter and Isla asked him what she can help him with. “Black please” he answered while taking a look around the humble café. He stopped his head to the girl sitting next to the window, reading a book, a novel to be precise, by James Dashner, “The Fever Code”. He was asked, that’s what broke his sight to the girl. Isla asked for his name once again and he answered “Thomas.”

Thomas took a seat not far from the counter, all he had to do was just turn around and took 2 steps. His eyes went right back to the girl now across him.

“Allyana.” Isla called.

Allyana got on her feet and taking steps to the counter for her coffee.

“What time is your class today?” Isla asked.

“8.30.”

“Man, you wake up very early for an 8.30 class.”

“That’s because I want to read in your café, Isla.”

Isla went to her phone which made a bell sound signalling someone texted her. She checked who texted her and smiles over her phone and the text.
“Who is that?” Allyana asked with a smile and flirting tone.

“No one.”

“Oh come on. Every time you smile on that phone you always say that it is no one.”

“It is no one.”

“Fine. One day. I’ll know.” Allyana said after a sigh.

“You’ll know when it’s no longer no one.”

“Oh. I see.”

With that, she walked away, back to her table and to her book. Then Thomas rose up from his seat, walked to the counter taking his cup of coffee and gave a piece of paper to Isla with a “thank you”, he then took steps towards the door and pushed it forward to get outside.

Allyana took a glimpse of the ringing bell above the door when he walked outside, then her eyes went back down the pages. After a full hour of reading, Allyana got her book in her bag, handing her coffee cup and was leaving the café right when Isla yelled her name. Her body turned as fast as a tornado runs, reacting to Isla’s call.

“It seems like you have an admirer.” Giving the piece of paper Thomas gave her.

“Huh?” Allyana took the paper and rose her eyebrows in confusion.

“Three Act Tragedy. Agatha Christie.” The paper said.

“Thank you.” Was the only thing came out Allyana’s lips.

By 8.15 Allyana had already arrived in her class, in her seat, and by 8.30 her lecturer was walking into the class with a “good morning!” cheering up his students. Allyana didn’t really like what she was studying, English. She didn’t like the simple things that made difficult and complicated in it, and, she didn’t like her lecturer.

Showing her dislike, she was sketching on her paper, planets, stars, and moon in the universe, which really reflected what she liked and what her faculty was, astronomy. This year was her final year before she finally finished school and became a space engineer, the dream little Allyana had always wanted to come true.

“Lyana. Lyana.” Her lecturer called twice.

“Allyana.” Again, nothing.

“Ms. Allyana Stark Martin.”

Allyana stared with her round, brown eyes in shock and her veins tensed up.

“Yes? Mr Benworth?” Allyana questioned.

“Are you listening to what I was saying?”

“Yes.”

“In that case, can you repeat it? The whole thing?”

“The whole thing is past perfect tense is used for some event happened before something else happened.”

All the students pointed their eyes to her, staring her in awe, Mr Benworth included.

“Good. Let’s continue.” Mr Benworth nervously said and turned his body back facing the board.

The class became awkward for what Allyana said, but it kept going. Clock ticked one more time, pointing at exactly 10. Mr Benworth closed his books and walked out the class with a “thank you and good morning”. All the students followed outside, some went to the terrace, some went to the corner of empty classes doing God knows what, finished students went back to their dorms and some went to cafeteria where Allyana was, sitting alone.

“Hey! Ms Know Everything.” A girl called out.

“Hi Avery.” Allyana said with a smile.

“Finally Benworth got his worth?”

“Oh Avery Campbell, you just love it so much, don’t you?”

“As a matter of fact, yes, I love it, so much.”

“Hi baby.” Anthony said with a kiss on Avery’s pale cheek.

As the reply of the kiss, Avery kissed her boyfriend’s lips and it lasted for a while until Allyana broke it.

“Can you two get a room? Really not in the mood to watch.” She said.

Avery got up and took her boyfriend’s hand, leading both of them to the exit of the cafeteria. Allyana took out her book and the piece of paper she slipped inside shown, making her lost in her thoughts should or shouldn’t she finds out what it meant.

Author's note:
Stay tuned guys to know whether Allyana chose to find it out or not.
I will be publishing every Sat and Wed. Thanks!

-jojo❤