You knows what's funny about life? One day everything is laid out perfectly for you. You have a game plan. Where you're going to college. When you want to get married. How many kids you want to have. You know what I mean. Then life being the asshole that it is comes and knocks your happy butt down off that horse that was getting a little too comfortable.
My life was going to be great. The freedom was calling me. I could taste the fresh air that was not the town I grew up in. Nobody was going to know me or my family. I was simply going to be Hollis. Not Hollis Elizabeth Anderson. Not the girl that always smelled of coffee and cakes. Just Hollis.
Then like I said before life became an asshole and took that dream away from me and decided that I would forever be Hollis the cafe princess. Trust me, I did not come up with that title myself and if I am being one hundred percent honest I die a little every time I am referred to as such.
See I wasn't going to be the cafe princess anymore. I was going to become a social worker and help those in need. I wanted to be the reason someone smiled and I wanted to help those that needed it the most. I get it coffee is essential but it wasn't the kind of help I wanted to offer in my life. And frankly, if Billy Mark comes in one more time to tell me jokes about how many fish it takes to catch a man I might throw up in his coffee and claim the milk soured.
My daddy knew this dream I had. He knew that I craved the freedom of being different and being helpful. So he saved and he saved. He was going to send me to college in Texas and I was going to come back a new girl. Then mama got sick and that money that was being saved for me turned into money to help my mama survive.
Life is twisted. She didn't survive and I didn't go away to become anything different. Daddy took it the hardest and I don't know what he regrets more. Losing her or keeping me. He gave me the reigns of Anderson Coffee telling me that while I wasn't helping those in need I was helping the town from assholes like Billy Mark.
Mama died ten years ago. I am still in my small town and I am still the cafe princess. You would think that being twenty-eight they would drop that title. Yet, I think they get joy from watching me cringe.
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RomanceSmall town girl Hollis has always had big dreams. When life happened her dreams where put on hold. She did not think she would be in her late twenties still helping her family run their small coffee shop but life has a funny way of helping you even...