Coffeeshops Stories

Free to read! 19-year-old Jane, newly-single, moves to London to work for her friend, Kitty. But Kitty is hiding something about the café - and about Jane and Kitty's past. ***** If you looked at her Instagram, you'd think Jane had the perfect life. But a family tragedy and a big break up shatters that illusion, prompting Jane to drop out of university and move to London. She gets a room above a bookstore and a job as a barista, thanks to her childhood friend Kitty. Struggling with feelings of loneliness among the happy staff, Jane feels further ostracized when Kitty refuses to discuss Matt, who used to live in the bedroom Jane took over and who left under mysterious circumstances. As Jane struggles to find herself, and get the attention of the cute bartender, Harper, she discovers that the Brew Books café is brewing with dark secrets. [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

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Book 2 of The Hearts of Oakhaven Series You thought you knew Jax Miller. Elias's loyal best friend. The easy-smiling golden retriever of The Inkwell. But behind that grin, the ex-Navy SEAL is hiding a war-torn soul and the trauma of a battle he cannot outrun. Jax returns to Oakhaven searching for peace, only to collide with Matilda "Tilly", the shy childhood best friend who pushed him away fifteen years ago. Tilly is back in town, working at The Heath Bakery and trying to rebuild her life after fleeing a cheating ex-fiancé who has now become a relentless stalker. Jax's protective instincts, fuelled by pain he refuses to face, snap into focus the second he sees her again. To keep Tilly safe, he suggests a fake relationship. A visible shield against the man terrorising her. But as the line between their protective lie and the feelings they buried years ago begins to blur, Jax is forced to confront the truth he has spent years hiding. And Tilly must decide whether she can trust the only man who once let her go. Find out what happens when the heart of a protector is finally put to the test. Fake Dating. Second Chance. Protective Ex-SEAL. The Protector is a friends-to-lovers romance featuring a protective ex-SEAL and a shy bakery worker caught in a fake relationship while a dangerous stalker threatens the life they are trying to build together. Publishing chapters every 2-3 days!!! CAN BE READ AS A STANDALONE

Perjalanan menaklukkan Puncak Mahameru menjadi titik balik bagi hidup Arga dan sahabat-sahabatnya: Dimas, Bayu, Ardi, dan Rina. Bagi mereka, mendaki gunung bukan sekadar menguji fisik, tetapi tentang ego, rasa, dan makna dari setiap pertemuan maupun perpisahan. Di sepanjang pendakian, perasaan yang lama tersimpan mulai terungkap. Dimas mengajarkan keberanian menyatakan rasa, Ardi dan Rina belajar mencintai dalam diam karena perbedaan keyakinan, sementara Bayu menyaksikan keluarganya berubah menjadi lebih hangat. Di sisi lain, Arga akhirnya menyatakan cintanya kepada Kala di puncak Mahameru, momen yang kemudian tersebar luas di media sosial. Sepulang dari gunung, kehidupan mereka perlahan berubah. Arga mendapat amanah mengelola toko alat gunung milik Kakek Wirya yang kemudian berkembang menjadi kedai bernama "Puncak Rindu", tempat berkumpul para pencinta alam. Kini, di tengah impian, luka, dan rindu yang akhirnya menemukan tempat pulang, mereka memahami satu hal: tidak semua perjalanan tentang mencapai puncak, karena sebagian dari mereka hanya ingin menemukan rumah di hati seseorang.

🏆 Watty Award Winner (2022) This updated edition includes revised chapters and new scenes. Trans guy Collin makes a bet with his coworker that he can land a date with the hot new barista across the street. It should be easy. Except the more time he spends with her, the more the bet starts to feel like the worst idea he's ever had. ### It's 2003 in Santa Cruz, and 21-year-old Collin thought transitioning would be the hard part. But now that he's on hormones and passing with ease, he's still stuck wondering who he is and where he belongs. It doesn't help that his girlfriend of six years just dumped him. So when his coworker challenges him to prove he's still got game, Collin agrees to a stupid bet: get a date with Heather, the cute new barista who just started working at the café across the street. With some unexpected help from his roommate Sam, getting close to her might be easier than Collin expected. But what starts as a harmless distraction quickly turns into something real. And when the truth behind the bet finally comes out, Collin will have to decide whether risking his heart again is worth it... or if he's about to lose the best thing that's happened to him since the breakup. A nostalgic beach-town rom-com about bets, baristas, and what happens when pretending turns into something real. ☕ Tropes: friends-to-lovers vibes, a very bad bet, coffee shop flirting, early-2000s nostalgia, and learning who you are while falling in love. NEW CHAPTERS EVERY TUESAY & FRIDAY

She was taking life one day at a time🕜, the coffee ☕ shop was what kept her head above water 🌊, she worked there as a manager; though she was courteous and always smiled while tending to consumers, she lashed out at anyone who crossed the line, especially the male species. Everything took a whole new turn when she started receiving anonymous notes🧾💌. Walk with Xayne in her journey of finding her true self and worth.

⤷ ㅤIvory siempre estuvo enamorada de la idea del amor, buscándolo en todas partes menos en sí misma. A través de una app de citas, termina llevando a cada una de sus citas a la misma cafetería de Londres, sin imaginar que terminaría llamando la atención de la última persona que esperaba: Alexander. Sí. Alexander Marshall. El bartender que la observa arruinar cada cita con desconocidos una y otra vez desde el otro lado del mostrador. Entre cafés, citas fallidas y una cercanía que empieza a significar demasiado, El Monarch Café se convierte en el único lugar donde ambos parecen encontrarse sin realmente saber qué son el uno para el otro. Hasta que el mundo le sirve en una bandeja de oro la decisión de escoger quién quiere ser o qué es lo que quiere sentir. Quizá el amor siempre estuvo esperándola en la misma mesa de siempre. O quizá algunas personas solo están destinadas a encontrarse en el momento equivocado. . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁ ⟡ ݁ . ⊹ ₊ ݁.

In the quiet hum of a coffee shop, a chance encounter changes everything. She wasn't expecting him-just another customer, another fleeting face-but something about the way he lingered, the way his presence filled the space, made her pause. What begins as a simple meeting over brewed coffee slowly unfolds into a story of connection, vulnerability, and the unexpected warmth of companionship. This is not just about caffeine and routine-it's about how one stranger can stir emotions long tucked away, and how a single moment can redefine what it means to be seen.

"Two Shots" is a 6-table cafe hidden in alley.Hana runs front,Jian fixes the espresso machine when it inevitably dies.They've lived in each other's pockets for 11 years.They share fries.They fight over the aux.He knows her coffee order.She knows he can't sleep during thunderstorm. So,this one no more 3-feet or RM 2.3 million debt.Just two idiots who've been best friends forever,one tiny coffee shop in a foreign city,and feelings they're both way to dumb to notice.Until they do. It's fine.It's normal.Until it isn't. Warm.Funny.The kind of love that feels like coming home.Banter stolen hoodie,cold hands,warm coffee.Friends who already chose each other,they just don't know like that yet.

Y/n gets used to navigating young adulthood in New York. With a budding career as an author and university student, she finds that her passion has run thin. While living in a small apartment with her long time friend, they push each other to be better versions of themselves, whether that be cleaning up after dinner or helping each other with job interviews and first dates. Y/n can't help but reminisce. In a new city with new responsibilities, it's difficult to escape the complexities of growing up and of her past.

At Ember & Bean, coffee has always been Aisla Mendoza's safe haven-precise, quiet, and beautifully routine. That is, until Hazel Amore Kim storms in: reckless, sharp-tongued, and completely out of place behind a coffee bar. Forced to train the very person who disrupts everything she values, Aisla finds herself locked in a daily battle of spilled drinks, bruised pride, and simmering tension that's anything but professional. But somewhere between burnt espresso shots and late-night cleanups, the bitterness begins to shift. As walls come down and truths surface, their rivalry softens into something far more complicated-something neither of them is ready to face. Because in a place built on warmth and comfort, the most dangerous thing brewing might just be the feelings they can't ignore.

A packed coffee shop. A random, accidental encounter. For Robert and Li, it took less than a second to fall in love, but weeks of silent coffee breaks were spent hiding how they truly felt. Paralyzed by the fear of being rejected, neither ever dared to speak the truth. Until the day Li drops a bombshell-her family business is relocating her to the Philippines, and she's leaving tomorrow. It isn't until her plane is sitting on the tarmac, moments away from takeoff, that she finally pours her heart out over a final, heartbreaking phone call. Left staring at a silent screen with a racing heart, Robert is faced with the ultimate choice. He let her fly away once. He won't let her disappear forever. Armed with a one-way ticket to Manila and a silent vow-it's her, or no one at all-Robert steps onto a plane to chase the love of his life across an ocean.

Mara Santiago had everything people usually dream about - a successful family, a law degree waiting to become a career, and a future already carefully planned for her. But after graduation, she realizes she doesn't want her life to begin before she has the chance to truly live it first. So instead of entering her family's law firm, Mara drives north alone to Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte - a quiet place filled with small cafés, unfamiliar people, ocean air, and the kind of silence that slowly teaches you things about yourself. Between making coffee by the beach, meeting people carrying lives very different from hers, and learning that freedom is not always glamorous, Mara begins to understand that growing up is less about becoming someone new and more about becoming honest with yourself. A story about coffee, coastlines, quiet conversations, and people learning how to live one ordinary day at a time.

Where a café near the river becomes the background scene of multiple love stories (mainly minsung)

A small café. A barista. And the new customer who becomes his favourite.

❝ you're an absolute dork. ❞ a hardzello fanfiction fictional scenarios only © 2018 | -stcrlight

"because he opened the sealed window to my heart." ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ [COMPLETED] Started: March 1st 2018 Finished: July 21st 2018 Ranks: #2 in connected (WTF) #747 in gayness #86 in descriptive #476 in plottwist #28 in nostalgia #24 in connected #42 in coffeeshop

Sharing the same roof, the same counter, the same coffee in the morning... MC and Jaehee have built something beautiful together: a friendship, a business, a life in the same apartment. The problem is that routines create intimacy, and intimacy creates questions neither of them has the courage to ask out loud. Quickly, they build something that isn't quite friendship and isn't quite anything else, and both of them pretend not to notice Until the night everything unravels at once. What begins as a small argument spirals into choices MC didn't plan for, secrets that grow quietly, and a discovery that will change everything they haven't yet said to each other MCxZEN, MCxJaehee, MCxJaeheexZEN

Charlotte's life is pretty simple. Great friends. Amazing boyfriend. Freedom from over-bearing parents. When her best friend finally seals the deal with her crush of a lifetime, Charlotte thinks nothing can go wrong. If only she knew just how stupid a thought that was. With Alex, she isn't sure where she stands. She's even less sure of her feelings for him. And his feelings for her. Can she throw her perfect life away, all for the sake of her best friends boyfriend?

"𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫..𝐁𝐀𝐊𝐔𝐆𝐎 𝐊𝐀𝐓𝐒𝐔𝐊𝐈!" puting the order on the takeout counter. "𝐇𝐔𝐇!! 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚!?" glaring at you as he snatches the drink from the counter. 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲, 𝐜𝐚𝐟𝐞. written by 𝐁𝐄𝐍𝐉𝐈. 𝐢 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐛𝐧𝐡𝐚!