Once Upon A Coffee Shop

Chapter 1.

Chapter dedicated to BieAmanda for the amazing cover, do well to check out her books.

Sweat can be seen on my forehead as I jog, loud music blasting from my headphone. Gives my mood a boost. I could see the fog forming steadily. Typical Friday morning. For a lot of reasons , one of them being that I get to jog, I really enjoy Fridays. It is usually fun, less work, ample time to mess around, hit the club, and sometimes just hanging around at my favourite coffee spot.

I continue jogging while lip syncing to the song playing in my head phone. I always have been obsessed with "Astronomical by SVRCINA",  I randomly came across this song a while back when my little sister Tessy was banging her playlist all over the house. Tessy?? Tessy happens to be my obnoxious kid sister who, to my confusion , derives utmost pleasure and satisfaction from making me angry and was very adept at ruining my moods. I'm made to believe it's how all siblings are! And on that day it so happened she was on her usual mission of making me the most miserable person on earth, she decided her course or action was to play the music and raise the volume to the highest it could be. I was about to complain when I realized the song itself wasn't all that bad. But I couldn't let her know that as well, because then she would stop the song in an instant. I waited till I could catch on the lyrics of the song and I immediately looked it up. The song was a blend of soul magic and reticence altogether…it was hard to not fall in love with it. And I "vibed" to it ever since. Turns out my sister's taste in music isn't pathetic.

I increase my pace a little and when I get to an end, I turned back and headed home. My legs was shaking vigorously and my head was already spinning, maybe I over did my self this time, I stopped to catch my breath as I was already breathing heavily, my phone rang almost immediatelyand I grabbed it from my pocket.

The screen displayed boldly "Tessy" and I knew she was getting hungry, I still wonder why she couldn't cook at her age and my parents wanted her to stay with me, she could have rented an apartment next to her college but my mum didn't want her messing around with all those toxic college boys and she also wanted us to "bond" because she knew we were cat and rat, when we lived with our parents,we were always fighting over one thing or the other as she just finds it nice to annoy me.
I picked the call and placed the phone on the left side of my ears;

"What do you want Tess?" I said with a tone of annoyance.

"Good morning to you too Gabby, where did my lovely sister go off to this early morning?" She replied sassily and I could detect sarcasm , I imagined her rolling her eyes, and just makes me want to squeeze those tiny necks of her, not so she could die though, just make her hurt small and keep her pretty mouth shut for a little while.

"I can't remember when you were asked to watch over me, maybe I skipped that part, oh well, the important thing here is, mind your business. Why are you even calling?" I was losing it and It was very evident, there was one thing I couldn't stand and that was my sister, I can't explain it, her existence just annoys me and if I had the chance, she would be at least a 100 miles away from me but then again, I don't want my more to give me that "blood is thicker than water" speech, of how I would need something to stand by me and blah blah blah blah, typical mother stuff.

" I noticed you didn't cook before going to wherever the f*ck you are, probably hooking up with some good for nothing loser but I think I just do what you say and mind my business, the point is i am hungry and I can't find food," She snapped back.

"You are nineteen years, I am not getting paid to cook for you and condole your insults as well, fix yourself some cereal and get the hell of my phone," and with that I ended the call.

" Little b*tch." I cursed under my breath, I wonder why my parents decided to give birth to another child, if I was the only one I would have had enough peace of mind and not had to struggle with this demon.

Sigh, perfect morning ruined.

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The day was ending and after that morning, I just wandered around my neighborhood. I was so pissed to go back home and to be very honest,I didn't want to cook or attend to her, so basically I was just hanging around, I also went to grab some coffee, because what's a good day without coffee.

Pearls coffee shop has always been my go to place. When I am sad, I go there. When I am feeling lonely or stressed I go there. When I am feeling happy, I go there, well sometimes, many times when I'm happy, I go clubbing. There was something about it that always excite me, I didn't have a specific time of the day or week to grab coffee, but fridays were usually the best days, less customers and less stress. I enjoyed the peace I usually feel and sometimes I go there to clear my head and get far from you know who.

Today was one of those days, I don't know why but I was really pissed off by the morning call, I don't really know why I was that angry, Tessy is a spoilt brat and I was used to it but today I just wasn't having it, I declined all her calls because I couldn't bear her insults. Anyways today being Friday made it easier for me to go and settle there, and do some work.

"Hello ma'am ," the nice looking waitress who goes by the name Anita, approached me as I settled down, with a smile plastered on her face, she always had that smile on and I am not sure I have since her without her smile, Her smile always brightened up the atmosphere and made the environment lighter.

"Hi Anita, how are you doing today?" I replied with a smile on my face also, it's hard not to smile back.

"I'm fine ma'am,your order please?" she said obviously trying to avoid the unnecessary conversation, something about Anita is that she is very strict professionally, she may smile alot but she takes her job to heart.

"Just one cup of coffee, please." I said politely as I brought out my phone, taking funny selfies that I was probably never going upload and not to forget,I was still in my jogging outfit, it was just shorts and a tan top, very simple and not much design. I didn't go home after jogging and so I didn't change, not like I had a choice. I was so engrossed in the pictures I was taking that I didn't notice had placed my coffee and my table and exited, it was the beautiful scent that came from it that brought my attention back to where I was, happiness filled me and I could tell the worms in my stomach were happy too. I picked up my cup of coffee taking a long sip

hmm, refreshing.

A small smile forms on my lips as I drop the cup.
That's some good sh*t!

Pearls definitely served the best coffee and that's one of the reasons it's my favorite place to go to, apart from the comfortable environment, I actually did enjoy their coffee.