Ava's POV
Ava's POV
After finally turning 18 and having the freedom to leave the orphanage, Ava had decided to fly from San Francisco to New York, to see if it really was like in the movies.
Movies were her field of experience having spent more than half of her life trapped in 4 walls where the only ones to keep her company were the TV and an old video recorder that one of the nuns had managed to sneak in. She just wanted to start living for real, so the first thing she did when she landed in New York was to look for a job and an apartment. Having no work experience whatsoever, the only job posting she could join was for a barista in a small coffee shop.
With her natural sociability and charm, she had been able to find even a small apartment rented by the manager of the coffee shop. Nothing pretentious but perfect to start the normal life she wanted so much.
The first days were a bit rough because she had to learn the job, but Ava had always been a quick learner so after a week she was already better than her trainer. On a normal Saturday afternoon, a lazy one, as she cleaned the counter, hearing the door bell ring, she looked up.
It was easy to impress Ava, being used to having nuns around her or children abandoned by their family or sick, but the literal vision of her that she saw in front of her astounded her. Ava has always known that she had a soft spot for girls, but she never got the chance to really explore her preferences or relationships that went beyond the simple friendship/companionship she needed to get by in the orphanage. Wow, she thought, this is the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. The unnamed girl walked in, her coat tight around her, black jeans and a pair of burgundy dr.Martin boots, long brown hair studded with pure white snowflakes.
She looks like Christmas, she thought.
She waited for the girl to reach her table, took the pad and walked over to her.
The girl was blowing hot air to warm her hands when Ava asked what she could bring her. She listened to the girl gasp out her order as a fiery red flooded her cheeks.
I probably scared her , she thought, but I wanna take my shot at this.
We only have on life, right?
After bringing her the cup of chocolate she had ordered and accepting the girl's apology regarding the slip of the tongue she had made before, without thinking about it, she said to her:
“Don't worry, you're very cute when you're trying to function”
What? That's the best thing you came up with Ava?, she thought on her way back to the counter.
Okay, now all she had to do was act normal and do her job, hoping to see the snowflake girl, as she had nicknamed her in her mind, come back through that door in the following days.