The Meeting
Every morning around 8, Ashlyn Harris is found at her typical coffee shop. She always gets the same order, small black coffee and the muffin of the day. Her order rarely ever changed, and she liked it that way.
One morning Ashlyn was running a little behind schedule when she arrived to the coffee shop, and instead of getting her usual barista, who is also her best friend, Whitney, she got a new girl.
“Hello, what can I get for you?” Ali asked.
“The usual” Ashlyn responded without look up from her phone.
“I’m sorry, but can you just remind me what that is”
“Small black coffee and whatever the muffin of the day is.” Ashlyn said annoyed.
“Okay, just a minute.”
“Thanks”
A couple minutes pass by and Ashlyn still hadn’t revived her order so she decided to look up from her phone and see what was going on. She noticed that the shop was swamped, and the barista was understaffed. Just as Ashlyn was about to complain, she saw the tall brown haired beauty turn around, and Ash forgot what she was about to say.
“Small black coffee and a muffin, your order is up” Ali yelled, trying to quickly get out as many orders as possible.
“Thanks” Ash said, as she walked away, with a half-smile on her face.
As Ash was walking away from the coffee shop, on her way to work, she couldn’t help but to smile, full knowing she was at least 20 minutes late to work. Luckily for her, being late didn’t exactly mater, seeing as she owned the surf shop that she worked at.
For the rest of the day, Ash couldn’t help but think about how cute she thought the barista was. The way her hair was pulled back into a cute messy bun, and the way that a few short ends didn’t quite fit into her bun, laid along the side of her face. She wanted to know more about this girl, she was determined to know more.
“Hey boss!” Kelly yelled as she was punching into work.
“You’re late” Ashlyn yelled back without missing a beat.
“Sorry, not sorry! I saw a really cute girl on a run while I was walking to work, so I had to try to talk to her.” Kelly said with a laugh.
“Oh really? And did you get her number?” Ashlyn asked with a tone that assumed Kelly had no game.
“Actually I did!” Kelly said with a huge smile on her face.
“Good, I’m glad. At least one of us had the courage to talk to a girl we thought was pretty today”
“Ohhh!? Really?! And where did you see your girl?”
“At the coffee shop…”
“Wait, I thought the barista at 8 was an old guy… named Eugene…”
“haha yeah, he’s pretty chill, but no I was running late today and there was a new barista working today. I didn’t get her name, but I really wish I did.”
“Well luckily for you, there is an easy way to find out. Just go there tomorrow around the same time, and see if she is working. If she is, ask her for her name”
“Yeah, I could do that, but we all know how much I hate being late.”
“So you are telling me that it’s between being late to work to talk to a girl, or be on time and miss out on talking to a girl? To me that’s simple, especially because you are the boss…. You make your own hours…dumbass…”
“Umm what did you just call me?!?”
“Ha Ha … nothing that I haven’t called you before, and you know I say it with all the love in my heart. But you are totally being a dumbass.”
Ashlyn didn’t even bother responding because she knew that Kelly was right. She did make her own hours and she could totally be late to work by a half an hour if it meant that she got to talk to a cute girl. Right then and there Ash had made up her mind, tomorrow she was going to be late to work, and talk to the cute barista.