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Coffee

NPOV

I smiled as I finished unpacking the last of my moving boxes.

Here I am sitting in my new living room floor, thinking about how my life changed so much last month. I just graduated from university last June and in a split second; I found my self packing my things. I went from an average, twenty four-year-old woman who lived with her parents, to one who lived in the most beautiful neighborhood in the heart of L.A.

It only started as a day dream, at my graduation party that my best friend, Angela, organized. I was just thinking how awesome it would be if I started my new life in my own house in a big city. Once I accidentally let it slip out, Chris wouldn't let me go. He promised me he'll make that dream come true. Two weeks after he came up to me and said he found me the perfect house in L.A. At first I thought he was kidding, it was too good to be true. He was the best older brother you could ever find. He was only one year older than me, and we were practically inseparable.

We planned a trip to L.A to check it out. I had only taken two steps into the house and knew it was the one. It was beautiful. Simple and Elegant.

Before I knew it, I was packing up and moving out of my parents' house. It was a bit freaky, leaving your parents and entering the real world for the first time. I know I'm too old to think that, but I have always been close to my parents. I cried so much when it was time to leave.

I sighed as I was brought back from my memories by the timer I put by the oven. I ran over and pulled the batch of cookies I made to reward my self after the long weeks of unpacking. I placed them in a plate, and went to snuggle up in my comfy couch.

Mmm... I absolutely love cooking, and experimenting with foods. My dad always said I should open a restaurant, but I didn't want to, I don't like cooking under pressure, I only do it for fun with my family and friends.

After a couple of cookies I took the plate and walked over to the shelves to organize my pictures.

I smiled as I looked at one of me and Angela, she and I had been best friends since I could remember. I'm not much of a shopaholic, but together, Angela and I are unstoppable. Here, we were in the shoe section. I adored shoes, everything from flats to stilettos. I have a shoe collection of every type of shoe you could think of.

The picture was obviously taken by Chris. He and Angela are the cutest couple ever. One time I was at a slumber party at her house, and Chris got to pick me up the next morning. It's not like they hadn't seen each other before, but later when I asked him, he said it had something to do with how she looked in her PJ's and no make up. Once they laid eyes on each other that day, bada-bing-bada-boom. Two puzzle pieces fit together perfectly.

At first it was awkward, because Chris hung around us like a love sick puppy. But then they started going out. Their relationship went on for I don't know how long, but last year he finally asked the question. My mom argued that he was too young to get married, but you can't deny their love for each other. In fact next week was their one year anniversary. I reminded my self to buy them a little something on my shopping trip tomorrow.

I heard the phone ring and walked over to answer it. I tried to stifle my laugh as I read the collar ID. Speak of the devil, and the devil shall call.

"Hey, Chris," I answered.

"Hey, Nessie, Watcha doing?" he replied.

"Oh nothing, I just finished unpacking my things."

"Oh cool. Hey, sorry I never called for a long time; I was kind of busy,"

I laughed, "Chris! It's been, what, more than 24 hours? How could you?" I said sarcastically.

He chuckled. We talked for another half hour, about nothing in particular.

"So, we're still on for this weekend night?" he asked.

"Of course, I wouldn't miss it for the world!"

"Okay, see you later."

"'Kay, bye."

"Chris!" I heard Angela shout as I was about to put the phone down. "Chris! You're about to close with Nessie, and you didn't even give me a chance to talk?"

It sounded like she grabbed the phone from his hand, "Hi Nessie, hold on for just on sec."

"Chris, just go, now I'm mad at you" Angela said, with a failed attempt at muffling the phone.

"Sweetheart, I didn't mean to-"

"Oh don't sweetheart me,"

"I'm sorry," and then it sounded like they were kissing.

"Oh, come one guys, get a room. I'm right here!" I complained.

"Oh" Angela giggled, "okay Chris, You're forgiven, now go leave me alone with my girl."

"Hey, Angela!" I said.

"Hey, Nessie! Ohmygod I missed you so much. Why did u leave? You have to come back this instant." she said furiously.

"Or may be I don't have to come, may be you should run away and come live with me." I said mischievously.

"Oooh. What a good idea." she laughed. "So have you made lots of friends yet? I hope I'm not being replaced."

"Of course not, I can't replace my sister. I've only met this nice woman named Alice; she lives a couple houses away."

"Well I'm going to help, I'm going to come over there, and b-friend you with the best people. And may be even a new boyfriend...?"

"Oh don't start with that. You no I don't do relationships." Angela always tries to set me up with guys, but nothing seemed to work with me. I've only been in one relationship before. In grade eleven, but that only lasted a month, and I didn't even like him.

And then there was that guy, but no, I willed the memory to go away. But it was too late, everything came flooding back. I found out he'd been playing with me all those happy times, he dumped me for that bitch, watshername, Tanya. And of course I couldn't what happened not minutes after that.

"Oh well, May be you'll get lucky in the big city." Angela's voice brought me back to reality. "So have you finished unpacking?"

"Yeah, just before Chris called. I'm so glad too. I never knew it was this hard."

We talked for another half hour, and then Angela had to go.

"Okay bye, I'll talk to you later"

"Okay bye" I replied.

I grabbed my plate of cookies and headed off to bed.

I woke up the next morning to the small ray of sunshine that shone through the curtains. After my morning routine, I stoop in front of the mirror, as I thought about what to wear. After a couple minutes, I decided to go with dark jeans and a light purple t-shirt. Then I put on a pair of purple flats. Then I decided to leave my hair out in its natural curls. Simple, since it was just a normal shopping day.

I grabbed my bag and climbed down stairs to eat breakfast. At around noon I made it outside and went out to check the mall close to my house.

On my way there I bought a cup of coffee. I went into a clothing store and just wandered around, not looking for anything specific. Then as I turned around the corner, I hadn't noticed that there was a man standing there. I accidentally bumped into him. And of course my coffee had to spill over both our shirts. I inherited my clumsiness from my mother.

I started to apologize as I looked up. But that was a mistake. As soon as I looked into his eyes, I couldn't look away. He was so breathtakingly handsome.

"Its okay, no problem." he said, in a husky voice. Damn, this man was taking my breath away. But what am I thinking, crushing on a stranger I bumped into?

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