p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"strongPrologue/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"She had long brown hair that was usually scooped up into a ponytail and covered by the less-than-flattering burgundy emBreakfast2Go/em style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThe matching apron and her position behind the cash register made it difficult to determine what her outfit choices were each day but Alana was confident they were either unflattering, cheap or a combination of the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"In any matter, her outfits were not what caught Alana's style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanAs cliché as it sounded, it was how she carried herself. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"The first time Alana had stepped her well-heeled shoes into emBreakfast2Go/em it was because emBrew-tiful!,/em the independent patisserie she usually frequented for a morning espresso shot and acai bowl, was closed for style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanOne look into the dimly lit and sticky-floored depths of this franchised coffee shop was all she needed to know that she was not going to find any smoothie bowls or finely roasted coffee beans style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanStill, she had reasoned that it was seven in the morning and a girl needs her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe had proceeded to the display counter and just managed to stop herself from pulling a disgusted face at the breakfast specials on offer – 'breakfast' burgers oozing grease and something terrifying called chicken fried bacon./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Anything take your fancy?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Alana had looked up to be met with a face that looked as chirpy as the voice that had posed that style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThe first thing Alana took in about Sarah Jane Louise Hebblethwaite was her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe smiled widely and, Alana surmised, somewhat too proudly for someone with that many missing teeth. Alana had also immediately decided she was not a pretty style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe had also pretty quickly deduced that Sarah seemed at ease with herself, happy even. span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Black coffee."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanAlana had responded; her tone deliberately style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Alright, one black coffee – any sugars there?" Sarah had remained bubbly as Alana shook her head./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"As Sarah had been ringing up her order at the register, her fingers moving with expert ease across the keys; Alana had studied her further./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"There was something about her that made it hard to look style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"It would take Alana a long time but one day she would look back on her very first chance encounter with Sarah and she would wish she had never entered emBreakfast2Go/em that style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanEverything that transpired after that day could be avoided if this had never style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"It was only after she had stepped back out into the crispness of the Monday morning air that she had realised she was holding her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"She had long brown hair that was usually scooped up into a ponytail and covered by the less-than-flattering burgundy emBreakfast2Go/em style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThe matching apron and her position behind the cash register made it difficult to determine what her outfit choices were each day but Alana was confident they were either unflattering, cheap or a combination of the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"In any matter, her outfits were not what caught Alana's style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanAs cliché as it sounded, it was how she carried herself. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"The first time Alana had stepped her well-heeled shoes into emBreakfast2Go/em it was because emBrew-tiful!,/em the independent patisserie she usually frequented for a morning espresso shot and acai bowl, was closed for style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanOne look into the dimly lit and sticky-floored depths of this franchised coffee shop was all she needed to know that she was not going to find any smoothie bowls or finely roasted coffee beans style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanStill, she had reasoned that it was seven in the morning and a girl needs her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe had proceeded to the display counter and just managed to stop herself from pulling a disgusted face at the breakfast specials on offer – 'breakfast' burgers oozing grease and something terrifying called chicken fried bacon./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Anything take your fancy?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Alana had looked up to be met with a face that looked as chirpy as the voice that had posed that style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThe first thing Alana took in about Sarah Jane Louise Hebblethwaite was her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe smiled widely and, Alana surmised, somewhat too proudly for someone with that many missing teeth. Alana had also immediately decided she was not a pretty style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe had also pretty quickly deduced that Sarah seemed at ease with herself, happy even. span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Black coffee."span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanAlana had responded; her tone deliberately style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Alright, one black coffee – any sugars there?" Sarah had remained bubbly as Alana shook her head./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"As Sarah had been ringing up her order at the register, her fingers moving with expert ease across the keys; Alana had studied her further./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"There was something about her that made it hard to look style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"It would take Alana a long time but one day she would look back on her very first chance encounter with Sarah and she would wish she had never entered emBreakfast2Go/em that style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanEverything that transpired after that day could be avoided if this had never style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"It was only after she had stepped back out into the crispness of the Monday morning air that she had realised she was holding her style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
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