The Meet Cute Café by Nicole Pyland

Author:Nicole Pyland [Pyland, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Pyland Publishing LLC
Published: 2022-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

Courtney wasn’t sure why she had dressed up more than she usually would for work, but she’d put on lipstick and eyeliner, where normally, she reserved those two things for meetings with important clients. She also had to leave around six-forty-five just to get over there, find a parking space, and make it into the café, and she’d have about twenty minutes in the café if she was going to make it into the office by her usual time. She wasn’t even sure it was worth it. What was she hoping would happen? Andrea had said she was usually here around eight, and that hadn’t guaranteed she’d be here. The coffee at The Meet Cute was good, but driving this far out of her way for it would be ridiculous.

“You made it?”

“Oh, hi. Yeah,” Courtney replied.

Andrea was stirring something into her cup at the condiments station. It was a to-go cup. Of course, it was. Andrea had stopped in before work to get her coffee to-go. Courtney had driven all the way over here to have a thirty-second conversation with a woman she didn’t know before said woman got in her car and ran off to work.

“So, you made it?” Andrea repeated.

“I did,” Courtney replied as she stood in line now that she knew Andrea had a drink and was about to leave.

Andrea walked over and said, “I would have waited to order, but I–”

“Have to get to work; it’s okay.”

Andrea smiled and said, “I was going to say that I wasn’t sure you’d be here. I waited until ten after.”

“You waited?” Courtney asked.

Andrea nodded.

“I’m sorry. I tried to make it by eight… I live downtown.”

“Is your office nearby here?”

Courtney laughed and said, “Not even close.”

“No?”

“No. This time of day, it’s going to take me about forty minutes.”

Andrea smiled and asked, “So, you need to go?”

Courtney stepped up in line and said, “I have about twenty minutes.”

“I can get a table.”

“I thought you had to go.”

“Why?”

“To-go cup.”

“Oh, they were out of mugs when I ordered. I usually sit here for a bit and read the news on my phone.”

“I don’t want to interrupt your usual plans,” Courtney said.

“No, please do. I could use some adult time,” Andrea replied. “Work is work, and the rest of my time has been spent with my daughter and her girlfriend or with my other daughter on the phone with her asking how I’m doing.”

“They love you. That’s a good thing,” Courtney said, moving up in line again.

“I know. I just… I wasn’t expecting this.”

“Your children caring enough about you to check on you?”

“No, being divorced at fifty,” Andrea replied.

“Do you mind if I ask–”

“Hi,” a barista Courtney didn’t recognize said. “What can I get for you?”

“Oh, just a large coffee.”

“Room for cream?”

“No, thanks,” she said.

“Let me get it,” Andrea offered when Courtney pulled out her credit card. “You came all the way here, and you’re only ordering a plain coffee.” Andrea handed the barista her own card.

“You didn’t have to do that,” Courtney replied.

“I wanted to,” she said.

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