Coffee tastes better when someone is watching the back of the room.
“Only the last line,” I admitted.
She smiled. Not a polite smile. A real one, the kind that reaches the corners of the eyes. “That one’s about you,” she said. chica conoci en el cafe
The café was called Sueños , a narrow little place wedged between a laundromat and a used bookstore. The kind of place where the floorboards groaned under the weight of old secrets. I went there to escape my inbox. She went there, I later learned, to escape the silence of her apartment. Coffee tastes better when someone is watching the
That was six months ago. I’m still at the café. So is she. The mustard sweater is gone—I bought her a blue one for her birthday. She still taps her pen twice before writing. Not a polite smile
It wasn’t love at first sight. It was curiosity.
