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“One cold lonely day… a cup of coffee made me feel okay.”
Name: Ayn Dominique (Nikki) Arriola
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Wrote this a few hours ago for the What’s Your Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf Story flash fiction workshop for the media at the Bonifacio High Street branch. We were given 20 minutes, two sheets of paper, a pen, and a basket full of strange stuff to inspire us (I chose the blue floral bucket hat). Overall, this event was pretty fun. Maybe I should write flash fiction more often. 
Here’s the original, unedited version. Now if only life can imitate art.
Ten years from now, when she looks back on this moment, she will smile and say, “That was where it all started.”
When she looks back on this moment, she will remember, like most girls do, the outfit she was wearing as she sipped her vanilla latte and slaved over her History textbook: a white tank top, light blue jeans, and a blue floral bucket hat. She will remember worrying over the haircut she got the day before—it was too short, too trendy—and she needed the stupid hat to cover it up.
Ten years from now, when she looks back on this moment, she will smile and say, “That was where I met the love of my life.”
She will remember seeing, from the corner of her eye, a boy about her age, clad in a black shirt and dark jeans, intently poring over a novel from his quiet corner of the coffee shop. She will remember finding him attractive, being intrigued by his mysterious aura, but hesitating…there he was looking all cool and artsy, while there she was in a stupid floral hat.
Ten years from now, when she looks back on this moment, she will smile and say, “That was where it all started. That was where I met the love of my life.”
But right now, in this moment, she does not know any of this yet. Still, she waits for him to catch her eye. And she takes the risk and smiles.
He smiles right back.