The Starbucks Girl

So my name is Stephen and I work as a barista at the local Starbucks, it pays decent enough and I love running into all my friends from school. So I've met a lot of people working there, most people are not memorable but there are some that come to mind. Especially this one girl...her name is Jennifer, she's pretty cute but she's quite the mystery. When I first saw her , she dressed preppy but didn't fit in. She isn't part of my group of friends at all, I just met her like every other customer, she came in around last October and ordered a Pumpkin Spice Latte. The usual drink for any girl at that time of the year. Something was different about her though, she wasn't stuck up like her friends, she was a joker that's for sure. The second time she came into the shop she ordered with a different name just to try and confuse me! It was sweet and we started to chat for a while every time she came in.

Honestly, I'm not the best looking guy, but I take care of myself. I'm tall and skinny and I have a well kept beard, I wear beanies and skinny jeans and I love really Indie music so I guess... I'm your average male Starbucks worker if I can give you an image in your head! I was surprised she paid me any attention at first, but me being such an introvert, I always left her to hang with her friends. I have a tight knit group of friends myself, we like to game and hang out at the park on weekends we are pretty geeky but we all get along. Jennifer and her friends on the other hand are from the nicer side of town, their rich dads buy them everything they could want, and it shows, I mean Jennifer definitely cares about style, just take a look at her Instagram! She's really approachable for a preppy girl but her friends, well not so much. My heart used to beat so fast when I even thought about walking over to their table with all her friends, it's good that I have an excuse to stay behind the bar, my manager doesn't like us chatting too much. Well, what happened was she became a regular and I saw her almost every morning and night and we would chat about her family, her annoying job across town, and most of all we would joke. She loved goofing off, so did I. It got to the point every time she came in to order something we would try to outdo each other with our jokes. One time she came in with a mustache and a sombrero, and ordered in Spanish. Another day I tried something risky and wrote a message in the foam on her Latte, it said “What's your number?”. She looked up at me grinning, her friends looked unimpressed but I didn't care. She actually gave it to me too! She was about to throw the cup out and she handed it to me at the register, she wrote her number on the back with a heart around it, I knew it! I thought to myself that I'm finally gonna get my chance. I was so nervous but excited at the same time. I'm a total geek but she was into that. I worked up the courage and I called her last night and now I've got a date this Saturday, with my Dream Starbucks girl. Wish me luck!