They were sitting at the bus stop, two rows away from each other.
It’d been that sort of a week for them both. Their offices were closing down, and no one knew how long that’d remain the case.
They usually took the same bus from the business district to the suburbs. Later, though, it would turn out that neither lived in the suburb that bus commuted to.
So, how did it happen?
Each had seen the other before. Walking in the open spaces around the complex was a common pastime for both. Lunch hour meant munching on cafeteria food and digesting that by loitering around.
But the magic started on the New Year’s Day. That was when they really saw each other. The striking eyes, the calmness of demeanour they both craved in their partner, they noticed all that. The cafeteria felt abuzz that day.
So although the world will have us believe that opposites attract, the evidence these days suggests that the opposite of that might be truer. Being similar is turning out to be a prerequisite for liking someone in the digital age, likes and algorithms and all. We crave the hatke-types, while keeping vigil for that someone who can look at the world from our eyes. And they found that in the cafeteria. Where else could that have been easier? Here was a person who, like yourself, gave you the space to buy the first cuppa, despite having arrived at the counter first.
Or so each deduced.
“Maybe I’m reading too much into it.”
“Maybe it is not as deep as I’m making it look like.”
“Maybe I’m falling for a cold-blooded killer.”
Over the next hour of the chilling breeze from the garden, with wind ruffling the goosebumps off the tree leaves, the two chatted and bonded. Neither was comfortable asking the other why they took that bus. Internally though, they both knew the answer.
It sent one of them on a blush-and-get-conscious mode, while the other kept giggling through the hour. It looked like a small kid had found the latest prank to play on its mother.
Sometimes, a cup of coffee is all the charm you need.
The End.
Featured image courtesy.
This post is published as part of the Blogchatter A2Z.
What are your coffee stories? Have a sip from the cuppa, and tell me in the comments section. 🙂
Thanks for reading.
Bus love stories are the cutest. No wonder old Hindi movies had so many scenes where couples meet on the bus and begin their unending romance!!! 🙂
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That’s true. There’s a certain tenderness in them. 🙂
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Sometimes coffee is all the charm you need. Rightly said. I loved your story. I’d written a story set in a coffee shop. This reminded me of that, for some reason. 🙂
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I keep returning to tea and coffee as plot devices, for some reason. I can understand how you might have felt while writing that.
Could you share the link to that story here?
Thanks for the appreciation. 🙂
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They are great as plot devices! Can’t blame you. You’re very welcome. 🙂 Stay safe, take care.
This was written as a part for a former A to Z Challenge. Thanks in advance:
https://thesoulsearchersite.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/atozchallenge-queue-in-the-cafe-short-story/
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Tea/Coffee can be a conversation starter or sometimes a reason for a next meet or sometimes beginning of a cute love story.
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That’s quite true. 🙂
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A nice sweet write up… I loved the picture accompanying the write up
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Thank you for the appreciation.
Your comment was in the spam folder, and I only now fished it out. 🙂
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Wow that was a charming love story. I really don’t believe opposites get on well in life. But then maybe I am wrong. Enjoyed your post thoroughly.
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But isn’t that what popular media has been telling us for ages? 😉
Thanks for the appreciation. 🙂
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Such a cute love story.. and so apt. A lot can happen over coffee! Enjoyed reading it
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Thank you for your kind words. 🙂
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Beverages especially teacups and coffee mugs surely hold a lot in them, It can be conversations, stories, chats, a lifetime of togetherness and a lot can be found in them,.
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True. That’s why they serve so nicely as motifs in stories. 🙂
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As brisk as a cuppa and has its heart in the right place – perfectly brewed tale.
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Thank you. 🙂
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