《Meet Cute》the time at starbucks
Advertisement
A week has passed and Arthur and Arabella's paths are yet to collide again. That doesn't mean they haven't both had a sneaking thought about the other, every now and then. In fact, Catarina (always more invested in other peoples' relationships than her own) has demanded constant updates on their situation. She's insistent no matter how many times Arabella tells her sister that there is nothing to update on.
Arabella is wrong, of course. She just doesn't quite realise it yet.
Which is why it's handy - or perhaps more than that; coincidence maybe? fate, even? - that Arabella has decided to visit Starbucks, her favourite place, on the same day that Arthur has arranged a study date with his best friend, Brynn.
He's already inside chatting to Brynn about everything other than their Trigonometry questions. He sips at a chai latte (Arthur isn't much of a coffee person) and nods whilst Brynn recalls the gritty details of her recent break-up.
"She is the coldest bitch on the planet; I can't believe I slept with her, let alone fell in love with her," Brynn says maliciously.
Arthur frowns. "I'm pretty sure you said the same thing two months ago, then a week later you were posting those cute coupley photos on Instagram."
Thankfully, Arthur has just put down his drink because his childhood best friend responds by shoving him in the chest. Despite her height of five foot one, Brynn has some serious strength in her. It takes Arthur considerable amount of skill to prevent himself from toppling off of his chair. Still, he manages to flail around like an idiot for a couple of seconds. After all, it's not Arthur if it's not awkward.
When he's recovered, he goes to glare at Brynn but doesn't get the chance. She's now wearing this smug little smile and leaning close towards him.
Advertisement
"You see that girl behind you?" she says under her breath, trying to act inconspicuous. "She's been gazing all dreamily at you for, like, five minutes straight."
Arthur glances over his shoulder. A redheaded girl is blushing and looking at her book, eyes constantly darting up towards him. He looks back to Brynn.
"How do you know she's not actually looking at you?"
"Arthur, my love, I have told you many times about my impeccable gaydar. I can't believe you wouldn't have faith in me," she says, making Arthur raise an eyebrow at her. "Besides, I tried making eye contact with her and she smiled like Hey I'm smiling at you because I'm a nice person."
"As opposed to...?"
"As opposed to smiling like Hey I'm smiling at you because I want to do you."
Arthur makes a face and Brynn laughs. Then she looks at her latte and back to him.
"Here's the plan," she begins.
"What? What plan?"
"The plan for you to score with the cutie over there, nimwit. You're gonna go up to the stand to get a packet of sugar for my coffee, and you'll make eye contact with her as you head back. Then drop the sugar off here and say hi to her whilst you're standing."
Arthur nods, processing it. He can see why it would work, and the girl is pretty, and chatting her up might be uncomfortable but it still beats his math homework. So he stands up and heads towards the box of sugar packets - and directly into Arabella.
Yes, Arthur Morgenstern doesn't just knock into Arabella Pannone gently. No, he crashes right into her, sending her coffee everywhere and splattering them both. Arabella swears loudly, making no attempt to remain cool and collected for the other customers. She looks down at her white crop top, which is now stained the world's ugliest shade of brown.
Advertisement
"Sorry! I didn't mean to I - Arabella," Arthur says, breathing her name like it's holy. It sort of feels that way in his mouth, even if she's currently staring daggers at him.
"I can't believe this," Arabella sighs as he grabs a bunch of napkins and begins dabbing at her top. When he realises that he's essentially caressing a stranger's boobs, he stops abruptly.
Only they're not strangers, not exactly. Somehow, that makes it worse.
Blushing to the tips of his ears and down his neck, Arthur apologises again. "I'll buy you another drink. What was that one? I'll get it now. Sorry."
Arabella pauses before answering, looking at the boy in front of her intently. How is it that she feels like they almost have a history, yet she doesn't even know his name?
"That was a large Americano, thanks," she replies, voice clipped. Her heart is pounding as though they've just had some intimate moment.
He nods and hurriedly goes to the counter, returning within minutes with a steaming paper cup. She takes it from him, still standing in the exact same spot, unsure, as a Starbucks worker cleans up the mess they've made.
At last, she smiles. With a breathy laugh she says, "Well, you've just bought me a coffee and I don't even know your name."
He smiles bashfully. It is far too adorable, especially since she's supposedly still seething at the fact he ruined her top.
"I'm Arthur and you're Arabella and I believe we've met before," he says.
He smiles then and, of course, it's crooked and gorgeous and the kind of smile they write poems about.
Somebody pushes past them and the pair shuffle to the side, out of the way of the other customers but not at a table either. Arabella can hear her sister's voice in her head telling her to make the most of this opportunity, and she's about to speak when another girl approaches.
Brynn, as Arthur addresses her, bounds towards him. "I gotta go," she says, not even glancing towards Arabella.
Then they hug, and Arabella would laugh at their height difference if it wasn't for her shock.
"Love you!"
"Love you more," Arthur replies, chuckling.
Brynn leaves then and, coffee in hand, Arabella follows moments later.
♡
Catarina picks up on the first ring. "Hey, I was just talking about you to my roommate - what's up?"
"It's Arthur," Arabella says. She gulps down the final dregs of her coffee then chucks the cup towards the corner of her bedroom.
"Who?"
"The boy on the plane, then the bus and now apparently Starbucks, too."
"Ah, yes." On the other end of the phone Catarina laughs. "The boy you have a crush on but insist you don't, I know the one."
"I literally bumped into him today and my coffee went everywhere and he bought me another and told me his name and it sounds pretty lame but he was all flustered and cute."
Arabella can hardly believe these words are coming from her mouth. Seriously, she meets some boy a couple of times and becomes a stereotypical teenage girl who can't stop blathering on about him.
"That's good; why d'you sound mad?"
"Cat, he has a girlfriend!"
♡ ♡ ♡
Advertisement
Heiress of the Blood Throne
"You are a VonMerlyn, Pandora. And the last of your bloodline.” What's a girl to do when she finds out not only is she not as human as she thought she was, but that she is actually the sole heir of a supernatural kingdom? Pandora (formally Dove), just shy of her twenty-fifth birthday, is pulled into a world she's known nothing about and has just a few short months to learn everything she can about leading a kingdom. As if that weren't difficult enough, she also has to contend with a Wizard who would very much like to remain on the throne, and navigate her sudden relationship to her arranged fiance, an Elf named Caspian. Too much has changed far too quickly and Pandora isn't sure she has what it takes to be Queen. Regardless, she will soon learn she will not have a choice if she wants to keep her newfound kingdom in the family.
8 81Him & I (Queen Shadow #1)
(Queen Shadow series #1)One girl had the perfect life until her best friend turned into her bully her brother and sister also turned against with no one left to rely on she leaves to make a better version of her self but it's not your normal revenge story she doesn't come back to get revenge in fact they come to her.This story is full of love,secrets,mystery and much more feel free to come in the adventure of Isabella and Jaxon will there love conquer all or will it destroy them both.I'm sorry if this bad this is my first story so I'm really nervous but really excited. please excuse any grammar mistakes or spelling please comment and vote xoxoPLEASE DO NOT COPY MY STORY I DO OWN THE PLOTS IN THIS BOOK THIS BOOK IS TO NOT BE COPIED IN ANY FORM OR BE PUBLISHED ANYWHERE ELSE WITHOUT THE AUTHORS PERMISSION Copyright ©️2019
8 114Slave To The Fang
"Bite me." She screamed tears falling down her cheeks. Her eyes were deep pools of endless beauty and her tears were like magical dewdrops on a luscious blooming flower.My flower. She was soft and delicate. She was my flower."Isn't that what you're here for?" She added, her cries a jumbled mess. She looked broken, she was broken and yet, I didn't mind. I was broken too.I moved to her, taking tentative steps. I was breathing harshly, my fangs were protruded and covered in blood. I was a monster, I was a broken monster. I took one more step further, my body covered in gore. This was it, I was giving her a chance to run, to get away. But instead she stood her ground, her determination steely.My flower. My brave flower. "I am here for many things flower. But of all those things, only you matter." I said and caught her just before she lost consciousness.************Three LordsThree vampiresThree brothersThree stories.************Lord Kyryaan Kyle Von Luckeberg is the Lord over the Southern regions of Lakaiyah and positively an unpredictable sociopath. Kyryaan's long life has been a cacophony of interesting events but not even one of those events quite gave him that spark he needed to fill the void no one expects him to have. Till he met her. His flower.Gabrielle Vaella Sura , or Gale for short is a beautiful girl with an ugly past has been through more than most people dream of. For someone who deserved to have everything, yet has nothing, she never expected the whirlwind that is Lord Kyryaan in her life.Blood, gore, betrayal, numerous secrets, and a new unexpected enemy surround them and put them on opposite sides of the spectrum. Well until fate decides to bring them together. A new set of chaos everywhere they turn.But it is said, two things put together by fate will always find a way to be united.***********STANDALONE BOOK!This is KYRYAAN'S story.Prepare to get sucked in.Enjoy.Tray-CKierra❤️
8 130Doomsday
"Please s....sir", a beautiful tremored voice came out of her.All three smirked at her pathetic condition, legs spread wide apart with her arms bound to a chain hanging from the ceiling, her mouth agape with drool running down her chin.The sight alone could make anyone cum.The buzz of the vibrator started again making her thighs shake and her body convulse."Si...rrr I can...'t", she begged.Raffaele bent down between her legs and slid his finger on the trail of the white liquid coming out of her sweet tasting pussy."It tastes heavenly princess.", He said putting that finger into his mouth.....It all took a single night to change everything. Humans have vanished, nothing is left except those four - 3 men and 1 girl. ...Where have humans gone? Are they dead? Who's the girl and those 3 men?... Join the story of these 4 and unveil many secrets....It's a 18+ story!😈...Highest Ratings:#1 Dark themes 3/12/20#1 Savior 27/3/21#1 Mysteryromance 7/4/21#2 Foursome 25/12/20#1 First story 1/4/21#5 Strong 9/2/21#7 Dead 3/2/21#1 Heaven 18/1/21#24 Romance 22/5/21#2 Bdsmrelationship 5/2/21#2 Innocent 7/1/21#6 Love 22/5/21
8 182Smile For The Camera ~ trixya
Katya knew what she had to do. There was no way she'd let an amateur ruin her movie. If she couldn't get someone else to fix the situation, she'd simply take care of the problem herself. If no one else would remove Trixie from the movie, she'd make the girl quit.Oh, she was gonna make Trixie Mattel's life hell.Highest rank: #2 in trixya
8 79Four of Clubs
❝𝘊𝘖𝘕𝘎𝘙𝘈𝘛𝘜𝘓𝘈𝘛𝘐𝘖𝘕𝘚. 𝘠𝘖𝘜 𝘏𝘈𝘝𝘌 𝘉𝘌𝘌𝘕 𝘈𝘊𝘊𝘌𝘗𝘛𝘌𝘋 𝘐𝘕𝘛𝘖 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘎𝘈𝘔𝘌. 𝘠𝘖𝘜𝘙 𝘛𝘌𝘈𝘔 𝘕𝘈𝘔𝘌 𝘐𝘚: 𝘍𝘖𝘜𝘙 𝘖𝘍 𝘊𝘓𝘜𝘉𝘚.❞Everyone at Rutherford High is familiar with the elite and anonymous group known as The Seven. When they announce a competition to win five thousand dollars, an unlikely group of students decide to band together in an attempt to win it all. But they aren't the only ones with their eyes on the prize, and with every challenge seeming more absurd than the last, they'll be forced to question just how far they're willing to go to win- and why.Join the Four of Clubs in their journey of friendship, romance, and excitement as they learn to work together to decipher the riddles and comple the dares that get them one step closer to victory.𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐃 (𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝) - 𝟖/𝟑𝟏/𝟏𝟖𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐃 (𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐬) - 𝟏𝟐/𝟐𝟖/𝟏𝟗
8 124