POV’s Tate
The line wasn’t too long, and the three of us got our usuals: Riley, a passionfruit tea with popping pearls, Lena, a taro milk tea with extra brown sugar pearls, and me, a green tea with regular pearls. As we went to sit down, I saw a familiar head of strawberry blonde hair pass by.
I nudged Lena, “That’s the girl who nearly ran me over,” I whispered.
Riley leaned in. “Oh, shoot, that’s Penny, Philip’s ex,” she whisper-yelled. “No wonder he was more mad at you than her; he was so in love with her.” She narrowed her eyes at the man whose arm Penny was holding. “Until she broke up with him and started dating her new skating partner, Eld Jinn.”
I winced. Damn, that was unfortunate. Just as I was about to ask for more details, someone else spoke:
“Tate.”
I turned from where I
