Café of Second Chances

At 3:30 p.m., Jasmine stacked a pile of corrected exercise books to one side, yarded them neatly, and stretched slightly. She glanced at the time and took out another lesson planner from the drawer. In fact, Jasmine didn't have any classes this afternoon, but she hadn't been back to Pear City for a long time, and the time she'd been in Research and Flying Education was even shorter, less than three months, so she naturally wanted to do the work at hand more quickly and with ease in her new organization. The content on the lesson plan book was already very detailed, Jasmine pondered back and forth and added a few more lines. Ten minutes later, “DING.” The bell rang, Jasmine didn't look up, she wasn't easily distracted when she was thinking. But the next thing she knew, she had to be interrupted from her thoughts. The ringing stopped for no more than half a minute, “Thump.” The sound of high heels exploded, from far and near, and the rhythm and volume seemed to express a monstrous rage. Because of the heat of the day turned on the air conditioning, the office door was hidden, “Bang.” A sound was pushed open vigorously. A middle-of-the-road roar followed, “I've never seen such a child!” The person is a middle-aged woman of about 40 years old, named Shirley, is the old man of the research and flying education, teaching level is quite good, the focus is so much seniority, so we give face to the name of Sister Lian. Shirley said while the hand of the lesson plans and other materials to their own desk and threw a heavy. “Shirley said as she threw her lesson plans and other materials onto her desk! I'm so impatient! This is still learning a fart, the family still want them to take the high school! They're just going to go out and sell barbecue at a stall!” In the past, teachers with similar seniority to her would join her to spit a few words, but today, the office happened to be full of young teachers, although they are often annoyed with students who do not listen to them, but it is rare to spit with the old teachers, Shirley saw that no one to pick up her words, her mood is even worse. She took a few steps to the air conditioner, picked up the remote control from the shelf and pushed it down a few degrees, more or less to vent her anger, trying to lower the fire, “I'm so annoyed, and it's so hot!” Jasmine's position was right opposite to the air conditioner, and the cold wind suddenly “whistled.” The cold air suddenly rushed straight to her back, and almost immediately, a layer of goosebumps appeared on her arms. Jasmine turned around and walked over to the air conditioner, frowning slightly at the words 18 degrees, not saying anything, and silently flicking the blades upwards. “Hmph.” Not far away a cold hum came out instantly. Shirley sat in his position holding the tea pot to fill tea, pulled up the tone of his voice, conspiratorial, “Nowadays the young people ah, really do not understand a bit of things, only care about themselves, selfish and narrow-minded, rat-eyed! To us at that time to treat seniors are respectful.” Back to Pear City is that this is not good, the small city's culture is always a little old-fashioned, although it is difficult to talk about seniority ranking share to where it is difficult to avoid, but it is also unspoken, the small city but floating in the open, especially the previous generation of people always like to talk about the past, hanging on the side of the mouth blunt and shallow. shirley was young in Pear City high school did a year of supernumerary workers, and then smacked of the money is small and can not get into the number of simply come out to do the educational institutions of teachers, but because of that one year of the year of the middle school to do a job. But because of that one year of school experience, she is pretentious and likes to talk about things, making the description of seniors and condescending. shirley these clichés, even if Jasmine has only been here for three months, but also already tired of listening to. As a newcomer to the unit, Jasmine didn't want to be so eager to make a name for herself, and she wasn't interested in wasting her time with this kind of stubbornness. She idly glanced at Shirley, and just faintly said, “Ms. Shirley is too hot?” A question with little emotion, but Shirley experienced it as a question in seconds, she opened her mouth to dislike it, hearing this and subconsciously glancing towards the air conditioning display, the result was surprisingly still 18 degrees. She thought she had adjusted the temperature down, Jasmine went to adjust it up again, and now that she had a clearer picture, she was able to keep her words of reasoning back. Just hold back not long, Shirley always feel mouth over, also do not look at people, just to the air, sneer, “is not their own things is do not know cherish, back and forth to dial piece, something life are to be depreciated fast how much, now the young people are pretentious to death, the institution of the things just build.” Jasmine had just returned to her seat, and was packing up her textbook: “Mia, another young teacher sitting next to her, immediately stood up and pulled Jasmine's arm, and gave her a wink, ”Jasmine, there is a new coffee shop downstairs, I haven't seen it, and it's so hot, let's go for a cup of iced chai. Go drink a cup of iced coffee.” Jasmine pursed her lips, she couldn't read the information anyway, so she smiled lightly, “Okay.” The two just went out of the office door, Mia changed her face and said, “I really convinced her, saying that young people don't care about things, and the organization's things are built randomly, but as a result, she turns on the air conditioner to 18 degrees every day, and you don't know that she turned it on to 16 degrees before, oh! Electricity meter degrees rubbing upward, or the boss meeting hinted at the air conditioning problem, she reluctantly open 18 degrees!” “What did she tell people? The company pays for it anyway, so why not turn it down?” “Really love to take advantage of the bone, although the air conditioning does not want your money, but you have to open to their own cold?” In summer, many people share a room, an air conditioner, it is inevitable that some are afraid of heat and some are afraid of cold, but can accommodate each other, most of the cases are afraid of cold themselves plus a thin shirt will be good, we all get by. But there are really people to turn on the air conditioning to the point of freezing, not only others cold, Shirley himself was blown cold twice, mute voice to the class basically let the students self-study also do not want to be absent to let someone else on behalf of the class. Mia more and more said the more on the head, “I do not know who love to take advantage of the company's cheap office ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah pen, installed a bookshelf to secretly dismantle the bookshelf to bring home in a few times. The so-called seniority of a few of them to do this, and still have the nerve to talk about young people? Can we do such a thing? It's not embarrassing!” Mia came to Research and Flying for a longer time than Jasmine, her opinion on those old seniority is even heavier than Jasmine's, she bombed out like a series of cannons, Jasmine did not put Shirley at ease, but in turn to persuade her not to be angry. “Did you just say there's a new coffee shop downstairs?” Jasmine asked in between her spitting, “Is it good?” “Ah, it's not just downstairs, it's the building diagonally across the street, it's slightly farther away, but the ones on our side of the building as well as the ones in the back of the building are willing to make a special trip there to drink it!” Mia was successfully distracted and excitedly said, “I've never had it either, but I heard it's really classy!” September day, is still quite hot, especially this afternoon three or four o'clock, the sun is still blinding, Jasmine heard in the building diagonally across the street, in fact, a little lazy to run, but Mia has been begging her. When I got to the front door, there were two words on the cafe's signboard, “Waiting for you”. That's the name of the store, and on the wall next to the door there's a line that says “In the wind and rain, the cafe waits for you”, which Mia read out at the door and laughed out loud. Mia read it out at the door and laughed again. This sentence is a popular universal terrain in recent years, mostly used to make fun of, Jasmine originally subconsciously laughed along with it, but looking at the line of words and silently tasted a little bit of indescribable meaning. Entering the store, Jasmine roughly swept a glance, this store from the decoration, music to the overall style, really very good, no wonder Mia said so many people are willing to travel long distances to come here. “The taste of the owner of this store is really awesome.” Mia was also here for the first time, after she finished ordering, she came to Jasmine's ear and sighed, Jasmine looked around and nodded her head. However, this boss is not only taste awesome, Jasmine has long been not young and uninvolved only know romantic style do not understand the world of business children, she can see that, in addition to taste, this has to be a heavy gold can be smashed out. “Isn't it super worth the price of admission?” Mia saw Jasmine nod and winked at her, dejected that she'd pulled her over right. Jasmine laughed and teased her again, “That depends on the flavor of the coffee.” After all, this is a cafe, if the other things are done well, and the coffee is hard to drink, then it's also putting the cart before the horse. They found a window seat and sat down. The clerk at the front desk also heard the words in front of them, so as soon as the coffee was brought up, she looked at Jasmine with bated breath.Jasmine was amused, and didn't say anything, and took a small sip from her coffee cup. She liked it refreshing in the summer, and she ordered the most common iced Americano. This thing to do amazing is not easy, in addition to raw materials have to make aspects of the impact, but basically most of the places can do can not be picked wrong, so Jasmine did not hold too much expectation, this cafe environment to do so has been very outstanding, the coffee to be able to reach the level of the middle and upper level of her intention to praise a sound. The taste was icy and bitter, which was normal, as most of the street stores should be using a combination of dark-roasted coffee beans. But what made Jasmine slightly pleased was the mellow aftertaste, Jasmine didn't really know much about coffee, but after a comprehensive tasting, it wasn't amazing, but it was pretty good. “Pretty good.” Mia, who was holding the latte, bent her eyes at that, and the clerk on the side who was waiting for her reaction also smiled, “Miss, your cup is free of charge.” There is such a good thing? Mia's eyes widened immediately, and she was about to give a compliment, when the clerk saw the puzzled look in Jasmine's eyes and added, “It's a gift from someone.” Mia deflated for a second, but flashed her curiosity again. “Who?” Jasmine was also puzzled. The clerk smiled, “From our boss.” She thought for a moment and then explained, “Our boss always gives coffee to girls who match his eyes.” Jasmine's looks have been outstanding since she was a child, her nose is slightly high and pretty, her lips are slightly thin, and her eyes are round and slightly long, with standard scalloped eyelids. She was soft and tender when she was young, weak and slender when she was young, her quiet nature has never changed, just a little more cool when she grew up. She was surrounded by compliments and praises that she had long heard ears calloused. The eye edge is actually not at all high praise, the general social places ordinary people can not say good-looking, will most likely polite said eye edge, but there are some occasions, the word will become meaningful long ......Jasmine heart a little uncomfortable, this boss is not too frivolous? She is still only flashing the next thought, Mia directly straight to the mouth spit out, “Ah? Bringing coffee when you see a good-looking person, similar to a bar man hitting on a girl and buying her a drink, frivolous.” Between the words, the image of a greasy man emerged in three dimensions. The clerk really laughed in embarrassment, so she added sardonically, “Our boss is a girl la.” Then she wisely swallowed the second half of her sentence however, it was a girl who was also a girl in orientation.Mia's eyes blinked and her face did a 180 degree turn, “Ah! I know that kind!” “Like the library delivers milk tea! Coffee delivery at the cafeteria!” Mia exclaims and laughs again, “Missy to Missy kind of thing! Pure appreciation between people of the same s*x, it's super nice and loving!” Jasmine: ?” As a curved one, she couldn't quite understand these words of Mia, but since someone's straight girl said so, it should be right. So, Jasmine smiled along with her good mood, and even said to the store clerk, “Thank you.” While she was laughing, the clerk's eyes lit up as she looked in the direction of the aisle, “That's our boss!” Jasmine sniffed and followed her eyes over. It was indeed a girl, or a girl with a very high face value. Tall in stature, much taller than their last meeting a few years ago, still thin, those smiling eyes curved, the silkworms were cute as hell, and the pear swirl on the left cheek was eye-catching. Surprisingly, it is an old friend. When she saw the person clearly, Jasmine's hand on the table suddenly tightened, along with the entire body of the person have stiffened. She had thought that it was possible to see her when she returned to Pear City, but she did not expect it to be so soon, nor did she expect it to be by such a fortuitous chance. There it was, Savannah. the delusion she had had. Now, years later, was coming towards her, step by step.