That girl...
That girl... I always wondered why she was like that. Every day, she sat there, alone, with a boiling cappuccino and a book marked on the same Page 64. She used to add a sugar package and whip the coffee fervently, but she wouldn't take a sip. The first day I offered her a new beverage- I mean, maybe the cup was dirty or the coffee was too cold -, yet she said "No, thank you" with a shy smile and a soft, peculiar voice, like a pebble falling on a wooden floor. Sometimes, I took my tray and began cleaning tables, just to see her closely. The foam and the liquid swang and danced among the porcelain borders, the waves of a mini sea; I believed she was drowning there. I wanted to tap gently on her shoulder, but my mother always told me not to wake up a somnambulist from his trance. "Yes, but she was not sleeping" you might say, yet her eyes were not there, she was not there. All of a sudden, I stopped seeing her. No one would sit there, not even when the p...