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𝑬𝒉 𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆

Heartbreak had returned to claim its space, dressing itself in the heavy fabric of routine.

It wasn't the first time and, in the depths of your tired soul, you feared with good reason that it wouldn't be the last time you found yourself stranded in that place of dim light and warm aromas; a comforting refuge that, ironically, had seen the birth and death of more encounters, promises, and confessions than you would have wanted to store in the archives of your solitary life.

The cycle repeated itself like a cruel echo.

Once again the same worn-out script, once again a face blurring as it exited—a boy who stopped looking for you right after having devoured your words, after having listened to you speak for hours about who you were, while you stripped bare your illusions at that exact table you had detailed so many nights in your sleepless dreams.

You were profoundly exhausted, your spirit worn down by disappointment and not truly knowing which direction to take; but, despite the internal winter, a stubborn spark forced you to keep chasing the love of your life, even though doubt already ran deep: did that red thread truly exist, or was it just a myth for the desperate?

That Monday morning, the outside world moved forward with its own gray inertia.

Outside, through the glass fogged by the cold, people walked with squinted eyes and drowsy steps, letting themselves be dragged toward the labyrinths of work or school.

It wasn't too late, but not early either; the clock marked ten in the morning in a relentless city that never stopped, a human tide that moved people's feet automatically toward their fixed destinations.

You, however, had already run aground in yours.

You were sitting there; in the chair opposite, the seat of some boy remained, along with the echo of a forced conversation about foreign interests.

That damned Sunghoon had just crossed the exit door, fleeing from the commitment.

He had left you abandoned to your fate, with the surge of your own thoughts more tangled than clear, using the oldest emergency exit in the world: a clumsy "sorry, a family emergency came up" that barely managed to camouflage his desire to leave.

You let out a long sigh, a breath heavy with frustration because you hadn't even had time to order a damn coffee or exchange two honest phrases.

Defying the gravity of your own discouragement, you rose from the seat and walked with slow steps toward the counter, dragging the fragments of another broken illusion.

It was then that the atmosphere changed, shedding all its heaviness.

Upon looking up, there she was, the only constant lighthouse amidst all your romantic shipwrecks, the silent spectator who had always been present at every one of your failed dates: Shin Ryujin, the barista of the place.

You had heard the rumor that she was the daughter of the coffee shop owner, but at that moment, the details mattered little against her undeniable presence; she possessed a serene, almost magnetic beauty, and she greeted you with a calm so deep that it functioned as an immediate balm for your wounded chest.

Her eyes met yours and, almost imperceptibly, a lopsided smile began to form on her face, revealing those soft and complicit lines that shaped her expression; a stroke of genuine warmth that you didn't know if was born from carelessness or pure empathy, but which felt like the first safe territory in the middle of the storm.

—Another bad date? —Ryujin asked, and her voice, drawling and soft, broke the ice without leaving a trace of hurt, transforming the failure into a shared secret.

A genuine smile, the first of the day, lit up your lips; this time you had the certainty that your answer sprouted from the bottom of your heart, without masks or double intentions.

—A Blonde Vanilla Latte, please —you asked, clinging to the sweet warmth of routine.

And so, between the hiss of the espresso machine and the scent of freshly ground coffee, an unexpected conversation began, a flow of words without pre-established scripts that felt infinitely better, more real, and more human than all the desperate attempts of the past to try and make a stranger deem it worthy to know you.

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