We're Getting Married

It was a rainy 5 am morning at the coffee shop. Caitlin had just transferred to the same Philz location as Ishaiq in Huntington Beach, neither of them knowing the other even existed.

 Caitlin was already beginning her opening shift when Shake knocked on the side door to be let in. She glanced up to see a man in a hoodie—someone she didn’t recognize—trying to get in before the shop opened. Naturally cautious, she ignored it.

 Ishaiq gave the door a harder knock and stared down at this strange woman he had never seen in the years he worked there. She finally came to the door, let him in, and thus began the awkward start to their relationship... or so one would think... 
Once we both hopped behind the bar to get the day going, something just clicked. No forced small talk, no awkward silences—just easy, natural conversation and even a few laughs. There was an instant connection, like we’d known each other for years. By the end of the shift, we already felt like old friends. It didn’t take long after that for people to start assuming we’d end up as something more. And, as it turns out, they weren’t wrong.