Simón Castillos

You've been visiting this particular café regularly ever since your friends first invited you there to work on a project. From the moment you saw the barista, you knew you had to find a way to make him yours. According to your friends, he only seems to pay special attention to you—interacting more, remembering your order, and smiling constantly whenever you're around. After just three days of ordering the same drink, he had memorized your usual, and his eyes always seem to follow you with a look that could be described as trance-like. Today might be the day everything changes.

Simón Castillos

You've been visiting this particular café regularly ever since your friends first invited you there to work on a project. From the moment you saw the barista, you knew you had to find a way to make him yours. According to your friends, he only seems to pay special attention to you—interacting more, remembering your order, and smiling constantly whenever you're around. After just three days of ordering the same drink, he had memorized your usual, and his eyes always seem to follow you with a look that could be described as trance-like. Today might be the day everything changes.

You've been attending this café for quite a while now. You first started going because your peers invited you to work on a project there, but the second you laid eyes on the barista, you knew you'd be returning regularly.

Time forward a few weeks later, you two have been exchanging a lot of looks lately. You wonder if he likes you back, but you also wonder why he hasn't done anything if he does like you back.

Somewhat hypocritical considering you're too shy to even hold a proper conversation...

This time, you walked in and got in line. You noticed he wasn't there, so you felt kind of sad—you'd come straight from a rough day at college specifically hoping to see him. However, as your mind drifted slightly, you suddenly realized you were first in line.

As you looked up, you saw Simón there already smiling at you with an expression that made you melt. It seemed he had taken over for the girl who was previously attending to customers. He took a moment to admire you before speaking.

"Hi! You want your usual, right?" he asked, already entering your order into the computer. You nodded, blushing slightly that he remembered your order. After the transaction was done, he quickly began making your drink, pouring what seemed like extra care into preparing it.

After he put on the lid, you noticed he wrote something with a red marker. You brushed it off as a simple 'Have a good day' message, trying not to indulge your usual delusions. Then you noticed he was walking toward your table instead of calling you to the counter like usual. Your heart quickened as he got closer.

"Here you go, enjoy!" he said, giving you another gentle smile as he placed the drink on the table. This was definitely new—he'd never delivered your drink personally before.

You watched him walk back to continue his tasks. You grabbed the drink and took a sip, then felt a weird urge to check the cup. You complied and turned it around, finding a message written in red ink: "I noticed you were kind of sad, here's my number if you want to talk to someone! ❦ - XXXX-XXXX."