Today; unlike usual, Dan was feeling delighted. He has not been this excited for years now. He guessed that he was pretty curious to see the mystery girl, who caught his eyes, although he had not seen her face. She has been on his mind ever since he had a glimpse of her, but he was too caught up in his work to go to the cafe again. He was busy preparing the presentation to show to the owner of ‘The Brunch’.

Hopefully, today he will be able to see who she was. He doesn’t know, but for some unknown reason; He feels like he knows her or has some kind of connection with her. Well, only time will tell.

Things always have been busy for Ella. The workload in the cafe was increasing day by day and at home. She also had to take care of Lily. So, she had been juggling work to home and from home to work for the past seven days.

Though her life can be pretty hectic sometimes; but she loves every bit of it. Ella enjoys her post as a manager at the cafe and Lily also makes her life tolerable at home. After all, being a single mother is not that easy.

Like yesterday, even today, Dan and Tim ordered their coffee and were waiting for Mr. Thompson to arrive.

Dean Thompson is the owner of this cafe, but his daughter and her best friend manage it. Dan and Tim came before time just to enjoy the delicious coffee of this place. While sipping coffee, he was looking out for the mystery girl, but not a single trace of her.

Dammit! Where is she?

15 minutes more to go.

So, to kill time, he thought about checking out the book section. He walks towards the book portion of the cafe and there he finally saw that mystery girl who was trying to keep a book on the top shelves. But her petite height was not allowing her.

‘No, Dan stops it. You can’t think about her now. Not after all those years.’

He blocked the thought about her and went towards the mystery girl to help her out.

He took the book from her hand and place it to its destined place.

“Thank you so much,” she said.

That sweet angelic voice. He doesn’t even need to think hard to recognize that voice.

“Shortcake,” he whispered.

Ella doesn’t need to turn around to see who helped her out. Only one person called her that. She hoped that she heard wrong or her mind was playing games, but unfortunately, she clearly heard the person calling her shortcake.

“Danny,” she whispered, but no voice came out. She was speechless.

She didn’t dare to turn around. She was too scared to see that person. Thousands of thoughts were going in her mind.

What is she supposed to say to him after 6 years?

How is she supposed to react?

How is he going to react?

And most importantly

What she has gotten herself into?

Panic rushed through her. She closed her eyes tightly, wishing all this was a dream.

Danny found her body stiffen in front of him when he whispered shortcake. At first, he was too shocked to react. But then his reaction was an impulse. As she was not turning around, he grabbed her shoulder and turned her towards him to make sure that he was not being delusional. His breath got caught in his throat. Never had, he would have ever thought that the mystery girl was none other than his shortcake, Ella.