Chapter 1
Layla was on the way to her regular coffee shop. When her phone rang out.
* Ping *
She had forgotten to silence her phone, she only turned it on ring when she was asleep just in case Molly needed her. Molly was at Iris’s house having her first sleepover, Molly was so excited. When Layla pulled out her phone expecting a text from Kate, Iris’s mom, she saw a text from Harry.
“ When are you going to come back?!?”
Harry was Layla’s boss, though she wasn’t even sure if she still had a job until she got this text; she had been working on putting herself and her life back together since Reese, Molly’s father, left them.
It had been three weeks and Molly still didn’t know. Layla didn’t know how to tell her that her dad just up and left. Molly currently thinks he’s on a work trip, which didn’t seem like a lie because he went on them all the time. But, it was a lie digging Layla into a bigger and bigger hole everyday.
She was typing a reply when a man ran into her and kept walking. He must be new. This is a small town where everyone knows everyone and they don’t just walk away after doing something like that. She put the phone back in her pocket and silenced it, and focused on walking to the coffee shop.
She loved this place because they had a few bookshelves in the back, plus it was family owned. Somehow even in a small town that was hard to come by, well other than farming pop up shops. Plus they also had really good coffee.
When she walked into the coffee shop she saw Mrs. Smith, she was only here on Tuesdays and Thursdays. She was back in school after leaving to have her kids, she was going to get her masters in business, luckily she could pick back up where she started because she still remembered everything and continued to pay on her student debt.
She walked up and greeted Mrs. Smith, and said good morning and had their normal conversation, how the weather was and what drink she was getting, since it was mid august and hot she got an Iced Americano, and had it blended, as usual it was a large.
While she was waiting Riley walked up to her, she was the smiths daughter. She was 20 and very pretty, she could practically get anyone she wanted, but she’s been with Ben Evans since the seventh grade and they are trying to have a baby. Her first boyfriend has turned out to be the love of her life so far.
Layla wish she had that luck, she has a mop of dark brown curly hair, and can never seem to get a brush all the way through so it’s usually in a bun, she has mild acne she hasn’t been able to get rid of since 7th grade and is to lazy to shave most of the time so she just sweats in pants during summer. She also has very long legs, which make her come out to a solid 5”7.
Riley has the perfect long hair, pin straight, blonde hair, 5”2, definitely shaves more than once a month, and has perfect skin. She is also really amazing at makeup. Once she caught the eye of Riley she was walking over to where
