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right?”
    “I can’t believe he just knocked me over and made me spill my drink on you and then suggested that you would give him your phone number.” Ali grabbed her new drink from the bar. “As if you would give any guy in here your number.”
    “That was crazy, what do you think he did to that girl? He either really fucked her over or she is bat shit crazy.”
    “Maybe both, who cares. He sucks, and he made us miss almost the whole set for Breaking Blood. Look at those guys. They all have their shirts off. I could just lick all that salty sweat from those muscular chests. Rarrrr.” Ali growled like a hungry lion. “You want to get out of here?”
    “I guess so, we can watch the rest of Breaking Blood’s set. At least I have this other shirt to throw back on. Not sure it will hide this big pink stain.” Lilly put the sheer yellow shirt back on over her tank and grabbed her new drink from the bar. “Can’t let these drinks go to waste. Cheers. Here is to an interesting evening to say the least.”
    The girls clinked plastic cups. Ali reached over the bar and grabbed two white straws and put them in their drinks and winked at Lilly. She turned back to ogle the band on stage.
    Lilly reached into her clutch and grabbed a handful of singles she had from the change the bartender gave her earlier in the night. She waited for Marylou to come close enough to her part of the long bar that she could grab her attention.
    “Marylou, can you tell me what the guy’s name was that spilled the drink on me?” She pushed the stack of dollars across the bar.
    “His name is Leon. Oh, man he got you good. I guess the club soda didn’t help. Is this for us?” Marylou put her hand over the cash. Lilly gave her a nod. “Thanks. Enjoy the rest of the show.”
     

CHAPTER FIVE
     
    Esmeralda
     
    Esmeralda loved the rustic feel of having hand written specials on chalk board signs. She had varying shapes and sizes of chalkboards in her coffee shop. Sometimes there were little ones announcing a specialty bread for the season or holiday. She had a large fold out one that she would put on the street in front of the front door on sunny days to help draw in new customers.
    She decided that the best way to entice both Lilly and Leo to order the salted caramel coffee or latte was to make it a special for everyone. She couldn’t very well give out enchanted hand crafted coffee drinks to the whole neighborhood. The goddesses only knew what kind of potential love fest mess that would cause.
    Maybe that is what happened in the seventies. How else could that many people have been in love with the idea of love?
    Esmeralda got to work before her crew arrived to make sure that the chalkboards were written out just the way she wanted. She took the extra time to bust out the box of colored chalk and made some artistic swirly art around the corners of the board and made the ‘a’ slated in a pretty pink heart. When she finished she wanted to pat herself on the back. The sketch of the coffee cup put it over the top for her.
    She was tired from the late night with her sisters, but she knew better than to indulge in Jasinda’s mead on a work night. Her crew started to show up and the baking commenced in preparation for opening. Esmeralda knew that other coffee shops in the area opened earlier than she did, but they didn’t offer the special human touch that she and her staff provided to the locals. She had plenty of regulars; some were just familiar faces while others she had slowly gotten to know over the years.
    Leo came in at the exact same time every weekday. She could set her clock to him walking through the front door. He had a small accounting firm a few doors down, actually it was his father’s firm and he worked there.
    He ordered the same thing every day at ten AM; one large black coffee and a medium caramel latte. Esmeralda knew Leo’s father took his coffee like he took his whiskey-- straight up.
    Occasionally on the weekends Leo