Touch Me, Daddy
Me, dusted with chocolate.
Me, with a dollop of whipped cream.
Hey—a girl can dream.
“Mocha, please,” Mr Hampton rumbles instead, stepping away from the watercolors and coming to the counter. He fishes for his wallet, his fingers thick and hairy and definitely not manicured, and when he passes over my special doodled loyalty card, my chest pinches tight.
Blue eyes dip to the glass display case, to the squares of brownies and bright, iced cupcakes, then back up to me.