Anxiously Waiting

As I walked into the coffee shop the first thing that I noticed was this lady that was anxiously staring at the door, it was as if she was nervously waiting for someone to come in. I decided to get a table by her, that way I could observe who she was waiting for and possibly find out why she was so anxious and nervous. A few minutes later, Linda then came over to say hello and take my order. As I’m having a conversation with Linda, there is someone approaching the door, I turn to take a look at Lady, and again I could tell that as the door was opening her nervousness was at an all time high. As soon as that person walks through the door I noticed that once she saw it wasn’t who she was expecting she quickly turned to her phone, Linda noticed what I was doing. She then says, “She’s been here since we opened, the whole morning she’s been staring at the door. I too want to know who she’s so anxiously waiting for.” As Linda walked away I looked down at my watch, it was about to be 10:30 a.m. Had Lady really been here since 6:30 a.m.?

Her behavior had intrigued me; who was she waiting for, and for that long? Every time anyone approached the door her behavior was the same, thirty minutes go by and nothing changes. At this point I just want the person she’s waiting for to arrive. I was looking down at my watch when the clock strikes 11:23 a.m., as I look up I see a really pretty girl walk in, Lady was just starring down at her phone, she hadn’t noticed that someone had just walked in. The girl, Bee, approaches the table where Lady is sitting down; at this point my entire focus is on them. Who is that girl? As Lady looks up at Bee, I saw her face light up, it was as if she hadn’t seen her in forever, she quickly got up and hugged her. Lady began to cry, I could tell Bee was happy to see Lady but she wasn’t showing as much emotion as Lady was. They both then took a seat, and began to talk.

Linda walks over and says, “Who do you think she is? Her daughter?”, I didn’t know what to think, Bee’s reaction kind of threw me off, why wasn’t she as excited, nervous or even anxious to see Lady as Lady was to see her? After that it seemed as if they were just having a calm conversation, their behaviors didn't tell me much after that.