The Coffee Stain
✦ 55-Fiction · Romance
Rain drummed against the window pane of Café Mocha. She twirled her cup, leaving a faint dark ring upon the paper napkin. "Some marks never wash away," she smiled softly, her eyes holding secrets of five lost years. When I touched the still-warm ring after she walked away, our names were penned inside the circle.
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