15- Cafe and Gabe

The next morning, with Cindy by my side we walk over to the cafe. She's my backup plan, my buffer against the unknown. Cindy and I used to go way back- well now it's two years back. She's the college friend who's been with me through my study all-nighters. Zulu too but we are no longer friends. 

Plus, Cindy is the girl with whom I had a few too many nights like the one where Zulu told my mom I was sick when I was actually just painfully hungover. The morning, I woke up in 2014, I had been out with Cindy drinking that previous night. 

"Are you sure about this?" she whispers as we slip into the large cafe. "Meeting this guy after… everything with Dan?" I had informed her that Dan and I had broken up and she did express surprise over it but did not state what her opinion about it was. That is why I liked Cindy, she was not the prying type.