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[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | I went to Starbucks all the time, even though I preferred local shops. But, it never felt right. Every time I'd see some dude making the coffee, and he'd say it, I'd feel- an inner flinch. He couldn't be my soul mate.
After a few years, I stopped going to Starbucks. But, my family always vacationed in a tiny town on ... | Triple caramel macchiato lattes across 14 countries. Cappuccino with an extra shot of espresso in 287 airports, all before my 40th birthday. Enough pumpkin spice lattes over the years to give me diabetes. Hypertension was congenital, I keep telling myself. Hands shaking, nights quaking in lonesome sleeplessness. T... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | His heart skipped a beat, and then he grinned broadly. Yes!
He'd met Maria in the Starbucks opposite the school where she worked part-time. The attraction had been instant, mutual and as passionate as any two teenagers in love. And yet everyone had told them to slow down, not to commit, to wait for their soulmate. ... | Triple caramel macchiato lattes across 14 countries. Cappuccino with an extra shot of espresso in 287 airports, all before my 40th birthday. Enough pumpkin spice lattes over the years to give me diabetes. Hypertension was congenital, I keep telling myself. Hands shaking, nights quaking in lonesome sleeplessness. T... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | *Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?*
"What, are you kidding me?"
"No sir. That's what it says right here. If you encounter your true love that will most assuredly be their first words."
Jim recalled the words of the conversation like it was yesterday. There was no doubt about it. His true love would be wo... | Triple caramel macchiato lattes across 14 countries. Cappuccino with an extra shot of espresso in 287 airports, all before my 40th birthday. Enough pumpkin spice lattes over the years to give me diabetes. Hypertension was congenital, I keep telling myself. Hands shaking, nights quaking in lonesome sleeplessness. T... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | On everyone’s 18th birthday they receive a card in the mail with the words their soul mate will one day speak to them. I don’t really know how or why, but I just accepted it as fact. On my 18th birthday I opened my card with the standard amount of excitement. It is exciting to receive the card, but it’s kind of silly t... | Triple caramel macchiato lattes across 14 countries. Cappuccino with an extra shot of espresso in 287 airports, all before my 40th birthday. Enough pumpkin spice lattes over the years to give me diabetes. Hypertension was congenital, I keep telling myself. Hands shaking, nights quaking in lonesome sleeplessness. T... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | Just want to preface this by saying this is my first actual participation/contribution to /r/WritingPrompts and pretty much my first writing period. Sorry for the length and the ellipses; I am hoping that I can improve my writing by being as prolific as possible, but I still have trouble fleshing out certain details.
... | Triple caramel macchiato lattes across 14 countries. Cappuccino with an extra shot of espresso in 287 airports, all before my 40th birthday. Enough pumpkin spice lattes over the years to give me diabetes. Hypertension was congenital, I keep telling myself. Hands shaking, nights quaking in lonesome sleeplessness. T... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | The drive had taken far longer than she had anticipated. Upon leaving Oregon, she checked the weather repeatedly--clear all the way to California--but the last leg of the trip had been a pissing-rain slog. "Just my luck," Louisa thought as she approached the final 60 miles. The sun began to peak up over the horizon, pa... | Triple caramel macchiato lattes across 14 countries. Cappuccino with an extra shot of espresso in 287 airports, all before my 40th birthday. Enough pumpkin spice lattes over the years to give me diabetes. Hypertension was congenital, I keep telling myself. Hands shaking, nights quaking in lonesome sleeplessness. T... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | **So like, there's a ton of f-bombs in this, so pls be cautious when reading, thanks v.v**
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Welp.
I *can* say that the day went splendid, but that'd be bullshit, and I don't like to bullshit.
I turned eighteen about a week ago, and today I had decided to do something about the special phrase we are given via ... | Triple caramel macchiato lattes across 14 countries. Cappuccino with an extra shot of espresso in 287 airports, all before my 40th birthday. Enough pumpkin spice lattes over the years to give me diabetes. Hypertension was congenital, I keep telling myself. Hands shaking, nights quaking in lonesome sleeplessness. T... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | August had heard nothing since the day he was born. As he made his way to the store on his 18th birthday something happened, he heard a voice. "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" August expected this to happen but the sheer novelty of it almost caused him to fall over. He heard a noise, it must have his soul... | Triple caramel macchiato lattes across 14 countries. Cappuccino with an extra shot of espresso in 287 airports, all before my 40th birthday. Enough pumpkin spice lattes over the years to give me diabetes. Hypertension was congenital, I keep telling myself. Hands shaking, nights quaking in lonesome sleeplessness. T... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | "Welcome to starbucks. Can I take your order?", she asked forcefully.
She looked like she never wanted to do this job. She looks tired and grumpy. I can't blame her though, this job is quite stressful as this shop is strategically situated at a high volume intersection.
" Grande Caramel Macchiato and an extra drizzl... | Triple caramel macchiato lattes across 14 countries. Cappuccino with an extra shot of espresso in 287 airports, all before my 40th birthday. Enough pumpkin spice lattes over the years to give me diabetes. Hypertension was congenital, I keep telling myself. Hands shaking, nights quaking in lonesome sleeplessness. T... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | Evie mightn't have spoken the magic words that had appeared on my bedside table a few months ago, but from the moment our eyes met over the innards of an ancient computer, there was a spark. Within a few hours, we were firm friends, a week later, we were thick as thieves. I reckon that's what starting university in a s... | Triple caramel macchiato lattes across 14 countries. Cappuccino with an extra shot of espresso in 287 airports, all before my 40th birthday. Enough pumpkin spice lattes over the years to give me diabetes. Hypertension was congenital, I keep telling myself. Hands shaking, nights quaking in lonesome sleeplessness. T... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | Ludwig waited in line with the other hopefuls. His 18th birthday, finally! Life was full of unanswered questions, but at least now he would be able to recognize his soul mate! That was something, he supposed. All he had to do was keep an ear out for that one fateful phrase.
The girl behind him seemed just as nervous a... | Triple caramel macchiato lattes across 14 countries. Cappuccino with an extra shot of espresso in 287 airports, all before my 40th birthday. Enough pumpkin spice lattes over the years to give me diabetes. Hypertension was congenital, I keep telling myself. Hands shaking, nights quaking in lonesome sleeplessness. T... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | I traipsed into the last Starbucks that was on my map. Tired, and with a perpetually red face I approached the counter.
"Welcome to Starbucks. May i take your order?"
I braced myself. "Suck my dick".
Her eyes widened and and a sly grin formed. "Meet me in the disabled toilet in five minutes".
Finally, the one. | Triple caramel macchiato lattes across 14 countries. Cappuccino with an extra shot of espresso in 287 airports, all before my 40th birthday. Enough pumpkin spice lattes over the years to give me diabetes. Hypertension was congenital, I keep telling myself. Hands shaking, nights quaking in lonesome sleeplessness. T... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | As the darkness began to cloud my vision, I smiled. I was going to break the system.
I've always been a lone wolf, despise authority, et cetera. My parents kept saying that it was a phase, but I never grew out of it. I started playing the corporate game at age 17 when I found a way to exploit the corporate system. I ... | Triple caramel macchiato lattes across 14 countries. Cappuccino with an extra shot of espresso in 287 airports, all before my 40th birthday. Enough pumpkin spice lattes over the years to give me diabetes. Hypertension was congenital, I keep telling myself. Hands shaking, nights quaking in lonesome sleeplessness. T... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | I pushed open the door, stupid nervous as usual. For once I would like to get a coffee without panicking about ordering, you know?
The interior of the Starbucks was warm and aromatic after the clinical cold outside. I glanced at the counter, pretending I wasn't scanning the guys working there. But I was, just like al... | Triple caramel macchiato lattes across 14 countries. Cappuccino with an extra shot of espresso in 287 airports, all before my 40th birthday. Enough pumpkin spice lattes over the years to give me diabetes. Hypertension was congenital, I keep telling myself. Hands shaking, nights quaking in lonesome sleeplessness. T... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | "Really? That's... That's the line?" I stared at the small business card style note in my hand. "That is the most... frustrating..."
"What's'it say?" My kid sister (okay, she's fourteen and totally into the romance and boys phase) pried.
"Gah!" I crumpled the envelope in my other hand and chucked it into the trash ... | Triple caramel macchiato lattes across 14 countries. Cappuccino with an extra shot of espresso in 287 airports, all before my 40th birthday. Enough pumpkin spice lattes over the years to give me diabetes. Hypertension was congenital, I keep telling myself. Hands shaking, nights quaking in lonesome sleeplessness. T... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | "I want a coffee" she said grabbing my hand into her mitten and pulling me towards the Starbucks across the street. The green sign was almost lost in the flurry of snow that was making it impossible for me to dig in my heels forcing me to stumble as she slipped me off the curb and in between the park cars. My free hand... | Triple caramel macchiato lattes across 14 countries. Cappuccino with an extra shot of espresso in 287 airports, all before my 40th birthday. Enough pumpkin spice lattes over the years to give me diabetes. Hypertension was congenital, I keep telling myself. Hands shaking, nights quaking in lonesome sleeplessness. T... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | I don't believe that when you turn 18 you learn the first words your soulmate would speak to you. Mine was "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?"
You see, I had already met my soulmate. My perfect. When I asked her, perplexed at the maze in the lobby of Union Station, "Have you ever taken the train to San Dieg... | Triple caramel macchiato lattes across 14 countries. Cappuccino with an extra shot of espresso in 287 airports, all before my 40th birthday. Enough pumpkin spice lattes over the years to give me diabetes. Hypertension was congenital, I keep telling myself. Hands shaking, nights quaking in lonesome sleeplessness. T... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | Andrea Patton remembered vividly the day she read her letter. The Letter. The one that everyone gets on their 18th birthday, with the first words they would ever hear from their soul mate printed inside.
Her friends, Stephanie and Becca, begged her to bring it to school the next day. Stephanie got hers a few months b... | Triple caramel macchiato lattes across 14 countries. Cappuccino with an extra shot of espresso in 287 airports, all before my 40th birthday. Enough pumpkin spice lattes over the years to give me diabetes. Hypertension was congenital, I keep telling myself. Hands shaking, nights quaking in lonesome sleeplessness. T... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | It had been 7 years since I found out the words that my “true love” would say to me, and of course like everyone else I kept mine secret.
It was an unwritten rule about finding out our “lines” that we didn’t share them with one another, but I knew that the first words my true love would say to me would be “Welcome to... | Triple caramel macchiato lattes across 14 countries. Cappuccino with an extra shot of espresso in 287 airports, all before my 40th birthday. Enough pumpkin spice lattes over the years to give me diabetes. Hypertension was congenital, I keep telling myself. Hands shaking, nights quaking in lonesome sleeplessness. T... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | "I don't go to Starbucks."
"Why?"
"Starbucks is to Coffee what McDonalds is to Hamburgers."
"Come on dude, it's not that bad, stop being such a hipster coffee fuck. We're not at home and unless you want to actually go to a McDonalds I don't think we're going to get coffee anywhere around here."
"Fine, but I reserve... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | "I really don't know what your problem is. This is probably the best thing that could have happened to you", Tom chirped happily and sipped his Frappucino.
I eyed him sceptically. "And what in God's name would make you think that?"
He put down his drink. "Just look at what this tells statement tells you! Now you kn... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | I've had a lot of guys claim to be my soulmate. There's always a criminal or two trying to beat the system by introducing themselves to a girl with a generic phrase and then flipping out after the first thing she says. And to their credit, I guess it works often enough to make it worth their while... The girl thinks "w... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" |
However much I resented it, it was all I had to go on.
"Welcome to Starbucks, Can I take your order?"
Could you end up with something more generic and unhelpful?
I tried, I honestly did.
I spend the next few years going to almost every Starbucks I saw. At first I always ordered the same thing, but after frui... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | My life has always been boring. High school was even more so. Thank whatever diety is up there that that's over. I had a crush once, but he turned out to be a idiot and it didn't work out. Some days I'm still not over him.
Now it's my 18th birthday. Thankfully I'm done with highschool by now. I trudge reluctanly to t... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | It could have been anything. Literally anything in the whole world. “Do you come here often?” “Another round, sir?” “Do you know the way to Fourth Street?” I would have settled for even a simple “hello” and being left to play the guessing game. There was something strangely eerie about it being so specific. I wouldn't ... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | John trudged his way towards bus stop, this must be the worst birthday ever. He couldn't believe what he just saw. His 4 yr old relationship breaking apart. He always thought Sara was his soulmate and loved her more than anything else in the world. His plans of skipping college and spending the day with Sara was tragic... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | There was no string attached because all the strings were severed and burned away into ash. All that were left were frantic wants and needs and craving for that moment of release. When it came, and thankfully it did, it was just a gentle slope rolling into nothingness as she rolled off her… what?
One night stand. Stre... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | Eric was next in line and was beginning to get a little nervous. A space opened and the man in front moved towards the cashier. Eric walked forward, casually stealing glances of the woman taking orders.
A little nametag sat pinned on the cashier's shirt that read Mary-Anne. Mary-Anne was not Eric's ideal vision of a s... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | **This story does not follow the prompt exactly, but the general scenario sparked this little idea. What would someone who was deaf do in this situation?**
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Usually I don’t mind being deaf. Sure, I feel like I’ve missed out on some things, but I get along just fine with sign language. That is until my 18th birthd... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | I went to Starbucks all the time, even though I preferred local shops. But, it never felt right. Every time I'd see some dude making the coffee, and he'd say it, I'd feel- an inner flinch. He couldn't be my soul mate.
After a few years, I stopped going to Starbucks. But, my family always vacationed in a tiny town on ... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | His heart skipped a beat, and then he grinned broadly. Yes!
He'd met Maria in the Starbucks opposite the school where she worked part-time. The attraction had been instant, mutual and as passionate as any two teenagers in love. And yet everyone had told them to slow down, not to commit, to wait for their soulmate. ... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | *Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?*
"What, are you kidding me?"
"No sir. That's what it says right here. If you encounter your true love that will most assuredly be their first words."
Jim recalled the words of the conversation like it was yesterday. There was no doubt about it. His true love would be wo... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | On everyone’s 18th birthday they receive a card in the mail with the words their soul mate will one day speak to them. I don’t really know how or why, but I just accepted it as fact. On my 18th birthday I opened my card with the standard amount of excitement. It is exciting to receive the card, but it’s kind of silly t... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | Just want to preface this by saying this is my first actual participation/contribution to /r/WritingPrompts and pretty much my first writing period. Sorry for the length and the ellipses; I am hoping that I can improve my writing by being as prolific as possible, but I still have trouble fleshing out certain details.
... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | The drive had taken far longer than she had anticipated. Upon leaving Oregon, she checked the weather repeatedly--clear all the way to California--but the last leg of the trip had been a pissing-rain slog. "Just my luck," Louisa thought as she approached the final 60 miles. The sun began to peak up over the horizon, pa... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | **So like, there's a ton of f-bombs in this, so pls be cautious when reading, thanks v.v**
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Welp.
I *can* say that the day went splendid, but that'd be bullshit, and I don't like to bullshit.
I turned eighteen about a week ago, and today I had decided to do something about the special phrase we are given via ... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | August had heard nothing since the day he was born. As he made his way to the store on his 18th birthday something happened, he heard a voice. "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" August expected this to happen but the sheer novelty of it almost caused him to fall over. He heard a noise, it must have his soul... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | Evie mightn't have spoken the magic words that had appeared on my bedside table a few months ago, but from the moment our eyes met over the innards of an ancient computer, there was a spark. Within a few hours, we were firm friends, a week later, we were thick as thieves. I reckon that's what starting university in a s... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | Ludwig waited in line with the other hopefuls. His 18th birthday, finally! Life was full of unanswered questions, but at least now he would be able to recognize his soul mate! That was something, he supposed. All he had to do was keep an ear out for that one fateful phrase.
The girl behind him seemed just as nervous a... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | As the darkness began to cloud my vision, I smiled. I was going to break the system.
I've always been a lone wolf, despise authority, et cetera. My parents kept saying that it was a phase, but I never grew out of it. I started playing the corporate game at age 17 when I found a way to exploit the corporate system. I ... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | I pushed open the door, stupid nervous as usual. For once I would like to get a coffee without panicking about ordering, you know?
The interior of the Starbucks was warm and aromatic after the clinical cold outside. I glanced at the counter, pretending I wasn't scanning the guys working there. But I was, just like al... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | "Really? That's... That's the line?" I stared at the small business card style note in my hand. "That is the most... frustrating..."
"What's'it say?" My kid sister (okay, she's fourteen and totally into the romance and boys phase) pried.
"Gah!" I crumpled the envelope in my other hand and chucked it into the trash ... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | I don't believe that when you turn 18 you learn the first words your soulmate would speak to you. Mine was "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?"
You see, I had already met my soulmate. My perfect. When I asked her, perplexed at the maze in the lobby of Union Station, "Have you ever taken the train to San Dieg... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | Andrea Patton remembered vividly the day she read her letter. The Letter. The one that everyone gets on their 18th birthday, with the first words they would ever hear from their soul mate printed inside.
Her friends, Stephanie and Becca, begged her to bring it to school the next day. Stephanie got hers a few months b... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | It had been 7 years since I found out the words that my “true love” would say to me, and of course like everyone else I kept mine secret.
It was an unwritten rule about finding out our “lines” that we didn’t share them with one another, but I knew that the first words my true love would say to me would be “Welcome to... | We knew our Benefactors had cooked up this scheme in order to help us repopulate the earth. Their ability to see beyond time and space, to dote on us in every moment of our lives, past, present, and future...why didn't they try to stop us from nearly causing our own extinction?
But still, they promise, this was their ... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | "I really don't know what your problem is. This is probably the best thing that could have happened to you", Tom chirped happily and sipped his Frappucino.
I eyed him sceptically. "And what in God's name would make you think that?"
He put down his drink. "Just look at what this tells statement tells you! Now you kn... | All the old man did was sit. For hours I had been pacing in my room until my bunk-mate had sighed in exasperation, grabbed her blanket, and left. I had expected to enter the great hall, sit before Master Whole Foods, and learn the secret incantation I had waited for my entire young life: how to find the one meant for m... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | I've had a lot of guys claim to be my soulmate. There's always a criminal or two trying to beat the system by introducing themselves to a girl with a generic phrase and then flipping out after the first thing she says. And to their credit, I guess it works often enough to make it worth their while... The girl thinks "w... | All the old man did was sit. For hours I had been pacing in my room until my bunk-mate had sighed in exasperation, grabbed her blanket, and left. I had expected to enter the great hall, sit before Master Whole Foods, and learn the secret incantation I had waited for my entire young life: how to find the one meant for m... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" |
However much I resented it, it was all I had to go on.
"Welcome to Starbucks, Can I take your order?"
Could you end up with something more generic and unhelpful?
I tried, I honestly did.
I spend the next few years going to almost every Starbucks I saw. At first I always ordered the same thing, but after frui... | All the old man did was sit. For hours I had been pacing in my room until my bunk-mate had sighed in exasperation, grabbed her blanket, and left. I had expected to enter the great hall, sit before Master Whole Foods, and learn the secret incantation I had waited for my entire young life: how to find the one meant for m... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | My life has always been boring. High school was even more so. Thank whatever diety is up there that that's over. I had a crush once, but he turned out to be a idiot and it didn't work out. Some days I'm still not over him.
Now it's my 18th birthday. Thankfully I'm done with highschool by now. I trudge reluctanly to t... | All the old man did was sit. For hours I had been pacing in my room until my bunk-mate had sighed in exasperation, grabbed her blanket, and left. I had expected to enter the great hall, sit before Master Whole Foods, and learn the secret incantation I had waited for my entire young life: how to find the one meant for m... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | It could have been anything. Literally anything in the whole world. “Do you come here often?” “Another round, sir?” “Do you know the way to Fourth Street?” I would have settled for even a simple “hello” and being left to play the guessing game. There was something strangely eerie about it being so specific. I wouldn't ... | All the old man did was sit. For hours I had been pacing in my room until my bunk-mate had sighed in exasperation, grabbed her blanket, and left. I had expected to enter the great hall, sit before Master Whole Foods, and learn the secret incantation I had waited for my entire young life: how to find the one meant for m... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | John trudged his way towards bus stop, this must be the worst birthday ever. He couldn't believe what he just saw. His 4 yr old relationship breaking apart. He always thought Sara was his soulmate and loved her more than anything else in the world. His plans of skipping college and spending the day with Sara was tragic... | All the old man did was sit. For hours I had been pacing in my room until my bunk-mate had sighed in exasperation, grabbed her blanket, and left. I had expected to enter the great hall, sit before Master Whole Foods, and learn the secret incantation I had waited for my entire young life: how to find the one meant for m... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | There was no string attached because all the strings were severed and burned away into ash. All that were left were frantic wants and needs and craving for that moment of release. When it came, and thankfully it did, it was just a gentle slope rolling into nothingness as she rolled off her… what?
One night stand. Stre... | All the old man did was sit. For hours I had been pacing in my room until my bunk-mate had sighed in exasperation, grabbed her blanket, and left. I had expected to enter the great hall, sit before Master Whole Foods, and learn the secret incantation I had waited for my entire young life: how to find the one meant for m... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | Eric was next in line and was beginning to get a little nervous. A space opened and the man in front moved towards the cashier. Eric walked forward, casually stealing glances of the woman taking orders.
A little nametag sat pinned on the cashier's shirt that read Mary-Anne. Mary-Anne was not Eric's ideal vision of a s... | All the old man did was sit. For hours I had been pacing in my room until my bunk-mate had sighed in exasperation, grabbed her blanket, and left. I had expected to enter the great hall, sit before Master Whole Foods, and learn the secret incantation I had waited for my entire young life: how to find the one meant for m... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | **This story does not follow the prompt exactly, but the general scenario sparked this little idea. What would someone who was deaf do in this situation?**
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Usually I don’t mind being deaf. Sure, I feel like I’ve missed out on some things, but I get along just fine with sign language. That is until my 18th birthd... | All the old man did was sit. For hours I had been pacing in my room until my bunk-mate had sighed in exasperation, grabbed her blanket, and left. I had expected to enter the great hall, sit before Master Whole Foods, and learn the secret incantation I had waited for my entire young life: how to find the one meant for m... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | I went to Starbucks all the time, even though I preferred local shops. But, it never felt right. Every time I'd see some dude making the coffee, and he'd say it, I'd feel- an inner flinch. He couldn't be my soul mate.
After a few years, I stopped going to Starbucks. But, my family always vacationed in a tiny town on ... | All the old man did was sit. For hours I had been pacing in my room until my bunk-mate had sighed in exasperation, grabbed her blanket, and left. I had expected to enter the great hall, sit before Master Whole Foods, and learn the secret incantation I had waited for my entire young life: how to find the one meant for m... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | His heart skipped a beat, and then he grinned broadly. Yes!
He'd met Maria in the Starbucks opposite the school where she worked part-time. The attraction had been instant, mutual and as passionate as any two teenagers in love. And yet everyone had told them to slow down, not to commit, to wait for their soulmate. ... | All the old man did was sit. For hours I had been pacing in my room until my bunk-mate had sighed in exasperation, grabbed her blanket, and left. I had expected to enter the great hall, sit before Master Whole Foods, and learn the secret incantation I had waited for my entire young life: how to find the one meant for m... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | *Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?*
"What, are you kidding me?"
"No sir. That's what it says right here. If you encounter your true love that will most assuredly be their first words."
Jim recalled the words of the conversation like it was yesterday. There was no doubt about it. His true love would be wo... | All the old man did was sit. For hours I had been pacing in my room until my bunk-mate had sighed in exasperation, grabbed her blanket, and left. I had expected to enter the great hall, sit before Master Whole Foods, and learn the secret incantation I had waited for my entire young life: how to find the one meant for m... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | On everyone’s 18th birthday they receive a card in the mail with the words their soul mate will one day speak to them. I don’t really know how or why, but I just accepted it as fact. On my 18th birthday I opened my card with the standard amount of excitement. It is exciting to receive the card, but it’s kind of silly t... | All the old man did was sit. For hours I had been pacing in my room until my bunk-mate had sighed in exasperation, grabbed her blanket, and left. I had expected to enter the great hall, sit before Master Whole Foods, and learn the secret incantation I had waited for my entire young life: how to find the one meant for m... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | Just want to preface this by saying this is my first actual participation/contribution to /r/WritingPrompts and pretty much my first writing period. Sorry for the length and the ellipses; I am hoping that I can improve my writing by being as prolific as possible, but I still have trouble fleshing out certain details.
... | All the old man did was sit. For hours I had been pacing in my room until my bunk-mate had sighed in exasperation, grabbed her blanket, and left. I had expected to enter the great hall, sit before Master Whole Foods, and learn the secret incantation I had waited for my entire young life: how to find the one meant for m... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | The drive had taken far longer than she had anticipated. Upon leaving Oregon, she checked the weather repeatedly--clear all the way to California--but the last leg of the trip had been a pissing-rain slog. "Just my luck," Louisa thought as she approached the final 60 miles. The sun began to peak up over the horizon, pa... | All the old man did was sit. For hours I had been pacing in my room until my bunk-mate had sighed in exasperation, grabbed her blanket, and left. I had expected to enter the great hall, sit before Master Whole Foods, and learn the secret incantation I had waited for my entire young life: how to find the one meant for m... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | **So like, there's a ton of f-bombs in this, so pls be cautious when reading, thanks v.v**
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Welp.
I *can* say that the day went splendid, but that'd be bullshit, and I don't like to bullshit.
I turned eighteen about a week ago, and today I had decided to do something about the special phrase we are given via ... | All the old man did was sit. For hours I had been pacing in my room until my bunk-mate had sighed in exasperation, grabbed her blanket, and left. I had expected to enter the great hall, sit before Master Whole Foods, and learn the secret incantation I had waited for my entire young life: how to find the one meant for m... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | August had heard nothing since the day he was born. As he made his way to the store on his 18th birthday something happened, he heard a voice. "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" August expected this to happen but the sheer novelty of it almost caused him to fall over. He heard a noise, it must have his soul... | All the old man did was sit. For hours I had been pacing in my room until my bunk-mate had sighed in exasperation, grabbed her blanket, and left. I had expected to enter the great hall, sit before Master Whole Foods, and learn the secret incantation I had waited for my entire young life: how to find the one meant for m... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | Ludwig waited in line with the other hopefuls. His 18th birthday, finally! Life was full of unanswered questions, but at least now he would be able to recognize his soul mate! That was something, he supposed. All he had to do was keep an ear out for that one fateful phrase.
The girl behind him seemed just as nervous a... | All the old man did was sit. For hours I had been pacing in my room until my bunk-mate had sighed in exasperation, grabbed her blanket, and left. I had expected to enter the great hall, sit before Master Whole Foods, and learn the secret incantation I had waited for my entire young life: how to find the one meant for m... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | As the darkness began to cloud my vision, I smiled. I was going to break the system.
I've always been a lone wolf, despise authority, et cetera. My parents kept saying that it was a phase, but I never grew out of it. I started playing the corporate game at age 17 when I found a way to exploit the corporate system. I ... | All the old man did was sit. For hours I had been pacing in my room until my bunk-mate had sighed in exasperation, grabbed her blanket, and left. I had expected to enter the great hall, sit before Master Whole Foods, and learn the secret incantation I had waited for my entire young life: how to find the one meant for m... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | I pushed open the door, stupid nervous as usual. For once I would like to get a coffee without panicking about ordering, you know?
The interior of the Starbucks was warm and aromatic after the clinical cold outside. I glanced at the counter, pretending I wasn't scanning the guys working there. But I was, just like al... | All the old man did was sit. For hours I had been pacing in my room until my bunk-mate had sighed in exasperation, grabbed her blanket, and left. I had expected to enter the great hall, sit before Master Whole Foods, and learn the secret incantation I had waited for my entire young life: how to find the one meant for m... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | "Really? That's... That's the line?" I stared at the small business card style note in my hand. "That is the most... frustrating..."
"What's'it say?" My kid sister (okay, she's fourteen and totally into the romance and boys phase) pried.
"Gah!" I crumpled the envelope in my other hand and chucked it into the trash ... | All the old man did was sit. For hours I had been pacing in my room until my bunk-mate had sighed in exasperation, grabbed her blanket, and left. I had expected to enter the great hall, sit before Master Whole Foods, and learn the secret incantation I had waited for my entire young life: how to find the one meant for m... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | I don't believe that when you turn 18 you learn the first words your soulmate would speak to you. Mine was "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?"
You see, I had already met my soulmate. My perfect. When I asked her, perplexed at the maze in the lobby of Union Station, "Have you ever taken the train to San Dieg... | All the old man did was sit. For hours I had been pacing in my room until my bunk-mate had sighed in exasperation, grabbed her blanket, and left. I had expected to enter the great hall, sit before Master Whole Foods, and learn the secret incantation I had waited for my entire young life: how to find the one meant for m... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | Andrea Patton remembered vividly the day she read her letter. The Letter. The one that everyone gets on their 18th birthday, with the first words they would ever hear from their soul mate printed inside.
Her friends, Stephanie and Becca, begged her to bring it to school the next day. Stephanie got hers a few months b... | All the old man did was sit. For hours I had been pacing in my room until my bunk-mate had sighed in exasperation, grabbed her blanket, and left. I had expected to enter the great hall, sit before Master Whole Foods, and learn the secret incantation I had waited for my entire young life: how to find the one meant for m... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | It had been 7 years since I found out the words that my “true love” would say to me, and of course like everyone else I kept mine secret.
It was an unwritten rule about finding out our “lines” that we didn’t share them with one another, but I knew that the first words my true love would say to me would be “Welcome to... | All the old man did was sit. For hours I had been pacing in my room until my bunk-mate had sighed in exasperation, grabbed her blanket, and left. I had expected to enter the great hall, sit before Master Whole Foods, and learn the secret incantation I had waited for my entire young life: how to find the one meant for m... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" |
However much I resented it, it was all I had to go on.
"Welcome to Starbucks, Can I take your order?"
Could you end up with something more generic and unhelpful?
I tried, I honestly did.
I spend the next few years going to almost every Starbucks I saw. At first I always ordered the same thing, but after frui... | "Ah well, looks like I'll be going with the whole dying alone thing," said Park Jun-Sang as he rejoined his unit in the barracks of the glorious supreme leader's invincible army. | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | My life has always been boring. High school was even more so. Thank whatever diety is up there that that's over. I had a crush once, but he turned out to be a idiot and it didn't work out. Some days I'm still not over him.
Now it's my 18th birthday. Thankfully I'm done with highschool by now. I trudge reluctanly to t... | "Ah well, looks like I'll be going with the whole dying alone thing," said Park Jun-Sang as he rejoined his unit in the barracks of the glorious supreme leader's invincible army. | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | It could have been anything. Literally anything in the whole world. “Do you come here often?” “Another round, sir?” “Do you know the way to Fourth Street?” I would have settled for even a simple “hello” and being left to play the guessing game. There was something strangely eerie about it being so specific. I wouldn't ... | "Ah well, looks like I'll be going with the whole dying alone thing," said Park Jun-Sang as he rejoined his unit in the barracks of the glorious supreme leader's invincible army. | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | John trudged his way towards bus stop, this must be the worst birthday ever. He couldn't believe what he just saw. His 4 yr old relationship breaking apart. He always thought Sara was his soulmate and loved her more than anything else in the world. His plans of skipping college and spending the day with Sara was tragic... | "Ah well, looks like I'll be going with the whole dying alone thing," said Park Jun-Sang as he rejoined his unit in the barracks of the glorious supreme leader's invincible army. | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | There was no string attached because all the strings were severed and burned away into ash. All that were left were frantic wants and needs and craving for that moment of release. When it came, and thankfully it did, it was just a gentle slope rolling into nothingness as she rolled off her… what?
One night stand. Stre... | "Ah well, looks like I'll be going with the whole dying alone thing," said Park Jun-Sang as he rejoined his unit in the barracks of the glorious supreme leader's invincible army. | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | Eric was next in line and was beginning to get a little nervous. A space opened and the man in front moved towards the cashier. Eric walked forward, casually stealing glances of the woman taking orders.
A little nametag sat pinned on the cashier's shirt that read Mary-Anne. Mary-Anne was not Eric's ideal vision of a s... | "Ah well, looks like I'll be going with the whole dying alone thing," said Park Jun-Sang as he rejoined his unit in the barracks of the glorious supreme leader's invincible army. | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | **This story does not follow the prompt exactly, but the general scenario sparked this little idea. What would someone who was deaf do in this situation?**
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Usually I don’t mind being deaf. Sure, I feel like I’ve missed out on some things, but I get along just fine with sign language. That is until my 18th birthd... | "Ah well, looks like I'll be going with the whole dying alone thing," said Park Jun-Sang as he rejoined his unit in the barracks of the glorious supreme leader's invincible army. | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | I went to Starbucks all the time, even though I preferred local shops. But, it never felt right. Every time I'd see some dude making the coffee, and he'd say it, I'd feel- an inner flinch. He couldn't be my soul mate.
After a few years, I stopped going to Starbucks. But, my family always vacationed in a tiny town on ... | "Ah well, looks like I'll be going with the whole dying alone thing," said Park Jun-Sang as he rejoined his unit in the barracks of the glorious supreme leader's invincible army. | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | His heart skipped a beat, and then he grinned broadly. Yes!
He'd met Maria in the Starbucks opposite the school where she worked part-time. The attraction had been instant, mutual and as passionate as any two teenagers in love. And yet everyone had told them to slow down, not to commit, to wait for their soulmate. ... | "Ah well, looks like I'll be going with the whole dying alone thing," said Park Jun-Sang as he rejoined his unit in the barracks of the glorious supreme leader's invincible army. | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | *Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?*
"What, are you kidding me?"
"No sir. That's what it says right here. If you encounter your true love that will most assuredly be their first words."
Jim recalled the words of the conversation like it was yesterday. There was no doubt about it. His true love would be wo... | "Ah well, looks like I'll be going with the whole dying alone thing," said Park Jun-Sang as he rejoined his unit in the barracks of the glorious supreme leader's invincible army. | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | On everyone’s 18th birthday they receive a card in the mail with the words their soul mate will one day speak to them. I don’t really know how or why, but I just accepted it as fact. On my 18th birthday I opened my card with the standard amount of excitement. It is exciting to receive the card, but it’s kind of silly t... | "Ah well, looks like I'll be going with the whole dying alone thing," said Park Jun-Sang as he rejoined his unit in the barracks of the glorious supreme leader's invincible army. | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | Just want to preface this by saying this is my first actual participation/contribution to /r/WritingPrompts and pretty much my first writing period. Sorry for the length and the ellipses; I am hoping that I can improve my writing by being as prolific as possible, but I still have trouble fleshing out certain details.
... | "Ah well, looks like I'll be going with the whole dying alone thing," said Park Jun-Sang as he rejoined his unit in the barracks of the glorious supreme leader's invincible army. | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | The drive had taken far longer than she had anticipated. Upon leaving Oregon, she checked the weather repeatedly--clear all the way to California--but the last leg of the trip had been a pissing-rain slog. "Just my luck," Louisa thought as she approached the final 60 miles. The sun began to peak up over the horizon, pa... | "Ah well, looks like I'll be going with the whole dying alone thing," said Park Jun-Sang as he rejoined his unit in the barracks of the glorious supreme leader's invincible army. | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | August had heard nothing since the day he was born. As he made his way to the store on his 18th birthday something happened, he heard a voice. "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" August expected this to happen but the sheer novelty of it almost caused him to fall over. He heard a noise, it must have his soul... | "Ah well, looks like I'll be going with the whole dying alone thing," said Park Jun-Sang as he rejoined his unit in the barracks of the glorious supreme leader's invincible army. | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | As the darkness began to cloud my vision, I smiled. I was going to break the system.
I've always been a lone wolf, despise authority, et cetera. My parents kept saying that it was a phase, but I never grew out of it. I started playing the corporate game at age 17 when I found a way to exploit the corporate system. I ... | "Ah well, looks like I'll be going with the whole dying alone thing," said Park Jun-Sang as he rejoined his unit in the barracks of the glorious supreme leader's invincible army. | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | I pushed open the door, stupid nervous as usual. For once I would like to get a coffee without panicking about ordering, you know?
The interior of the Starbucks was warm and aromatic after the clinical cold outside. I glanced at the counter, pretending I wasn't scanning the guys working there. But I was, just like al... | "Ah well, looks like I'll be going with the whole dying alone thing," said Park Jun-Sang as he rejoined his unit in the barracks of the glorious supreme leader's invincible army. | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | "Really? That's... That's the line?" I stared at the small business card style note in my hand. "That is the most... frustrating..."
"What's'it say?" My kid sister (okay, she's fourteen and totally into the romance and boys phase) pried.
"Gah!" I crumpled the envelope in my other hand and chucked it into the trash ... | "Ah well, looks like I'll be going with the whole dying alone thing," said Park Jun-Sang as he rejoined his unit in the barracks of the glorious supreme leader's invincible army. | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | I don't believe that when you turn 18 you learn the first words your soulmate would speak to you. Mine was "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?"
You see, I had already met my soulmate. My perfect. When I asked her, perplexed at the maze in the lobby of Union Station, "Have you ever taken the train to San Dieg... | "Ah well, looks like I'll be going with the whole dying alone thing," said Park Jun-Sang as he rejoined his unit in the barracks of the glorious supreme leader's invincible army. | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | Andrea Patton remembered vividly the day she read her letter. The Letter. The one that everyone gets on their 18th birthday, with the first words they would ever hear from their soul mate printed inside.
Her friends, Stephanie and Becca, begged her to bring it to school the next day. Stephanie got hers a few months b... | "Ah well, looks like I'll be going with the whole dying alone thing," said Park Jun-Sang as he rejoined his unit in the barracks of the glorious supreme leader's invincible army. | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | It had been 7 years since I found out the words that my “true love” would say to me, and of course like everyone else I kept mine secret.
It was an unwritten rule about finding out our “lines” that we didn’t share them with one another, but I knew that the first words my true love would say to me would be “Welcome to... | "Ah well, looks like I'll be going with the whole dying alone thing," said Park Jun-Sang as he rejoined his unit in the barracks of the glorious supreme leader's invincible army. | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" |
However much I resented it, it was all I had to go on.
"Welcome to Starbucks, Can I take your order?"
Could you end up with something more generic and unhelpful?
I tried, I honestly did.
I spend the next few years going to almost every Starbucks I saw. At first I always ordered the same thing, but after frui... | "I ran.
I hate people, I hate society. Nothing personal, no traumatic childhood experiences that burned the deep loathing for humanity into my psyche; I just don't like people. In 9th year, when our school announced the "Companion" program, I was livid. it was the first public test, so of course my class was mandato... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | My life has always been boring. High school was even more so. Thank whatever diety is up there that that's over. I had a crush once, but he turned out to be a idiot and it didn't work out. Some days I'm still not over him.
Now it's my 18th birthday. Thankfully I'm done with highschool by now. I trudge reluctanly to t... | "I ran.
I hate people, I hate society. Nothing personal, no traumatic childhood experiences that burned the deep loathing for humanity into my psyche; I just don't like people. In 9th year, when our school announced the "Companion" program, I was livid. it was the first public test, so of course my class was mandato... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | It could have been anything. Literally anything in the whole world. “Do you come here often?” “Another round, sir?” “Do you know the way to Fourth Street?” I would have settled for even a simple “hello” and being left to play the guessing game. There was something strangely eerie about it being so specific. I wouldn't ... | "I ran.
I hate people, I hate society. Nothing personal, no traumatic childhood experiences that burned the deep loathing for humanity into my psyche; I just don't like people. In 9th year, when our school announced the "Companion" program, I was livid. it was the first public test, so of course my class was mandato... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | John trudged his way towards bus stop, this must be the worst birthday ever. He couldn't believe what he just saw. His 4 yr old relationship breaking apart. He always thought Sara was his soulmate and loved her more than anything else in the world. His plans of skipping college and spending the day with Sara was tragic... | "I ran.
I hate people, I hate society. Nothing personal, no traumatic childhood experiences that burned the deep loathing for humanity into my psyche; I just don't like people. In 9th year, when our school announced the "Companion" program, I was livid. it was the first public test, so of course my class was mandato... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | There was no string attached because all the strings were severed and burned away into ash. All that were left were frantic wants and needs and craving for that moment of release. When it came, and thankfully it did, it was just a gentle slope rolling into nothingness as she rolled off her… what?
One night stand. Stre... | "I ran.
I hate people, I hate society. Nothing personal, no traumatic childhood experiences that burned the deep loathing for humanity into my psyche; I just don't like people. In 9th year, when our school announced the "Companion" program, I was livid. it was the first public test, so of course my class was mandato... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | Eric was next in line and was beginning to get a little nervous. A space opened and the man in front moved towards the cashier. Eric walked forward, casually stealing glances of the woman taking orders.
A little nametag sat pinned on the cashier's shirt that read Mary-Anne. Mary-Anne was not Eric's ideal vision of a s... | "I ran.
I hate people, I hate society. Nothing personal, no traumatic childhood experiences that burned the deep loathing for humanity into my psyche; I just don't like people. In 9th year, when our school announced the "Companion" program, I was livid. it was the first public test, so of course my class was mandato... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | **This story does not follow the prompt exactly, but the general scenario sparked this little idea. What would someone who was deaf do in this situation?**
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Usually I don’t mind being deaf. Sure, I feel like I’ve missed out on some things, but I get along just fine with sign language. That is until my 18th birthd... | "I ran.
I hate people, I hate society. Nothing personal, no traumatic childhood experiences that burned the deep loathing for humanity into my psyche; I just don't like people. In 9th year, when our school announced the "Companion" program, I was livid. it was the first public test, so of course my class was mandato... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | I went to Starbucks all the time, even though I preferred local shops. But, it never felt right. Every time I'd see some dude making the coffee, and he'd say it, I'd feel- an inner flinch. He couldn't be my soul mate.
After a few years, I stopped going to Starbucks. But, my family always vacationed in a tiny town on ... | "I ran.
I hate people, I hate society. Nothing personal, no traumatic childhood experiences that burned the deep loathing for humanity into my psyche; I just don't like people. In 9th year, when our school announced the "Companion" program, I was livid. it was the first public test, so of course my class was mandato... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | *Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?*
"What, are you kidding me?"
"No sir. That's what it says right here. If you encounter your true love that will most assuredly be their first words."
Jim recalled the words of the conversation like it was yesterday. There was no doubt about it. His true love would be wo... | "I ran.
I hate people, I hate society. Nothing personal, no traumatic childhood experiences that burned the deep loathing for humanity into my psyche; I just don't like people. In 9th year, when our school announced the "Companion" program, I was livid. it was the first public test, so of course my class was mandato... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | On everyone’s 18th birthday they receive a card in the mail with the words their soul mate will one day speak to them. I don’t really know how or why, but I just accepted it as fact. On my 18th birthday I opened my card with the standard amount of excitement. It is exciting to receive the card, but it’s kind of silly t... | "I ran.
I hate people, I hate society. Nothing personal, no traumatic childhood experiences that burned the deep loathing for humanity into my psyche; I just don't like people. In 9th year, when our school announced the "Companion" program, I was livid. it was the first public test, so of course my class was mandato... | |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | Just want to preface this by saying this is my first actual participation/contribution to /r/WritingPrompts and pretty much my first writing period. Sorry for the length and the ellipses; I am hoping that I can improve my writing by being as prolific as possible, but I still have trouble fleshing out certain details.
... | "I ran.
I hate people, I hate society. Nothing personal, no traumatic childhood experiences that burned the deep loathing for humanity into my psyche; I just don't like people. In 9th year, when our school announced the "Companion" program, I was livid. it was the first public test, so of course my class was mandato... |
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