Diet Cherry

New plan.
Same favourite.

1. Trying a new café is a whole event. New menu, new lighting, new chances to order something you’ll regret by the second sip.

2. This one has handwritten boards and drinks named after poets. You’re squinting at the specials when your friend says, without looking up, “Don’t even pretend.”

3. You open your mouth to argue. Then you close it. She’s known your order since the first week you met. She has never once been wrong.

4. The cold can arrives. You wrap your fingers around it, deep red and silver against the condensation, and take the first sip you’ve been waiting for all day.

5. New place, new playlist, same you. She raises an eyebrow. “The usual?” Haan, wohi wali.