“Ah, an organic bergamot iced tea with rosemary mint.” She ordered it.

I tried not to look at her.

“I am not a hipster,” she said, too defensively. “Everyone’s a hipster nowadays, being all pretentious and stuff. I just really like bergamot and rosemary mint.”

Pretentious, I mused. Point proven.

Nadja Tang is a twenty-something English teacher who loves to read and hates to write.