Griffin Barron thought it was going to be a normal day when he clocked into work back in 2002. At the time, Barron was working as a shift supervisor at his local Starbucks in Wilmette, Illinois and was eating his lunch in a back room when he suddenly heard screaming coming from the women’s bathroom.

“I heard high-pitched screams coming through the wall and thought someone had locked themselves in the bathroom,” PEOPLE reported Barron as saying.

What he found when he ran to investigate was Lisabeth Rohlck in active labor in the bathroom. She was only 37 weeks pregnant when she stopped by the coffee shop, where she suddenly when into labor.

Barron found another female customer, Tricia Monico, in the bathroom as well providing support to Rohlck. Barron then did the only thing he could do, which is run fetch some warm towels to wrap up the baby that was inevitably about to be born.

“The customer’s holding her hand and she’s huffing and puffing ready to go and there is a baby coming up,” Baron said to TODAY.

“And I was like … frozen. Like, ‘Here’s your towels?’ I don’t know what’s going on,” he laughed. “So we’re cheering her on, she’s doing great, holding on to her hand, and the next thing you know, an extra person comes out of the bathroom.”

EMT’s soon arrived and whisked mom and baby to the hospital, and that was the last Barron saw of Rohlck and the baby boy, who was named Jonathan.

The reunion between Barron and Jonathan Celner–now 18–happened by chance after Barron came across a GoFundMe page to help support Celner and his older brother after the death of their father, and whose mother had passed away years earlier.

Barron looked up Jonathan on Facebook and sent him a message, asking if he’d be willing to meet up with him. Griffin Barron explained that he had spent the last 18 years wondering what had become of the Starbucks baby he helped deliver when he was just 21 years old, and would love the chance to meet and get to know Celner.

The two sent a few messages back and forth and then agreed to meet in person at the spot where it all happened–the Starbucks in Wilmette.

 

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The two talked for about an hour and agreed to keep in touch from then on. Speaking to THE RECORD NORTH SHORE, Barron said the meeting was everything he hoped it would be.

“This was a very big thing for me and I had always wanted to know what happened to him and to the family, and what he came out to be, and I wanted to give my perspective on that day. It was definitely a big smile moment for me when we saw each other. He’s a really good guy.”

Barron shared that he wasn’t the only one who had questions for Celner, but that the teen had always been curious about the details of his unique birth.

“He is a super cool kid,” Baron told the outlet. “He didn’t know a lot of the insanity of what it was like. It was good to finally fill in all these holes that we had.”