a coffee for me, a coffee for you, and somehow it's just us two

Ashes · Oct 6, 2017

Waiting alone sucked ass.
This was one of many thoughts that ran through the redhead's mind as he sat there, dead center of the café, aimlessly swirling his finger around in his drink. Most of his homework was done already (gasp!) and well, with Havoc being vice now (he'd forgotten the elections ran now, too) he wasn't really doing much in terms of hanging out.
So yeah, there he was now, sticking hot fingers into cold (lukewarm?) coffee and stirring it, watching the gentle coolness of the October day filter through the air.
Shit, he shoulda brought a sweater.
His mind began to wander. What about that girl he'd met a few months back, the one from the texts? Maybe she was free to hang out.
He sure as hell had no one else as friend - oh, wait. There was Ame, Emily, that angel girl who ran the apothecary... Havoc (did he count?) the people in the Student Council (although that had ultimately done nothing and he knew no one there...)
Yeaaahhh, maybe not. He whipped out his phone for probably the seven billionth time and swiped over to Messenger.

To: Luna (?)
[1:00:23]: spider blood is transparent
[1:00:54]: in other words hey

@LunariaSong

LunariaSong · Oct 6, 2017

She hated sitting around doing nothing at home. Sitting at a computer, writing up posts to advertise her availability for yet another side job. Luna didn't really like doing them but it was a decent way to earn money for now until her reserves ran out. Once it did, the experience she gained from working as a sort of freelancer might land her an okay job down the road.

Luna was on Facebook looking through her posts to make sure she sounded formal and had decently-spelled words (which she found made it easier to find the odd job obviously), when she got a text through Messenger.

From: Nix (?)
[1:00:23]: spider blood is transparent
[1:00:54]: in other words hey

Huh...Okay, I'll bite. I need a break from this crap anyway.

To: Nix (?)
[1:02:02]: Oh hey! I didn't know spider blood was transparent haha
[1:02:39]: Whatcha up to? lol

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Ashes · Oct 6, 2017

Aha.
A ping, a couple of seconds later, made him light up with a wide grin. So she was still alive. Thank Gods for that. Grinning, he grabbed his phone and typed out a reply, his thumbs flying from one key to the next.

To: Luna :D
[1:02:56]: at a cafe being bored
[1:03:08]: wanna come rescue me(me)? i'll tret to coffe. ~~~
[1:04:01]: *treat *coffee

Almost as if the thought of having someone come and be with him, even just to stop his own thoughts from rampaging in his head again, his fingers sparked again, and he could feel the coffee warming - because he'd dipped a sparking finger again into the coffee, it was almost steaming.

@LunariaSong

LunariaSong · Oct 6, 2017

She smiled wide at that. A little man-child needs rescuing from a cafe huh? Pfft. Sure. And an offer for coffee? Hell yeah. Luckily her housemate was out of the house for once so she can escape from the boredom as well.

To: Nix, the weirdo me(me)lord
[1:04:47]: Haha very funny. Maybe you can rescue me(me) as well, since I'm also bored out of my flipping mind.
[1:05:23]: And so I'll have to take you up on the offer of some of this 'coffe'. ;)
[1:05:49]: I'll be there in a few, but that depends...which cafe is it? lol

Luna laughed a little at the little conversation they had so far. Somehow this person that she just met...makes her smile. Despite everything.

@Ashes

Ashes · Oct 6, 2017

To: Luna :D
[1:05:29]: saaaave me(me)
[1:06:39]: it's the little one on the end of the strip, near the dress shop and the movie store thingie
[1:07:49]: thanks.

It was amazing how, even as he pocketed his phone once again, the grin stayed on his face.
He figured it was from the caffeine, but he felt all warm. His chest, his cheeks...
His finger? Why was his finger warm?
No, wait. Ow. He realized just in time to yank his hand back, miraculously not spilling his coffee, and shook the very hot digit in the air, hissing like a snake.
"Owowowowow - FUCK ow that's hot!"
Well, at least he hadn't tipped it over - and it was still perfectly okay, and hot to boot. Still though - he'd need to get a coffee for Luna, except he had no idea what she liked. He'd have to make up for the doozy of a first coffee meetup they'd had, where - God, he could still feel the waves of shame rolling over him - his dumb ass had careened right into a phone pole, then promptly ruined his first impression - well, his first actual impression. Boy, was the voice in his head having a field day with that one.
Since then, he'd been sending her a steady stream of both apologies and funny pictures. He wondered what kind of impact he'd had. Did she hate him now, or...? Well, no - but then, was she gonna get annoyed?
Probably.
But hey. Might as well make yourself a fool if you look like one, huh?

@LunariaSong

LunariaSong · Oct 6, 2017

To: Nix, the weirdo me(me)lord
[1:08:59]: Near the end of the strip, dress shop, movie store. Got it! I know where that is haha. I'll fly there in a second, I just need to grab my purse which I...can't for the the life of me find
[1:09:32]: Oh my lord I was SITTING on it and it was behind the couch pillow of course I couldn't find it lol!
[1:10:11]: ...I'll be there in maybe 5-10 minutes! :)

Luna grabbed her incredibly small and easy to lose purse and went out the door, locking it behind her. She would take her car but with traffic today she knew it'd take a hell of a lot longer than 10 minutes to get to the damn cafe. So off she'd fly.

Luna summoned her wings, quickly flapping them once. Twice. Three times and up she was above the rooftops heading in the general direction of the coffee shop.

She's gotta admit...this guy was awesome. It was obvious that Nix had felt extremely embarrassed by the 'running-into-the-pole' incident a while, and he had hid behind it with apologies and funny pictures. That was not annoying in the slightest. In fact, whenever he did send random pictures it was in an oddly perfect time. Luna would be sitting in her room bored out of her mind, or maybe her housemate was acting particularly bad that day. Pictures though they were, they cheered her up a lot.

Suddenly, Luna realized she had passed a familiar building. The 'movie store thingy' as Nix had called it. At night it would be lit up with a bunch of billboards, but since it was in the middle of the day it was a little bit harder to spot. Luna quickly turned around and swooped in closer to the road, trying to spot the cafe. The cafe was easy to find, as there was a big and obvious coffee sign on the front.

...As she got closer to the cafe, Luna realized that she was going a liiiiittle too fast. Being higher up in the air made it hard to tell how fast she was going, but now she was lower and...well, you could say going nearly 30 miles per hour is never good when you're so close to the ground and so close to a tall building.

"OhshitohshitOHFUCKNO-", BAM! Luna slams face first into the glass door of the cafe like a stupid fucking bird before she could barely flap a wing. Damn that glass is strong...didn't make a single crack.

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Ashes · Oct 6, 2017

After a few minutes of deliberation, he finally got his fingers back to some resemblance of normality- they weren't sparking anymore, which was good. He'd lost count of just how many assignments he'd burnt to coals trying to finish, right before the deadline. They'd spark like crazy... Uneasy chuckles from himself.
Ah, who was he kidding? He messed everything up, somehow. The bakery, Lili's boyfriends... their dad... that stupid cave..thing... Again and again he'd failed. And made a fool out of himself. And just been a pin to everyone there -
Eh, whatever. It didn't matter anyways. Soon Luna would be here....
And then what? Exchange conversation like a pair of awkward teens? Share memes? Would he spill coffee all over himself again - or worse, all over her? God, what if it was hot? Damn -
No, stop it. Shut the eff up and concentrate. You're not gonna do shit. Everything's gonna be fine. Maybe you can take a -
BAM!
Eeeeeert.... rrrt....
The sound of something (big-ass bird, maybe?) thudding against the strong glass of the café doors almost made Nix jump ten feet in the air. "Jesus on a bike, what the hell?" It'd been so loud - oh.
And he started to chuckle. And then snort. And then, full-on laughter -but not at her. For her. Because the thing that had smacked into the windows was the very person he was supposed to be meeting. It was Luna, all right.
Still laughing a bit, he put on a kind smile and tried his best to get through to Luna.
*You okay, Luna?* he signed at her, since the glass was so thick - and well, because she was on the other side of the thick glass. *You look like you didn't... handle.... that well.*

@LunariaSong

LunariaSong · Oct 6, 2017

HOLY SHI-OW THAT HURT...That was freaking STUPID OF ME.

Luna slooowly slid down the glass. It was mostly thanks to her wings, which were propping her up onto the glass door. She looked inside and saw a few people staring right at her, among them was Nix who stood right behind the door.

At the mention of that pun, she immediately made the only sign she could think of at the time...a big fat middle finger. In that instant, some of the people inside laughed a little and went back to their business.

Stupid fucking...door...I hate it so much hhhhhh

She decided to just de-summon (is that a word?) her wings and walk inside, all casual. But that was a bad idea. Since they were the things propping her up against the glass, upon de-summoning them, she fell face first onto the pavement in front of the cafe...The doors were automatic so when they detected that something was on the ground in front, they opened...to reveal Luna groaning in pain and annoyance.

"HHHhhhholy shiiiiiiiz that hurrrrrt..."

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Ashes · Oct 6, 2017

*Heyyy, don't be so aggressive. I appreciate the attempt, though - it was adoorable.* He tried to shake the door open, to no avail. Man, the door was real stuck... Oh, that's why. Her wings were probably propping them up. That was probably why. When the doors did open, though - Luna almost fell flat on her face.
Well.. almost. In the nick (nix?) of time, he reached out and grabbed her hand, yanking his friend back upwards and into a hug. Which, Nix had to admit, was close quarters, but it was okay -it didn't bother him any. In a playful voice, he laughed:
"Well. I gotta say you look smashing."
The pun itself was terrible, but the context was brilliant. He'd need to pat himself on the back for that one. Even still, there was the matter of Luna. She didn't look so hot - maybe because she'd just slammed into a window, like he'd done the first time (or was that a pole? Or a pole and then the glass?)
"You good?" he asked with a grin, though concern for his friend's well-being still leaked through.

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LunariaSong · Oct 6, 2017

Luna was completely dumbfounded when Nix suddenly caught her and pulled her up into his arms...into a hug. Uh... a mighty blush applied itself to her face, though he definitely couldn't see with her head on his right shoulder...still in the hug. Luna left her arms at her sides, unsure how to react.

"Yeah I'm tooootally fine. Your puns though need to stop I'm fucking wounded you idiot," she said whilst laughing a little. His antics are funny, his jokes are funny, his weirdness is funny. What else then? She slams into a glass door right after he had already slammed against a pole? Is fate playing a joke on her lately?

"Heh...sorry. I'm joking....a-agh...my head..."

If her head and her back didn't hurt so much, that'd be greatly appreciated.

"I must look completely ridiculous..."

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