Steaming Cup of Joe

"Did you ever make any uniquely shaped ones? Like stars? Or hearts? I would make stars all the time and hang them on my ceiling for as long as I could. Can you make them glow in the dark?"

Maddie cupped her hands and buried her face into them to see if the gems glowed at all.

Like the child she was, Maddie reeled back and gave a delighted fit of laughter at the glowing, star shaped gems. It was just all too grand. She began sticking them to her clothes of her hair, anywhere she could manage without them falling off.

"I wanna be able to make these!"

Maddie attempted to balance one of them on her nose, like a school kid with a pencil. She giggled when it tumbled down and onto her lap.

"You would be the best at charades. Like, literally the charades master. Should I start calling you that? Should that be your contact in my phone? Charades master? I think it should!"

She whipped out her phone, tapping away.

The moment she was done adding a different name to his contact on her phone, she put it in her pocket and slammed her hands on the table as she stood.

"Hey!" was it ever mentioned that Maddie was both easily impressed and easily distracted? Well, he knew now. "How fast can you run? We should race! I think this coffee has me all crazy."

"Some people aren't allowed to have coffee?" Maddie asked, perplexed. Her eyes went wide. Was that seriously a thing? She was pretty sure she was allowed to have coffee. She had never been stopped from having it.

She waved this line of thinking off and shook her head. "We should race, or play tag. Gosh, I love tag! Don't you just love tag?"

Maybe she had had too much caffeine. She was talking much faster than before and her hands were jittering.