Café AU
DRAMAtical Murder
Pairings: Noiz/Aoba
Warning: Grammar / typing mistakes ahead
Disclaimer: DRAMAtical Murder belongs to Nitro+Chiral
It's a cold morning. Leaves slowly fell from it branches, telling that the early autumn breeze was coming towards the town.
A young blue haired young man opened the door of his small apartment room. He put his first step outside, slowly closed the door behind him, locked it and took a deep breathe.
"Haaaaa…" the blue haired stretched out his arm up in the air and put a bright smile in his face, put on the headphone that had been hanging in his neck and pressed play at his mp3 player before taking the stair to get off his apartment building.
Aoba was enjoying the morning walk while listening to the song in his headphone just like usual. He always did that when go to his work place.
A café.
It was a café that his grandmother ran half a year ago. Because it was still new back then, she asked Aoba to help her as the worker. Without any objection he accepted it, actually it made him really happy to help his grandmother that had been raising him all this time. Aoba took it as a chance to repay her kindness although he knew that her grandmother never wanted any of those thing. Aoba never took any of his salary from her grandmother, but he knew that she had been secretly transferring him the salary to his bank account for his monthly allowance. The young man didn't know how to thank his lovely grandmother. It made him to work even harder day by day.
Just another street to cross and some blocks to pass before getting to the café until a man with a big red motorcycle stopped near him. The man opened up his helmet, flipped his hair to look good and called, "Oi, Aoba!" The blue haired turned around only to found his childhood friend which also his 'friend at work'.
"Koujaku!" Aoba smiled to the other long haired man who's still sitting in his cool motorcycle.
"You're going to the café right?" Koujaku asked the obvious and Aoba just chuckled hearing his childhood friend's silly question. "Of course! What a dumb question. Do you think I will skip my job to my girlfriend house like a certain someone?" he put his mocking face to the certain someone in front of him.
"Oioi, it's not like I always skip my job you know-" feeling uncomfortable suddenly getting attacked, Koujaku denying the fact that actually he did skip the job at the café sometimes.
"Nah, just kidding, I know you're busy with your salon too sometimes." Aoba satisfied seeing Koujaku's agitated face in the morning so he stopped joking. He turned his body to continue his morning walk.
"Wait- Aoba- let's go together-" Koujaku at last said the word that he actually he wanted to say since the first time he greeted Aoba.
"Hmm?" Aoba turned his body again."Really?" he sounded hesitated.
"Do I look like I'm joking right now?" Koujaku moved his motorcycle forward with his two legs to catch up Aoba then gestured his hand and patted the back sit, telling Aoba to hop on. Both of them know it's not a really long walk but they always do this kind of routine when they met.
"Alright~" happily the blue haired walked towards the motorcycle and hopped to the back sit.
"Hold on tight-" Koujaku put back the helmet on his head and start his motorcycle and start driving.
The ride Koujaku gave made him got faster into the café by three minutes. Arrived, both of them could see a white haired figure sitting in front of the café door, waiting for it to be opened.
It was Clear, one of the worker, which is also their friend.
"Clear!" Aoba shouted from a far. The white hair man noticed both of his friends and waved at them.
"Aoba-saaaaan! Koujaku-saaann! Good morninggg!" he walked towards both of them.
"Aaahh I see you got here early like usual, I'm sorry did I make you wait long?" Aoba was the one who is in charge to keep the café's front door key, he felt guilty seeing Clear's shaking hand because of the cold perhaps.
"Ah- it's okay I got excited all over every time I want to go to work~"
"But still—I will make sure to come early tomorrow okay?" Aoba grab both of Clear's hand to warm it up.
"Hehe~ it's okay I think I will slow down my wake up time too….." Clear took a deep breathe "..ahh.. Aoba-san's hand is always warm".
"Oi what are you guys doing holding hands like that.." Koujaku the fuzzy atmosphere cut up by a not-so-happy-old man who walked towards them after parked his motorcycle at the back alley behind the café.
"It's nothing, he just got cold because come too early." Aoba replied releasing his hand from Clear. He put his hand inside his pocket to search the front door key. Felt the cold metal in his finger, he pulled the key out and attached the key to the door knob. He turned the key until he heard a 'click'. Pushing the door inside, the three of them barged in to escape the cold wind.
"It sure is cold today-" Clear rubs his own hand felt cold.
"Yeah, the weather forecast said that the temperature will drop a lot today… it's still the end of August.." Koujaku sighed.
"Well… let's start preparing the shop before granny come then.. shall we?" Aoba cut the atmosphere and opened his jacket as everyone did the same thing as him and walked to the locker room to change their clothes.
Aoba's grandmother, Tae-san, actually lived at a small room above the café, but she made the boys came earlier to prepare the café it opens. By preparing it meant to stack down the chair, prepared the food material, swept and mopped the floors, wiped the windows and they had to do it before the café open and after it closed, even sometimes when it's noon. Tae-san likes to keep the work place clean. Besides making the boys busy, cleaner place make it more comfortable to enjoy the menus. At least that's what she said.
Clear got busy preparing the cooking utensils while Aoba and Koujaku cleaning the main dining room. There was a sound of door opening, now this time is a dark-purple haired man came inside the café.
"Morning guys!" the just came man greet the others with an energetic voice, enough to be heard at the kitchen. It was Clear who respond the fastest-
"Mizuki-saaaaaann! Good morningggg!" he waved through the small window from the kitchen and Mizuki waved back in reply.
"Yo, Mizuki~" Koujaku gave a grin at him and put his fist just to be fisted back by Mizuki "Yo, Koujaku!" and the man grinned back.
Aoba always knew both of them were close to each other just as close as him with Koujaku.
"You should hurry prepare the food before *Baa-chan get down Mizuki-" Aoba reminded him he had small chit chat with Koujaku.
"Oh yeah- I don't wanna make Tae-san be angry again- thanks Aoba~" both of them high-fived and Mizuki left to the kitchen.
After few more minutes, all of them were done preparing. Tae-san had came down, already prepared too, giving the boys a good job sign and told Aoba to open the café. After turned over the 'Closed' tag that was hanging at the front door into 'Open', all of them were ready to start another day working at the café.
"Welcome to Sly Blue Café!"
*Baa-chan: Japanese term for "Granny"
to be continued