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Cafe
"Well it's not as if I didn't want to go out with him." She paused patiently listening through the blue tooth in her ear. "He just wasn't my type Yukari." Smiling she took the cup of steaming coffee from the barista, and wandered to the cream and sugar counter. "No. No. No. You're not listening to me I'm—" She paused again listening to her friend yammer on about how Korin was a good man, had a secure job, etcetera, etcetera. "He already told me all of that last night."
Yes Korin was very adamant about his job and how well off he was, also with the fact that he was being pressured from his family to at least find a girlfriend. In fact she hadn't shared a single thing about herself all evening, it was mostly her listening to him complain about the quality of the meal and the wine. She'd been on terrible dates before but this was by far the worst one yet.
"No Yukari what I'm saying is that he's arrogant and selfish." Sometimes she hated technology so much, she caught the stares from some of the people around her as she poured four sugar and three cream into her double espresso. "He never even asked me a single thing about myself! I think that counts as a man being selfish." She was tired and honestly couldn't handle listing to her best friend since high school yammer on any more. "You should have heard how many times he mentioned his income. I felt more like his accountant than his date. Then it was how horrible the food was or how cheap the wine was." Picking up her cup she turned away from the counter. "Perhaps I should just swear off men all together."
Turning around she slammed into another body, her cup of coffee spilling down her skirt with a gasp and a startled yelp. "I'll have to call you back." She hurriedly said to her friend ending the call immediately. "I am so very sorry." She said turning back around grabbing fist full's of napkins to dab at the complete stranger she'd smashed into.
Her own coffee had spilled down her skirt and over the front of her blazer. But the man standing in front of her had obviously gotten the worst of it. His expensive looking suit was now ruined, a dark stain spread from his chest to the bottom of his pants. She dabbed at the places hastily, frowning when his hands grasped hers forcing her to stop the lame attempt at cleaning him. Green eyes glanced up at him wide and apologetic, his mouth was pulled down into a frown, angular jaw set and a pair of maroon eyes held a glare but also mild amusement.
"Let me... um... let me pay for your uh... the dry cleaning..."
"It's fine." His deep voice soothed as he brushed a little bit of white cream from the edge of the jacket. "Don't worry about the dry cleaning." He looked her up and down noticing the darkened specks on her white blouse and cream color jacket and gave her a small smile. "But let me buy you a new cup of coffee Ms..."
"Kanzaki!" She said quickly blushing like mad. "Hitomi Kanzaki." He smiled kindly at her gesturing for her towards the counter. Her phone rang again in her pocket and she silenced it immediately. He guided her to the counter and placed a new order for the two of them, paid and carried the cups to one of the tables gesturing for her to sit.
"My name is Van by the way." He sat opposite of her taking a sip of his beverage, his maroon eyes sparkling as he looked at her. "Van Fanel."
She couldn't help but feel something peculiar, something that said this might be fate; and that perhaps she had sworn off men a little too soon. "It's a pleasure to meet you."
Hello Kittens,
This was prompt one, series of dibbles and drabbles that manage to filter into my brain. This one is so very short since I have a horrible case of insomnia and writing helps clear out the junk. This is named after the Esca playlist I have on my computer as well.
One word prompts and phrases for future installments are welcome in reviews.
-Bv- Smile
