Now to write a creative authors note. . . okay, so I typed this story, and had someone proof read it, so much better than last time, this will be so much better than last time (see I repeated it, it has to be). And the name. . .yes a strange name I know, especially since I don't like coffee. . .oh well. . .but I came up with it and it was amazing. . .though my cousin did help. . .i should thank her. . .buy yeah read. .and review. . .and live life . . .
Coffee
Chapter 1
Coffee
It was raining. What else was new? The rain reflected his mood; depressed and alone in the world. He wasn't suppose to feel like that, everyone was suppose to love him. He was captain of the soccer team, girls loved him, guys wanted to be him, but of course there was someone better. Wasn't someone always better?
Tai spun around slowly in his desk chair. He was bored, and there was nothing to do in the rain, but sit and ponder; which he did too much already. Why was he being such a gloomy nobody? Simple, one answer: Sora, he thought.
Running through the puddles her red hair soaked. She pushed it behind her ear's as she planted in the rain.
Coffee. Coffee should wake me up, the brown haired boy thought to himself. Making a cup of coffee at his kitchen table he decided it was the weather that was getting him down. Though he hadn't been exactly perky and happy the last few years either. You can't steal your best friend's girlfriend, can you? As he contemplated this thought Kari walked in.
"Morning Tai, you're up early," she said.
Looking at Kari blankly he tried to remember if she was talking to him.
"Morning Tai."
Yeah morning," he mumbled, turning towards the coffee pot, staring at it, willing it to heat faster. Stupid science causing his coffee to heat at this slow pace, hadn't anyone discovered a way to make it heat faster.
"So Tai what are you doing today?" she asked.
He was still willing coffee to heat faster.
"That's nice," Kari said after a few minutes of being ignored, she guessed she should be use to this, Tai had probably woken up a few minutes ago, and he was not a morning person. "I need a ride to T.K.'s today, were going school shopping, so could you drive us around."
Tai was still ignoring her and willing his coffee to heat faster.
"Thanks, um just get your keys and we can go," she said.
Done! Tai quickly poured himself a cup and began to chug it. "HOT, SHIT IT'S HOT," he yelled running toward the sink.
"Well yea. . . . . ."
Beginning to chug as much water down his burnt throat as possible it slowly began to cool.
"So, um you just put another shirt on and we can go," Kari said.
Tai looked down at his shirt, it had been white, but now had coffee spit all over it, "Go where?" he asked suddenly.
"Just get your keys Tai," Kari sighed, going to grab her rain coat.
She spun around the apartment, two rooms. She felt like crap, and the place matched it. Though it wasn't too bad she supposed. It still needed work, like a paint job and a new bathroom. It had its quirks like a toilet that would only flush if you held it for 10 seconds, and the cabinet doors that wouldn't perfectly shut, and the water needed to be ran before it would become hot. It had its good parts too, like windows in the bedroom and walking distance to the school.
She sighed and dropped her brown leather back pack on the bed, it matched the rest of the place with its own ancient history, she could only wonder who had lived in this apartment before.
Samantha, or Sam as she preferred it, was a 5 foot two red head. Her long red hair made its way down to past her shoulders. Her green eyes were lost in thought as she stared around the room. She wore a pair of jeans, with sneakers, and a mix of shirts and sweaters on trying to keep warm. She was 18, a senior in high school, and was attempting to start over, again.
Which is what bough her to her present situation, alone, tired, and hungry. Deciding that she should begin to stock the place with the necessities and find a job she set off.
"Why am I doing this again?" Tai asked for the umpteenth time.
"Because you love me," Kari replied on the way to the store, Kari had somehow convinced Tai that he could drive her and T.K. around.
"And why are we going to the food store again, I took you guys like everywhere," he said.
"Well because we want to buy popcorn so we can watch a movie," Kari said.
"Why do you need popcorn when you watch a movie, just suck it up and don't have any," Tai muttered.
"We need it Tai. You said you'd take us," Kari replied.
Tai grumbled pulling into the parking lot.
"Thanks, Tai," Kari said getting out with T.K.
"Welcome," at least he got a thank you.
Tai began staring off into space, waiting for Kari and T.K. Maybe there was a way to prove to Sora he matured. Maybe he could show her he could have a relationship with someone else. There were plenty of people in the world, right? Anyone of them could work. Yes, anyone. How about the first girl I see, he thought to himself.
An elderly women walked by slowly walking into the store in the rain. Okay forget her, he thought to himself, lets clarify this, a younger girl.
Next came a cute brunette. Perfect, he said getting out of the car following her into the store.
Walking over to her, he already knew what he was going to say, until he saw the silver band on her left ring finger, shit, can't do that either. He urgently turned around knocking into someone.
"Oh sorry," she said.
Tai was inwardly screaming, YES NO WEDDING RING! As he looked down at the redhead.
"Oh, no it was my fault," that was corny.
"Yeah it kinda was," she said.
What the hell?
She began picking up what she dropped. "Are you okay?" she asked standing up.
"What. . . . . .. oh yea," he said, still trying to find a good comeback.
"You might want to work on your speech impairment then," she said.
"What the hell?" Shit, he said that aloud.
"Yes?" she asked.
"I'm Tai," he said smiling, he had made the deal with himself, first girl he saw, that wasn't taken or older then 25, though there were some pretty hot girls older than that. . . . . .
"Sam," she replied confused.
"Glad to meet you Sam, can I help you?" he asked smiling.
"Um, not really," she said still confused.
"Okay." She wasn't making this flirting stuff easy, first she shut him down and now, wouldn't let him carry anything.
"Do you need help?" she asked.
"Yes," he said, why did he need help?
"Well what do you need?" she asked.
"A toothbrush," he said,
"Okay. . . ." she said slowly. Something was wrong with him, which made her take pity and decide to help.
A toothbrush? Why the hell did he need that? "Yeah, I need one for my cat," he continued.
"Well I think their down aisle four or something," she said.
"Can you show me where aisle four is?" he asked.
"Yeah. . ." Strange guy, she thought. Or he's just an idiot.
The two of them walked toward the toothbrush isle.
She was cute, not as amazing as Sora. She had a nice ass, that was going for her, but she was a little on the short side, but short was good. The hair, well that could be a problem; he wondered if it was dyed.
"Well you can have any color you want," she said standing in front of rows and rows of toothbrushes.
"I'll take this one," he said, picking out a red one, "Thanks." He wondered if he noticed that he chose red.
"You're welcome," she replied. He was an idiot, she decided.
Both of them made their way to the cashier.
"Ladies first," he said, allowing her to go first.
"Thanks," she mumbled.
Placing her stuff on the counter she pulled out the crumpled bills, quietly paying and then turning to leave.
Tai rushed through paying for the toothbrush. He probably was scammed some money, but he needed to talk to her. He'd worked this hard, maybe he could get her on a date, then prove to Sora he had matured.
"Hey," he said following her out of the store.
"Yeah?" she asked, maybe he was a stalker. That could explain his creepiness. She decided to continue walking away.
"Hey, wait," he said.
She decided that she shouldn't continue home and go back in the store and call the cops or something, instead.
"Hey," he said again as she ignored him heading back to the store, "I'm sorry," he said.
She looked at him, raising her eyebrows.
"I just wanted to know if you go to school," he rambled on, "and if you, wanted a ride. . ."
"I'm a senior," she said, "and I don't need a ride," she said, heading away again.
Well great going Tai, he thought to himself, but she's a senior, and there was a chance. He had definitely shown maturity. Come on, he'd bought a red tooth brush. There was connection there; red hair, red toothbrush. He smiled, now he just needed the date.
K that was a short chapter, but the next one's are longer, review please (not just alert)