In a Moment of Laughter
Lydia is not quite sure if she likes Stiles as her barista.
On the one hand, he has never misspelled her name, and she trusts him to use soy and not kill her by way of painful lactose allergy.
On the other hand, he thinks he's hilarious.
She almost missed the first one. It was a hurried morning, and she wasn't in the habit of perusing takeaway cups. (She is now.)
As she was about to drop the cup in the trash on her way into 8am o-chem, she sees it.
You are hotter than the bottom of my laptop.
Lydia snorted and rolled her eyes, though it was wasted as the target of this exasperation was still working away.
The next cup was much the same - Girl is your name Wifi ? Because I'm feeling a connection! - and then he has the day off. Scott, though adorable and wonderful all-around, does not have the same "endearing through annoying" streak that Stiles has.
Before too long, she just doesn't go in to the shop if she knows he won't be there. She can make her coffee at home for cheaper, and not have that sad pang looking at a takeaway cup with no pick-up line.
If she had more hoarder tendencies, she'd keep the cups.
If you were a vegetable you'd be a cute-cumber.
Do you have a map? I'm getting lost in your eyes.
I don't have a library card, but do you mind if I check you out?
The last one, she catches before she leaves the shop. She reads it, re-reads it, and then looks back towards Stiles.
He's cute when flustered, as he's just been caught staring after her. He's cute and he's shy, but Lydia has never backed down from what she wanted, and romance is the battleground she knows.
She lifts the cup up, line towards him, adding, "You're overdue. You've got fine written all over you."
Before he can react - before she can process Scott and Isaac snickering - she flounces out the door.
The next time she gets coffee from Stiles, he looks at her with more weight. Her cup still has an expected pick-up line, with the added bonus of a phone number.
My doctor says I'm lacking Vitamin U.
As she walks out, smiling more earnestly and truthfully than she has in a while, she hears him call after her, "Hey, tie your shoes! I don't want you falling for anyone else!"