Number 721: Drinking stuff through your coffee stirrer


Kyouya slid into the warm, artificially-lit booth at the little coffee shop, watching Gingka and Masamune fight over...whatever they always fought over. Who in their right mind brought those boys to a coffee shop?

He looked down at the hot coffee and thought it would probably boil the hair off a chicken at this point.

You could not drink coffee without a straw; it was a proven fact that it always tasted better with a straw than without one. And you could suck up all the little undissolved sugar crystals instead of waiting to get to the bottom.

Kyouya surveyed the condiment counter before him.

Splenda. Sugar. What - who put ketchup in a coffee shop!? Creamer, sugar. More sugar. Napkins and lids. But no straws.

Then his eyes fell on the little red coffee stirrers stacked row upon row in the little compartment down the counter. He'd seen kids use these to drink their coffee through, but that was just immature. He wouldn't do it. Would he?

You couldn't, absolutely COULD NOT, drink coffee without a straw. At least as far as Kyouya was concerned.

And so, making sure nobody was looking, he stole one of the little red plastic stirrers and stuck it in his coffee cup. Whenever somebody passed by, he could pretend he was stirring it like a regular adult.

Leaning down and keeping an eye out for evil guys, he slurped the coffee through the stirrer. You had to suck your cheeks in if you wanted it to work.

He felt so immature that he threw the stirrer away before half the coffee was gone.

But it was epic.