Foggy days in London town

UNDERGROUND

The second day of work had gone definitely better: Caesar and Joseph had made a silent agreement to ignore each other's presence in the local; in this way they wouldn't have repeated the disaster of the day before.

In the end, it worked; nothing happened: even when they inevitably bumped into each other, they continued to do their work, making Kars sigh in relief.

- Oh my god I can't believe it's over!-, Joseph exclaimed with utter joy, at the end of their shift.

- Yeah ... -, Caesar replied. He didn't have other choice but to agree with the other guy: that day had been a tough one, with a lot more clients than the previous one – even if it was also true that that time they hadn't been kicked out earlier.

Now they were underground, waiting for the metro, the famous "tube"; it should have arrived within a couple of minutes.

No matter how hard he was trying to not think about it, the blonde was feeling that he should have at least said something, but he didn't know what. That awkward feeling didn't stop to haunt him even when the metro finally arrived.

Fortunately there were some free spots left, so they could have sat without any problem and relax through the rest of the travel.

Caesar sighed; during those days he had found out that he wasn't very fond of metros. He didn't know why, but they just made him feel uneasy, and in danger. It was probably the awareness of being underground that was making him feel that way; he wasn't used to it. He was feeling like he was going to get squashed at any moment. Really, what if everything fell down in pieces...

Just as he was thinking about how awful that scenario was getting, he felt someone shaking his shoulder: it was Joseph.

- Mmh... Hey. You want...?-, he awkwardly said, handing him a headphone.

- Oh... sure. Thanks, I guess-, Caesar replied, awkwardly as well. It was a surprisingly nice gesture; he wasn't expecting that from him, considering that, the day before, they were beating each other.

Before letting him take the headphone, however, Joseph made him swear that he wouldn't have said anything about his musical tastes.

Caesar promised, wondering what crap did he listen to, to make him say something like that.

The first songs weren't that bad, even if Caesar had never heard them. They seemed old, or at least they were sending old vibes to him, like they were from the 70s or the 80s, but maybe it was better to not try and guess; he was more of a casual listener, not an expert.

However, he wouldn't have asked Joseph. God knew how he could have reacted; as far as he was concerned he could have taken his ignorance as a personal offense and maybe he would have started another fight, which would have meant only trouble for them. He decided to set his curiosity aside; yeah, they were good songs, but they weren't anything Caesar would have listened to on a daily basis, so he didn't need their name.

Then, he heard a guitar playing a familiar tune; then, the words came out. At that point he was sure; it was "Across the universe". Yes, now they were talking.

His lips curved into a smile as he started humming the song. Who could have thought that he liked The Beatles too?

It had been difficult, but they had finally found something that they had in common.

- You know them, don't you? - Joseph said, looking at him with a strange gaze that Caesar couldn't decipher.

- I know them? No, I love them-, he replied with confidence, and that was how they spent the rest of the travel bonding over bands and music.

The brunette had been barely able to contain his excitement; he didn't want to draw too much attention on them, but he was really happy to have found, after all that time, someone who shared some of his passions, as outdated as they were considered to be.

Well, there was still a little problem: the "someone" was Caesar, and they weren't getting along very well; maybe, however, they could have changed that.

Come on, he listened to The Beatles; he couldn't be so bas as he had initially thought, right?