Working late. Quite the annoying thing, isn't it? Keeping yourself up just to watch the continuous flow of people come in that are just as sleepy as you. Even more so of a bother when the one person that you looked forward to seeing that day failed to show up.
Rogue waited. All day long. The only reason he looked forward to going to work today was to see Kagura. She was different from the rest of the girls he'd met. And he needed to see her again. His plan was to wait for her, then let someone cover his shift when she arrived. Well, he had no idea where he was going to take her anyway.
He watched as a busty blonde girl came wobbling in. Drunk, probably. "Hello, I'm Rogue and I'll be taking your order toda-"
"I would lo-o-o-o-ooove to have a tall glass of you, Mr. Mysterious..."
Rogue internally rolled his eyes. He was seriously not in the mood right now to deal with people like this. But unfortunately, he had to put on his playboy attitude. "Well sadly I'm not on the menu at the moment, but you can try our Peppermint Spice latte, limited only for this season."
"Okay then Hottie Mc. Hotterson, give me one of those."
Rogue ripped her receipt out of the machine and handed it to her. There was no customers but her, so he was able to hastily able to prepare her drink and give it to her straight at the counter. "Here you go..." He looked at her silver clutch with her name embedded on it. "...Krystal." Your just the same as the others. Jenny. Bonnie. Ashley. Lindsay. Kimberley. Krystal.
"Ooh, how did you know my name?"
Because sluts like you have slutty names. Rogue knew his judgment with names and people could be a bit unfair sometimes. He knew there was many other girls out there who had those names and had pure hearts. But he really didn't care at the moment. "I'm a psychic."
"That's as sexy as hell, mister."
"Sure. Thanks for coming to the shop." He watched as Krystal swayed out the door, then his eyes drifted towards the clock. 11:00 pm. Rogue undid his apron and tossed it in the back closet, and grabbed his black backpack. Turning the lights off and the sign to "CLOSED", he stepped out the door. After locking the door, he turned to his left and went towards his loft that he shared with Sting. Kagura. Why didn't you show up today? He thought about how her brown eyes seemed to hold the answer to his troubles.Suddenly, a familiar voice snapped him out of his thoughts.
"Hey Rogue." When he heard the voice, he thought that it was coming from a few feet behind, but when he turned he saw the black motorcycle boots quickly catch up to stay at his right side. Definitely, Rogue was not expecting that voice to belong to who it did.
"Hey, Min."
"Don't call me that. Never call me that. You don't even have permission to call me that." Her hair was down, and her dark purple waves bounced with every step that she took. Minerva and Rogue always met up with each other on nights like these. Both them got off work at around the same time, and she lived right next door to him and Sting with her roommates that she was always complaining about. They were walking side by side in silence, which was rare because she usually asked about his day, didn't listen, then talked about hers.
"So how was your day."
"Fine. Swell. Perfect. Filled with crap. Yours?"
"Same." She didn't show up today. She didn't show up today. "She didn't show up today..."
"What? Who didn't show up today?"
"...What?"
"You just said, 'She didn't show up today'." Minerva's eyebrows rose in interest. "It was a 'she', huh?"
Rogue's previously pale cheeks were getting redder and redder. "Uh..."
Minerva stopped and stared at him in the eyes for about 3 seconds. "I know." She cleared her throat, and mustered all her confidence. "Lisanna Strauss."
Rogue stared at her in pure amusement, then burst out laughing.
"Did I say her name wrong?"
"NO! It's not her! I don't even know her!" His fit of chuckling grew even stronger. Now Minerva's face was the one getting red.
"Yes it is! Your just trying to hide it! You want to prove me wrong!"
Rogue snorted. "Look. You're smart. But it's not the fairy." The laughter of the shadow dragonslayer was the only noise in the quiet street.
"Oh yeah? Then who is it! IT IS LISANNA!" She imitated Rogue's voice in a low octave. "'I don't even knoooow her'. Pshhhhhh-"
"It's Kagura."
Minerva's period of amusement came to a halt. "Who? I'm sorry, did you say Kagura? As in, Kagura Mikazuchi?"
"Is that her last name?"
"If you're talking about the same dark haired, droopy eyes girl that I am, then yes."
"She doesn't have droopy eyes."
"She lives with me."
What. What? What! "S-she does?" Rogue observed her convincing nod. Then he felt a surge of excitement, something that he hadn't felt in awhile.
"With the Titania. The three of us in the Grand Magic Games together, remember?" Minerva saw the flicker in his deep red eyes, something that she always tried to ignite but failed. And here she was, helping him find a date. That damn Scarlet has made me too nice.
Rogue wasn't even paying attention to the change of expression in Minerva's face. "Did she say anything about me..?"
"Not that I recall, no. But today, she called in sick because of a bad cold.."
It all made sense to Rogue. She was having a cold, that's way she didn't stop by the coffee shop. But reality struck him short. If she had a cold, she probably could have came anyway. A cold doesn't necessarily put someone under house arrest. There was still a small chance that she didn't want to go in the first place. "Can I... See her? As soon as possible?"
"For God's sake Rogue, it's almost midnight!"
"Do you think she's still awake?"
Minerva always dreamed of Rogue wanting to come home with her. It was finally happening, but he was only there to see another girl. "Rogue. It's almost midnight. I think it's clear that only met her yesterday. Don't you know what will happen if you go to see her tonight? She's going to get under the impression that you're not a gentleman. Maybe she's been having a bad day, and you're just going to make it worse if you wake her up in the middle of the night."
She's right. "...Tomorrow, then."
"Do whatever you want, it depends on you. I'm just trying to help."
"For once." His loft was in sight, and it was time for them to split their paths. "But thank you, Minerva." Rogue wondered why Minerva of all people actually wanted to help him.
"Your welcome, oh most precious friend.", she said in a sarcastic voice. Her hand waved goodbye, and she turned, proceeding to walk up to her house.
Minerva's house. The Titania's house. Kagura's house. "Wait! Minerva! I'll come by tomorrow! What time are you and Erza out?"
"8:30!"
"I'll be there at 8:45! Make sure Kagura doesn't get out by then!"
"Whatever!" Rogue saw Minerva open her door and close it carefully behind her. Thank you. Rogue fumbled with his keys and opened the door. He needed to get a good rest if he wanted to get some flowers before 8:45.
I hate how ya'll are like, forcing me to update TSTF. If I don't want to, I don't want to. Maybe I'll change my mind, but I can tell you one thing, this is a story that I am never going to give up on. I'm kind of on a semi-hiatus because school, so ya'll should be grateful I posted a chapter in just over a month. And another thing that I hate are people saying that they won't read my fanfics anymore if I don't update TSTF. Well, all I can say is, TOO BAD! I don't know if those people have noticed, but Expresso is the only RoKa fanfiction that is updating. If you're not gonna read my fanfictions anymore, there won't be much RoKa. Ok, well I just needed to get that off. Ranting about people (actually, PERSON) who pester/pesters me (you know who you are).
You wanna know the real reason why I stopped updating TSTF? Because what I had in mind is IMPOSSIBLE for the story to become at the moment. It's a trainwreck, honestly. The characters are so OOC that it isn't even a quality story. By the time I really get into Expresso, you guys will be glad that I chose this over updating TSTF.