One smile, please

Maya walks calmly through the streets of Paris, admiring its beautiful architecture along with its nature as she enjoys the pleasant weather and the sun shining brightly, the birds singing a beautiful song that enlivens her walking.

She takes one look at her phone screen, ensuring she's following the right signals Hikari gave her, when she finally comes across the desired address.

She smiles widely, gazing up at the sign adorning the detailed white façade of the cafeteria in front of her already smelling the delicious aroma of bread rolls freshly baked coming out of it, before she takes a step forward and enters the establishment, the doorbell ringing and announcing her arrival.

- Bonjour mademoiselle, would you like to take a seat?

A kind auburn waitress greets her as soon as she enters the cafeteria, and Maya can't help but smile at her.

- Yes, please.

The waitress nods and quickly leads her to a distant and empty table next to the window of the cafeteria, the peaceful sight of the nearby park being seen through it.

- Is this seat okay for you, mademoiselle?

- Ah, yes, it's wonderful. Thank you.

Maya says gratefully, placing her bag next to her on the table as she takes a seat and looks through the window to see the leafy trees and flowers coloring the park with different colors, the butterflies fluttering around them.

- Here is the menu mademoiselle. Once you decide what you would like to have, one of our waitresses will come to note your order down.

The waitress informs her as she hands her the menu, before she leaves to attend to another client with the same sympathy and good manners to which she attended to Maya.

Maya smiles softly to then gaze down at the menu in her hands. Just as she is looking through the meals in it, a very familiar girl approaches her.

- Maya? What are you doing here?

Claudine asks her taken aback as to see Maya in the cafeteria she's working, even more to find her in France without informing her about it.

- Bonjour, ma Claudine – Maya says with a cheeky smile on her face that makes Claudine roll her eyes, yet answer her greeting with a wave on her own – Hikari-san told me about you working here, so I wanted to come and see it by myself.

- Of course you had to come all the way just to see it by yourself, infuriating girl.

Claudine can't help but say as she huffs and hears Maya giggling.

- So, have you decided yet what do you want to order? – Claudine asks Maya as she pulls out of the pocket of her apron a notepad and a pen.

- Not yet. Mind if I think for a bit longer about what I want? There's a wide variety of delicious meals here.

Maya says softly and Claudine can only snort at her gluttonous girlfriend, before she nods and turns around to go and attend to another client.

Maya, far from going back to look at the menu in her hands to choose what she wants to order, just stares at Claudine, seeing her serving and taking other clients' orders with a kind smile on her face.

She can't help the smile that spreads across her face as she watches her, seeing her so relaxed, so natural, so different from their revues and performances back at Seisho…

She shakes her head with a foolish smile still playing on her lips, and goes back to read the menu in her hands to stop staring at the ash-blonde afraid of falling even more in love with her.

Soon, the clearing of a throat breaks her out of her concentration, obliging her to look up from the menu in her hands to find her beautiful girlfriend looking back at her with a grin playing on her lips, making her heart skip a beat.

- Have you decided yet? Or you can't decide given such a wide variety of meals? – Claudine teases her causing Maya to giggle cutely.

Maya then grins back at Claudine and closes the menu to hand it back to her, seeing Claudine putting it under her arm to then, once again, pull out of the pocket of her apron her notepad and pen.

- It was a hard decision but… – she trails off, letting out an amused giggle as Claudine rolls her eyes again – I'd like… one smile, please.

Maya ends up saying with a serious expression on her face, a pregnant silence settling between them before Claudine starts to fume.

- What the… Did you just.. urgh, méchante va, ce que tu es rageante! Juste quand je pensais que ça pouvait pas être pire, tu... (you're incredibly infuriating! Just when I thought you couldn't be worst, you just…)

Maya blinks perplexed at Claudine's angry and fast French rant, getting lost in the middle of it, yet she can't help but grin at how cute the ash-blonde is ranting angrily in her mother language.

- Stop grinning idiot. I should just kick you out of the cafeteria for being so lame, but I guess I'll just have to restrict myself and bring you a cup of tea and your beloved dessert. Nothing else.

Claudine ends up warning Maya as she hits her lightly with the menu in her hand, just before she stomps off to the back of the cafeteria not giving Maya any chance to say anything cheesier or even more infuriating that could angry or embarrass her further.

Maya, for her part, can't help but giggle, seeing Claudine leaving amusedly yet sadly upon not being able to witness the blush tinting Claudine's cheeks and creeping up to the tip of her ears, reddening them.

Several minutes later, and once Claudine is calmer, the ash-blonde returns with a tray food with a cup of tea and a plate with a baumkuchen on it.

As soon as Maya sees her and the baumkuchen on it, a wide smile takes over her features making her eyes sparkle happily as if she was a little kid.

Claudine upon seeing her reaction can't help but snort at her, rolling her eyes as she makes a motion to go to another table with the meal in her hands. But as soon as she sees Maya pouting lightly, she can't help but sigh and go back to her table, placing the meal in front of her cute yet very gluttonous and infuriating girlfriend.

- Thank you, ma Claudine.

Maya says softly, taking Claudine's hand in hers for a brief moment to place a fleeting kiss on it, making the blush return to the ash-blonde's cheeks once again.

- Méchante va.

Claudine murmurs, averting her eyes while Maya simply giggles and smiles at the cuteness of her girlfriend. The ash-blonde then sighs, a coy smile replacing her bothered features before she looks back at Maya with fondness, the light blushing adorning her cheeks being more noticeable now.

- Just so you know, you're truly infuriating.

Claudine complains playfully and Maya can't help but giggle and smile even wider, happy to witness such cute and soft expression and smile on her girlfriend's face.

At the end, she got an even more precious smile and expression of what she could have ordered for.