"Hey, pretty boy," Aaron purs, leaning on the counter.
He hates the fact that he's made himself a regular at the bakery. It means people know him by sight, know he talks a lot with Charlie. It makes more... violent outcomes harder to pull off. Father would kill him if he got involved in another police investigation.
But stabbing someone and letting them bleed to death is not the only way one can have fun. Charlie's cute, and he seems desperate for affection. It draws Aaron in like blood in the water.
"What time do you get off?" Even though there's no special inflection to his words, the grin on his face highlights the question's double entendre. "I thought we'd go for a drink."
Aaron had been coming around off and on for a little while now. He was always complimentary, flirtatious without anything really going anywhere. It was kind of fun, admittedly. Charlie found himself looking forward to the visits more and more, the more often he saw the man.
“ Hey yourself, handsome. ” Charlie lets himself sway a little closer to the counter as well. “ Fancy seeing you around here. ”
The bakery is quiet, as it usually is at this hour. It makes it much easier for Charlie to focus on Aaron when there’s no other patrons to attend to. He still didn’t quite know what kind of work kept Aaron running around at such a late hour, but he’d made it clear his work could be exhausting, and Charlie was enjoying being a little bit of relief from that.
He glances at the clock. Technically the store wasn’t meant to be closed down for another hour. But they rarely got customers aside from people like Aaron anyway…
Charlie makes a split second decision. Fuck it. He was a hard worker and he deserved something for himself, didn’t he? A date with the hot guy from work was worth closing a little early. His boss would understand.
“ Give me fifteen minutes and I could be off right away. ” He pats the counter with his hands and pushes off to quickly circle to the front and flip the sign on the door. “ Just hang tight. ” Braid tossed over his shoulder, he swiftly darts through the double doors and into the back of the house to do the quickest closing down on record.
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