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“Doesn’t it just roll off the tongue?” he replied just as wistfully, before a chuckle broke loose. “Well, now that you’ve let it slip that this isn’t already public knowledge, it does seem rather tempting to print out a few flyers. You know, do my part to inform the masses.” Sean was more likely to do the complete opposite, but the opportunity to tease his friend was too good to pass up. He could tell that she wasn’t entirely convinced, and he couldn’t blame her. The redhead had always been a crap liar but now just didn’t seem like the time for such disclosures. Sean couldn’t help the sheepish smile that came over his face at her words, so he glanced down quickly to keep his embarrassment to a minimum. “Well, that’s very kind of you to say. Not entirely sure he’d agree, but at least it lets me know that you like me for more than just the coffee,” he teased, a bid to steer the mood back to the lighter side of things. When you grow up being told you you’re an inconvenience, it kind of tends to stick. So to know hear his friends voice the fact that he wasn’t just some annoyance, even if in the smallest of ways, it never failed to make Sean’s entire day. “You say that, but I’m pretty sure that all the other -cides also weren’t things until they were,” he rationalized. Sean let out a laugh at her ominous wording. “Oh wow, it must be a big one then. Kind of makes me all the more interested in figuring out what it is. I mean, YOLO right?” The teenager placed his hands on the counter, as he mulled over her question. “No, I would’t say you look unhappy. Maybe vaguely disinterested at times, but not unhappy. It just so happens that once you figure out what happiness actually looks like on a person, you kind of can’t help but notice when it’s not the main thing on display.”
“Of course it isn’t public knowledge, do you really think I’d tell everyone the trick to making me smile like an idiot? You do that and I’ll print out of a flyer to let everyone know they should refer to you as Sean Dorky Hart from now on,” she threatened, holding out her finger in front of his face with furrowed brows. Claire chuckled when she saw the pink rushing to his cheek, making his embarrassment painfully obvious. A downside to being a redhead she supposed. He truly was a huge dork. In a cute way, though. “Well, he’s a moron then. It’s his loss. Of course I like you more than coffee, I’m not completely heartless.” She liked to act tough, but deep down she was very protective of her friends. That was probably due to her coming from a big family. Loyalty ran in the Dillane family. “You’re ridiculous. Although, if anyone were to make coffe-cide a thing, it’d be me.” Claire hid her face in her hands at his use of the word YOLO, trying not to cringe. “I cannot believe you just used that word. I thought it stayed back in 2015 where it belonged. Now you definitely earned that middle name.” Disinterested was the right word for her default mode, he seemed to have her all figured out somehow. It was mostly an act, everyone cared about something and she was no exception. “I’m not unhappy, more like perpetually bored. I’ve worked really hard for my reputation, you better not give me away, Hart.”
















