If there was one thing Tessa hated more than anything, one thing that always drove her up the wall, it was running late for things. Much more so when it wasn’t her fault at all. Chase had gotten a last minute interview for a job that could accommodate his music schedule, and it wasn’t like Tessa could say no to him when he asked her to pick up their brother. Problem was, she’d been coming down from a hike and exhausted when he’d asked. And beyond out of the way. She had bolted back into down, something she knew she’d have better stamina for were she a werewolf like her brother, only to find herself distracted by the local coffee shop. She was tired, that’s for sure, and coffee sounded like it could hit the spot. As she noticed the one person in front of her, order not yet taken, she moved in, hoping to save an extra minute or two. “Hey, man, I will totally buy your drink if you let me cut in front of you in line. I have to pick up Levi from school today. Totally last minute thing.”
He’d been hibernating inside the the coffee joint for much of the day working on drafts of his thesis. Four coffees in and he was combing all eight pages for any lone adjective that had escaped the massacre and obsessing over sentence structures. He fiddled in line, the caffeine making him feel hyped and couldn’t stop even when the woman stepped up next to him. “Uh, sure. Yeah go for it. I’m only getting a refill though so really no need.”
