AU where Rumi just grew up as a trust fund baby as her life ambition and is dating Zoey, a successful artist, and they do weekly date nights. they often go to the same spot, but there's recently been an upcoming restaurant that zoey had offhandedly mentioned, and rumi reserves a table for them to surprise her gf
once they get there the food is just. fantastic. phenomenal. they ask to speak to the chef to gush about how great their meal was, and they are floored to see someone as gorgeous as Mira walk out, mutter a thanks, and then retreat back to her kitchen to finish the night.
zoey jokes about how hot the chef was, and that's incentive enough to come back (other than the amazing food), so they make it a weekly thing. they tell the waiter each time to thank the chef for them after their meals, and after several reservations, mira treats them to a free dessert. then a free bottle of wine. then she starts actually coming out of the kitchen to talk to them a little before they leave, usually just thanking them for choosing her restaurant, but then it turns into more casual, personal conversations between them.
they have a reserved table. just for the three of them to sit at and dine and drink and talk.
one week rumi and zoey don't show up. mira flip-flops between annoyance, confusion, and missing them her whole shift that night.
the week after, when they appear again, mira begrudgingly states that she was worried about them when rumi calls her out on being bitchy to them. it was no big deal, really, there was a family thing and they couldn't make it.
mira's scowl she had been wearing most of the night melts into a bashful smile. "oh. i just thought you got sick of me---of here"
zoey actually whips out her phone and immediately gives mira her number, rumi does the same.
they all start messaging each other. there's a groupchat. there's individual texts.
in bed one night, the sweat barely even dried on their bodies after making love, zoey admits that she has a crush on mira. a big one. one that doesn't seem to be going away. rumi admits the same. the two devise a plan to woo mira, to add her into their relationship.
unbeknownst to them. the feeling is entirely mutual.