for @dandelionwritexs continued from here:
It’s looking to actually be a lovely London morning, if the soft light streaming in from narrow windows is any indication. Setting intention and mood for any day is paramount, even one in which she has an unexpected guest. So she has her usual morning ritual going-- a little Blossom Dearie vinyl spinning at low volume and a few candles lit and crackling in her makeshift faux fireplace-- all for ambiance-- and the scent of steeped coffee wafting through the tiny flat.
You have to set the stage for a good day, and it starts as soon as you wake up. Really.
She’s curled into a chair at her kitchen table, dressed in an old white tank and a pair of dark blue boyshorts, one bare leg pulled up to her chest while she surveys the sheet music spread in front of her. The first stirrings from the bedroom perk Ches’ attention. Glancing up at the sound of movement, she sets her pencil down and scoots around her chair to the French press.
“I’ll make coffee,” she calls out into the bedroom. “Don’t go anywhere.”
She can’t help but laugh softly to herself at the specified order coming from the other room. Somehow it doesn’t surprise her. It’s not even that demanding or anything at all, but it’s something specific beyond the offered, simple coffee, and that checks out if her first impressions last night are anything to go by.
Ches uses one hand to carefully stir a teaspoon of sugar into the still warm coffee cup while she hoists herself up on her toes on one foot to pitch herself to the right, reaching with her other hand into the freezer to grab a few ice cubes. She’s nothing if not accommodating.
Once the first cup is ready, bare feet pad into the bedroom ( she has to smile, instantly, at the sight of the golden-haired girl all wrapped up in her bed ) and she offers her hookup the coffee.
“Good morning.” Still smiling. Still pretty proud of herself. “I’m vegan, so I hope you don’t mind oatmilk creamer.”