Nico chewed his lip. He was going to sound so boring, but he supposed he was sort of a boring person lately. ‘Job hunting,’ he responded. ‘Know any places hiring?’ It was a few minutes before Will replied back. ‘That’s rough,’ he acknowledged. ‘I think the coffee shop down the street from my apartment building is hiring. It’s called The Daily Grind.’ Nico stopped for a second when he saw that name. That was the coffee shop he’d just applied to. Did he and Will live near each other? Maybe there was more than one Daily Grind location.
‘Oh, I’ve heard of that place before. Actually sent in an application recently.’ Nico sent it without thinking too much about it. He yawned and rubbed his face. It was getting pretty late, though Nico had always been more of a night owl than a morning person. He hated mornings, which, now that he thought about it, probably meant applying to work at a coffee shop probably wasn’t the best idea he’d had. But it wasn’t like he had a lot of other options. He needed to get a job somewhere before his dad decided he’d mooched long enough and stopped paying his tuition and bills. He sent Hazel and quick text, just to ask how her day went, before closing his laptop and standing, stretching his arms up over his head with a satisfying pop. Will had texted him back, telling about his favorite pastries at the place and his usual coffee order. It was perfectly mundane, and Nico shouldn’t be as interested in it as he was, but he couldn’t help himself.