a closed starter for @lovemangled.
"Yeah, I listen when you talk," that characteristically smug grin (the one that he secretly can't control whenever he's around her) causes the edges of a rather fine mouth to quirk up softly. Noticed right away the look of honest surprise upon gracefully feminine features when glossed over lips touched the corner of her cup----------- so that she could taste her favorite beverage from that absurdly expensive coffee shop down the way. Not somewhere that Rami quite frankly cared to go on a routine basis, but he'd picked up on her habits like a man taking mental notes on an opponent before the great big fight... and he'd learned some things, clearly. His mouth hovers over his own drink now: standard drip coffee with two shots of espresso, nothing overly involved. "What, you thought I was just some dumb brute? I can remember things. Quite well, actually." It didn't occur to him the why behind him paying such careful attention... no, the burly man just brushed it off as his usual attentiveness, and perhaps some nosiness regarding what ridiculously boujee item Teenie preferred every now and again. (She was not like the other girls that he was used to, which probably made him more curious than it should.)