starter for: @rxshingpxlse - gabriel montgomery. location: beanz
Rory's morning had already started relatively somber and dreary. A robotic, firmly-worded email from yet another art gallery saying they weren't interested in his work had served as his wake-up call. Another day, another rejection.
And the sobering fact about it all was that he was bagging on securing that job, which'd hopefully have added a healthy sum of money into Rory's earnings for this month. Alas, it was not meant to be - and so, Rory had to do what he hated most; beg.
He'd come into the café early, when it was Gabriel's open rather than his own (he was to take over later on in the day), to catch the man before he had to do anything customer-facing. A small frown that seemed printed into his face as he knocked on the locked café door, peering in like a lost puppy. A pathetic mouthing of the words "Can I come in?" was said in hopes that Gabriel was a wondrous lip-reader.