- barista honerva always experimenting with creating new flavours.
- one day zarkon comes into the tiny little cafe because his usual isnāt open, and once he sees her, he forgets all about his usual coffee place and this place becomes his regular because:
- even when he doesnāt need coffee, heās standing in the shop like an idiot and buying coffee which he doesnāt need.
- eventually honerva notices him and they come to talking terms. she soon makes him try her secret flavours (experiments).
- they are generally disgusting, but zarkon is a gentleman and he finishes them all with no complaint.
- one day, zarkon doesnāt come and honerva finds that weird (he came every single day at the same time without fail even during a storm) and so she closes shop early and goes looking for him.
- the reason she was worried was because sheād actually managed to taste her latest creation (she rarely made enough for two people, and sheād always give it to zarkon) and it was so foul that she thought maybe zarkon had finally had enough of her and her crap drinks and stopped coming.
- oh no, what if she poisoned him?
- and so she stepped out, heading who-knows-where (because she certainly doesnāt), all the while fretting and zarkon, who had actually just been late that day noticed her at some point while he was on his way to the coffee shop.
- she finally made her way back to the shop, defeated and morose, and took her place behind the counter when bam, there was zarkon waiting to place his order, smiling sheepishly.
- he had followed her all the way back to the shop and she hadnāt noticed him at all.
the end (because i like leaving things open ended) Ā ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
- end scenario can be anything ranging from more drinks of death for zarkon, a promise of noĀ more drinks of death for zarkon, with either a tearful hug from honerva or an angry outburst claiming that he shouldāve told her heād be late she was SO WORRIED (ābut we donāt even have each otherās number, my dearāĀ āI DONāT CARE YOU STILL SHOULDāVE LET ME KNOWā) and that if he did it next time sheād set her cat on him (āno no anything but that please honervaā)
also,Ā @sapphiresoulmateā has a neat au where the main roles are reversed, Iāll link it when sheĀ wakes up and posts it. itās really good. I like it loads. you definitely need it in your life.