Coffee Chaos (Michael Ryan Corbett)

[katniss]

Katniss was in a rush. She had just finished her last school final for the semester and was ready for summer break. Next year she would be a junior; the year would be full of ACTs and SAT testing, and maybe to start looking into colleges, maybe, that was unless she would take a year off. She shrugged, and road her bicycle a mile or two from school, to down town to the coffee shop she worked at. This was probably where she was going to be spending most of her time anyways.

She was rushing, as she hadn’t had planned to get distracted talking to her friends, and relaxing a ways right when the final bell rang for the summer. She just barely made it with time to spare, chained up her bike, and dashed in, heading in the back. “5 mins off your pay Kat! You can’t keep doing this!” the owner shouted at her, after serving a customer. “I’m sorry Jimmy! But it was the last day of school and…” She replied tying her apron around her waist, “No excuses and get to work. Take orders and clears those tables!” He ordered. The bright red sighed, glad this was Jimmy’s last week, he was moving to Maine, for whatever reason she didn’t know.

Lil Red put her usual smile, forgetting all the bad, and started doing her job, quickly and effiently. As the day went ahead, and the rate of customers was heading down as the day reached about 5:00pm she started cleaning of shop as always. Picking up a cup someone had left, she turned knocking into someone on accident. The coffee spilling on the person’s shoes and the floor. “Oh! I’m so sorry! Here let me help! I’m so so sorry!” she said bending down quickly to clean it up with a rag.

[crystal2]

Ahh break times.

It wasn't something Mike had very many of, but when he had the opportunity to just sit back and relax, he took it. It was always nice to be able to just sit there and do absolutely nothing and without any worries about it either. With everything that was happening--ranger wise and regular life wise--it was nice to be able to have a free moment (even if it was actually just a moment). And so he decided to take said free moment and get some food perhaps. Yep that sounded good to him. And so that was how he found himself at the local coffee shop patiently waiting in line for the chance to order...something (what exactly? Ehhh he was still working on that one).

The place was a little busy--a sit always was--, but it was nice all the same. You got what you wanted in a timely manner. And the people were nice for the most part too. It wasn't bad. And the decently priced items didn't hurt either. The line moved and so did he...a few steps forward. And again. And again. And again.

Mike himself however was busy thinking. And thinking hard. Just the day before, his brother had admitted to loosing his Quaser Saber...and to a psycho ranger no less. And ever since then (when he wasn't at GSA) he had been wracking his brains trying to figure out how to get it back. He had thought of many things---some that could work, some that were iffy and others downright ridiculous and that would never work out in a million years. But they had t o figure out something and soon. There was no telling what kind of madness would come out of this...

So busy was Mike in his thinking and pondering, that he didn't register the fact that someone had just plowed into him. But he surely did notice when the girl was trying to clean his shoes. "Oh no. No. Its fine. Really. I was kind of zoned out there." he said taking a step back to 1) get his feet out of the small puddle of coffee and 2) to give the other some space. And really---she didn't have to clean his shoes now. He wasn't that high and mighty. Eesh. "Name's Mike. Anything I can help you with?" he offered the other his help. Least he could do for not paying attention now...