Is This Even Coffee?

Blue Drink

Today you weren't going to be late. You woke up early this time to get the ingredients to make a blue drink recipe. You only really needed one ingredient since the shop had the other stuff you needed for it. It consisted of iced passion tea with soy milk and vanilla flavoring. It seemed like a really weird combination to make a drink blue without food dye. Which you'd probably try if this came out horribly. The thought of giving him some blue colored juice also came across your mind. Which made you laugh to yourself a bit.

You went back to the coffee shop with the tea. You put your stuff away and got ready for your shift. You figured you should taste the drink, but it wasn't appealing enough for you. So, you just waited for Yugi to show up and started serving customers that were slowly coming in. Luckily it didn't take him too long to come in.

"Wow. You're early?" He said with amazement.

You just stuck your tongue out to him in response and got back to work. Once he got ready, he came out to help you out. Since it was slow you got to talking.

"So, I got the stuff for making a blue drink." You started.

"Ooo. How's it made?" He asked.

"Passion tea with soy milk and vanilla flavoring." You responded.

"Hmm. Let's try it!" He replied.

"What?" You asked.

"It sounds interesting. Besides no one is really here." He replied.

You shrugged your shoulders. "Sure."

You watched as he made it until Seto came in. You told Yugi to make three drinks. You walked over to the register to greet him. Before he could even spit out his usual order you interrupted him.

"We both know I'm not taking that order." You said.

He glared at you.

"Hear me out. I was looking for a new type of drink to make for you and I found this one recipe and supposedly the drink turns blue. Want to try it with me and Yugi?" You asked.

"I don't really have any choice, do I?" He asked.

"Nah. It's on the house if that makes you feel better." You responded a bit giddy.

"It doesn't." He replied as he walked with you to the counter where drinks are served.

You both watched as Yugi made the drinks. The tea had a pinkish color to it. You wondered if this would even work. As the milk was added it turned into a purplish sort of color. It looked nothing like the photos people had taken of their drinks. They probably added a food dye. You heard Seto laugh to himself and you looked over to him.

"That doesn't look very blue." He said with a sly smile.

"Yeah..." Yugi said as he served up the drinks.

You pouted as you took the drink. "Guess I'll have to do some more research than."

Yugi laughed. "Not giving up on a blue drink?"

"Nope!" You exclaimed.

Seto glared at you. "Don't waste ingredients on trying to spite me." He said.

You waved him off. "Whatever. Let's just try this."

You all looked at the drink in your hands. A bit hesitant to taste it. Yugi was the first to taste it, you and Seto soon tasted it once you saw him drink. It tasted kind of like a push pop ice cream. Like drinking a melted version of the ice cream. It wasn't totally weird though, just not what you were expecting.

"This is pretty good!" Yugi said.

"Really?" You and Seto said in unison.

Yugi giggled. "You guys didn't like it?"

"It was okay." You managed to say first.

"It's not that good. The other drinks were better." He looked down at you. "Remake it."

You rolled your eyes. "Yeah. Yeah."

You made him a latte with some art. You made a little broken heart and handed it to Seto. He looked into the cup and saw the art.

"I'm sorry. That drink was nasty." He said.

"To each their own." You replied as he left.

Since Yugi liked it, you gave him the rest of your drink. Surprisingly the rest of the shift was slow. It only picked up towards the end as people came to get last minute coffees. They probably needed something to pull them through a late shift. As the last few customers left, you and Yugi started closing up. You both just chatted away as you cleaned. Talking about what you were going to do when you got home. Yugi said we was just going to go home and help his grandfather close his game shop.

"Your family owns a game shop?!" You exclaimed.

"Yeah, but it's not doing so good. That's why I started working here." He said.

"Oh. I'm sorry." You replied.

"It's fine! We'll eventually be able to get right again." He said hopefully.

"I should visit your shop sometime then!" You said.

"I was actually thinking of inviting you to hang out." He said.

"That sounds fun! Where at?" You asked.

"How about a karaoke bar?" He asked.

"Aren't you too young for drinking?" You asked looking down at him.

"I'm 24." He said.

"Oh!' You replied.

"Is it because I'm short?" He asked.

"Yeah. Sorry." You said with some shame.

He let out a sigh. "It's fine, it happens often."

Oh god you felt horrible. Not only does that happen to him often but you also did it. You both kind of awkwardly cleaned in silence. The silence was killing you, so you thought of some way to break the silence.

"Hey! How about we invite Seto?" You asked to change the subject.

"Uh...Sure. I'll invite some of my friends too." He said a bit hesitantly.

"Nice! When should we do this?" You asked.

"How about after tomorrow?" He asked.

"Okay!" You exclaimed.

You both had finished cleaning up and collected your belongings. You locked up the place and headed to your cars. No Seto in sight to keep you after. You wished each other a good night and went to your cars. Once you got home you searched up other ways to make a drink blue. You found something interesting. It was a natural food dye that had gotten popular. You decided to order some off of Amazon with overnight delivery. Lucky Seto.