"she plays guitar?" wilbur soot x reader

favourite cafe

We step out of the uber and Niki decides to tip a bit, as he didn't talk and gave us the aux. The outside of the cafe was super cute. It was a corner cafe, with a wooden door that had a nostalgic feel.

It had vines rapped around the corners of the door. The lighting was warm and you could sense the welcoming atmosphere just from looking inside. Plus, it's a cat cafe. It's a favourite nonetheless.

As we walk inside, I see Niki's face light up as she looks around. There was a list of all the cats on the walls along with their names and friendliness levels out of ten.

"Hello, ladies! Welcome to Tabbies on Tab! What could I get started for you two?" a young girl, maybe 16 or 17 asks us quite optimistically.

"Do you guys still have boba? I went here a week or so ago and you didn't have any pearls." Niki asks with a warm smile.

"We do, but not all of the flavours. We have strawberry, mango, peach and kiwi. And of course the regular black tea. Kiwi is the newest addition." the girl says while fidgeting with her apron. She was definitely very new here, so I'll probably order something simple.

"I'll have a strawberry milk tea! Y/n, I remember you wanted to try strawberry milk tea, and I'm paying so we'll have two!" Niki says looking at me with a kind, yet evil smile.

"Great! Anything else?" the waiter asks pointing towards the pastries. "I'll take some cheesecake!" I say quite quickly. It was cheap and looked so incredibly delicious, I had to get it. "We'll take two." Niki adds and grabs a table number, and pays.

"Let's go to one of the couch seats. There tend to be more cats there, and my ass hurts from the way I was sleeping." Niki says and starts walking. I smile looking around and wondering why the waiter greeted us in English.

I decide to ask Niki. "This is actually most common for tourists, so they greet in English just in case. If you proceed to talk in german, they'll adapt." she replies in an explanatory manner. I nod as we sit down in the corner.

"LOOK!" I squeal at Niki as a very cute kitten approaches the cat bed behind us. If I'm remembering correctly, this is Prince. A British shorthair. I look over to the list of cats, and I was right! His friendliness level is 6/10, so I decide to try to pet him as he sleeps.

He starts purring and my heart melts. I used to have a cat. Same breed and name, actually. It was a very pleasant coincidence.

"It's not a coincidence, Y/n. I guess I just saw this cat and knew you had to meet him before you leave." Niki says giving me a warm smile. We look up from the cat and see the waiter.

A different waiter.

She gives Niki gay panic instantly. I blush as well, but I know that if one of us was going to get her number, it HAD to be Niki. She was covering her face up with a sweater paw. You could tell she was red.

"Hey. beautiful. Why are you hiding? Is everything alright?" she says with a smirk, knowing that Niki is just blushing. She had a deep voice, seductive no matter what she said. I laugh a bit looking down and covering my face. I hated my smile and laugh, so I did it without even thinking about it.

"Uhh, yeah, mhm. I'm- I- yes. Yup." Niki says looking down shaking her head. She was in deep gay panic at this point. I decide to be a bit bold behind Niki's back.

I whisper to the waitress "Could you write your number on the check? I think she'd appreciate it." I pull away from her and she nods. "Anyways, here are your cakes and teas." She said not taking her eyes off on Niki the entire time.

As she walks away I see Niki panic. "I DIDN'T GET HER NUMBER! Y/N, I'M FUCKING STUPID!" she whisper-yells. "That you are, but since you're paying for my meal, I took care of it." I say giving her a side eye and picking up my tea.

"Thank you... HOLY FUCK, SHE WAS SO HOT, WHAT?" she says whisper-yelling again.

"That I agree with. Now, eat your goddamn cake." I say as I pass her a tiny fork. It looked vintage. Cute.

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I check the time. We have 2 hours until my flight.

Prince was sleeping on my lap. I don't think you can cuddle the cats, but he went there on his own. I felt a very sad feeling wash over me when I had to set him back in his bed. I felt like that was my Prince. The one that passed away 6 months ago.

I couldn't get back home when he passed, so I never really processed what happened.

As we get into our uber, I hold back tears. I didn't really give myself any time to grieve 6 months ago, so I think it was collapsing on me a bit. Niki notices and puts her head on my shoulder. I look up holding back tears.

I am strong.
I am strong.
I am strong.

I calm down while we drive back to our apartment building, and as we enter, I hear Niki say something.

"Hm? Sorry, I was a bit zoned out." I say looking at her with an unreadable emotion on my face. I didn't know what I was feeling, really. I just kind of pushed down my sadness.

"I asked how are you? I'm sorry for bringing you there, I thought it would make you happy, not... whatever this is. Sorry, Y/n." Niki says looking down. I felt the apology was unneeded. She thought I processed this, and so did I.

"Niki, it was quite nice. I think that was him sending me a message. This kitten was very, very young. Maybe it was Prince." I say as I give her a smile and feel my denial turn into anger, then into bargaining, then to depression and finally...

Acceptance.

"I think I just went through the five stages of grief in like a minute." I say as I chuckle.

We enter our apartment and I breathe a bit before realising that this was in fact my last day in Germany. I don't know how we spent it all in a cat cafe, but I know we ended up having more than just cheesecake.

"When you text that waitress, call me. I wanna know how it goes." I say as I smirk at Niki's facial expression.

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next chapter is the airport and probably a bit of the UK.

can't wait for sisterinnit.