[HxH] Caffeinated Catastrophe

𓆩♡𓆪 Two: Cappuccino

Making people like you can be quite the difficult task.

There are a lot of things to look out for. You have to ensure that your actions suit their specific preferences and interests. Gaining people's favour is not a one size fits all type of deal. While you may score points with someone for perpetuating a certain pattern of behaviour, the same way of acting might make you lose points with another.

You could see it as a game of trial and error, where you attempt to do your best and figure out what works for you by trying different methods of approaching the individual you'd like to entice. However, how many errors are you allowed to carry out before your chance of accomplishing your goal will have sunken to zero?

Fortunately, there's a different path you can take to reach another individual's fondness. A way of ensuring there won't be any mistakes committed, of securing the certainty that you'll achieve the purpose behind your actions.

To start of, you need to familiarise yourself with your target's personal affairs. What do they place a high degree of importance on? Which passions do they pursue in life? What are their concerns, their worries, their fears?

Mind you, you do not necessarily have to like someone in order to be interested in their life. Sometimes, it's a mere thing of convenience. In this specific case, it's what helps you reach the highway to your end goal.

Now that you have the necessary tools at hand, it becomes exponentially easier to get acquainted with the object of your pursuit. You know what they like, you know what they don't - use it to your advantage.

Incorporate small details of their leisure activities in your conversations. Mention that one band they like, off-handedly and as though you are not aware of their affinity for them. Invent familial situations similar to their own, lead them to feel a sense of sympathy for your false experiences. The world is your oyster!

Never give them too much of your time though. Hand it in small doses, never in spades. Become the one thing they cannot live without, make them lay in bed at night wondering when you'll finally text back.

Lean back. Enjoy the fruits of your hard labour.

Now, you've got your perfect puppet.

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The market is bustling with life as per usual, a colourful variety of individuals enjoying the pleasant warmth the sun has graced them with. It's a remarkably delightful day, not seizing it would be a shame.

Vendors are doing their best to sell their merchandise, yelling out greetings and offers to potential costumers, promoting themselves and their produce. The competition is fierce, for there are a number of stalls selling similar goods, or occasionally even the exact same commodities. It provides patrons with ample opportunity to seek out the best prizes, the proposals most in tune with their own interests.

From the comfort of a small antique shop situated in-between two alleyways, Y/N watches as people move around from one vendor to the next selecting their purchases, some of them carrying themselves with the grace of a knowledgable trader, aware of what a good deal is supposed to entail, others naively accepting any outrageous prices that the salespeople propose to them.

In their own hand, a small basket can be seen. It is filled to the brim with a variety of things, the majority of them well-suited for someone in possession of a coffee shop. Eggs, milk, cocoa powder, vanilla extract and many other goods, all of them locally sourced and fresh. Only the best for Y/N's café.