our love of coffee // akitoya❤️

☆the list☆

"you're so fuckin' weird..." akito said, rubbing his eyes. Toya just laughed silently.
"awh, dont say that.." the taller said teasingly.
"i.." he paused. "do you have a girlfriend?" the ginger asked calmly.

toya snapped his head to the right side of the room, where akito was standing.
he hesitated before asking, "what?"

"c'mon, man.. don't make it weird.." akito said, looking to the side.
"i-" he cut himself off. "no. I'm not dating anyone, why?"

"I don't know. just getting to know eachother better?"

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"Just getting to know eachother better?!" An cackled. "you're so stupid!!"
akito rolled his eyes, clearly unamused. "no fuckin' shit." he sighs.
"waaaait... does that mean that time I asked you if you asked him out, you lied?!" she gasped dramatically. "what a fake." he blushed, just thinking about toya. "what? when?" he tried to act as if he didn't know, but he was so terribly bad at it.

"Like, I don't know.." she looks up, thinking to herself. "two months ago?"
"and a half." akito blurted. 'damn it.' he thought.

"AHA!!" she squawked. "YOU DO KNOW!!"
"yep. and I lied to you. right to your face." he said, flicking her forehead and rolling his eyes.

"YOU BI- OWW!!!!" she cried, falling back onto her bed.

"weak as hell."
this resulted in An leaping up, and flicking akito in the head.
"oww... you fucking retard.." he said rubbing his head.

"hah, I'd bet you wish you were doing this with... Toya instead~" she teased, playfully pushing her hair behind her ear, imitating akito.

he opened his mouth to say something, but nothing came out. he didn't even know what he wanted to say. "i.." he began to blush. "I don't think I like him like that, An.."

"you both like eachother. it's so painfully obvious. I've heard yall talk to eachother. I've seen you talk to him. you are a lot nicer to him. he's a lot more expressive around you." she said, putting a hand on his shoulder. "You like him. I promise yiu, yiu do." she shook her head, smiling.

"...I'm gonna need more proof than that." he spoke, clearly not believing her. she sighed, and started making a list.

it read:

'you're happy and nervous around him.

even if you've done it before, it's more exciting with him.

you think about him, even when yiu aren't with him.

you get jealous whenever he talks to someone who isn't family. (or you)

you start feeling more empathy for him.

you start wanting to know more about him.'

"akito, I want you to check these off each time you feel them. if you check off 4 or more, you AT LEAST feel more than something platonic for him." she says, handing him the piece of paper.

"An, what would you know?! you can't even get with that hamps-"

"NO. only I get to call her that. ...andddd..." she pulled out her phone to show th contact 'hampsterhane❤️💍'

"how did you do that- WHEN did you do that? why you anyways..?"he said, scrunching his nose playfully.

"one, ouch. two, can you just use the list? please? I know he likes you. I know you like him." she smiles.

"whatever, nerd." he smiled and rolled his eyes.

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Akito walked to work, half asleep. he had actually gone to bed pretty early last night. but, he was up until at least 1 in the morning. he found the thought of toya keeping him awake at night. 'well, i gotta mark number 3 off the list...' he thought.

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he unlocked the glass door to the shop and walked inside. He turned on the lights and realized- the night shift hadn't done their job. again.
he wiped off the counter and the tables, as well as the cabinets and shelves.
he also took out the trash. (nobody else remembered to. he was always stuck with doing it.)

he put his elbows on the counter and rested his head in his hands. 'it's gotta be at least 5:30 (am). why aren't they here..' he thought. he didn't really like his coworkers, but it was quit lone
lonely when they were at least 20 minutes late every morning.

he pulled out his phone to check what time it was. it read '5:37'. he sighed and set his phone on the counter.

he looked up to see the highlighter and his drama queen. "you know you're like more than thirty minutes late, right?

"yeah, sorry.." rui replied. "got caught up in traffic."
akito shook his head. "it's fine.. look- can you just wash the windows? I've already done everything else."

"of course, fufu~" he said as he grabbed a rag for him in tsukasa. they both started to wash the windows together. after they were finished, they headed intot he bathroom together, to 'wash the rags.' they were making out. everybody knew it. they had never been caught, but everybody just knew.

they came out at about 5:55, faces flushed (only tsukasa), hair ruffled, and uniforms messy. while walking to the counter, they both began brushing their hair down with their fingers at an attempt to make it look neater. it wasn't working. "okay, we've got five minutes. anything else that you see hasn't been done?" he asked, turning his attention to rui and away from tsukasa.
he looked around for a minute and looked back at akito, saying "nope. I think we're good."

akito raised his brows, as if to say, 'and?'
rui noticed this and laughed awkwardly.
"and I promise we'll be in earlier tomorrow.." tsukasa nodded at this.
"whatever you say.." akito said walking to the bathroom, washing his hands. all the cleaning made him feel dirty.

6:00 rolled around and he walk out of the bathroom and made his way to the cash register.

time seemed to go by really slowly for the first hour or so. business started to pick up by about 7:20 or so.

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"one black coffee, please."
akito snapped his neck to face rui's register. 'oh.' it was only a random guy.

'toya comes in around 9 every day.. what if I had it ready for him..?' he thought to himself. or not.

"who's toya?" tsukasa asked, smiling smugly, leaning towards the ginger.
"what?! nobody! i-it's nobody!!" he whisper-shouted.
"sure, sure.." the blonde said, walking off to go wipe off tables.

"stupid tsukass.." he whispered, pulling out his phone, checking the time. it was already 8:58. 'might as well,' he thought, already making it.

at around 9:05, toya came in and saw akito. he walked to his side of the counter and smiled at him warmly.
"one b-" he started,
"black coffee." and akito continued.
"please." Toya laughed quietly.
"such good manners." akito teased, setting the already made coffee on the counter and slid it to him.

"thanks, akito." Toya smiled, pulling out his card to pay. but before he could, akito put his hand in front of the card reader.

"uh..?" he turned his head slightly.
"don't worry about it." akito said with a smile.
"you know I've got plenty of money, right?" Toya chuckled lightly.

"this is payback."
"what?"
akito rolled his eyes and smiled.
"you paid for the both of us at the cafe a few months ago, remember?"
toya could only stare at him. he was so confused. "yeah..?"
"so this is payback.. I wanted to pay..?"
"why?" Toya asked.
"i.." he furrowed his brows and squinted his eyes. "just take your damn coffee." he said.
"thank you, akito." Toya smiled, trying to look him in the eyes. but akito couldn't meet toyas. he was just too nervous. "whatever." he said, looking down with his hand on his mouth, blushing. heavily.

toya walked away, and akito immediately pulled out an's list.
"God damn it..." he whispered, marking out number 3 and number 1 on the list.

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