Ronan: To the Moon and Back

41. Right at the Edge and Ready to Fall

Rae wakes up early the next morning, checking in on her mother, and sees her sleeping in her bed with half the duvet hanging off the mattress. She quietly tiptoes over and fixes the the fluffy duvet so it fully covers her mum. She places a light kiss on her head, then leaves a note saying she'll be back for lunch. She readies the coffee in the kitchen, just in case her mother wants a cup whenever she wakes. Rae holds off on the coffee, fixes her hair up into a messy bun, slips on her shoes and is out the door heading for work. 

It's 5:30 am, but she feels so much more rested than the previous few days. Which all just comes down to the events of last night. From the park to the goodnight kiss, although it did take her heart a while to finally return to it's normal rate. Thinking of it, thinking of Louis, is making her stomach feel funny, flipping and fluttering.

Once she arrives at Jasper's, she makes a fresh pot of coffee, and immediately begins to serve the four customers in the diner. After she serves them their food and cups of coffee and tea, Rae goes into the kitchen looking for Liz. She finds her in the very back by the storage closet, downing her own cup of whatever she's drinking, and catches the logo on the front. Before Rae can even open her mouth to comment, Liz pulls another cup from under the chair she's sitting on.

"D'you think I'd go to Latte Luna and not get you anything?" Liz smirks, wiggling the cup from Rae's favorite cafe slightly. "Got those little espresso beans you like too."

Rae places a hand over her chest. "Love of my life. You do know the way to a girls heart."

Liz rolls her eyes. "Yeah, yeah, hush and drink your coffee."

"You're the best of the best. I should marry you, that way I can wake up to chocolate covered espresso beans every morning." Rae beams at her friend.

She takes the cup from her hand, nudges Liz over a few inches on the seat so they can share it. Rae leans over and pecks a quick kiss to her cheek in graduate. The two girls sit in the kitchen, watching Jasper as he moves about, like he does when it's a seemingly slow morning. They sip their coffee and share espresso beans between them. Liz throws one at their coworker, Max, who comes into the kitchen, just starting his shift. Rae playfully scolds her about wasting perfectly good food.

"You seem unusually happy this morning." Liz comments, watching as Rae pops another bean into her mouth.

"Are you saying I'm a right downer usually?" Rae questions, mock frown and all.

"No. You're just never this level of happy. Did something good happen?"

Rae sets her coffee on the floor, beans in her lap and turns to see Liz better. "I like Louis."

Liz fixes her with a knowing stare. "Uh-huh." She says sarcastically.

Rae flicks her knee. "And I think...I think I'm dating him."

A beat passes. "Uh-huh."

"Liz!"

"Right, sorry. I mean, fucking finally!"

Rae shoves at her friends arm, nearly pushing her off the chair. "Be serious for a moment, please."

"Alright, alright, I'm sorry." Liz readjusts herself. "So you're dating Louis?"

"Um...I think so?"

"What makes you just think and not know?" Liz wonders.

Rae takes a long drink from her cup, contemplating. That's a great question that doesn't have an answer exactly. Louis hasn't exactly asked her out on a proper date, nor have both of them really said anything to make label it official. But if she goes by kissing in the Dark Room, to kissing against her front door, she's assuming their on a level of something. If she adds everything from before and between, there's no doubt that they have feelings for each other, not that they'd just go around kissing for the fun it. She tells Liz this much.