Coffee shop boy |Trohley| (completed)

Chapter 8

"Andy oh my god" Joe exclaims rushing over to him.

He cups his face taking a look at the bruise. It was pretty faint since it was new but he still noticed it.

"Can we um...talk outside?" Andy asks gesturing to the door. Joe looks back at Brendon who gives me a thumbs up and a smug look, earning an eye roll from Joe.

The two of them walk outside to the tables placed for people to eat at in front of the shop. He has to admit it's really fucking cold, but Andy was more important than frost bite so he tried his best to ignore it.

"What happened to your face?" He asks looking at the bruise becoming darker by the second.

"Well after you left I thought I would talk to Jeff. I told him that he shouldn't say stuff like that... We got into a huge argument and I accidentally blurted out that I was gay. He didn't like that so he punched me in the face. I don't like violence so I just left."

Joe's heart skips a beat as he says he's gay. Though he tries to ignore it because that's really not what he should be focusing on right now.

Before he could continue thinking further Andy spoke up again. "I came here to apologize, because you were right, I can't let people get away with stuff like that. He called the guy I like the f word which is definitely not okay" he says sheepishly.

"I'm proud of you for standing up for- wait did you say you like me?" Joe interrupts himself realizing what he had said.

Andy opens his mouth to speak but is cut off by Brendon yelling that Joe needs to get his but inside right away.

Thanks for choosing this moment to bud in Brendon.

He stands up with an annoyed sigh. "Sorry"he mumbles out, giving Andy an apologetic look.

"It's okay. See you around?" he asks hopefully.

Joe smiles and nods wordlessly at him before hurrying off back inside.

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He rushes over to behind the counter where Brendon was working on an order.

"What was so important that you had to interrupt me finding out if Andy actually likes me back?!" He asks him, clearly very annoyed.

Brendon turns around and points to the busy scenery behind them. I guess Joe was so annoyed with Brendon he hadn't noticed the lunch rush piling into the shop.

"Can you give this to Kellin, she's been waiting a while" The taller man asks passing Joe an order.

"For the last time Brendon, Kellin is a guy" He chuckles, walking away to give him his order.

"Hey Joe what's up?" Kellin asks after giving him a fist bump.

They quickly fill each other in on their lives, he would have continued but he had to get back to the other customers. Him and Brendon are the only ones working at the moment so he can't really be slacking off.

As he's walking away from Kellins table he hears him and his buddies clink their glasses together.

"Hey, let's cheers to us" Kellin announces. That's the last thing he heard from him before his voice was covered by other peoples conversations as he walked towards the kitchen.

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Joe serve the blued haired man (whose name he believes is Awsten) his order before returning to Brendon.

"So...I heard something about Andy liking you?" He teases.

Joe rolls his eyes, taking off his apron for the day. He puts it on the hook so he can get it tomorrow before turning his attention to his very nosey friend.

"He did say he liked me, but that could have been in a friend way" he shrugs.

"That's not how fan fictions work Joe!" The younger boy exclaims.

"I don't know if he likes me, but I know he's gay so..." He trails off knowing Brendon would get the point.

Brendon sequels like a fangirl looking at pictures of her otp. "I ship it so hard it hurts!" Okay he acts like it too.

Joe just chuckles at the boy. "Don't get your hopes up" he tell him, Though he mostly aims that remark at himself.

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It's 3:15 am what am I doing with my life.