How I like my tea

A Drink

I'd had a really good morning but it was about to be ruined at lunch. I had a massive meeting about who should be the new director with all the teachers in the studio and I was dreading it. Also, to make things worse I had forgot my lunch this morning. So my sandwich was sitting in the fridge at home.

That made me really hungry.

When I arrived in the teachers lounge Antonio was dealing with a bickering Gregorio.

"Will you just be quiet a moment Gregorio!" he cried just as I entered.

With that everybody was silent. Antonio turned to me and Beto.

"Beto, Angie, I have decided that there is no point in you wasting your time with this, I clearly will have a lot of work on my hands and I think it's best I deal with it alone. You are dismissed from the meeting."

"Okay" says Beto taking a bite of his apple, as he walks out the room balancing his lunch in a really ridiculous way.

Everyone looked at me a moment and then I smiled, "Have fun."

I left the room and my stomach growled. I was really hungry and I really wanted my sandwich so I decided I would go back to the house.

When I got there I tucked into my sandwich. It was lovely and I was so happy I wasn't going to starve all afternoon until dinner. I would have been grumpy if I had. I didn't take long and didn't have to be back straight away so I decided to make myself a cup of tea. As the kettle boiled, I heard a voice.

"Olga, Olga." It was German.

I was pretty sure Olga wasn't in so I was confused but ignored it. That's when German came in the kitchen.

"Angie?"

"Hi, if your looking for Olga I don't think she's in." I say smiling.

"I thought you were Olga, I mean I just heard the kettle boil and was going to ask Olga, wait how come your here?"

"Well, long story, I forgot my lunch and the meeting was cancelled so I came back here to grab it. Actually, not really that long of a story."

He laughed, "You could have told me! I'd have ate with you!"

"Sorry," I smiled, "What were you going to ask Olga?"

"You mean when I thought you were Olga?" he says laughing.

I nodded.

"I was going to ask if she would make me a drink."

"I'll make you one!" I say picking up an extra mug, "What do you want?"

He smiled at me, "I'll have whatever you're having!"

"Perfect." I sang, "I'm having tea, how do you like your tea?"

He thought for a moment, "It's been years since I've had tea," he says shrugging "So I have no idea. Tell you what, make it the way you like it."

I smiled, "Okay."

"Well first, I hate instant tea, it has no flavour so I always use a tea bag." I look at German and he is smiling whilst watching me intently.

I drop a teabag in each cup and continue.

"Second, I think tea needs sweetening a bit so I have a spoonful of sugar, that's a teaspoon! I'd die if you put in a tablespoon." German laughed.

"Then I put in the water and give it a minute to settle on its own, but then I stir it so the tea comes out."

I lift the lid of the bin, ready for in a moment. German still watches, mesmerized.

"Then using the spoon, squeeze the remaining water from the tea bag and put it in the bin." I say as I do the actions. I deliberately make sure there is some room for me to add milk to my tea so it doesn't look filled yet.

"Can you pass me the milk?" I ask.

German nods and passes it to me.

"I like milk in my tea," I explain "I don't measure it, just estimate the amount I put in, I think after a while you get used to the colour of the tea so you know when there is enough milk or not. I hope I'm making sense I say laughing.

"Perfect Sense." says German picking up the milk and putting it back in the fridge.

"And... Voila!" I say putting the tea before him.

He picks it up and takes a sip.

"Well now I know why you drink so much tea."

I can't help but smile.

We continue to talk about my tea and how long I've liked it like this and possibly everything you can talk about relating to tea but it wasn't long until I had to go.

"Ughh," I say "Back to work."

"Me too," he says putting our mugs  in the dishwasher, "See you later."

"See you later." I say hugging him as I leave.

Then it dawns on me. That was all five.