The Little Titan Cafe [ErenxLevi]

Chapter 7- Jelousy

Welcome to the Little Titan Café!Today's special: Chocolate-y Lava with Swirly Mountain Top

There was a little girl who often came into the café with her father. She liked to order a hot chocolate topped with fluffy goodness and rainbow sprinkles one day, and a chocolate-y lava with a swirly mountain top – and extra chocolate! –another day. Her descriptions were usually different, but the order was always the same. Sometimes she demanded her father have a hot cocoa as well. Sometimes she said he wanted an adult-cocoa, the gross ones that kids couldn't drink because it lacked fun and happiness and deliciousness. Her father would smile in utter adoration.

There was an elderly woman who would shuffle into the store and squint at the menu. She'd wonder where her spectacles went – Oh surely I hadn't left them at home? – and Eren would try not to laugh because they'd be on her head.

There was a college student who ordered a colossal black coffee without fail. She wore a jean jacket and a pastel-colored sweater – green, pink, blue, various other colors on various other days – and a black SinaSport backpack. A SU (Shiganshina University) keychain hung from one of her bag's zippers. She'd walk in the shop with winter in her eyes and a cold, sunless expression on her face, but she'd always say thank you with warmth in her voice. Students received a discount so he knew her name to be Annie from the times she showed him her ID.

Every now and then two large guys came in with her. Macho Man and Beanstalk were the names Eren mentally called them. Macho Man liked to order the holiday specials. Beanstalk had a particular fondness for the hazelnut macchiato. Eren would spy secret glances and touches between the two; moments meant only for them.

Keith Shadis, a friend of his parents', came by every now and then, bringing with him the smell of whiskey and stories of his days in the army. He'd order an armored decaf.

Two high school girls often giggled when Eren would take their orders, a dancing white chocolate mocha for one and a dancing chai latte with soy for the other. The sun seemed to follow them.

A businessman who always looked like he'd been through a tornado would come with several orders. He'd drop a couple of bills into the tip jar when he'd leave.

There were plenty of other customers – all of whom had a remarkable feature about them that stuck out the most to Eren – but his thoughts always wandered back to his second favorite patron – the first being the little girl with her love for chocolate-y lava.

"One magma chocolate topped with whipped clouds and cocoa sprinkles for Her Highness Princess Lily."

"You're good with kids," Levi commented after Eren exchanged a gallant bow with Lily's curtsy. She hurried back to the table her father waited at.

Eren shrugged. "Only because they're not mine. They're a lot easier to deal with when it's only for a couple of minutes." He busied himself with organizing the shelf by the register. Cups and mugs were on display, each one decorated for the holidays. Eren adjusted one of the gift sets as he asked casually, "Do you have any kids?"

Levi snorted. "No. Kids are impossible for me."

"Why's that?"

"Because I'd kill them."

Eren laughed at his blunt honesty. That was one of the reasons why Levi was his favorite customer, that blunt honesty of his and the fact that he never ordered the same thing, it was always something different. But there was only so much they had on the menu; Levi was bound to come full-circle at some point. He still had a little ways to go, though, before that happened.