Spectrum Of A Rainbow ✔

Chapter Four

When Felicitas woke up the next day, the sun was shining so she decided that she'd walk to the café, usually she takes the bus despite it being only a 30 minute walk. She was exhausted since she'd barely slept at all that night but as soon as she got outside, she knew she'd made the right call to walk. The sun was warming her skin and there were just enough of a breeze to not make it too hot. As she arrived Felix was, as always, already there, leaning against the wall and soaking in the sun. Though he was so tall that you almost didn't notice that he was leaning, he was 2 meter after all which made him one of the few people taller than Felicitas. As a girl, especially when they were younger, it was nice to not be the tallest, her height in combination with her odd name had been the source of a lot of comments during high school but even as she'd gotten older guys had refused to date her because she was taller.

"Hello." She greeted him with a hug.

"Hi, you're in time, I'm impressed." He said, checking his watch after their hug. Felicitas answered with an eyeroll, she wasn't late that often, just sometimes.

"I'm always on time." She defended herself "should we go inside?"

"You're on time in your own world maybe." He laughed and nodded, holding up the door "after you."

They went inside and got a coffee each, Felicitas also bought some toast, she hadn't had the time to eat anything before she got here so she was starving. She barely has the time to sit down before Felix gets his curious face.

"Soooooooo, how did it go?" He said, really dragging out the o's, taking a sip from his coffee.

"It was horrible." She sighed and Felix gave her that big brother protection look. "Not because of my date." She assured him but he still looked sceptical. "Whatever, we exchanged phone numbers, he walked me home but we agreed that it was all friendly."

"Oh really?" Felix tilted his head to the right. "Then what was it that was so terrible?"

"Well, first of all, I wanted a girls night and also Josef is super annoying." She sighed louder, taking a deep sip of her coffee. "Omid, my date, took this as me being in love with Rachel. Can you believe that ridiculous conclusion?" She scoffed.

"Yes." Felix said, not a trace of sarcasm in his voice. "Yes, I can believe that he thought that. The thought have crossed my mind more than once." He shrugged, avoiding eye contact by looking down in his cup.

"It's not funny Felix." She sighed, she really wasn't in the mood to play games with him, she was way too tired.

"No it's not and I'm not joking. I really have thought about it myself." He sighed, pausing to lick his lips. "You keep talking about Josef as if he was this horrible guy but he's not and I've never heard you give one reason why you don't like him. So yes, I have wondered if maybe you have feelings for Rachel."

"Felix, you know that I'm straight." She sighed, as she rubbed her right temple. "I just don't like Josef and no I don't know why but sometimes you meet someone who you don't like, there isn't always a reason."

"Yeah I know. I'm just not as sure as you seem that it's what's happening here but we can drop it for now." Felix shrugs and Felicitas thanks him. The rest of their meeting they talk about everything between heaven and earth, the only exception being Rachel. After they said goodbye and Felicitas started her walk back home to get ready for work, she started to think about it again. About Rachel and how on earth two people thinks that she's in love with her. It was easy to understand that a stranger could make the mistake, but Felix? He knew her inside and out, they'd known each other forever. Sure, Rachel is smart, funny, beautiful and really good company, everything she'd want in a boyfriend, because if she were to fall in love it would be with a man. If there were something Felicitas were sure of in all of this it's that she's attracted to men. As soon as she stepped insider her front door her phone started ringing. She dug in the pocket of her jeans to get her phone and sighed when she saw Rachel's name on the display. She wasn't really in the mood, she was tired and tried to NOT think about Rachel and everything surrounding her.

"Hello." Felicitas answered, trying her best to sound happy.

"Hi!" Rachel answered in her usual high pitched happy voice. "How are you" She asked but didn't leave Felicitas any room to answer. "Did you and Omid click? Are you going on a second date? When can we double date again?" She spoke rapidly and Felicitas struggled to keep up with what she was saying.

"Ehm, yeah, we decided to just be friends. He's nice and all but neither of us felt that extra spark." She answered as honestly as possible, she didn't feel the need to tell her why they'd decided to be friends, that it was mainly because he thought Felicitas had a crush on Rachel.

"Oh, I thought you guys really clicked." She could almost hear the pout on Rachel's face as she spoke and Felicitas sunk down on her couch, kicking her boots of, she would have to shower before work. Her boots had been way too warm for today's weather.

"I'm sorry." She answered in lack of other things to say, she wasn't sorry, but it was the only thing she could think off to say.

"Don't be!" Rachel's happy voice was back. "We can go on a new double date! Josef has other friends." The thought of going through another double date felt like a million stabs in the gut. She'd barely managed to get through the last one and she just couldn't stand doing it again.

"Not right now, I have a lot going on with work and stuff." It was a horrible excuse but she couldn't really say the truth now could she? Also, what was even the truth? Felicitas wasn't so sure anymore. Rachel sounded disappointed when answering "okay, another time then" and Felicitas just agreed, maybe she could learn to like Josef and this whole double date thing wouldn't be so bad. She said goodbye with the excuse that she had to shower before work.

She wasn't in a rush but she didn't have anything to talk about with Rachel and she didn't want to hear about her and Josef. The positive thing was that she could really savour the shower, she spent more time of the shower just standing under the water than actual showering. Felicitas shift was terrible, not because there were much to do, on the contrary, it was a really slow night and it led her to spend too much time thinking about Rachel. It was frustrating, she didn't want to think about her, or at least not spend an entire shift doing so. It wasn't normal, you didn't think this much about a friend. The only thing that Felicitas could think of to get her mid of off Rachel was calling an old friend, or rather friend with benefits. It was a Friday night and when they still had contact he loved a good party so chances were that he was awake and out, so she sent him a quick text before preparing to close up. She was lucky enough to get a reply soon after the last guest leaving. He was indeed out partying, he asked where she wanted to meet up and they agreed on meeting outside her job. He was as handsome as always and a little tipsy which made him very happy. His name was Alejandro and it didn't take much for him to follow Felicitas home. 

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