Café Pit-a-Pat - Season 1 (COMPLETE)

Chapter 26

Copter stole a furtive glance at the group of people that were merrily conversing at the other side of the café. More specifically at Kimmon, whose face was radiating in happiness as he chatted with his friends.

To everyone's satisfaction, the birthday surprise turned out to be a huge success, catching an unsuspecting Kimmon off guard and noticeably lifting up the senior's spirits. The corners of Copter's lips curved upward while he secretly watched Kimmon blissfully laugh out loud.

His eyes then naturally shifted to Mai, who was standing right next to Kimmon. Which made him flinch. Because seeing Kimmon and Mai together immediately reminded him of his ridiculous thoughts earlier in the day, which was definitely a moment of his life that he wanted to forever erase from his memory. Mentally slapping himself, Copter quickly diverted his attention to the table in front of him. But he stopped all his movements when he saw what was on it.

A frown surfacing on his face, Copter stared fixedly at the elegant layered cake ahead of him. Tiramisu. Of course, it was tiramisu, he grumpily thought to himself. Kimmon mentioned an infinite number of times that he opened up Café Pit-a-Pat because he loved coffee. So, of course, Kimmon's favorite type of cake would be something that was coffee-flavored. Tiramisu...why didn't I think of that earlier?!

His sulky thoughts were cut short when a plate containing a slice of the tiramisu cake suddenly appeared in front of his eyes. Startled, Copter looked up to see one of Kimmon's friends aiming an affable smile at him.

"Thought you wanted a slice. Since you were staring at the cake for quite a while there."

Sh*t, was I that obvious?!?! Feeling quite embarrassed by his idiotic action, Copter fumblingly accepted the plate. "Thank you."

Widening his smile, the friend discreetly looked Copter over before meeting his eyes. "I haven't seen you before. You weren't working here when the café first opened, right?"

"Right," Copter confirmed with a nod. "I started a few months later."

"I thought so. Because I would have definitely remembered someone as cute as you."

At the unforeseen flirtatious remark, Copter rapidly blinked several times before emitting a very awkward smile with slightly flushed cheeks. The friend chortled, his eyes glistening with amusement as they locked onto Copter's rattled ones. He promptly extended his hand to Copter.

"I'm Ben."

"Copter."

"Hey, back off!"

Right when Copter was going to accept the handshake, Bas suddenly emerged out of nowhere and butted his way in between Ben and Copter. He protectively pulled Copter closer towards him while glaring daggers at Ben.

Eyes wide, Ben quickly held up his hands in surrender. "Whoa there, Bas. Why are you looking at me like that?"