Café Pit-a-Pat - Season 1 (COMPLETE)

Chapter 39

"You said that you wanted to talk to me?"

Trying to look as untroubled as possible, Kimmon silently swallowed back a gulp of apprehension while he stared into Copter's dark amber orbs.

The junior had politely requested to see him for a few minutes after today's work shift.  Which, on its face, wasn't anything that ought to set off alarm bells, but Kimmon couldn't stop thinking that something was off.

First, Copter had seemed quite out of it ever since coming back from meeting someone yesterday evening.  Just a family friend, he had further supplied when Kimmon cautiously asked him who it was.  

Is something wrong?  Kimmon had subsequently inquired, upon noticing how Copter looked unusually downcast.  No, I'm just tired, Copter had answered back with a small smile and thereby cut off any further conversation on the issue.  

Yet, to Kimmon's expanding concern, Copter's low spirits had seemed to continue throughout the following day.  So a worried Kimmon had planned to spend that evening figuring out what he could do to help mitigate and resolve Copter's troubles.  He hadn't known, though, that Copter would beat him to it and request for Kimmon's time first.  And, contrary to Kimmon's assumption that they would talk on their way home or over dinner, Copter had insisted that they discuss right at the café as soon as it closed for the day.  

Consequently, they were sitting together at one of the café's empty tables, each facing the other.  In the brief tense silence that followed, Kimmon's uneasy eyes locked onto Copter's unreadable ones.  Copter momentarily hesitated before speaking his next words.       

"I wanted to give you my notice of resignation."

At the unforeseen turn of events, Kimmon's heart dropped.  "What?"

"I decided to move closer to my family," Copter provided further.

Worry creased Kimmon's brow as the negative implications from Copter's statement swirled inside his head.  "To your siblings who live in Korat?  Did something happen to them?"

Copter shook his head in denial.  "No.  It's just...something that I wanted to do for a while now.  Living here in this city, and being so far from them, wasn't working out that well for me."

"Okay," Kimmon acknowledged, feeling a partial sense of relief from the fact that Copter's family was okay.  "When did you plan to move?"

"As soon as possible."

Kimmon fell silent while his mind furiously churned to make more sense of the sudden situation.  This was definitely not what he had expected to hear, and he was completely taken aback.  

Copter quitting the shop and moving to another city?  His confused brain proceeded to contemplate the possible results of Copter's decision.  What would this mean for them?  Obviously, he wouldn't be able to see Copter as much as he did now, but that didn't necessarily mean they were...