Butterfly

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"John" Rye calls out to the middle aged man. He grabs his coffee and smiles leaving a tip before walking out the door.

It was a slow day in the cafe and Rye was enjoying it. There was only two people other people left in the cafe, one a college student typing away on his computer and the other a a writer jotting down ideas in his notebook. There was the occasional person coming in to order then leaving but it wasn't very often.

"See you later Rye" says an employee, Mikey. Rye waved at him, watching him walk out the door. Before he left, however, he held the door open for a new customer sending him a quick hello before he left for good.

It was a guy who looked no older than a teenager. He wore a long, almost dress like powder blue sweater, white jeans and a single blue butterfly clip pinning back some of his beautiful white blond hair. He blushed once he noticed Rye staring at him adding another bit of pink to contrast to the blue of his outfit.

"Um c-can I get a uh cinnamon roll and carmel latte please" he asked shyly, pointing around the cinnamon roll through the glass. Rye snapped out of his daze of admiring the adorable boy in front of him.

"Oh uh yeah sure" Rye said writing it down "I need a name for the order" Rye said. Which he knew he didn't need because he was now the only costumer and Rye being the only one working. "A-Andy" he says his blush seeming not to leave. Rye nods going to make his order.

A few minutes later Rye had made the order. He handed the paper bag holding the cinnamon pastry and the small cup. He smiled shyly at him, reaching into his pockets to find some money. "It's on me" Rye says smiling brightly at him.

Andy immediately shakes his head. "I can't let you do that" he says still trying to give him his money. "Okay let's make a deal" Rye as the two of them had been arguing back and forth for a while. "What is it?" Andy huffs making Andy adorable pouting face.

"You take this home, and see how it tastes then come back tomorrow and tell me how it was" Rye compromises. "If I come back tomorrow, I'm paying for my own" Andy says holding his hand out to shake on their deal.

Rye playfully roles his eyes but shakes his hand. "see you tomorrow" Rye says a smirk clear in his voice. "Yeah sure" Andy says, waving before going out of the door. Once he'd left, Rye looked at the clock realizing it was time to close up. He takes off his apron, cleaning everything up before grabbing his belongings and locking the door.

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"I'm home" he calls out, turning to shut and lock the door. "shh" one of his best friends, kirsty shushes him. "Where is he?" He asks in a whisper making her hold a finger to her lips but lead him to where he wanted to go.

Opening the door to the blue colored room. There laid in a tiny bed accompanied by Ryes other best friend, Jack, was his three year old son, Romeo. He laid on jacks chest, thumb in his mouth and dirty blonde colored hair laid carelessly on his forehead.

Rye smiled lovingly at the small boy. At first, he wasn't very fond of finding out he was the father of a child that he'd made during a one night stand. The mother, being young, didn't want the responsibility of a child so she gave him up to Rye. Rye, being soft hearted, couldn't bare with giving him up for adoption.

Rye of course had no idea how to take care of a child. He couldn't count the times he had to get up and rock him back to sleep after crying loudly. Or how many shirts he'd have to change in a day because he refused to eat food and throw at him instead.

But Rye got through it, with the help of his two best friends of course. Once Rye realized he couldn't take care of a child on his own, he called up his best friend, Jack, and asked if he could take care of Romeo while he went to work. Which then led to Jacks girlfriend, Kirsty, also taking care of Romeo.

Jack smiles up at him, carefully moving from under Romeo so he could greet him. The three of them walk quietly out of the room making sure not to make any loud noises.

"How was work Rye?" Jack asks as they were now in the kitchen. "Same old,same old" Rye responds, taking a sip of his water. "Meet any cuties?" Kirsty asks, smirking once she saw a blush spread across his cheeks. "Spill" Jack says, mouth full of grapes he'd snagged from the fridge.

Rye sighs as he thinks about the beautiful blond. "He was gorgeous" he says, explaining how shy he was until up until they argument about paying. "Well did you get his number?" Kirsty asks smiling as she listens to him talk about the mystery boy. "No, I didn't but he's coming back tomorrow" Rye assures then after they'd both groaned hearing that he hadn't gotten his number.

"Well I for one would love to meet him" Jack says as Kirsty cuddles into him. The two of them were very cute together making Rye jealous. He wanted a relationship like their's, a true one not a hook up. That's all Rye had, hook ups. He'd never had a real relationship and he didn't really know how to.

"I want to meet him too if he's as adorable as you say" Kirsty says cuddling further into Jack. Jack runs his fingers through her hair, leaning down to kiss her gently. Rye takes that as his cue to check on Romeo. He was already awake when the door had opened, sitting up and sleepily rubbing his eye.

"Hi baby boy, sleep good?" Rye asks, sitting down on his bed. He nods, crawling over and into his lap. Romeo wasn't much of a talker. He of course could talk but he relied more on pointing and nodding or shaking his head.

He relaxed into Rye as he played with his hair. "Going back to sleep?" Rye asks him only getting a nod in return. Rye started to hum to him, relaxing him enough to put him back to sleep.

Rye started to imagine Andy there with him. How he could cuddle Romeo while he could cuddle behind him. How he'd smile down at him and kiss his cute little nose and watch as he blushed a pretty pink.

Rye knew he was in too deep, falling for someone he'd only met that day. A guy who, as far as he knew, wore baggy pastel sweaters and butterfly clips. A guy who blushed easily. A guy who stole Ryes heart the moment he lay eyes on him. Rye knew he was already obsessed with the adorable blond and now his heart was filled with hope that he'd show up the next day.
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(Romeo🥺😍)
This is the book I was taking about, the one where Rye has a kid and meets Andy. I know this chapter was rushed and I'm sorry but I hoped you liked it.