Performance

Act I; Scene 8

TW: The Golden Trio acting like jerks, and Remy falsely slut shaming Roman, some cursing. Lemme know of any other warnings, I don't feel like reading over this rn.

Emile stirred his coffee around thoughtfully. Remy smiled at him, amused, after having watched Emile put in his tenth sugar packet.

"Babes, you're gonna get type 2 diabetes from that cup of coffee."

Emile looked up, forcing the daze out of his head as he screwed up his face, "But, it's so bitter by itself!"

Emile was cute. "Babes, you ordered black coffee, of course it's bitter."

Emile pouted, "I don't wanna throw it out, that's a waste..."

"You can put it over ice, that helps with the flavor, makes it more bearable."

Emile stared at Remy, "How does that work?"

Remy shrugged, "Probably has something to do with the heat."

Emile just shrugged and got up to go ask for a cup of ice. He honestly has no idea why he ordered black coffee, he knows he doesn't like bitterness. He knows black coffee is super bitter. He goes up to the counter, the teen there staring at the door. The boy's curly, dirty blonde hair bounced on his head as he turned to his customer and his smile could rival the sun shine's as it lit up his slightly freckled face.

"Hello, how's your food?"

Emile smiled, leaving out how he doesn't like the coffee, "It's good! Can I get a cup of ice, please?"

The boy at the counter looked over at the table that his customer came from, and smiled, seeing the cup. The playfully sympathetic smile turned to him, "Black coffee?"

Emile's grin turned sheepish, "I, uh...wanted to try it..."

"Ice only works for coffee that is only lightly bitter."

"I- I put like ten sugars in..."

The worker giggled, "My first time with black coffee, I put thirty. I'll go get you your ice."

"I'm Emile Cartons, by the way."

The boy paused as he turned and looked back over, the smile on his face absolutely charming, "I'm Patton Heart!"

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Remy waited as Emile made friends with the worker. He knows him, his name is Patton Heart. His two moms own this café. He likes Patton, and he thinks he and Emile will get along really well. If you didn't know any better, you'd think they were twins.

Speaking of twins...

The famous and infamous twins just walked in with a group of friends. Remy felt his own bitter coffee churn in his stomach. Why did Remus ditch them for Roman and his dogs? He glanced at Deceit. Remy doesn't mind him. He looked over at Logan Logos. He looks very clean and intelligent, arrogant, yet somehow, still respectful. He finally let himself shoot a glance at Prince. And crap, why is he hot? Of course he's hot, he's Roman Prince. Doesn't make him any less of a homophobic bitch. Logan might be one, too.

Remus looked over and saw Remy, smiling when he processed that his best friends are there.

"Isn't that your friend, Remy?"

Remus looked at his twin in surprise, "You know who my friends are?"

"Duh, he used to come play with you all the time when we were little."

"You remember?"

Roman glanced at Remus, "Of course?" Remus shook blinked and Roman turned away. Remus felt kinda...guilty...? He always thought that Roman knew nothing about him.