Rhett Cavendish | Cinna (bettingonyou) wrote in thereincarnates, @ 2011-08-02 23:01:00 |
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Entry tags: | charles lane, rhett cavendish |
Who: Rhett Cavendish and Charles Lane
What: Discovering they have something in common - other than being dads in the process of getting a divorce.
Where: A Starbucks in New York
When: August 2nd, early afternoon
Warnings: Foul language and enough awkward obliviousness to cause headdesking injuries.
When they’d first started meeting up for coffee, Rhett had waited for Charles to get there before ordering. It had made sense, then; when they weren’t coming in together, he generally knew exactly when Charles would be finished meeting with his lawyer. Since they’d begun meeting outside of the days when they were hammering out the legalities of divorce, Rhett usually ordered for Charles when he got there first. So long as his friend didn’t want something outside of his usual, it worked out just fine.
Charles’s cup was already waiting on the other side of the table for him, lid off and steam rising from the surface of the liquid. Rhett’s own drink sat untouched, since he wasn’t really in the mood to burn all the skin off his tongue. Besides, he’d already had two cups that morning before he left his much too empty house. He was in no rush.
It wasn’t as though he didn’t have plenty to do while he waited. He took a break from flipping through his schedule for the day on his phone to check the time, noting that Charles should be there soon. There was a text from his (soon to be, if they ever finished the custody battle) ex-wife that he hadn’t looked at yet; when all their calls had begun ending in shouting matches, they’d agreed that it was much more practical to limit communication to written forms. He still had to resist the urge to be childish and use capslock, but he responded as cordially as he could. Check the time again, and a quick, guilty glance around to make sure no one he knew was watching before he pulled up Tetris to eat away the last little bit of time until Charles arrived.