Who: Lalna and Nano What: A bit of hot coffee ~if you catch my drift When: Monday, after 5 PM Where: Local Starbucks, then wherever it leads Rating/Warnings: PG-13 ish. Depending on how it goes, probably nothing worse than some hardcore smooching and fade to black. Status: In Progress
Finding a red hibiscus had been more difficult than Lalna had anticipated. Everywhere there were roses, hyacinths, tulips, babysbreath… He wasn’t even really sure why it was so important. It was a joke, really. A play on the old lonely hearts ads of the days well before internet dating sites, but somehow it seemed immensely important that he find the exact flower, and find it he finally did.
It took three different florists that all just happened to be out, or only had pink ones, and he was finally successful in finding a bouquet of hibiscus being sold by a street vendor of all places. The old man was pretty generous about willingly selling just a single red one, and with that in hand, Lalna made his way to the Starbucks that he and Nano had agreed upon as a meeting place.
He was early, and to be honest, he didn’t entirely care that this might make him look even more desperate. For all of his talk of feelings free hookups, something about this woman had caught his attention inescapably, and he already knew that his earlier promises wouldn’t last. Still, he would try, because the prospect of spending a night with a beautiful woman was worth the risk of later making a fool of himself.
Upon arriving at the Starbucks, he stood glowering at a young woman chattering away on skype at the best table by the window, eventually succeeding in making her uncomfortable enough to get up and move. Maybe just a bit too proud of his mystical powers of obscene awkwardness, he took her seat with a smug grin and set the flower down on the table in front of him. The old lonely hearts guys had a point; it looked a bit unimpressive sitting there, but somehow, it still just seemed right.
Now all that he had to do was wait and hope that he hadn’t just agreed to get himself stood up.