#cfthesea

“I’ve had the weirdest fucking day at work.”

There was no vocal greeting as Noah stepped into the coffee shop he had invited Ariel to, merely leaning in to pull the girl into a brief, yet soft hug - one arm around her frame, tongue already busy forming words of disbelief and wonder.

“We were out, alright, and someone called in telling us they had seen a girl in the water”, Noah started explaining while stripping out of his jacket, some drops of water falling onto his shoulders and down onto the tiles of the coffee shop. There hadn’t really been time to get changed after work - Noah was glad he had managed to at least change out of his uniform and into something more casual, but it was still the same casual he had come to work with, an eternity ago in the early hours of the morning.

“And we saw the girl, or I think I did, for a split second before she was gone - I could swear she looked just like you.” Of course Noah had jumped into the water, hence his own still damp hair - but the girl had already been gone, and even after searching for her for at least an hour? She hadn’t re-surfaced.

“I don’t know if it was a stupid prank, there wasn’t a girl anywhere, but I swear I thought it was you for a moment. Never been that god damn scared before.” The prospect of encountering a drowning Ariel during work? That would give him nightmares for at least a couple of days.

It wasn’t uncommon for the shop to be called out for a breakdown like this, and while most of the guys at the shop tended to avoid it, Kobe didn’t truly mind having to go and get it done. In fact there were many times that he would prefer it ... though unfortunately today wasn’t that day. With the rain steadily coming down in a manner that it could easily do for hours at a time, Kobe wasn’t exactly looking forward to getting drenched but ... it was his job, and he was the one picked to go to get the cab and haul it (and its passengers) to the shop. 

It didn’t take long before the cab in question came in view, pulling over and then backing up so that he was close enough to be able to get it hauled onto the long bed he had. With the air brakes sounding out once it was put in park, Kobe looked outside for just a moment before he sighed heavily, resigning himself before opening the door and slipping on out.