#kivin

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“Morning.” He greeted everyone

“What’s with the smile?”

There was no missing the look Felipe had in his eyes.

“Oh I know why, is because <i>he</i> is in this morning. Always is the same, and I promise I will make sure you serve him.” Laughing as he returned to cleaning the machines out, Felipe hummed away to himself until it was time to open the shop.

The coffee was great and very much needed, sugary and strong, an abomination according to Felipe, but he didn’t care. It what was going to be keeping him perky for when the super early espresso turned up. Hopefully wearing something that would show off his body a bit more, he really didn’t want to have to wait until the summer to find that out.

“Ooh here he is.” Felipe yelped, jabbing him in the back several times with his index fingers. “Here he is!”

“Shut up!” He hissed, batting him away furiously as the door was pushed open. “Morning!”

“Uh, morning.” He was so bright and cheery it would have been painful if he wasn’t so good looking.

“So, the usual Kimi?”

“Yeah.”

His phone started to ring as he picked up the little takeaway cup from the stack, he wished Kimi had a more complicated order because an espresso didn’t take nearly as long as he wanted to spend with him.

“Wish he had a bigger cup.” Felipe nicked the cup and took his pen to write on it.

“Felipe, seriously.”

“Hey, I never get to write the hot guy’s name.” He explained away.

“Please just write his name.” Kevin warned as he quickly took another cup to let the coffee drip into. “Never mind.” He huffed, annoyed that his last sighting of Kimi for the week was taken up by him being on the phone, it wasn’t like they ever really chatted about anything important, but his voice was so soft. It was so unexpected.

How could he be wasting his last day of the week with Kevin on the phone to the boss he was going to see in a matter of minutes anyway. He loved their tiny chats first thing, it was never anything particularly important, the weather or maybe something on the news. But it was the way his eyes lit up, in those few seconds he knew what it felt like to be the centre of someone’s world, even if it was all put on.

He was still on the phone when he had finished, so he did his best not to look awkward as he waited for Kimi to finish.

Felipe did his best to distract Kevin so he could put an end to the misery, almost every day he watched them dance around each other, and it was painful. Truly painful because neither of them would make a first move, he didn’t know Kimi, but he knew how outgoing Kevin was.

“Take a breath.” Felipe muttered as he saw Kimi put his phone into his pocket.

“Sorry about that, I’m going to be in there in a minute.”

“It’s okay.” Kevin shook his head.

“No, it’s rude, but I can’t not answer.” Sighing Kimi took the cup from Kevin, making sure their fingers touched at least.

“It’s fine.”

“It’s rude.” Kimi stated as he took his first sip. “Perfect as always.” The hit of pink on his cheeks was adorable. “Um, I should pay.”

“No, it’s on us!” Felipe called from a table that didn’t need cleaning.

“Oh.” Kimi turned to the other guy that worked there, he’d never been served by him. “Thanks.”

“No problem.” Taking himself off, he hoped Kevin would do something.

“Well, I better go.” Digging into his pocket he pulled out the exact change he had ready and put it into the tip jar. “I get the feeling you can’t give away free drinks.”

“No.” Kevin admitted quietly as Kimi smiled at him.

“See you monday then.”

“Yeah.” Kevin tried to be better than watching him go, but he couldn’t help himself. “I hate you Felipe!”

“No you don’t!” He called out as he reentered the shop.

“I really do.” Spotting the next lot of customers he prepared a smile on his face and just got on with it.

Tipping the cup up one last time to finish the coffee off, Kimi sighed at himself, he really should go somewhere else and stop torturing himself every morning.

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“Just kill me.”

“Nope, I don’t think I’d like prison very much.” Felipe replied lightly as he finished serving someone.

“I’m just going to take a break, it should be pretty quiet for a bit.”

“Alright.” Felipe was sure his plan was going to work, he was sure Kimi would have thought it was cute, but now there was a real threat that he could never come back. And then he’d have to admit what he’d done.

“Hi, oh is, um, Kevin around?”

“I’ll go get him. Don’t go anywhere.”

“I won’t.” Kimi smirked as Felipe jogged off.

“He’s here?”

“And asking for you.”

“Why?”

“Do you think I’d ask that? And it’s pretty obvious, he wants to see you.” Felipe dragged him off his seat and shoved him out of their little break room.

“Can I get a latte to go please?”

“Sure, yeah.” He had zero time to talk to Kimi as he dealt with the customer.

“Can I get it to sit in instead?”

“Of course, one moment.” Grabbing a cup he poured it into the white china and placed it on a saucer.

“And I think I’ll have a muffin too.”

“Which one?”

Kimi was dying, and he could feel the bravery that he had spent all day working on fading away, he loved what they had done on the cup. It was impossible to ignore.

“So, um, hi.”

“Yeah, this.” Pushing the cup he had been given that morning over the counter, the writing facing Kevin.

“Oh.” He really was going to kill Felipe. “That’s not my…”

“Handwriting, I know.” Kimi nudged it forward again.

Kimi, will you be my Valentine?

There was a box beside yes and no, and Kimi had ticked the yes one. “Kimi?”

“I know you didn’t write this, but I’m really hoping I haven’t made a complete idiot of myself.” He knew exactly how Kevin wrote his name.

“No, I am going to kill Felipe, but maybe I’ll do it nicely.” He tried to smile.

“So...would you tick yes?”

“Yeah, yeah I would.” Dipping his head he grinned broadly, feeling his face go red. “Do you want to do something, not on Valentine’s because, I mean…”

“I know everywhere’s booked up, but we could try?” Kimi shrugged, he hadn’t thought about the logistics of it, he spent all of his shift working up the courage to come back.

“We could get takeout?”

“Sounds good, I’m not really a fan of restaurants.”

“Me either.” Finally feeling relaxed he looked at Kimi properly. “Alright, I’m sure I could chuck Felipe out for the night, come to mine and we could watch a film too?”

“Come to mine, think we might need to thank Felipe a little bit.”

“Uh huh, apart from let’s not actually thank him because he’ll be impossible.” Kevin warned.

Clamping his hands down on Kevin’s shoulders he revelled in making him jump. “Can I take my thanks in cash?” Grinning cheekily, Felipe skipped out of the way.

“Come to mine.” Taking a leaflet from the holder that was detailing their Valentine’s day specials, Kimi jotted down his address.

“I could be crazy.” Kevin teased.