+A Cup of Milk Tea+

Coffee I: Bittersweet

"What is it with you and drinking this all the time, Souji? You're going to wind up with yellow teeth from all that coffee. And it's so bitter!" Aidan fake-chided in a chirpy whine, spinning his wheelie chair around and around in a circle, a hand waving in the air as he spoke. Souji paused in the middle of his concentrated ministrations to his steeping French press. He twisted the metal knob and ever so slowly, a graceful poise in his left hand as his right held the fragile glass, pushing the grounds down in the press.

"No more than you will from your tea." He replied without much real reproach, returning his eyes from the ridiculously surreal spinning form of the blonde man back to his Columbian dark roast. His eyes, hidden by the angle of a glare on his lens, watched the dark waters rise upwards. After a few long seconds in which Aidan had thought he'd just be ignoring him, Souji replied in that ever soft voice, level but thoughtful.

"When you get the right brew, the right beans, the bitter turns almost sweet. That perfect sip makes the bitterness just a fond reminder after that." Aidan's eyebrow went up at the almost poetic honesty Souji had shared. His wheeling stopped and he leaned back as far as he could in the chair, looking at the other with his face upside down.

"Why, Sou-chan! You sound almost like some tragic hero!" He laughed and leaned back more. "Emo emo emo!" He teased. Souji turned his full attention back to the coffee, puling the top part of the press back up now, the miniscule flattening of his lips an obvious sign of his annoyance.

"If you keep leaning back like that you're going to-" The sound of a crash, the bang of a chair spinning out of control into his desk and the thump of what was probably an oversized body tumbling and hitting the ground confirmed Souji's prediction. "Fall."

"Souuuu-chaaaaaan, I hit my heaaaaaad!"

"Congratulations."

"I'm going to be retarded now!"

"Kami-sama help us." Souji said with all the dryness of a desert in drought.