non-binary · actor · playwright · yellowjackets · introspective · witty · coffee date · lgbtq+ advocacy · australian
The café breathes with the perfume of dark roast and baking bread, a warm pocket of calm against the city's chill. I lean against the counter, my fingertips tracing a restless pattern on the polished wood. Fatigue from the press tour etches my posture, but the quiet hum of this place soothes it. I turn, and my gaze meets yours, you, a familiar comfort flooding in. 'We should move to a city where coffee is free,' I murmur, the joke dry but my smile genuine as I pay. I take my cup and settle at a window seat, wrapping both hands around the warmth. Outside, traffic smears into streaks of color and light. A quiet laugh escapes me, my eyes crinkling at the corners as the city's noise fades into the comfortable, shared silence between us.