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Drabble - Starbucks Girl - Erin/Lilith (Originally posted by GGJ
5er)
By: Mascii Date: June 11, 2013, 11:01 am
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Originally posted by GGJ5er
[quote]akalover3 said: Secret: My character tells your character
a secret. (Lilith/Erin)[/quote]
Erin couldn’t help it; her curiosity was killing her. She had to
find out who Starbucks Girl was.
It wasn’t fair for Corzen to break up with her because of
Yukito, and then for Yukito to go and actually ask out some
other girl! He barely even talked to
Erin anymore; how could he go and ask a total stranger at
Starbucks for a date?
No, he wouldn’t do that— which meant it wasn’t some random
stranger.
Erin felt her heart sink at that realization. He probably had a
crush on this Starbucks Girl the whole time and she was just
stupid enough to think it could have been her. The only other
possibility, Erin figured, was that Yukito was just trying to be
mean to her and rub it in her face. Which, judging from how he
decided to totally pull away from her when she’d begged him not
to, was entirely possible.
She just had to know who Starbucks Girl was!
Erin crossed the threshold into the overly-stylized coffee shop.
She didn’t really like Starbucks. It gave off this weird,
elitist vibe to her… like the coffee shop for rich kids. Well…
Yukito came here, so… I guess that means something. And now I’m
here, so I guess that says the same thing about me, whatever
that is… If she was lucky, or whatever the right word would be,
Starbucks Girl would be working today.
Walking up to the counter, Erin’s eyes scanned the desserts and
breads on the shelf. If she was here to find stuff out, she
might as well get something tasty to make her feel better. Her
eyes fell on the raspberry white chocolate pinwheel roll, and
she decided that even if Starbucks Girl wasn’t here, at least
she could reward herself well for dealing with all this stupid
crap.
“Do you know what you want?”
Erin looked up from the desserts. “Huh?” she replied
automatically, though she’d heard the question perfectly well.
Her eyes fell on a familiar face. “Do you know what you want?”
Lilith repeated, her voice a bit more edgy this time. She looked
like she was ready to go home— kind of tired, not exactly in the
mood to smile. Not that Lilith went around grinning at everyone,
anyway, but Erin was pretty sure she was close to the end of her
shift. Either that, or she just wanted it to be close to the end
of her shift. Or Erin was just being judgy. It was hard to tell
when she was worrying about Starbucks Girl.
“Hey, Lilith,” Erin greeted, trying to at least be a nice
customer experience for her. She gave Lilith a smile, but Lilith
just waited. “Uh, one of those raspberry pinwheels.” She pointed
to the ones in the show case.
Lilith punched the order into her screen. “Four-fifty-six.”
“For one little cake thing? Freaking extortion…” Erin was
talking to herself more than Lilith, but she replied anyway.
“Well, if you don’t like the prices, you can always go back to
the Whistle Stop.” Lilith raised one perfectly-arched eyebrow,
not breaking eye contact with Erin even to blink. It felt like
she was just daring her to get up and leave. So Erin gave her a
five.
As Lilith worked with the cash register, Erin leaned forward a
bit. “Hey, out of curiosity, were you here when Yukito came in
yesterday?”
Lilith looked up, having finished counting Erin’s change. “What?
Yeah, I was here. Why?”
Erin placed her hands on the counter, rubbing her thumbs across
its smooth edge nervously. Her weight shifted from one foot to
the other. “Well, it’s kind of stupid, really,” she started with
a little laugh.
“Then why ask?” Lilith interrupted, holding out the coins for
Erin.
“I— No, I mean, I want to—” She cut herself off, feeling the
frustration rising inside her at Lilith’s coldness. Rolling her
eyes, Erin went for the plunge.
“It’s just that Reese said he asked out one of your
coworker-people, and I was just curious, you know?”
Lilith shrugged. “Whatever.” She took the few strides to the
dessert case and opened it from the back, pulling out Erin’s
requested pinwheel.
“Okay, I know it’s random, but I’m still curious,” Erin pressed,
following Lilith on the opposite side of the counter.
“Well, if you’re that curious, when he was here, I gave him my
number. And he called me up later.” When Lilith reached behind
her to pull out a plate for the cake, Erin’s eyes widened. And
it felt like someone was pouring ball bearings into her chest.
Lilith? That’s it. It was done. She was done. There was no way
Erin could hope to compete with Lilith. She was a freaking
supermodel, with her princess hair (Erin brushed the fringes of
her own chopped-off locks), her creamy skin (Erin was sure she
looked like she was a potato compared to Snow White here), her
angular, thin face (Erin had fat cheeks and looked like a baby
next to her). She was tall, graceful, and untouchable—
everything Erin wasn’t.
Lilith turned back around, the cake presented cutely on the dark
china plate. A small smile played at the edges of her lips. “I
didn’t expect him to call me, but I figured it was worth a
shot.” She shrugged.
Erin took the plate, suddenly not feeling hungry at all anymore.
“Thanks,” she replied automatically. “So you’re gonna go out
with him soon, right?”
Lilith gave a little nod. “Yeah. Honestly, I know that he and I
don’t talk with each other often, but I’ve thought about it for
quite a while, and… I thought I might as well give it a chance.”
Both her eyebrows raised briefly, as though she knew a secret
Erin didn’t. “I was right.”
At that moment, Erin’s hand opened without her realizing it,
spilling all the change Lilith had given her everywhere. Erin
swore loudly, then muttered an apology as she got down on her
knees to pick up the spilt coins. She’s liked Yukito, too? Will
I ever get a break? …No. No, I won’t. He had his chance, more
than once, and he didn’t want to take it, so he obviously
doesn’t want to take it. Why do I keep caring?! There’s no way,
that after Lilith, he’d ever change his mind about me. He told
me when I first kissed him that we couldn’t date because of
stupid Doctor Ramsey… because he was scared of how he’d react to
it. But he’ll go out with Lilith? He’ll risk her? Of course he
will, because there’s no real risk, otherwise he wouldn’t do
this… He must have said that so he wouldn’t have to let me down
hard… Thanks for that, Yukito. You’re a real friggen Prince
Charming, you know that?
The last coin returned to her hand, Erin looked over at the tip
jar on the counter and dumped the change in there. “Sorry,” she
repeated again, taking her cake from the counter.
Erin moved to one of the cushioned chairs by a floor lamp and
coffee table. She picked at the cake, thinking too much while
she was doing it. She knew
her thoughts weren’t logical ones, that she was missing
something about all this… Clearly, from what Yukito had shown
her about his mom and his real past, something was scarily
sketchy about Doctor Hal Ramsey. She’d heard her own dad talk
about him in ways that weren’t exactly flattering. He’d never
said anything bad about him outright, but she heard the doubt in
her dad’s voice, the idea that he wasn’t at all comfortable with
everything happening in the academy. She knew Yukito had reason
to believe there was a risk in bringing Erin into a close
friendship with him, much less anything else.
So why was he allowing Lilith in?
It hurt… to think that she’d been rejected by Yukito, and that
Corzen broke his own heart just so she could have a chance with
him, and now Yukito shut off that chance entirely by picking
Lilith….
Erin only finished half of the cake. She couldn’t make herself
finish it all, even if it was ridiculously expensive. Sighing,
she got up, tossed the remains in the trash, and placed her
plate on the return stack. She looked back at Lilith and gave
her a wave. “Bye, Lilith… I hope you enjoy your date.” She gave
her best effort of a smile, and Lilith gave her own sharp nod of
a farewell, too, before Erin walked out the door.
Well, she had wanted to know who Starbucks Girl was. Now,
though… she wished she hadn’t found out.
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