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It was stupid, and he knew that...no that wasn't the right word...the right one was childish. It was childish and he was a grown man. A little mistake with their coffee order, three weeks back had started a habit he was both severely regretting and secretly enjoying: He had offered her his coffee cup instead of hers, and they had switched.
She had taken a sip already and when he had as well, from the same cup he realized he could taste her on the lid. In the back of his mind a quote that he had heard maybe when he was a kid, probably in a stupid movie started to echo:
"we took a sip from the same straw, it's like we have kissed each other"
He vaguely remembered a boy with black hair, telling this to a girl with short brown hair after stealing some of her milkshake while she wasn't looking, and her not being happy at all about that little fact. But somehow he had to agree with that faceless character from his childhood.
It had indeed felt like kissing Sarah and that was why he was about to switch their coffee order again for the fourth time in four weeks. He had been careful, always doing it on different days and from different coffee places, to be fair, it was quite easy...they shared almost the same order: she took less milk but sugar, he took more milk...no sugar.
It was easy and plausible enough for anybody to mix their cups up.
Never mind the fact that he was giving the barista the switched order on purpose.
"Don't judge me, Pal" he told Rex, taking the two cups and heading out of the bar, the dog huffed, making it clear that he was indeed judging but Charlie was too far gone.
They met Sarah at the crime scene, she was giving instructions to the forensic team about how to get some cast off a tree.
“Hey Sarah!” He greeted giving her the coffee cup:
“Hi Charlie, Hi Rex!” she took the cup, took a sip, then scrunched her face and without a word switched their cups.
He pretended not to notice either:
“What have we got?” he asked and waited for Sarah to start explaining before zoning out and taking a sip.
Once again he could taste her, maybe was his imagination, but he was at a point where he would take anything he could get.
“Charlie?” she called him.
“Huh?”
“Are you listening?” she asked with a smile, before taking another sip from her cup, her eyes were fixed on his, he nodded, feigning non-chalantness:
“Yes, sorry… I have a bit of a migraine, hoping caffeine will help, you were saying?”
Rex barked, protesting, and Charlie bit his bottom lip. So much for being a human’s best friend!
Sarah though didn’t seem to notice and started talking about the case again.
Charlie sighed, and moved his hand to massage his neck. He was tired, but he wanted to finish his paperwork before going home for the night. The case they had caught had been a open - and - shut, which didn’t really happened often, and he would have loved to take advantage of the fact that they had caught a murderer on the same day they had found the victim.
Sure, the case being a robbery gone wrong and CCTV catching the whole thing had helped, but hey, he’d take an easy win every once in a while.
His phone buzzed with a text from Sarah.
- Still at work? -
He smiled and replied:
- Yes, but I’m almost done, why? -
- Can you come to my office for a moment, before you leave? -
- Sure, give me 10 minutes. -
Sarah’s office was quite dark when Charlie and Rex reached it, he frowned and fished out his cellphone, but before he had the chance to call her, Sarah opened the door:
“Hey!” Charlie greeted confused: “What's with the darkness?” Both he and Rex walked in, and she closed the door behind them.
“I’m pretending not to be here” she told him “can you close the blinds? I’ll turn on the desk lamp”
Charlie was suddenly intrigued and did what she asked, closing the blinds of the internal window for her office. There was a second of complete darkness, before Sarah turned on the little desk lamp, generating a warm golden glow.
“What’s with the secrecy?” he asked with a smirk and she shrugged: “I don’t want to be disturbed” her tone was quite grave when compared to his, and he sobered up immediately.
“Sounds serious, is everything okay?” he asked, getting closer to her, she was standing behind her desk, hands on her chair. He stopped at the corner of her desk, leaning in.
“I broke up with Mike” she said immediately, Charlie felt like a cold bucket of water had been dumped on his head: “What? when?”
Sarah shook her head, and moved the chair behind her getting closer to him: “Two weeks ago, but it’s not important” she replied and grabbing his jacket she moved in between his legs and crashed her lips on his, sliding her tongue immediately between his lips and kissing him so thoroughly, Charlie could only grab her hips and hold on to her, his world quickly spinning out of control.
She broke away from him and licked her lips and it was the sexiest thing Charlie had ever seen, he was breathless and looking at her like she just hung the moon.
Sarah smiled: “Now that you have permission to kiss me, anytime you want” she told him, dragging her index finger on his shirt and giving him thousands of shivers “will you please stop messing my coffee up?” He laughed: “You busted me, huh?” he said blushing lightly.
“Yeah” she replied, scrunching her nose in that Sarah Truong move that he absolutely loved.
“Well, Doctor” he told her, tightening his grip on her hips and pulling her a little bit closer.
Sarah moved her arms around his neck and that was the greatest feeling in the world “that depends on how much and how many times I can actually kiss you” he leaned his forehead on hers and she smiled: “Anytime you want, for as much as you want?”
“Wow, you really love your coffee, don’t you?” he teased.
“Coffee is very important.” she replied, still smiling.
“Alright Truong, we have a deal” he whispered “I’m gonna want to kiss you a lot” he added on her lips before dipping down and kissing her again.
Rex whined a little bit, but the two humans didn’t pay any attention to him at all.