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(Venus’ pov.)
“Yeah, right turn over there and- we’re here!”
“How do you even know all this.”
Mars gave him a look. “Earth told me.”
“Figures…”
Venus and Mars were going to the cafe that Earth worked at for extra money (why tf does he need that much money) for a sweet date and to get out of the SolarHouse’s chaos for a while. It was a cool setting, at the end of a pretty busy street with a back entrance to a community college on the side of the road. (How they built it and why they need it, Venus will never know. He never understood these short little shitty excuses of intelligent life anyways. Earth would probably kill him for thinking that.)
We entered the cafe. The ceiling isn't high enough for me.
“I AM FUCKING GRAZING MY HAIR ON THE FUCKING BEIGE-BROWN CEILING MARS-”
Several people looked towards him.
“Babe, chill, this is an Earthling cafe! They don't really have heights greater than 7 feet.” Mars states.
“Overlook on their behalf…”
“The architects just didn’t know we exist, okay? Let's just take a seat.”
I sigh, Mars gives me another look (i am NOT doing anything??) and we both sit down on the chairs (Mars calls it a 'table'- NOT accurate) next to this other couple of guys.
“What you orderin’, Ven?”
“Do not call me that, love. I'll take a cold coffee and- what did Earth call them? Fries.”
Mars snickers.
“Okay, Venus, you do that. I’ll take the….”
He looks so cute when he's just concentrating on the menu like that.
I look back to those guys behind us.
“Huh. I swear I saw that brown-haired dude somewhere, it just isn't clicking….”
(Cole’s Pov.)
“–And I know that Jay messed with the settings, but he refuses to–”
Kai was ranting, and I was (more or less) tuning him out. It’s not that I mind. It’s just he’s been complaining about the same issue he started with Jay yesterday ever since we got into his car.
Also, can you really blame me for focusing more on the noodles? This café’s one of the best things I’ve ever come across since Chen’s Noodles!
“–Oh, and Nya decides that she’ll completely trust Jay. Like, what the fuck man. My own sister?–”
He takes a pause to breathe and reach out to snatch some of my food with his chopsticks. Wow, rude. “C’mon man, eat your own food!” I scold him. He grins and it’s hard to stay mad (not that I was in the first place.)
“Your shit’s still hot.”
“Well it’s not my fault you’re yapping instead of eating”
“Sorry that your best friend humiliated your boyfriend!”
“Virtually.” I remind him. “In a videogame.”
Kai pouts, rubbing the back of his neck and sighing dramatically, “Damn, even my partner doesn’t care about me. Especially on our date.”
And yeah, I can’t stay mad at him. But I can act like I am. “Maybe next time you take Jay out instead of me. And then you sort out all your digital issues over that nice plate of steaming dumplings that you’re wasting!”
Kai smirks at me and it’s a bit irritating (like– dude, I’m scolding you. At least have the decency to look regretful!) as he finally decides to continue eating his own bowl of noodles.
I sigh, flashing him a quick thank-you-for-letting-me-eat smile as I take another bite. Kai’s still talking.
But then he’s not. Initially I don’t notice. But then I look up, and he’s staring at the couple at our neighbouring table.
“Babe, you good?”
He’s gawking, and I follow his line of sight.
Fuck, those are tall men.
They both must be at least 7 feet– The other guy a few inches taller.
And said man has orange-yellowish lavalike hair???
“That guy looks so familiar bro, I swear I saw him yesterday-”
“The tall ass dude with lava hair is familiar to you? Where did you go yesterday, the grocery store or Lord Garmadon’s lair???”
I definitely spoke a little too loud, as those gargantuan guys spotted us.
Let’s hope they aren’t any sort of threat….
(Mars’ pov.)
I was reading the menu, trying to decide whether I should get a chocolate latte or a pumpkin spice one with my black lotus biscoff.(I bet if I said this exact sentence aloud, Venus would actually crash out on wtf a pumpkin spice or a biscoff is.)
“Huh. I swear I saw that brown-haired dude somewhere, it just isn't clicking…”
I scoff. “What are the chances, Venven.”
“Do NOT call me that-”
I interrupt him with a quick kiss. “There, forgive me?” I say, smirking.
Venus grumbles, trying to hide a smile(and failing).
“You’re lucky I love you so much.”
“Says the guy who was drunkenly crying a few days ago saying that he doesn’t deserve me.”
(Yeah, he cries a lot whenever he gets drunk...)
I enjoy the show as his face goes brighter red than my surface.
“THAT IS LOW, MARS!!!’”
I burst out giggling as Venus playfully elbows my side (“HEY THAT HURT?!!“)
Shaking my head fondly at him, I look back at that menu and finally decide on the pumpkin spice latte after some thought when I hear something from the table behind us.
“That guy looks so familiar-”
“-tall ass dude with lava hair-”
I had to resist the urge to laugh, because I'm sorry, LAVA hair? LMAO??? Are they talking about Venus?????
We both look back to see two dudes, one black-haired and one brown, gawking at us as if we were reincarnated neutron stars.
They realised that we had noticed them and immediately took on what I recognized as a defensive stand.
Let’s see how this goes…