This Since

as reply to keith in the middle of the night

“Howdy partner. What? can’t sleep?”

Keith said with a smile on his face. Sort of like someone talking to a dog. He was excited to see someone else, it almost didn’t matter what he said. 

“I uh.”

“Oh let me get you a cup. It’s uh decaf well sort of so you don’t have to worry.”

He poured him a cup of coffee. And sat it in front of him. 

A good cup that is. Pete looked down at the cup and he remembered thinking it was a normal cup. A cup he’d probably used everyday without even considering, but suddenly because this guy told him it was nice he was holding it like a baby bird. 

“This coffee is good too, it has sort of melon and orange notes too it. Strange, a mixture I make if I can collect enough.”

It did taste like that he remembers it was one of the best cups of coffee he’d ever had. 

“I always like a sort of Sumatra thing, and this I think here is the closest you can get.”

With this he remembered he winked at him. He thought at the time it was stupid. What the fuck, but now he remembers it with such care. No one has cared about him like this since.