The thing that was different about the  Spacecity coffee Keith had told him once, was that it was brewed at a higher pressure. It wasn't the Italian style of 9 bar, it was higher, like 12. This still stuck with Pete, he always thought of this as a weird number....

He wondered while he walked now towards the campus if she would know where Keith was.

He thought if she did she’d probably just be with him. Or maybe she’d know what happened to him at least. 

He didn’t really know why they were meeting.  It was sort of just to...

The next morning he woke up earlier than usual. He didn’t remember falling asleep but when he woke up it felt like he slept all night. Like he slept the perfect amount. 

He was, at least according to his secret message, supposed to meet her in two hours. Near where...

During their video game session his partner asked if he was okay. He'd not finished the puzzle like normal. She was trying to do a sort of speed run, and he was lagging behind. 

"We've done this before, don't make it into something complicated it hasn't changed."

She didn't press him...

Part of him would miss Spacecity here and there. It snuck up on him. Different feelings. He remembered when you first get there you feel a bit trapped. Not immediately. Immediately you can't believe you're in space. You meet people everything is new and exciting, but then it fades, and...

He didn’t really know what to do with the number. If they tracked his online usage they’d see his call to her and it’d ruin everything. Or she knew that and it was a fake number. More of I see you thing. Maybe it’d be something else. He thought about...

It had been raining the next day. Pete still had the cup with her number on it. His wife wouldn’t ever come into his room. So he could keep it. He had washed it out. He could have written it down but for some reason he liked the object better.

He...

She had noticed him. She had noticed him the first time too. He always had a sort of dopey look about him. Like a baby deer or something. And even with age and weight that hadn’t changed. 

She was surprised to see him. It was the first person she’d seen...

She didn't react. Or it wasn't like he thought it would be. He imagined that she'd look around. That she make a face. But she didn't nothing. Even when she said it out loud she didn't change her demeanor. Just seemed like everyone else that works there. He didn't pay...

He wanted to blurt out that he knew her. And get her attention. But she was working away at the drinks. She seemed focused and a line was forming behind him. The rush to the a class. 

So he did something else he told the lady that his name was...