More fanfictions~
Terra stared at the application in front of him, wondering what in the world possessed him to actually pick the damn piece of paper up. He was desperate for a job, but was he so desperate to apply to one of the world's largest chain of franchised, over-priced and addicting coffee shop? He looked up from the application to see what Aqua was looking at.
She was at the weapon's shop, admiring the different styles of swords that hung on the wall, but she wandered over to another store to gaze at something on display. Whatever she was looking at really captivated her if it was enough to draw her away from weaponry. Heaving out a sigh, he stuffed the application in the back of his pocket and walked over to her. She was staring down at a necklace was made out seashells, taking the shape of a flower. Though in Terra's opinion it looked more like a star than anything else.
"Like it?" he asked, causing Aqua to jump. She was startled that he managed to walk up behind her. The blue-haired girl shook her head at her friend.
"A little, but got nothing to go with it and it's ridiculously priced..." she explained, but Terra could see right through it. She liked it and was trying to cover it up. She always acted this way whenever her girly side was showing.
Terra decided to say nothing on the subject and redirected them to their original goal: obtaining sea-salt ice cream at the mall.
A week later her put in his application to Starbucks, three days later he had an interview over the phone and now a day later he was standing behind the counter, taking orders in a horrible green apron. Memorizing the recipes was easy, it was remembering those recipes and getting them done in the span of two minutes that was the hard part. On his first day off of training he managed to get five orders wrong. On his second day he was stuck behind the register, taking orders and found he loved the register more than anything else. The register was heaven compared to remembering which type of syrup to use for someone's extra-whip cream, non-fat, double espresso, iced mocha, tall drink. Why they name the damn small tall, I'll never know.
Of course, working at Starbucks was a secret. He didn't want Aqua or Ven to find out he was working in hell. When either of them called to hang out, he had to make up an excuse. He used every single one he could think of, including telling them he was taking a bath and he was washing his hair--he thought the last excuse was a buyable one. Since he started working at Starbucks he couldn't get the smell off of him.
Finally fed up with their friend avoiding them, Ven and Aqua stalked Terra. They got out of class early and waited in the parking lot, scanning the horizon for him. They spotted him as he got into his car and followed. Minutes later they were at the mall when Aqua got the sudden craving for a caramel frappuccino.
"Aqua we're gonna lose him! Just put your Starbucks addiction on hold for two minutes--"
"Come on, it's not that far and it's in the same direction--" Aqua's sentence fell short as she watched Terra take out from his backpack his green apron with the familiar Starbucks logo. Ven fell silent as well.
"...Well...mystery solved.." he said as he placed his hands on his hips.
"Think I could bribe him into giving me the employee discount?" Aqua msued to herself, completely missing Ven smacking his palm to his forehead.
With Terra's secret exposed Aqua and Ven decided to go into Starbucks to tease their friend. What they intended to be a fun day for Terra turned out to be a bad one. There was a man in front of them, demanding that he either get a refund or a completely new drink.
"This loser over here royally messed my up drink. I wanted SKIM milk, not FAT FREE," he yelled at the manager who was standing next to Terra. Aqua looked on and she swore she saw Terra's left eye start to twitch.
"Sir, I made your drink perfectly fine," Terra began, trying to defend himself.
"No, you didn't. Otherwise I wouldn't be here. Seems like you guys hire any high school drop out with a fifth grade reading level," to emphasize his point, the black-haired man pointed to the milk containers.
"Does he even know how to read a thermometer--"
"Sir, Sir. We'll make you another drink. Can I have your name please?" the manager asked. She saw the look on Terra's face and knew he was about to deck the guy.
"Vanitas, and don't screw it up this time!" he barked, moving out of the line to the side to wait for his new drink. Unbeknown to both barista and manager, Terra had made his drink right. Vanitas was being a douche and wanted a second free drink.
Aqua though, saw right through the entire thing. She quietly told Ven that she was heading out to the bathroom. He raised an eyebrow at her and let her go. She was only gone for like five minutes before she returned, panting.
"..What did you do?" Ven asked.
"Nothing..." she told him and for emphasis she gave him an innocent smile.
She looked and saw Vanitas was still waiting for his drink and once he got it, he snatched and walked off. Aqua's innocent smile turned into a smirk.
"Wait for it..." she murmured, moving up to the counter to Terra. He parted his lips to ask what she and Ven were doing here (and how they found him) when a loud piercing shriek cut him off.
"WHO KEYED MY SCOOTER?!"
Every turned their heads to the window that faced the parking lot. There was Vanitas, just staring at his scooter that was mauled by ten thousand keys. Terra looked away from the sight to face Aqua.
"...You didn't..."
"Oh I did. Now, hit me up with a frappuccino, Mister Barista!"