The island was doing that mistletoe thing again. That mistletoe thing, Sparkle remembered it vividly from a precarious situation in a stairwell back when Alec was still a part of his life, and no amount of lecturing the island on people's right to choose who the hell they kissed for themselves had apparently dissuaded it from making it tradition.
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Tip hated this plan. But mostly because she would be perfectly happy if the entirety of December just got cancelled. They could replace it with "Dan Landry Month" for all she cared. She kind of hated everything this month.
Currently, she was hating very loudly on the fact that the world had apparently decided all caramel flavors had to have salt in them, now. "Why would I want a salty hot chocolate?! That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard! You drink stuff to not be thirsty, and salt makes you thirsty!"
Sorry, Sparkle. Tip hadn't even noticed yet that she was getting her bitter-and-angry all over your morning coffee shop time.
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Hooboy.
"Salt is actually a flavour-enhancer," he offered, from where he was sitting. "Makes you taste the sweet stuff even more. Fortunately, 'not salted' is also an option, if you ask nice."
Hey, Sparkle hated the holiday as much as the next person, but it wasn't like the barista had put the item on the menu to piss anybody off. Minimum wage was not enough to put up with even the most righteous angry teenager's yelling.
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Well. It was a step in the right direction?
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The barista looked only slightly mollified, but had clearly put up with worse crap than this before and set to work making Tip's drink. She even only rolled her eyes the once.
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But he was trying to be good and get out and have tea, so. Here he was.
He nodded at Sparkle and smiled at the familiar face. "Hi. Haven't seen you around in a while."
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So, there was that.
"Stupid island."
Seriously, this place. Seriously.
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