She comes back to the room with a box under one arm and a bag under the other. She's wearing a white turtleneck and tan trousers over black riding boots. Her hair is pulled back into a tight bun, and she's actually wearing glasses. She heads for the kitchen, not even bothering to drop the box or bag.
She comes back out a moment later, empty-
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'Never made it, no.'
Drank it hundreds of times.
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"Bored enough to learn how?"
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'Suppose so.'
He's wearing sweatpants and socks with a polo shirt - hardly usual attire but it's comfortable at least - and follows her into the kitchen.
'That box have a coffee machine in it?'
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"Yes, it's a combo machine. One side grinds the beans, and the other side is the espresso maker. The woman at the shop gave me a quick demo, but I thought we'd want to try it out. I've never done this before, but I figured, since we can't celebrate with Cristal just yet, good coffee seemed like the next best thing."
As she talks, she unloads the bag on the counter. There's a pound of Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee, demerara sugar, and an assortment of bits and bobs. A pair of steel cups, something that looks like a tiny metal paperweight, and a set of espresso cups still in the packaging. It might occur to him that the saleswoman saw Fiona coming.
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