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The Napkin Dispenser Part-2

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He strolled up to the counter and leaned against it, dismissing Mathilda as she moved to serve him. Amber smacked the coffee grinder and cursed when it spluttered.

'Mathilda, fix that.'

'Um, yes,' the pink haired girl squeaked.

'Amber did you break Tsubasa's thumb?' Mariam asked, coming to stand beside him with a grin.

'No, I just bent in the wrong direction. It'll be fine.'

The blue haired girl chuckled, then smiled up at him. 'Kai, do you want something?'

Not to be served by her. Bryan was probably suppressing his Hulk gene as it was.

'Ugh, I'll serve him. Also can you please deal with Rupaul?'

The laugh startled him and he quickly coughed to hide it, glancing back at the silver haired teen who was openly glaring at him. Kai had never considered himself perverse but the fucker was asking for it. He'd acted like some popstar diva ever since he'd shown up in their small seaside village and he was only after Amber to piss him off. Like Kai didn't know the prick was one of Voltaire's bastards. With the way his grandfather acted, Kai figured that there were at least a half dozen in the world somewhere.

Amber frowned at him but he knew her well enough to see the lurking pleasure. It wasn't often that he laughed at something she said though she could be pretty amusing. Especially when she was riled up and ranting at him. He figured she was loud in all aspects of her life, which was something he had been considering exploring more and more.

Mariam shook her head and muttered something that vaguely sounded like 'get a room' before she sashayed off to deal with the Silver Surfer.

'You going to serve me or not?'

Amber's lips curved and he knew exactly where her sharp little mind had jumped to before she folded her arms and waited for him to order.

'A sprite and a cola.'

'Please?'

'Aw Ember, you don't need to beg.'

Her brows drew together and she rolled her eyes. 'Grow up. I'm not being part of your pissing comp with your uncle.'

'My uncle? You mean Rupaul?' He supposed Tsubasa was his uncle. Illegitimately. Disturbing.

'Seriously just whip them out and see whose is bigger.'

'Ember if you want to see it, you just have to ask.'

She shook her head and went to fetch his drinks. Which annoyed the fuck out of him because she was supposed to rise to his baiting. That was how it worked.

She set his drinks on the counter and held out her hand for the money but before moving to put it in the till, she leaned over the counter. 'Look, just tell him that there's nothing between us so he'll leave me alone. Honestly, Kai,' she lifted her eyes to meet his and he knew she was being serious, 'this is creeping me out. I don't like these games. So just flirt with another girl or something so he'll leave me alone.'

He considered that and sipped his sprite. She took that to mean he agreed and began to enter the money in the till. She grabbed her notepad and left the serving station. As she passed him he snagged her wrist and brought her back against him, leaning down to his lips were at her ear and he could smell the strawberry scent of her hair.

'Little problem there, Ember,' he said, his voice squeezing out of his tight throat. He licked his lips that were suddenly dry accidentally grazing the shell of her ear causing her to stiffen. He saw her pulse flutter at her throat. 'I'm not much into using girls.'

'Then what are you doing with me?' she ground out the words and he was aware of Tsubasa watching them.

'Getting uncle to leave you alone.'

'And how is that working?'

He needed to get out of there. Too many people were watching them. Bryan was probably being restrained but he couldn't remove his attention from Amber. Kai shifted his grip to her shoulders and began to guide her out of the diner. 'She's taking a break,' he told Mathilda.

Having pushed her around the corner to the alleyway he released her and dodged her elbow.

'What the hell, Hiwatari?'

He disarmed her by pressing her up against the wall and caught her chin so she would meet his gaze. He didn't want to frighten her or make her feel threatened but their cat and mouse game needed to end. Talking to her seriously had to achieve something.

'You want my uncle to leave you alone? Then go off the market. Show him that he doesn't have a chance with you.'

'You want me to date some randomer just to make him leave me alone and then I'll have to deal with some other guy not taking a hint.'

This close to him her mouth was such a nuisance. 'Not some randomer.'

'What, Hiwatari,' she laughed but it wasn't amused, it was thread and full of false bravado, 'you asking me out?'

'Could be.'

'Could, would, should? I'm not playing games with you.'

'Yes.'

She parted her lips, struggled for words and he shoved away from her, raking a hand through his hair. They'd told him she had a crush on him. Her whole demeanour had assured him of that. This should have been easy.

'Look it would make him leave you alone.'

'So you're only telling me that for that reason.'

He growled. 'What do you want?' A fucking live sacrifice?!

'I'm not going out with you to annoy your uncle and make you feel like a bigger man. I'm not a prize. I don't even know how I could be a prize. I'm Amber, remember? We've taken lumps out of each other since we were four.'

'And then you grew them and things were different.'

'Grew –' her gaze dropped to her chest before slowly levelling on his face with a dark expression. 'Seriously?! Does your brain actually work?'

Okay that was a little crude. 'You are such a pain in the ass.'

'Uh hello, pot, kettle. Look let's pretend this didn't happen and –'

'No, because then we'll go back to how it was and that fucking doesn't work.'

She threw her hands in the air and looked to the sky. 'What will work then?'

'You, me and food.'

She grinned before covering it quickly as if she feared offending him. 'Really? Food. And us. Where?'

He sighed. This was not working out. The idea of them eating food in a restaurant was just weird. 'Your backyard? Or mine, that could work. Tomorrow afternoon.'

'Why those places?'

'They're private and nobody's going to interfere. That way we can actually talk and figure out if we can be around each other and not bicker.'

'Puh-lease. We already know this. But sure why not.' She stretched and showed a brief glimpse of golden skin under the hem of her black blouse. 'What time?'

'Your mum working tomorrow?' She nodded. 'I'll call round at three.'

She tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. 'Alright then.'

He watched her walk back to the café and called himself a few interesting names before catching up and dropping a kiss to her cheek. She stopped, startled. He slipped past her and into the café, ignoring Tsubasa as he slid into the seat opposite Johnny and Tala and snagged a now soggy fry.

'So you and Benson…' Johnny trailed off wiggling his eyebrows.

Kai shrugged and angled the napkin dispenser so he could keep an eye on his potential date. 'We'll see.'

Fin
Part One to The Napkin Dispenser which can be found here: [link]
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I really like your style of writing. :)