Prompt: “I’m practically falling asleep on my feet and you show up to my classroom offering coffee LET ME LOVE YOU”



Exams were horrible. Having a full course load totaled up to a lot of final projects, homework and of course, exams. The weeks leading up to the dreaded time were an exercise in time management and damage control. Which was why Elsa had planned to hole herself up in her room for most of it. She had even went out of her way to get an early refill on her anxiety prescriptions and stock up on chamomile tea.



The apartment however had other ideas. Today was maintance in the junction box and with an electrician working on that there was no power to the whole building. Instead of panicking Elsa decided to take the two hour window to relax and get something to eat. Merida had crashed on the couch, not even twitching when Elsa had tried to wake her up.

That left Elsa alone, or if she worked on her feelings, she could see what Anna was up to. The education major was probably in tutoring right about now.

It wasn’t often that she found herself in the campus cafe. Most students only bothered with the place when it came to coffee, the food was terrible. But considering that was what she was here for, the coffee not the food, that was a-okay. Getting Anna’s order right had been hard until the barista realized who she was buying it for. So now she had two cups of caffeine suited to two people’s tastes.

Elsa had found the education building easily enough, she had passed by it enough times on the way to the library to be familiar with it. Navigating the inside however was another mess. Why certain stairways led to only certain parts of the second floor she’d never know. It had taken two questions and three wrong doors to find the one she wanted. And she knew it was the one because there were a bunch of grade school students making noise and a mess in the hall before it.

The room was set up as a classroom, she didn’t know who normally used it or what for, but after hours on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays it was home to a tutoring program. The various education majors taking turns helping the local school students.

“Bye Craig! Don’t forget to take your project in tomorrow, after all the work we got done it’d be bad to not turn it in!”

“Yeah yeah Miss Christensen! I’ll remember.” Craig grumbled, struggling with what looked like a giant posterboard in his hands.

She snuck into the room, finding Anna about as messy as the desk she was cleaning. There were pieces of paper everywhere and a few broken crayons and gluesticks on the floor. Anna wanting to be a teacher made about as much sense as Anna liking chocolate. It fit her to a tee. Even if she looked like she had about three hours sleep on the brink of exams.With most of the majors busy cleaning up after grade schoolers she was able to sneak up on her friend. At least until she got about two feet from her.

“I… I smell coffee.” Anna sounded hopeful as she turned around, her eyes lighting on Elsa and the styrofoam cup in her hand. Elsa handed it over, watching amused as the hopeful look turned into a worshipful one. The moan as she drank had a rosy blush forming over Elsa’s complexion.

“Oh God, it is coffee. Sweet coffee even. I love you so much right now.” It was all she could do to stay in one place when an arm wrapped around her and pulled her in close. The guilt about enjoying it more then a friend should came right about the same time as the butterflies that had spawned from the L word.

“Have you eaten yet?” The look of dismay on Anna’s face made her wince. “Stone’s?



Anna almost yanked her arm out of its socket as she made for the sign out sheet.