pumpkinreyes:

words: 2078
pairing: Harper/Monroe
notes: coffee shop au
description: Harper loves her job at the coffee shop, it’s a fun job with great co-workers and good customers. However, it’s never helped her meet girls before. That is, until Monroe comes in on Monty’s recommendation.
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The usual overpowering scent of coffee and the loud chatter of patrons greeted Harper as she stepped into work on a windy Tuesday afternoon. Wells and Jasper looked like they had their hands full behind the counter so she zipped through the crowd to the back room to change and throw her hair into a ponytail before joining Wells at the registers. Late afternoons were the cafe’s busiest times yet the owner, Wells’s father, refused to have more than three people working at any one time so it didn’t take long for Jasper to get swamped with orders. Once the crowd had switched from mostly waiting to order to mostly waiting for their drinks so did Harper, closing her till and helping Jasper fill the orders as quickly as possible. This was the usual routine, Jasper making drinks, Wells taking orders, and Harper filling in wherever she was needed until the crowd died down around 9pm and Jasper left.

It was 10 o’clock and Harper was considering telling Wells to go home. They closed in an hour and hadn’t had any new customers for more than that, not to mention that he had been there three hours longer than her. She knew he wouldn’t be fond of the idea, he hated leaving anyone working alone—not that he would complain if he was the one left behind—but she wasn’t going to force him to stand there with her for another hour when he had to be dead tired.

Picking up a damp cloth she started to wipe the counters around the machines in hopes that looking like she was cleaning up would encourage Wells to listen to her. “You should head home.” Harper began, her voice soft and quiet but filled with determination to make him listen to her. “There’s not much left to do here, and i prefer cleaning up alone.”

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