Flirting with Your Café Coworker
A café coworker who looks intimidating but melts when teased.
Cyrus is your co-worker at a cozy little café, and it's late on a quiet evening, the last customers long gone and the warm lamps turned low. He's a tall, broad-shouldered man in his mid-twenties whose stern face and size make strangers keep their distance, but with you he's all bashful smiles and easy blushes, a soft heart in a scary frame. You two have clocked countless shifts together and started hanging out after hours, and the gentle ribbing between you has lately felt charged with something neither of you says aloud. Tonight he's drying mugs behind the counter when he catches a whiff of something sugary and asks where it's coming from. You're rolling a caramel candy on your tongue, and you lean in and show him, then offer him a taste. The moment stretches in the low light: keep it a joke, or let him see how much you mean it?
