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The Perk, Saturday Morning

Once again, a need to have some space to himself had combined with a need for caffeine, driving Ender to the Perk for a warm cup of coffee and a pastry. He had his laptop on him, but it was shut for once, hiding its mountains of data within.

Ender sipped his coffee and considered the windows, which seemed to have, overnight, acquired the strangest patterns of snow - spray on snow - and he gave up on identifying what shapes they formed when he realised at least two of them probably came from the Kama Sutra, or an equal piece of pornography.

It was shaping up to be a quiet winter.

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"Ho, Ender," Ben said, wandering in after his daily run. "You get your own coffee?"

"No," Ender said, dryly, "I forgot I had legs, so I made your droid do it."

"Well, you are very dim," Ben teased, "so I can see how that could happen."

Ender chuckled. "Haven't gotten enough caf yet?"

"Oh, I can't function without at least three cups a day," Ben replied. "This is number two."

He gave the coffee shop employee a brief smile of thanks before lounging in a seat across from Ender.

"I'm pleased to meet Zombie Ben," Ender said, solemnly.

"Caaaaaaf," Ben replied, moaning to his coffee.

Ben was a dork.

"Now I know I can take you down," he said, solemnly, "I just have to cut off your caffeine."

Ben laughed. "I'd adapt and overcome. Somehow. I'm not so lost that I missed noticing the snow today. The really fake snow."

"It's more than fake," Ender opined, "I think it's sprayed on." And lewd.

Ben glanced at the window, tilted his head at one of the shapes, and snickered. "Think it was one of the students?"

"This isn't the first place I've seen decorated," Ender noted. "Might be a gang..."

"It wasn't the fraternity," Ben said, "or if it was, they didn't tell me about it."

"Maybe they just thought you were too virginal."

Ben threw a wadded up napkin at him. "I am not. Compared to Chuck, I am a master of seduction."

No, not really.

"Which Chuck?" he... kind of had to ask.

"Tall gangly freshman Chuck," Ben said. "Not icky radio Chuck."

"Good catch," Ender judged. "Who've you seduced lately?"

Oh, but they weren't talking about last weekend.

His cheeks went a little pink. "Wouldn't you like to know?"

"Well, that's why I asked."

"Only while in my right mind?" he checked, treading carefully.

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