I walked into the café, seeing it mostly empty. Gee held onto my hand as we went to the cash register.
“Can we please have a banana bread, a muffin, and a coffee,” I said, then turned to Gee. “What do you want to drink, sweetheart?”
Gee blushed, leaning closer and putting a hand up to speak into my ear.
“Hot chocolate,” he whispered.
“And a hot chocolate,” I ordered, squeezing his hand.
“Unfortunately we don't have that anymore because it's summer,” the lady said. “I wish they sold them year-round, they're so damn good. But we have tea, smoothies, pops.”
“Smoothie,” Gee whispered to me. “Strawberry.”
“Strawberry smoothie,” I said.
She smiled as I paid for it and she got everything. The two of us sat at a table by the window. He held onto my hand across the table and I saw the
