#hey hey! i hope this is okay :D

[elifalvey]

location — expresso yourself.

status — for hank ( @hxnkbrxmson​ ).

Sending the invitation text to Hank had been the easy part. Treading through conversation to find a date and time that worked for the both of them had, surprisingly, also been easy. The impatience that came with waiting for the other to actually show up had been the hard part. Sat in the most secluded corner of the coffee shop, Elijah had been people-watching — or, really, looking at every single person that happened to walk through the front doors, and masking a sigh with another sip of coffee when that person wasn’t Hank. Did he arrive early? Yes, but that still didn’t stop him from being worried that he’d wind up sitting here for nothing. It had been months since Elijah reached out to the other man, and quite frankly, he had no idea if that was okay; he still didn’t really know him that well, and for all he could guess, he was just agreeing to be polite with no actual plans of showing up. Deep down, Elijah knew that he couldn’t really blame him for that if that were the case. He wanted to build a friendship with him, something more genuine than getting blitzed at all the bars in town he could think of, but hadn’t exactly been the best at following through. In an attempt to change that, extending his new-found happiness in other areas of his life, he reached out to him. 

And now, he sat with his coffee half-drank and Hank’s going cold. He was distracted by a notification on his phone when the bell above the front door chimed once more, and Elijah looked up with an almost immediate smile on his face. “Hank, hey! I’m glad you could make it,” he said once the other stepped closer, setting his phone down and pushing the cup of black coffee further towards the open seat. “I, uh — I ordered you a coffee but I have no idea if you drink it, so. You don’t have to, if you don’t want to. It’s just black, there’s some cream cups and those little sugar packets there if you do want to.” He offered a friendly smile. “How have you been?”