strangeangelsxx
Feb. 26, 2012, 12:44 p.m.
Unexpected: Coffee
T - Words: 284 - Last Updated: Feb 26, 2012 Story: Closed - Chapters: 14/? - Created: Nov 29, 2011 - Updated: Feb 26, 2012 1,191 0 1 0 0
Author's Notes: Prompt: Kurt orders a grande non-fat mocha at any coffee shop, but not because he likes it.Dedicated to my best friend, even though she doesn't even read fanfiction, because this is exactly like her. She drinks her coffee black at home but will order fancy drinks at Tim Horton's (because we're Canadian like that) or anywhere else.Disclaimer: I don't own anything. If I owned it, I would be IN it.
Everyone expects Kurt to be completely stereotypical, down to the coffee he drinks. Kurt is supposed to like some sort of crazy specific, high sugar, low fat, not-quite-coffee crap that they attempted to pass off as real caffeine in coffee shops. People aren't surprised at the grande non-fat mocha he orders when it's chilly. Kurt allows them, Blaine, their Dalton friends, their McKinley friends, to believe that he loves those kinds of drinks. No one notices that he takes really small sips not to avoid scorching his tongue, but to take in the sugar slowly.
The truth is Kurt tolerates the wannabe-coffee that he buys when he's with Blaine. The truth is that maybe he lets people have certain perceptions of him. The truth? Kurt only drinks weird coffee when he's out with friends; he drinks it black at home.
Maybe he does it so that he can fit the image that people have of him because he's gay. Maybe he's just too lazy to make such high maintenance coffee at home. Maybe he's testing to see if Blaine can learn a complicated coffee order just for him. Maybe he should have spoken up long before this damn drink became his regular order, and then he wouldn't be in this predicament.
Because he's complicated his friends lives enough with his contradictions and his drama. Because he definitely doesn't want to go through all the steps and the work just to have a cup of coffee in the morning. Because Blaine memorized his coffee order, down to the way he likes two coffee sleeves on his cup if they aren't going to be sitting down at a table.
So he'll keep this one little thing a secret. For now.
End Notes: This one is a little random, but it's one of my favourites. That's probably because I could wax poetic about fancy coffee drinks from Starbucks or wherever because it's not real coffee. I'm not saying they taste bad or anything but I'm just going to cut myself off before my note becomes longer than the actual drabble! You get my point haha. Let me know what you think.
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Funneh! Yeah I get what you mean. When you go someplace like Starbucks or to the corner cafe or anything, it doesn't feel right just ordering black coffee, especially if you have your own damn coffee maker, like I do in my dorm room. So I always order something fancy, even though I like coffee pretty simple at home. It just seems too weird not to do. Maybe that's what you were getting at? Haha that's what I feel anyway :p These little drabbles are kinda funny! I like what you're doing here!