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nice 'tea' meet you!

synopsis: had a teadious day? how 'bout a cup of tea to unwind? (submission for @i23kazu's café week event, prompt: accidentally taking each other's drinks!)

genre: crack(fluff)

characters: cyno x gn! reader

warnings: puns. punspunspunspuns– , reader has a bad day at the start, reader is unamused™️, reader referred to in 2nd person, i'm going by my personal headcanon that when cyno meets someone he likes he just says pun after pun

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rainy afternoons, coupled with soured sentiments from earlier in the day, meant sitting down in a lonely little corner of a cosy little café with a warm little cup of hot tea.

“a hot hojicha for [name]!” the barista calls. 

still wallowing in self-pity, you don’t register the barista calling out “hot medium roast for cyno!” as you drag your feet to the counter to claim your drink.

you shuffle back to your seat, fighting back the tears threatening to fall from your eyes as you sabotage yourself with the harsh reminder that your drink was the only one, in a world with a population of 8 billion people, that could bring you comfort in whatever this mess of a reality was.

“excuse me, is this seat taken?” you give a tiny shake of your head, still looking down at your drink. the stranger moves to sit opposite you as you bring the cup to your lips in the hopes of drowning out your sorrows–

“BLEURGH!” almost spitting out the mouthful you drank, you stare, appalled, at the brown liquid innocently swirling in the cup. 

“quite the brew-tal reali-tea check you got, it seems.” the stranger raises an eyebrow, “your first coffee?”

“what? no, no, i–” you realise, then, that the colour of your tea seemed a little different. not the reddish-brown you were used to, but a darker, more chocolatey shade. looking at the other cup on your table, ah, you think, i took the wrong cup. and then: oh. i took the wrong cup. 2 seconds pass. OH MY GOODNESS I TOOK THE WRONG CUP–

“i’m sorry! i’m so sorry! i’ll get you a new one, i’m so so sorry–”

“hey, hey, don’t worry ‘bout it, it’s alright,” he reassures, reddish-orange eyes meeting yours, “kettle down before you make a scene.”

“did you… did you just pun?” you demand, incredulous.

he finally snickers. “what, were the jokes not your cup of tea? i thought they were qualitea.”

“i–”

the rain seems to have lightened.

“nice tea meet you, fair stranger. i’m cyno. i hope we get oolong.”

“...bye.”

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