"What type of coffee would you like sir?" The blurry vision asked. What could be made out was this person's green apron.
"Excuse me? Sir are you alright?" The voice spoke again, now echoing. Phil wanted to reply, but before he could, an obnoxious ringing sound rang loudly. Then he was awake. A bright light blinding him as he his under his covers for warmth. He got up, turning his alarm off on his phone, begrudgingly forcing himself out of bed and trudging to the bathroom.
It was only 6am, but outside made out to be 3am thanks to the London morning weather. The temperature dropped to freezing cold, so he knew that work would be busy. Working in a coffee shop in winter was like working in Walmart on Black Friday. People rarely came out alive.
Once he had taken a shower and hour later and made himself more presentable, Phil grabbed his ginormous silver coat resembling to an astronaut, wrapping it around him and waddling outside of his apartment. He locked his doors, going downstairs and out of the building.
The roads were like a ghost town, so empty and quiet, only echoes of the wind to be heard. He tried desperately not to slip as he slowly walked down the road, taking a few turns and making it to the coffee shop. The sign said closed but someone was inside so he too made his way inside.
"Morning." Phil called out.
The person inside turned, proving to be Chris, his fellow co-worker. Chris waved. "Morning Phil. Like how I decorated the place?"
Phil peered around, only now realising the snowflakes stuck to every table and window. There were bits of tinsel sparkled onto each table too. To top it all off, Chris had a white headband with sparkly "snowflakes" on top of it.
"Cute." Phil laughed.
"This is your headband." Chris grinned, getting out a pink headband with flowers and a mistletoe attached to it leaning frontwards.
"I am mot wearing that." Phil took a step back.
"Please! It's so cute!"
"Then why don't you wear it?!" Phil exclaimed.
"Dan will like it." Chris said quietly making the room go dead silent.
Phil snatched the small accessory from Chris' hand. "Fine, i'll wear it."
**
The first customer of the day to no surprise was Dan. His regular Dan, who was the only person that made Phil look forward to work.
Dan was too busy looking around at the decorations that by the time he reached the counter, he had accidentally bumped into it. "Shit sorry. Hi Phil, how a-" Dan was about to finish before he spotted the headband resting on top of Phil's head. "THAT'S SO CUTE!" He exclaimed.
Phi's face scrunched up as he grunted, cheeks getting pink. "I...I know." Was the only words that could leave his mouth at that moment.
"You're adorable Phil. Can I have the usual please?" Dan said in a softer tone once another customer could be heard coming in.
Phil nodded, biting his lip. He started to make Dan's drink which was usually a coffee with two sugars. Behind him he could hear someone humming a tune to some old Christmas song, resembling to "let it snow". The humming turned into whistling and Phil spun back around. Dan had a pencil in his mouth and a notebook in his hand, eyebrows furrowed as another pencil in his hand sketched something Phil couldn't see. A pen had somehow sat behind his ear too. Dan looked back up and jumped in surprise. "Your order." Phil smirked, handing Dan the cup.
