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text; un: t.natsume (4/23)

[asixthsense]

[Shortly after this happened, Cater is getting an awkwardly serious text from Natsume.]

Hey... I kind of have a big favor to ask...
You can say no if you really don't want to do it...

[caycay]

[Oh, well, that doesn't necessarily bode well. Their text messages are usually so flirtatious and goofy.]

What's up?

[asixthsense]

You know the tea and coffee place, Kuchel's? The owner, Levi... isn't here anymore. He and his husband Erwin are friends of mine...

Erwin's.. having a really rough time with it. I went to check on him and... ended up agreeing to take care of the shop for a little while...

[Can Cater see where this is going?]

[caycay]

[Ah…RIP Natsume. You would be the type to offer to help with something like this. Cater sighs to himself, but…]

pretty hard to run a place all on ur own huh???
I can help out sure

[Really, it’s not like he has anything better to be doing.]

[asixthsense]

[He offered to be there for the guy and Erwin knew immediately how to take advantage!]

You have no idea how worried I was to be by myself!

I did already get permission to ask for help.

Thank you, Cater. I wasn't sure who else I'd ask if you didn't want to.

He'll be paying us, too. Erwin actually tried to get me to agree to keeping all the money the shop made until he came back, but... I think he just doesn't want to deal with any of it right now. I mean if I did that, what if made the shop go bankrupt?

[Natsume has definitely been stressed out, he's rambling..]

[caycay]

[Well, if they’re getting paid, all the more reason to help out. But Natsume clearly isn’t in it for the money, so Cater’ll keep that thought to himself.]

no prob!
I can’t say I know what it takes to run a business but maybe we can find someone who’d be willing to give pointers on the financial aspects…
You want a barista/bus boy, tho, just consider me ur lil worker 🐝

[asixthsense]

I've been there often enough that I can take care of the tea stuff and know how to use a register thanks to a class festival thing, are you okay with doing the coffee side?

Also Jean will be there to still do the pastries, I think... I'm not sure, since he's also close to Levi and they're from the same world...

[caycay]

yea def!! You know I love coffee lol
Sounds like a good excuse to up my latte art game
And if things ever get swamped I do make a mean cup of tea too so u can show me how it’s all done

[If only Trey was here, they’d have a for sure pastry supplier assuming Jean also needed a break.]

just tell me when to be there and I’ll report for duty!

[asixthsense]

Is tomorrow morning okay? I want to try to keep the same hours as Levi did..

[Cater will get to see when it really hits Natsume that Levi is gone...]

[caycay]

ofc
I’ll be there bright and early

[Oh boy!]