Chapter #7 (Mark)

Mark

“6 AM in the freaking morning” I thought “is too damn early.” 10 minutes after opening I watched as Sarah dragged herself through the door. I assumed that she was exaggerating her actions just a little bit. I watched as Sarah flung her bag on the table and sighed. When she got to the counter I nearly sung “Good morning sunshine, what can I get you today?” trying to cheer her up.

In response to my question all Sarah did was yawn. I was pretty surprised that Sarah was for once not able to speak, luckily I knew the best thing for her would be a "Venti Coffee...Triple Caff?"

Sarah zombie like handed me her purse for me to take the money. I watched as Sarah dragged herself to her chair and for the first time ever I actually saw Sarah act humanly! For 20 minutes I watched as Sarah slept until I saw George walking to the door. As George walked in I put on the song “The Bitch of Living” which was Sarah’s alarm, so it would wake her up, I was thinking of putting on her old alarm but realized that wasn’t very subtle. I also needed to turn it off before the chorus because explicit music is sort of banned from all Starbucks's. As I planned Sarah sprung awake and fixed her hair, which was good because I thought it looked a little weird (when does it not?) When George ordered his drink I thought a little matchmaking needed to be done. I finally made Sarah’s drink (She was asleep, there was no need to make it earlier!) along with George’s, but which I didn’t quite put the lid on right because from experience I knew that could make the drink spill. To set the putsch in motion I carefully put George and Sarah’s drinks out at the same time and watched as they both grabbed for their drinks. As planned George spilled his drink on Sarah and Mark couldn’t help but smile as things began to unfold.