Chapter 19
Epistles
NICK: Hey! Do you still want to grab coffee sometime?
TRISTAN: Aren’t you upstairs?
NICK: Yeah
TRISTAN: LOL and you’re texting me?
NICK: …is that bad?
TRISTAN: No! Sorry, I didn’t mean it like that.
TRISTAN: It just surprised me.
TRISTAN: You know you could come down and talk to me, these chores don’t require a lot of brainpower
NICK: It builds character for the probies
TRISTAN: Is that all I am to you? A probie?
TRISTAN: *gif of a Real Housewife star weeping*
NICK: Nooooooo
NICK: You’re also my coworker
TRISTAN: Right
TRISTAN: Your coworker with whom you want to get coffee
NICK: Exactly
NICK: Beautiful grammar, btw
TRISTAN: Don’t tell me you’re one of those grammar police people.
NICK: OUCH
NICK: I’m offended you’d even think that about me.
NICK: But yes.
NICK: I want to get coffee with you.
NICK: And I hope you’d like that, too.
TRISTAN: I would like that. I think it might be good for us to talk, anyway.
NICK: Agreed. Sorry, I meant to text yesterday but my daughter had a stomach bug.
NICK: Shit, btw, I have a daughter.
TRISTAN: LOL, yeah, I know. I’m excited to meet her!
TRISTAN: NOT IN A WEIRD WAY LIKE ASSUMING I’D BE A PART OF HER LIFE OR ANYTHING
TRISTAN: Jesus did I make it worse
TRISTAN: I mean, like Vinnie says she and her class come here for a fire safety presentation
NICK: LMAOOOOO Tristan, you’re so good. I know what you meant
NICK: 2:00 p.m. tomorrow. Lighthouse Roasters. I’ll meet you there.
TRISTAN: What if I have other plans?
NICK: Do you?
TRISTAN: ….no
NICK: Good. I’ll wear something nice.