II

I woke up feeling tired, went to the bathroom to wash my face, today was the first of class after the winter break, I took a cup that was lying around and pour some coffee out of the coffee maker, the coffee was from yesterday maybe from the day before yesterday, I drinked and look for something to put myself into, I stared with hatred the pile of dirty clothes that I haven't washed and decided to put the same clothes of yesterday, I didn't see anyone important so It won't matter.

I started my walk to the university with a smoke in my mouth, and around fifteen minutes I had reached my goal, already saying hello to my peers I went into my classroom, packed with half asleep zombies, I didn't blame them, I was feeling the same, I took a deep breath and started talking

"Hello everyone, I will be your professor of epistemology" I started walking in lines while I talked.

"I remember seeing a comic strip where there were scientifics arguing about an asteroid going straight to earth, and there was nothing that they could do, it was immense enough to destroy Earth, a scientific cry that this was really bad. The only philosopher in the room interrupted and said, "is not really bad, because if all the persons die, they will be no one to understand that the thing that happened was bad", If there was no one alive to comprehend the concept of good and bad, there is nothing to consider bad, for humans are the only ones who can comprehend those concepts, so if earth were to be destroyed and humanity wipe, there will be no one to understand that the fact that earth was destroyed as a bad thing...." I kept talking about the understating of good and bad and its relation between rationality until the hour was finished.

"You are dismissed" I told them, and like a pack of sheep they went outside of the classroom.

I sat on my chair to close my eyes.

"Um.....professor"

I opened one eye to see who was talking to me. It was Elisa. She was wearing some casual clothes that suited her really well.

"Yes ?...." I replied in my raspy voice.

"Ummmm... You didnt present yourself" she said sheepishly.

"Bloody hell.....well whatever, next time" I had forgotten a crucial step in my first class.

"Um...." Elisa stared into her shoes.

"Can I help you with something?" I was already tired of talking to her.

"Um...yesterday, you were with your girlfriend...I mean the woman you were talking outside the shop"

"I'm too old for her '' it's true, I'm in my thirties and she was in her twenties.

"It was your daughter?" Elisa asked with sparks in her eyes.

"I'm too young for her...." what is she getting at?

"Uum...." Elisa looked scared of saying something

"Ummm???" I insisted.

"Do you know her name....could...could you present...um" she startled on her words while playing with her hair, now free from the bounds of a ponytail.

"I will be honest, I just gave her a cigarette, nothing more, i really don't know her" It was a little disappointing for Elisa to hear those words.

"Can I ask you a favour? Could you come back to the shop today in the afternoon?, If you do maybe she will also come" Elisa told me while trying to not look at me directly.

"Correlation does not mean causation.....whatever, only if you give me a free cup of coffee" I ended accepting her ludicrous request and got myself free coffee.

"Thank you very much!!!" Elisa said with widest smile I have ever seen.

"If that's all you need, Why don't you go to your next class?" I said while closing my eyes again.

Elisa exited the room jumping in little steps. But before exiting completely she turned around to look at me.

"Professor?"

"Yes?"

"Could you maybe change clothes before coming to the shop? Those were the same as yesterday, If you need clothes I have some that I could lend, but they are a little afeminted for yourself, and maybe a little tight" Elisa dropped the bomb before going to her next class

"Bloody hell, '' I muttered myself before falling into slumber.

After finishing all my work I went into my home, I didn't have any clean clothes, except for some high ended outfit that the university gave to me as a backhanded comment about my way of clothing. I took the outfit and leave it on my bed, I took a shower, and groomed my beard, I ended looking like a cheap bard in medieval times, after drying my hair and combing it I dressed myself with the nice clothes, surprisingly slim but fitting perfectly, I had been losing weight a little too fast, like an ill person in their last months of life, but sadly, I wasn't dying any time soon, food started to look grim to me, so I rather not eat.

Cigarette in mouth I went to the coffee shop as I had promised, in front of the door a similar silhouette.

"Destiny is a prick, is it not?" I told the lady from yesterday.

She was startled for a second and turned to look at me.

"Oh, is you" She said in dissapointed voice.

"Yes it is I" I replied, looking at her, she was wearing light makeup, too much to just go for coffee tho, and wearing a thinner layer of clothes, I wouldn't say they were warm, but it suited her.

"I would offer you a cigarette, but I don't think you would like to lose the scent of perfume with the smell of ashtray" I dropped my cigarette and extinguished it with my shoe.

"You tell me that, at least I didn't buy new clothes just to talk with the old hag" she smirked at me.

"You did notice, yes they are new, but not for Juliet, In the end I'm a professor and I need to appear as such. '' I lied to her like a liar.

"Come on let's go inside, you will get a cold soon If you don't warm up in the arms of your loved one" I opened the door for her, but she didn't even flinch, blushing like a smashed up watermelon.

In the end I just pushed the shy cat into the shop, my job was only to get my free coffee.

As we entered, we could see it was empty, I went straight to Elisa for my reward.

"Hey good morning" I told her with a smile

"Um...professor, is noon" she replied puzzled.

"Hey, good afternoon" I told her with a smile.

"You did your part of the deal, here is mine" Elisa whispered to me and from below the counter she got me a hot cup of coffee, and gave it to me with a wink.

"Is just like you like it"

And my god, she was right, coffee with irish cream, hell fucking yeah.

Taking a seat like a dog with a treat, I could see how our scary cat was even more scared.

"Bloody hell" I muttered to myself and dropped the cup of sweet alcoholic coffee to the ground, breaking and splashing, it felt like I just murdered someone. The scary cat almost for instinct went to help me, and Elisa too, came with the cleaning tools. Both girls, not noticing each other, crouch to pick up the pieces of the broken cup, and destiny like the prick it is, it made that the two maidens touch each other's hands, just to look up and see each other directly in the eyes.

They were hypnotized with each other, seconds merely have passed yet for them, enclosed in their own world, felt like years, and just like flash, both of them looked into the other direction blushing in a shy atmosphere.

Elisa tried to talk, words didn't come from her mouth. The scared cat was now even more scared. No one of them could speak.

"mmmmm...So, Elisa, I'm so sorry, for the cup" I told her, trying to break the uncomfortable silence. More silence surrounded the area.

"Bloody hell" I stood up, and made Elisa stand up as well.

"So Elisa, remember the essay about...um....the rational being" I spoke in a loud voice.

"Wha ...what essay are you talking about..." Elisa told me with a strange face.

"Shh, Your career is a wonderful one, remember to have entered this prestigious um..." I forgot the words for fuck sakes

"University?" Elisa spoke

"Yeah that shit, to have entered this prestigious university it means that....um.... You are a very capable person who can do great things, and I know that your studies in the area that you are studying will be great" I finished speaking and went outside and stood behind the door.

"Um...Elisa was it?" the shy cat finally spoke.

"Ah..yeah.." Elisa with a shiver up her spined responded in a whisper.

"ehhh...So...you must be a great student to be going to the university" a shy lady said,not even looking at Elisa's face and fidgeting with her hair.

Elisa got the fragrant of her perfume, and with a sly smile, helped her stand up.

"I wouldnt say Im a great student, but I can tell you all about with a cup of coffee"

"I would love that...." the perfume wearing woman said in a low voice.

"Okay, going to prepare two hot chocolates" She said with her usual energetic face. "Would that be okay? With extra cream and sparkling chips?"

"Yes!! I mean yes, that would be great..." Said with her lips painted in deep red, combined with her dark red hair. Elisa smilingly tried to go into preparing the hot beverages but a light pull of her apron make her stop.

"....my name is Mery by the way" Mery told her with a slight nervous smile.

"Mery, what a wonderful name" Elisa told her.

My job here is finished I guess, I stopped listening and lighted a cigarette, I'm just sad about my irish coffee.