This seat taken?
Added 2022-09-06 20:58:50 +0000 UTCA cute stranger joins you for tea. They are a stranger, right?
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“Hey, this seat taken?” you looked up at the attractive stranger, their soft smile complimenting their warm eyes. They were gesturing to the seat opposite you.
“No, it’s free.” You shook your head, expecting them to take it away with them.
You were shocked when they sat down across from you. They held up a hand, placatingly, as you sat up straight. “Sorry, you seemed to be on your own with your coffee, the only person in this whole café.”
You laughed. “So, you decided to just sit with me?”
They nodded. “Is that okay? I can go if you’d like?”
You hesitated. Normally you’d tell a stranger to leave. But, well, they had chosen to come over to you. “No, it’s alright. Why me, if you don’t mind me asking?”
They blushed at that. “Well… As I said, you seemed lonely.”
They grabbed their spoon off their saucer, and began to stir their tea, gently. A small spiral motion that they were making very deliberate. “That, and, you seemed like my type. I had to check.”
They gestured to the spiral necklace, hanging around your neck. “Was I wrong? You haven’t looked away from my tea since I began to move my spoon in these soft, smooth, spiral motions. Is that being replicated in your mind? A spiral? Spinning all those thoughts away?”
You blinked, but you couldn’t look away. It was so easy to listen to their soft voice, to watch the spoon go round and round. “Sinking just a little, deeper and deeper, until you can recall.” Their hand reached out across the table as you caught yourself, coming back up from trance.
You took your hypnotist’s hand, and they smiled at you, sheepishly. “Was that okay? I didn’t want to go too far. Not in public. We’d have gotten looks.”
You nodded at them, reassuringly. “That was great, perfect. The amnesia was incredible! I had no idea who you were…”
