He was nervous. Probably more nervous than he should have been. They had texted a bit since the last time they met. She used a lot of smileys. That was a good sign, right? But girls always used smileys in general. His foot continued to tap the ground as he waited for her to show up. Maybe he'd sent her the wrong address on accident. He checked his phone for the fourth time since getting to the cafe. No, he was right. There were still three minutes until 2pm though, so she wasn't exactly running late or anything.

"Kuroo-san?"

He turned around, his face breaking into a smile the moment he saw her. "Hey!" he got up and hugged her—was that too casual? "How've you been?"

"Good, good," she took her seat, smiling all the while, "My sister loved the sweater by the way. You have a good eye."

He chuckled nervously, "I've just been working there a long time."

She nodded in understanding.

Shit. She didn't think he was just the cashier, did she? "Because I'm the manager and all." He quickly blurted, trying to adjust his previous statement. Her eyes widened at that. "Really? How old are you?"

"Twenty-four." He replied easily.

"Wow. That's pretty impressive." She praised.

It wasn't. Not really. But having her tell him so was nice. "Um, I know you're not supposed to ask a girl her age, but, how old are you?"

"Oh, me? I'm twenty-two. But I'm not sure I'll make it to twenty-three will all these student loans." She laughed at herself.

"What are you studying?"

At that moment, the waitress came out, her tray holding two cappuccinos. "I ordered for the both of us before you got here. Hope that's ok." He said.

"Yeah no worries," she said, thanking him. Then, taking a sip of her coffee, "Um I'm studying music. I started out with business but…it's just not really my thing."

As the waitress set down Kuroo's cup in front of him, she also put down a napkin, which Mei noticed had some scribbles on it. As she was leaving, she short Kuroo a flirtatious wink.

He looked down at the napkin and crumpled it up, clearing his throat awkwardly. Some girls had no damn shame. Couldn't she see he was clearly having coffee with someone?

"Um," he began awkwardly, "Sorry about that…"

She smiled and shook her head, "Don't worry about it. I'm sure it's annoying. Especially for someone like you."

"Someone like me?"

She swallowed her coffee awkwardly, as though it had been painful, "Um…I'm sorry. I don't know the correct term…is gay not appropriate?" she cringed, biting her lip, "I meant no offense-"

Gay.

Kuroo could have died from both embarrassment and confusion. This couldn't actually be happening.

"You think I'm gay?"

Mei blinked a few times, unsure of what to say.

"A-Aren't you?"

Tetsu broke out into a cold sweat. How…how did this happen? He'd never be able to look at her again. What the hell had he done to—

"I'm so sorry!" she blurted, "It's just you were working at that store and your pants were so tight and…" her face had gone completely red, "I'm so sorry!"

He burst into laughter. "Oh man. Well. That's a first. I'll give you that."

She looked down at her lap, trying to make the heat in her cheeks go down. "I…um…" she cursed under her breath, before looking up at him again, her face awkwardly caught between a grimace and an embarrassing pity, "I'm sorry. I'll just pay for my coffee-"

"Wait, wait!" he nearly lunged over the table, but stopped himself. "I mean…" he coughed awkwardly, trying to push down the lump that had formed in his throat, "I hope I didn't freak you out or anything. Or give you the wrong impression. I mean obviously I gave you the wrong impression but-"

"Please don't apologize!" she blurted, her face reddening once more, "I'm the only one who should be apologizing. I really just," she bit her lip, trying to find her words, "Crap I'm so awkward."

Tetsu blinked, time stopping for a moment. He didn't know why, but his heart started to beat really fast. It hadn't done that since high school.

"You're not awkward! I'm awkward," he told her, pointing to himself, "I can't ask a girl out properly, apparently. And I wear really tight pants, and come on, have you seen my hair? Let's not even get started on that."

She laughed at that, bringing her knuckles up to her lips to try and hide her giggles. "I really am sorry though. Oh gosh…"

"Do you mind if maybe we start over?"

She looked at him, blinking and biting her lips nervously, "Um, ok, if you want."

Tetsu cleared his throat once again and put on a dazzling smile, "Hello there, Miss. I was wondering if you'd like to grab some coffee with me?"

"Isn't that rather bold?" she said, feigning a gasp and putting a hand over her chest, "You don't even know my name."

"Ah, right, excuse me. I'm Kuroo Tetsurou." he said, extending his hand for her to shake.

She smiled, "Tachibana Mei. Now about that coffee. When are you free?"

"How about right now?"

She nodded, laughing, "That works. And would ya look at that," she motioned around, "We're already at a coffee shop!"

"It's super convenient!" Tetsu chuckled stupidly.

She smiled as she sipped her coffee. "You're kind of funny." She admitted.

"Not to mention devilishly handsome." He smirked.

"That too." She said softly, lowering her gaze and taking another sip.

Tetsu thought that maybe she'd shot an arrow through his heart with that. She'd said it so calmly, in her adorably shy kind of way.

And the way she sipped coffee was freaking cute. His heart started to beat fast again. Ok so maybe there had been a slight road bump with the whole gay thing. But she seemed to handle it all pretty well. She was still on this date with him wasn't she?

As they continued to talk and laugh, Kuroo couldn't help but think that this one might just be a keeper.

A/N: Hey guys! Sorry I'm a little late on updating. I think updates will continue to be spread out like this, since school is killing me this semester D; in any case, hope you enjoyed ^^

Heartthrob-san: Aw thank you I'm glad you enjoyed my Oikawa story ^^ and I'm happy you're enjoying this one! I love making my fellow fans happy :D