arukou | AU Ask 13

(From Reioka: How about an AU where Steve works at a coffee cart in the park and he is absolutely enamored with this cute guy that goes roller-skating (on actual old-fashioned roller-skates oh my God) every morning and evening walking this big dumb dog. And sometimes Skating Cutie stops for coffee and Steve always says something stupid and honestly he's so embarrassed why does Skating Cutie keep coming back? Steve wouldn't. (Tony thinks Coffee Guy is adorable, especially when he says something stupid.))

I’m gonna call this the cutest AU idea ever. Calling it. Nothing will ever be cuter. I love this for multiple reasons. Steve is fair-skinned, so if he’s gonna be working a coffee cart out in the park, he’s gonna be slathered in sunscreen and wearing a big dorky hat in the summer, and in winter, he’s gonna be bundled up in the fattest parka you can imagine with a scarf wrapped tight around his neck and a thick hat and ear muffs and ginormous mittens with those flippy bits over the fingers and he’s just gonna look dorky and beautiful, and then he’s going to be even dorkier because he can never manage to say anything suave to the Skating Cutie.

“Just plain black, please,” says Skating Cutie.

“Plain?” says Steve. “Plain, like nothing in it?”

“Uh-huh,” Skating Cutie says with a smirk.

“That’s what plain means.”

“Oh. Oh right. Right. Plain black.”

Or “Can I get an Americano?”

“You mean an a America-yes?”

“What?”

“No, I asked you.”

“Nothing. It’s nothing. Just…one Americano. Coming right up.”

And Steve blushes so prettily, and he’s already red-cheeked anyway because that’s just how his skin works with heat or cold or anything, but it gets worse when Skating Cutie stops by. And then, oh god, summer’s the worst, because Skating Cutie wears crop tops and Steve really didn’t need to be thinking about Skating Cuties nice abs or the little happy trail beneath his belly button or his booty in those shorts.

And his dog! Or maybe not his dog? But the dog! Is the biggest, boofiest, sweetest dog Steve’s ever met, and so well-behaved too. She just sits there and watches the two of them while Steve tries to be suave and smooth, and then sometimes–he swears she does this on purpose–she will somehow get behind the cart and wrap her leash around his legs and then there’s nothing for it but to get nose to nose with Skating Cutie while he tries to untangle himself and he’s dying. He’s literally dying with the weight of this crush.

It’s six months of torture before Skating Cutie finally says, “So, are you ever actually gonna ask me out or what?”

And all Steve can manages is, “I mean, you, I , we, there’s a, you’re interested?”

“Name’s Tony. You free tonight?”