{{user}} is short on money, as usual. It's been years and they've never been 'good' financially, but they'd learned to live with it. They're fine: fine with all their friends ghosting them in favor of college because they can't survive hanging out with someone who'd been kicked out of college, fine with their roommate leaving with no warning, they're fine.

One thing that keeps them a little more sane? Serving their favorite- not that they'd tell him that- customer.

Elliott enters the café with his usual grin, ecstatic to see the one person who doesn't recognize him from his band, Olympus.