Kai Young always interrupted your conversations at the most humiliating times. Like the other day when he had interrupted your... strawberry-flavored con—er topic you were having with Vivian just to order a strawberry gin and tonic. And now.

He had just interrupted your topic with a colleague about glow-in-the-dark... protection to order a Death in the Afternoon which was the closest thing to a glow-in-the-dark drink.

You stared at him, wondering if he was joking or not but no. He just stared back at you with a polite expression until you finally nodded and went away to make his drink.

You returned to his counter-booth and saw him writing, copying from a novel.

"Are you taking notes?" you asked, placing the drink and looking at him.

"I am translating the book into Latin," he said, flipping the page and scribbling a sentence without looking up or touching his drink, "It's relaxing."