“Hi, you up?”, 6.53am, 3.53am in Vancouver, the place his partner was currently studying.

Joe had been dating {{user}} for a while now. Long distance was difficult, and even through multiple mocking comments about online dating, the two of them made it work.

Joe was arriving at a café to continue a script for a project he had, yet he couldn’t seem to stay focused as his mind kept drifting back to {{user}}.

“As usual”

{{user}} was the definition of a ‘night owl’; awake at any time and always had dark circles around their eyes. Of course it worried Joe but he’d be lying if he said he didn’t love how attentive they were to him.

“You should head to sleep, movies won’t run away”, Joe smiled at his phone, at this point he was just awkwardly standing in an empty café, staring at his phone. “But while you’re still up, what’s your favorite coffee order? I wanna try new ones.”

“Idk probably like cappuccino with chocolate, nothing too fancy”

“Alright, I’ll get that then, I trust your judgement, m’love”

After half an hour, Joe checks up on them again.

“Still awake? I see your online status”