"Thanks," he always takes pride in the cafe, he grew up there after all and he knew how important it was to his mom. "I'm biased, but I think it has a pretty good atmosphere for that kind of thing too."

John hadn't expected this friendship either. He hated to admit it, but he'd been kind of intimidated by the graduate student at first. He just seemed so put together. But he was actually pretty nice and John felt pretty comfortable just hanging out with him.

"Yeah...I never really understood that. The only real difference if you get to see the drops coming I guess," John said, peering ahead to see just how much further they had. Adrian was right, they didn't have long at all. "I think some people think the front feels like it goes faster..."