"Thank you," Kole was as polite as always as the drink was placed on the table. He looked up after speaking, then felt his cheeks heat up as the person he had been thinking about for most of the night was standing before him. Thankfully, he had the excuse of the flirty compliment to blame for the blushing, so he didn't have to try and explain what was going through his mind.<br/><br/>"Huh? Oh, y-yeah," he responded to the slightly prompting question. He could feel that the other was hoping to hear more, but it took a moment to decide what he wanted to say. He grabbed the cup and rolled it between his hands, then cleared his throat before finally adding more to the previous answer. "I just wound up over-thinking work and couldn't sleep much last night. I... K-kind of need this, you know?" He offered a laugh that didn't hold the mirth to it that it probably should have.<br/><br/>"Maybe I'll be able to get some sleep when I get back home... Because I can't really work like this, and I need to get shipments out the day after tomorrow..." the omega was muttering to himself as his focus drifted from the employee. "OH! Sorry!" he jolted as he realized that he was being rude, then his hands dropped to start fidgeting with the hem of his shirt. "Um... Wh-what was the drink...? The one you made for me yesterday? I... It was really nice and I think I'd like to get one to go in a few minutes..." he hadn't really planned to stay put all morning, even though that was what he normally did. But he needed to build the parts, and that came before his own personal desires, right? He just hoped that his thoughtless rambling hadn't completely dashed all hopes of one of those desires... Which would be- "Do you want to go out on a date sometime?"<br/><br/>Crap. Crap crap crap. Fuck, damn, crap! A hand quickly clapped itself over the techy male's mouth as he squeaked at how his own voice had sounded like. He hadn't meant to ask that aloud! Shit. The beta might not have seemed taken, but that was still not the kind of thing that someone should just ask out of the blue, without even introducing himself or anything! The nearly crimson young man started to sink down in his seat, clearly wishing that there was a hole that he could go crawl into for the next millennium. Now he would need to find another coffee shop to get comfortable in, one where he wouldn't become the main joke for asking a beta out in such a way. After all, it was usually alphas that asked their partners out, or the beta would typically ask the omega out. But for an omega to ask a beta out? It had to be a bad joke, right? But it wasn't, which was all the more reason that Kole was currently completely and totally mortified. If he could talk his way out of this, somehow, he was making a firm note to<u><i><b>NEVER</b></i></u>leave the house when he hasn't gotten enough sleep. EVER again.